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Achieve Your New Year Goals With a Virtual Assistant

Genean

We’re here! It’s officially 2022! Many people have spent a lot of time these last 2 years indoors, in pajamas, binge-watching all the shows to ever exist on every TV platform, but not busy business owners! The ones of us who have a strong vision and clear goals have been preparing for this new year! Are you ready to thrive in 2022?

 For a business to prosper, it needs to be running smoothly and efficiently. Take time during the first month of the year to make a plan for how you will be more productive and efficient in the new year. Some popular resolutions for business owners include: ‘become more organized’, ‘improve my social media marketing’, and even ‘work less so I can spend more time with my family’. How are you going to make this happen? 

Working on tedious and repetitive tasks can start to really take a toll on a business owner. What you really want to be doing is focusing on paying customers and clients; but how can you do so when all your time is spent answering emails or creating graphics for your social media pages? 

Don’t start the new year feeling overwhelmed by small, tedious tasks. Start fresh and set new goals. This is a new beginning, and you’d be amazed by how much time you could get back by hiring a virtual assistant. If your goal is to work towards your passion, by outsourcing to a virtual assistant, you are opening up hours to refocus on the things that make you passionate about your business. 

Social media is critical for all businesses. How will your consumers build a deeper connection with you and become more loyal customers if you don’t utilize social media? Through proper social media marketing, your business can reach larger audiences and grow your brand awareness. However, this can’t be done in a day. 

Having a strong social media presence requires many hours to be put in working towards building that audience and engaging with it. Luckily, there are thousands of virtual assistants who specialize in social media management. They can take care of creating graphics, engaging with audiences, video editing, post scheduling, and so much more. If one of your resolutions is to grow your audience and social media presence, don’t spend countless hours a month doing it, hand it off to your virtual assistant! 

Toward the middle and end of the year, we can start to feel so overwhelmed by our workloads that we begin to lose touch with more important things outside of our work life; such as family and friends. Make it your New Year’s resolution to take time for yourself. Enjoy your time away from work, take an extra day off, spend time with your loved ones, without the hassle of having to worry if work is getting done. Your virtual assistant is there to make sure that you are living stress-free while your business continues to grow and prosper. 

A virtual assistant has your business’ best interest at heart. It is our job to watch you succeed and aid in the process. You will have somebody to bounce your ideas off and provide you with support, which is indispensable when you want to achieve goals. Your virtual assistant can give you opinions and suggestions for things you may not even notice about your business. They work to make your life easier. If you haven’t hired a virtual assistant yet, what are you waiting for? Now is a perfect time. It’s a new year. Start fresh! Hire a VA! http://www.lifebydesignvs.com

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Preparing Your Business for 2022

Genean

Time flies when your business is booming. It’s that time of year again, the new year comes around and we have new goals to set for ourselves. As things slowly transition back to normal after the past two years, we need to prepare ourselves for whatever 2022 may throw at us.  How are you looking to change things in the coming year? Will you have a new vision for yourself and your business? Having a plan in place for the new year will help you review past performance and make adjustments to your business as needed. How do you plan on following through with your goals for this next year? We have gathered some tips on how you can prepare your business for the new year. 

  1. Reflect on the past year.

It’s no secret that the pandemic has probably affected all kinds of businesses in one way or another. Many have continued to work from home, others have returned to their offices, and some businesses have grown or shrunk as a result of the pandemic. Whatever the case, it is important to review the business activity in the last year to know where you can make improvements for the new year. Think about what your business has accomplished and how you can build on these in 2022. If your business is performing well in a particular area, the new year is a great time to increase that growth. What goals were you unable to reach in the last year for your business? Were they realistic? Why did they fall through?

  1. Write a Business Plan

Writing a business plan is essential when you first start a business. However, it is also very useful to have a yearly business plan to nurture your success in the new year. What direction will you be going in? Will it be the same as last year? In your business plan, you should also include budget and revenue goals for the coming year. Your goals should be business-specific, easy to measure, realistic, and relevant to your overall strategy. It is a good idea to think of 2 or 3 main business goals for the year, these could be related to financial outcomes, your customer base, or anything relevant to your overall business strategy.

  1. Consider Expansion

Plan for growth! If your business has been doing increasingly well, you may want to get ahead of the game and consider expanding your team. It is easy for a business owner to become overwhelmed once their business starts to take off. Remember, when expanding your team, the ultimate goal is to strengthen your existing team. Hire carefully and make sure you are hiring employees that fit the vision and mission of your business.

