NOVA News is a newsletter produced by the Northern Virginia Charter Chapter of the American Business Women’s Association. As we recently began a new calendar year and my sixth year as a Member of ABWA, I am honored to be in the Member Spotlight and have a feature article (p.3), “Your Network is Your Number One Resource, Use […]
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Put your to-do list on a diet! Focus on the functions that require your expertise and are the meat of generating revenue – the ones that make your wallet fat. Trim your daily tasks. Exercise the opportunity to outsource. Fit a Virtual Assistant (VA) into your workload regimen. Consistency is key – a VA can […]
Beeline for Business … Seasonal Help
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You saw them lending a helping hand over the holidays: bell ringers, shelf stockers, gift wrappers, event staff. Do you, as a small business owner, wish you could hire ‘seasonal help” to support your business? Well, you can and it’s affordable. Utilizing the services of a Virtual Assistant (VA) is like having seasonal help year […]
Beeline for Business…Take Note: Thank You!
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Despite the amount of time I spend online and in the cloud, I love stationery! December 26 is National Thank You Note Day. Sending a thank you note is not only common courtesy but also a best practice to establish for your small business. Thanking a colleague for a referral, thanking a customer for new […]
Writing a Business Plan is the first step for setting your business up for success and reducing mental stress of committing your plans to memory while you are bringing your vision to fruition. If you’re thinking about small business startup as a way to earn extra cash for the holidays or set that as goal […]
Beeline for Business … Use Your Network
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A resounding statement throughout the recent two-day National Military Spouse Network (NMSN) Military Spouse Career Summit was to: “use your network.” As small business owners, we have paid memberships, belong to professional associations, Facebook groups/communities, forums, listservs, mastermind and LinkedIn groups, just to name a few. So why is our first instinct when we have […]
October 5-11 is National Work from Home Week. What better time to talk about small business startup! Military spouse entrepreneur, Melissa St. Clair, Owner of Paper Chaser will provide an informative program about small business startup basics at the Portable Career and Education Spouse Social hosted by the Camp Lejeune Chapter of the Military Spouse […]
Whether you are working “9-5 “as an Executive Assistant to the CEO (Chief Executive Officer) of a company or you are the CEO operating your own business as a Virtual Assistant (VA) to keep moving forward in either situation, you must keep your administrative and management skills sharp for peak performance. One may find […]
One casual testimonial I made on Facebook today triggered over a half dozen new leads for a direct sales colleague! Sharing a handful of takeaways for small business owners: Social media soars sales Testimonials are priceless Watch Facebook Notifications Check your Facebook Inbox Word of mouth builds business
