This workshop is offered by the Virtual Business Group (VBG). Course details are provided below:

How to Break Through the Challenges of Working from Home (with Sue Brenner of Action Symphony)

Tuesday, April 15, 2008 at 8 pm EST / Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 11 am in Sydney, Australia (For your time zone, go to http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc)

This workshop is based on your most pressing challenges of working from home. You will receive simple strategies, techniques and live coaching from Sue Brenner, certified coach and author of, The Naked Desk. The topics covered in this course will be based on your response to this question: What is your biggest challenge to working from home? We will cover the Top 5 challenges of the group and, time permitting; we’ll open up the line for further questions. This is your opportunity to get free consulting from an experienced home business owner.

About Sue Brenner: Sue is a globally recognized Performance Coach and Author of “The Naked Desk.” Since 1997, Sue has developed fun, easy programs to inspire people to build their businesses, get promotions, change career paths and find work-life balance. Sue works with Fortune 500 companies, top-notch small businesses and professionals from industries such as law, real estate, medicine, high tech and bio tech. She serves as the CEO of the Action Symphony coaching and training firm and still loves to coach achievers reach the next level of success and beyond. Get the full story on Sue at her website http://www.actionsymphony.com. While you’re there, be sure to sign up for her free monthly content-rich eZine, “Ignite Your Life!”

To register for this class, email us at events@virtualbizgroup.com. Be sure to provide your answer to our question: What is your biggest challenge to working from home?

This course is offered by JERPAT Training & Coaching. Course details are provided below:

COURSE: Online Beginner’s Failure is NOT an Option Program

DETAILS: We’ve built this program specifically with your schedule and convenience in mind - and you can start achieving your goals NOW in setting up your VA business. This self-paced class allows you to learn at your own pace, when it is convenient, and get the support and advice you need from certified coaches through 1-2 individual coaching sessions that are specific to assist you.

REGISTRATION: To learn more and to register, please click here: http://www.virtualvacoach.com/nofailureOB.asp

Please share this information with anyone you feel might benefit from this class. I also encourage you to visit our website at www.virtualvacoach.com to get more information about the courses that we offer, special discounts, and to get on our mailing list when more courses become available!

God bless,

Patty Benton
Owner, BA, Certified Life Coach

(877) 506-2637 ext. 702

JERPAT Training & Coaching
Get your copy of “Failure is NOT an Option” and start your VA business SUCCESSFULLY, TODAY!

JERPAT Training & Coaching is providing an excellent opportunity for new Virtual Assistants to get guidance and direction with their business without outlaying a ton of money through our “Beginner’s Failure is NOT an Option” group coaching program. The “Beginner’s Failure is NOT an Option” is our beginner’s group coaching program, conducted live over the phone, that will teach you how to successfully set-up and build your VA business. By the end of the program, you will have your paperwork established, a website created, and a beginning marketing plan. You will also gain hands-on experience by working with clients and building relationships.

COURSE: Beginner’s Failure is NOT an Option Group Coaching ProgramDATE: Starts the week of Monday, April 7, 2008

REGISTRATION: To learn more and to register, please click here: http://www.virtualvacoach.com/nofailureB.asp

Please share this information with anyone you feel might benefit from this class. I also encourage you to visit our website at www.virtualvacoach.com to get more information about the courses that we offer, special discounts, and to get on our mailing list when more courses become available!

God bless,

Patty Benton
Owner, BA, Certified Life Coach

(877) 506-2637 ext. 702

JERPAT Training & Coaching
Get your copy of “Failure is NOT an Option” and start your VA business SUCCESSFULLY, TODAY!