Starting a new year is an exciting time. I have been so grateful to see my business grow in the last year and I can’t wait to see what 2022 has in store for us. Our team is so excited to continue to help small business owners grow their businesses. For the solopreneur, we can help you get your time back. Are there too many tasks including employee training and development, and you simply cannot get everything done, at least not without working yourself to death? We can help! Visit us at http://www.lifebydesignvs.com

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The Power of Gratitude for Your Business

Genean

It’s officially the holiday season, a time for cozying up next to the fireplace, enjoying winter festivities, and most importantly, a time for giving thanks. According to Harvard Health, “Research suggests that one aspect of the Thanksgiving season can actually lift the spirits, and it’s built right into the holiday — being grateful.” Showing gratitude helps people feel more positive emotions, deal with adversity, and build strong relationships. This is true not only in our everyday life but also in our work life or in our business. Gratitude in the workplace can affect the overall work climate and promote a sense of belonging to something greater than ourselves–to feel a sense of meaning at work. With gratitude, the more you give the more you get in return. So how does showing gratitude affect your business?

Showing gratitude towards employees or coworkers can be extremely beneficial to a business owner. When hard work is not only recognized, but appreciated, this can directly influence performance, productivity, and retention. When a person feels acknowledged and appreciated for their work, they are more likely to continue to perform well and are more inspired to improve business outcomes. The best part of all, a simple thank you can go a long way, at no cost for you.

By showing gratitude in the workplace, you are creating an environment where all employees are happy to go above and beyond because they feel valued and appreciated. The direct results of this will include overall happiness amongst your team, trust from your team, boosts in self-esteem, and better performance. Let’s face it, no one enjoys an ungrateful employer. Many times, acts of gratitude are not received well because they are achievement-based as opposed to employee-focused. Authenticity is key in creating a positive environment in the workplace. Consider writing handwritten thank you notes to your employees to show your appreciation. It is also important to acknowledge the small things that sometimes go unnoticed. This will encourage your team to pay close attention to detail. 

Gratitude is a form of self-love. Pass it forward and improve organizational behavior. As you begin to acknowledge and appreciate the small things, you’ll be surprised at how your company culture begins to change. Gratitude leads to kindness, generosity, and empathy and it even promotes better sleep & improves your mental & financial well-being. Take every opportunity you can to make your business more personal, and never forget about the ones who have helped you reach the point you are at right now.

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Launch Your Business With the 6 Figure Virtual Assistant Course

Genean

Setting up a business can be scary, but it doesn’t have to be. In any career, when you utilize the tools and information available to you, you can learn as you go and still achieve great success as a business owner. That is what being a Virtual Assistant is all about. That’s why we have created a course for any existing or new Virtual Assistants who are looking to increase their earnings and achieve success in their business. We have gathered our tips and tricks to becoming a 6 Figure VA to help you boost or kickstart your Virtual Assistant business. Are you ready to work on your own terms and by your own design? Then this course is exactly what you’re looking for. 

VAs who know their stuff get paid better. It’s true. The more skilled you are, the more you can charge! This course will show you step by step how I grew my business from nothing to 6 figures in only 10 months and now have a team of 7 helping over 20 clients every month! I won’t teach you anything that I myself haven’t done. And I will give you all my secrets! Here’s what you can expect from this course:

  1. Full Access to the 10 Module Course
  2. Bonus 11th Module!
  3. Tons of Free Downloads
  4. Access to a Members Only FB group
  5. Live weekly training in FB group 

In this course, you’ll learn about the different types of VAs, what you need to set up your office, how to find the perfect niche for you, where to find clients, how to get the clients to say yes to you, contracts, and paperwork, payments and much more! So what are you waiting for? You’ve got everything it takes to become a 6 Figure VA and I’m excited to be your helping hand on this journey. Our course is now available for preorder. Don’t miss out on this amazing deal. 

PRE-LAUNCH PRICE ONLY $247! 

This deal won’t last! On launch day the price goes back up! 

Get it at http://www.geneanroberts.com

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Being a Virtual Assistant May Change Your Life!

Genean

Let’s set the scene, you wake up on a Wednesday at 8 am. Feeling sleepier than usual? No meetings till noon? You decide to sleep in and have your morning coffee at 11 am. You’ve had time to sleep in, relax, and catch up on your work on your own time. This can only be the fabulous lifestyle of a virtual assistant. A virtual assistant is a self-employed worker who specializes in offering administrative services to clients from a remote location, usually a home office, working their own scheduled hours. This is just part of the many perks of being a virtual assistant. 