*FREE* TELECLASS - FILLING MY VA PRACTICE WITH ADHD CLIENTS

Led by Suzanne Evans, Barbara Luther and Vickie Turley

Are you a VA who would like clients with these traits:

• Creativity, imagination and humor
• Hyperfocus (the ability to focus on a task and block out all external stimulus)
• Boundless energy and spontaneity
• Ability to be a problem solver and think “outside the box”
• Intense passion

Clients with those amazing traits may also have:

• Inconsistent performance in jobs or careers; losing or quitting jobs frequently
• A history of career underachievement
• Poor ability to manage day-to-day responsibilities (e.g. maintenance of tasks, paying bills, organizing things)
• Relationship problems due to not completing tasks, forgetting important things, or getting upset easily over minor things
• Chronic stress and worry due to failure to accomplish goals and meet responsibilities
• Chronic and intense feelings of frustration, guilt or blame

That’s because there are approximately 8 million diagnosed individuals with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) in the US and millions more that have ADHD traits, but are undiagnosed. If you have ever worked with clients that embody some of the above, you know how much fun they can be, AND how frustrating they can be.

Suzanne Evans, Barbara Luther and Vickie Turley are launching the first ever ADHD Training Program for VAs! We have already been overwhelmed with requests from ADHD coaches, entrepreneurs, consultants, business owners and families longing for a VA that understands them, supports them, and has the resources/skills to support their success. The clients are ALREADY there–YOU just need the training!

Join us for a FREE teleclass on Tuesday, April 8th, at 8:00 p.m. EST, that will:

• introduce you to the ADHD market
• provide you with a VA ADHD index to see if you are right for this market
• explain our training program step-by-step
• inspire you to work with this amazing market and understand the incredible possibilities for a full practice… FAST… with ADHD clients!

If you have any questions about this exclusive training program, or about ADHD, in general, send an email to Suzanne@BlueprintLifeCoaching.com.

• Barbara Luther is an ADD coach, ADD instructor and writes on the subject of ADD. Visit her website at www.windbeneathyourwings.com.
• Suzanne Evans is a VA coach and a client-based business coach. Visit her websites, www.thevablueprint.com and www.blueprintlifecoaching.com.
• Vickie Turley is a VA and VA Mentor. Visit her websites, www.abalancedalternative.com and www.thevablueprint.com.

Sign me up!

Join us for the next AVBN webinar in our online room. Details as follows:

Date: Thursday 27 March 2008 (Australian EST)
Time: 10.00am (Brisbane Time)
Place: Online (URL provided on registration)
Cost: $7.50 for AVBN members; $15.00 for non-members

Presenter: Kay Lam-Beattie from Idealaw will give the run down on how to protect your IP.

Kay Lam-Beattie, the principal of IDEALAW, graduated from QUT in 1992 with a Bachelor of Business (Accountancy) and an honours degree in Law. Kay also completed a Masters in Law concentrating on the areas of intellectual property (IP) and IT-related legal issues, as well as a Graduate Certificate in IT. She has practical hands-on experience in helping clients to negotiate commercially realistic agreements, as well as the expertise to provide legal advice on general commercial issues such as business structuring, risk minimisation and contracts. Kay’s broadly-based academic qualifications and experience places her in an ideal position not only to understand the intricacies of her specialist areas of IT and IP related law, but also technical IT and business issues. Kay also speaks conversational Japanese, having lived and worked in Japan for a number of years.

There’s still time to register. Go to the registration page and select from the topics to be presented this year - there’s no minimum. You can select one or all of them! Registered participants will have access to the recorded session if they cannot make it on the day.

Warm regards
Lyn Prowse-Bishop, MVA ASO CAVB
Founder - AVBN

A reminder of our VA eSeminar today to help educate, inform and entertain Virtual Assistants and online virtual achievers worldwide.

Join us at http://www.VAnetworking.com/seminars

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FREE VA eSeminar

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Time: Wednesday, March 19th, 2008, 6 PM EST

Presented by: Alexis Martin Neely

Topic: Show the Universe You Mean Business About Your Business

Giveaway #1: Free .mp3. Alexis Interviews renowned author, Michael Gerber, known world wide for this E-Myth books that have touched the lives of millions! This call is all about Michael’s newest book, “Awakening the Entrepreneur Within YOU”.

Giveaway #2: Family Wealth Planning Session with a Personal Family Lawyer. ($750.00 Value)

America’s #1 Personal Family Lawyer Alexis Neely shares the secrets aware entrepreneurs know that allow them to take maximum business risk with minimum personal risk. The universe responds to the signals it’s given about the belief you have in your own success. If you aren’t operating your business like a real business, you are holding yourself back from the massive success you want and deserve. Follow Alexis’ easy recipe for showing the Universe you mean business about your business and watch as you leapfrog to the next level of success.

Alexis Martin Neely is not your average attorney. In fact, she’s anything but ordinary. After graduating first in her class from Georgetown Law, Alexis went to work at the most selective firm in Los Angeles, Munger, Tolles & Olson, founded by Warren Buffett’s personal lawyer, Charlie Munger. While there, Alexis discovered what it meant to be a true personal lawyer and how difficult that was in a traditional law firm.

In 2003, Alexis founded the law firm of Martin Neely & Associates where she quickly discovered that the traditional business model just didn’t serve clients because it required a constant focus on bringing in new clients and no incentive for continued communication with existing clients. Alexis met with family after family facing the devastation of failed estate plans because their loved one had set up a Will or a Trust and thought everything was taken care of … but it wasn’t. This even happened in Alexis’ own family when she was in law school.

And, as a mom, Alexis realized that the traditional estate plan left minor children at risk of being taken from their home or even being raised by someone their parents wouldn’t want if both their parents were in an accident.

Alexis quickly found solutions to these problems and restructured her own law practice to address them and began to train other lawyers to do the same. As the founder of the Family Wealth Planning Institute, Alexis has identified 40 lawyers so far as Personal Family Lawyers, all of whom:

• have the expertise to put in place plans that assure kids are raised with their parents values, insights, stories and experience,
• help clients make great decisions for their families throughout their lifetime,
• ensure their clients’ plans will work for life and are there for clients’ loved ones after death, and
• give their clients the tools to pass on not only their financial wealth, but their whole family wealth

In addition, Alexis created the free website www.KidsProtectionPlan.com, which teaches parents how to choose the right guardians for their kids and avoid 1 of 6 common mistakes and even lets parents legally document their decisions free. And, you can subscribe to her Family Wealth Secrets online magazine and receive a free weekly Family Wealth Building tip at www.FamilyWealthMatters.com.

Don’t miss Alexis’ next Free Call for Moms on March 19, 2008 at 10am PST and 1pm EST by getting registered at www.MomsFreeCall.com. On this call she’ll show you how to get your financial house in order, take control of your finances and secure your children’s future.

Her passion for changing the industry’s standard has earned her recognition as a Super Lawyer Rising Star in Los Angeles Magazine and as one of Worth Magazine’s Top 100 Lawyers and the Wall Street Journal, Worth Magazine and Lawyer’s Weekly among many others.

Join us at http://www.VAnetworking.com/seminars

See you at our next VAnetworking VA eSeminar!

To Your Virtual Success,

Tawnya Sutherland

Founder of www.VAnetworking.com

Are You on the Insider Track to Virtual Success? Become a VAinsider Today!

San Antonio-based business development firm, Completely Virtual Group, announced the launch of its new online business incubator. Enrollment has begun for the OperateItRight Small Business Incubator™ (www.OperateItRightIncubator.com) which officially launches on Thursday, April 12^th. The online business incubator will give emerging solopreneurs and independent professionals step-by-step guidance and a wealth of small business resources.

The OperateItRight Small Business Incubator™ is a progressive, 12-month program that systematically guides entrepreneurs through the OperateItRight Small Business System™. The OperateItRight programs were developed by Beryl W. Powell, a successful entrepreneur that coaches solo professionals in business operations and marketing. Powell is President of Completely Virtual Group (www.CompletelyVirtualGroup.com) and the incubator’s Business Operations Advisor & Trainer.

“I’ve worked with many entrepreneurs who are struggling to make their businesses successful. Much of their time and energy is wasted on ‘reinventing the wheel’ when it comes to the basics,” Powell says. “I designed the OperateItRight™ Small Business Incubator to help solopreneurs create a business that will support the lifestyle that they envisioned for themselves when they decided to start their business. The incubator eliminates much of the uncertainty that new business owners feel by providing step-by-step instructions, practical business guidance, small business tools and resources, and feedback from fellow entrepreneurs.”

OperateItRight Small Business Incubator™ members participate in interactive, web-based training sessions, execution calls where they receive detailed instructions on applying specific business strategies, Q&A calls, and quarterly focus sessions. Incubator members also get access to the online OperateItRight Business Center which includes digital recordings of past training sessions, worksheets, business templates, audio and video tutorials, a forum for networking with other business owners, and much more.

Solopreneurs and independent professionals can join the OperateItRight Small Business Incubator™ by visiting www.OperateItRightIncubator.com. Membership in the incubator is just $65 per month. A 30-day trial membership is available to new members for $25.

The OperateItRight Small Business Incubator™ expands upon the principles of the OperateItRight Small Business System™ created by Beryl W. Powell, President of the Completely Virtual Group. The OperateItRight Small Business Incubator™ is a step-by-step process that guides solopreneurs through building, operating and promoting a business that will sustain the lifestyle that they’ve dreamed of without consuming their lives. Visit www.OperateItRightIncubator.com to learn more.

Contact Name: Beryl Powell, Completely Virtual Group
Telephone: 800-648-9657
Email: MediaAssistance at BerylPowell.com

VAnetworking.com launches bi-weekly contest for active members

A leading online voice for Virtual Assistants, Tawnya Sutherland, has launched a brand new contest for members of her networking forum – VAnetworking.com. Wednesdays have been renamed ‘WINsdays’ at VAnetworking, a highly populated online social networking community founded in 2003 to help educate, inform and entertain Virtual Assistants worldwide.Every second and fourth Wednesday is a WINsday, and there are an incredible amount of valuable prizes to be given away. These prizes will all be helpful to all Virtual Assistants, newbies and veterans alike! The pool of prizes includes eBooks, business, products, website memberships, training opportunities, software, business coaching, and even a telephone image makeover. Prizes that will help any business entrepreneur take their business to that next level of success.

Being a WINsday winner couldn’t be any easier. All you have to do to be eligible to win is to be a member of VAnetworking’s social networking community forum and have posted at least once in the last 30 days. On the second and fourth WINSday of the month, a winner will be announced. Here’s the best part: Joining this online community is FREE so you have nothing to lose by joining and only outstanding business prizes to gain!

Tawnya, a Certified Internet Marketing Specialist states, “An online social network is only as successful as the effort put in by its participating members. The more participation, the more education and success the online community shall achieve as a whole.”

If you are considering becoming a Virtual Assistant, now is the perfect time to join VAnetworking – the global meeting place for aspiring and successful VAs. Members have access to over 83,000 posts, the opportunity to network with over 8,000 other VAs, expert advice on work-related topics, weekly VA eSeminars, monthly contests, the VAnetworking Newsletter, discounts on products and services through Premier Partners, placement on a growing listing of VAs in over 14 countries in the VA Service Directory, and access to the Virtual Assistant Shop where you’ll find the exact business tool or resource to help your business succeed.

All members old and new will be eligible to win great prizes with the VAnetworking’s WINsdays Contest, and all prizes are perfectly suited for any Virtual Assistant or home based entrepreneur.

Jaime Lee Mann, owner of www.MannMadeTime.com is a member and volunteer at VAnetworking. It was her that chose the name for the WINsdays contest. “As a member of VAnetworking, it’s just natural to want to share your knowledge with fellow members,” says Mann. “It might be hard to believe at first that your ‘competitors’ would be willing to share their tips on how they became successful VAs, but the opposite is actually true. We’re all working hard to promote our industry, and everyone is quick and willing to share their experiences and knowledge.”

If you have a business related product or service you wish to introduce to the Virtual Assistant community this is a great low-cost advertising opportunity for your business. Find more details on how to offer your product for a VAnetworking WINsday giveaway together with more information on our audience at our website. You can’t beat http://www.VAnetworking.com when it comes to Virtual Assistant resources and the vast pool of professionals from which to draw from.

Contact: Tawnya Sutherland
http://www.VAnetworking.com
(866 943-6665)

VACOC Monthly Guest Expert Teleseminar Series:

Small Business: No Place for Sissies

DATE: Thursday, March 20, 2008
TIME: 5pm PST / 6pm MST / 7pm CST / 8pm EST
DURATION: 60 minutes (please call in 10 min. early)
COST: FREE!

INVITE YOUR BUSINESS BUDDIES! This class is open to all Virtual Assistants and other small business owners. Feel free to copy and paste the content on this page and post invitations on the forums, listservs and groups you participate in.

What are the conscious and subconscious acts that limit your ability to succeed in business and in life?

Barbara Grassey, author of “Don’t Make Me Slap You,” will be presenting “Small Business: No Place for Sissies” at a complimentary teleseminar on Thursday, March 20th, 2008 at 8 pm EST. The teleseminar is being hosted by the Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce.

During the teleseminar, Barbara will cover five common mistakes made by small businesses. A former stand up comic, her brash, in-your-face style wraps the hard realities of business in humor to soften the blow.

“We are the biggest stumbling blocks to our own success. I show people how to stop making excuses, and start taking charge of their lives and their businesses.”

Some of the topics that will be covered in the one-hour teleseminar are:

• Signing your own permission slip
• Fear as your traveling companion (because Thelma and Louise are already taken)
• Following is for sheep
• Modeling–it’s not just for anorexics anymore
• Why your clients’ success depends on your success
• Controlling your end result.

Barbara preaches that you can’t be timid.

“Your clients’ success is directly dependent on your success. You owe it to your clients to fully commit to your business and take the lead in your industry. You owe it to yourself to lead the life you want.”

Find out if you have been limiting your own success. Join us for what is sure to be a rousing, fun-filled session!

REGISTER NOW!

Millbury, MA – Cynthia Papia, owner of Office To-Go, announced today that they are the recipient of the VAccolade Business Entrepreneurial award.

The VAccolade award not only recognizes participation at the Virtual Assistant Networking Association (www.VAnetworking.com), but also recognizes the professionalism with which Ms. Papia presents herself on the web, thereby giving them more credibility amongst other Virtual Assistants.

“Virtual Assistants (VAs) are business owners who work from their own office providing professional support, services and skills to their clients via phone, fax and internet-based technology. Partnering with a VA reduces stress, protects cash flow, eliminates administrative hassles, and enables business people to find the success they originally set out to achieve. A VA is your right-hand person helping you to succeed in your business. The irony is you may never meet your VA as odds are they live nowhere near you!” (definition from www.VAnetworking.com).

Ms. Papia’s company specializes in desktop publishing, general admin services, promotional material, custom business cards and graphics, and is a home-based administrative professional providing various online services to her clients . She started her Virtual Assistant career after an injury precluded her from continuing her profession as a court reporter/stenographer. Having a broad range of talents and skills that were never fully utilized in her prior positions, Ms. Papia felt they would be an asset to others and initially started Office To-Go as an on-site, as well as internet-based, secretarial support service, before the advent of VAs.

In a recent survey from VAnetworking, the United States has the largest number of VAs, followed by Canada, Australia and Europe. Clients only pay for time spent on their projects. There’s no need to pay for taxes, benefits, equipment, etc. VAs are hired on an hourly or a monthly retainer basis.

For more information about Office To-Go, visit www.officeto-go.com.

About Office To-Go

Launched in 1992, Office To-Go specializes in desktop publishing, general admin services, promotional material, custom business cards and graphics, serving small and mid-sized companies, entrepreneurs, SOHOs, executives, and busy individuals. Visit the website at www.officeto-go.com.

About VAnetworking

Visit the website at www.vanetworking.com.