Not only do you get to work from the comfort of your own home, but you are able to have so much more flexibility as a virtual assistant. According to studies, 29% of remote employees said they struggle with work-life balance, and 31% said they have needed to take a day off for their mental health. As a virtual assistant, you have the ability to work whenever and from wherever you want. When you need to stop and take a break to take a mental check, you can do so at any time of the day. Thanks to the developments in technology, working from home has never been easier. 

Another reason why working as a virtual assistant is great is because you only provide the services you choose to provide. If graphic design and website management aren’t your favorites, you don’t have to do it. As a virtual assistant, you decide what your specialties are, what services you provide, and what you will charge for those skills and services. Additionally, there is a wide variety of services to choose from. Virtual assistant services range anywhere from general administrative tasks to social media management. It’s your business, so you design it your way. 

A study by Stanford of 16,000 workers over 9 months found that working from home increases productivity by 13%. It’s interesting that once you change a work environment to something calmer and more comfortable, how productive people can actually be. Working from home removes the pressure you receive from employers and other coworkers. When you work for yourself, you make the rules and you control all aspects of your job. While hard work comes with any business and job, there is nothing more rewarding than being able to work on your own terms. 

Have we hooked you yet? What could be more perfect than being your own boss? Well, as we said, running your own small business comes with hard work. Becoming a virtual assistant can yield great success. 

Virtual Assistants can even make up to 6 figures working right from their home. Wondering how to run a successful virtual assistant business? Don’t know where to start? Is your virtual assistant business growing at a stagnant pace? 

I started out working as a VA in 2010 as a side gig to my regular job. I would continue to work as a VA for a few years on and off for a few different companies. Now, this was still a side hustle and continued as a side hustle alongside my job. Just taking a client here and there as a part-time virtual assistant. It never became more than that. Until it did. 

Before I knew it, I realized the potential in my VA business and eventually expanded into a full VA Team in just a few short months. I’ve got a few tricks up my sleeve and I’m excited to share that with other existing or aspiring virtual assistants. I’m proof that you can run a successful business right from the comfort of your own home or Hawaii, or anywhere there’s an internet connection really.

That’s why I’ve created “The 6 Figure VA Course” in order to help other virtual assistants reach their full potential. Find out more info at www.geneanroberts.com

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Finding Clients in Your Niche

Genean

Finding and marketing towards your niche audience can set you up for success in your business. Niching down may worry some small business owners due to fear of limiting services and exposure. However, as a small business, you cannot provide every solution to every problem, as larger corporations might be able to. By niching down, you can limit competition, become an industry leader, target your consumers better, and build a strong and loyal customer base. Once you become confident in your expertise, this will shine through in your product or service, which will attract new clients within your niche. The first step is analyzing your business as a whole and what you can offer to your customers. 

To find your niche, analyze your interests and passions. What kind of problems are you able to solve in your business? Once you’ve established what your niche is and what you specialize in, how can you find more clients within your niche? 

  1. Identify Your Target Audience: In order to find new clients within your niche, it is important to consider your current customer base. What does this customer base consist of primarily? 
  2. Problem-Solution: What unmet need are you able to provide a solution to given this customer base specifically? Find gaps within the marketplace. The more you can hit on the pain points of your niche market, the more success you will have. 
  3. Research: As you narrow down your target audience, the process of understanding their needs and wants becomes much easier. As your niche may be narrowed down to a specific age group or category, you can conduct research in order to find out their needs, goals, motivations, frustrations and expectations. Evaluate the data on the demographics of your niche market and work towards solving the issues that these specific groups face and how you can be the solution to these problems. 
  4. Market: Once you’ve identified, researched, and created a plan for targeting your niche market, you can begin to market your business specifically to match the needs of these customers. Targeted ads, blog posts, social media branding and podcasts are great tools to use to find new clients within your niche. 

Whatever it is that you do, perfect it. If you can do it better than others, market to those who value your product or service because it provides a solution to a given problem. With your confidence in your expertise, you will attract customers within the same niche. Finding your ideal client begins with you. Do you have a business plan? Do you know who you’re marketing to? What do they need that they cannot find in your competitors? Once you have answered these questions, you will be able to properly market your niche audience. 

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Time Management Skills To Grow Your Business as a Fitness Instructor

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Time management, for all business owners, is about being productive while simultaneously being proactive. Doing more does not necessarily mean you’re being more productive with your time. Fitness instructors have a lot on their hands. You must be active and efficient with your time on a day-to-day basis. Considering how active you are, you may start to feel burned out from being so busy. Interacting with your community can take up a lot of your time. Whether that time is taken up answering emails, phone calls, or setting up personal sessions, you may want to get some of that time back. We have some great tips for how you can properly manage your time as a fitness instructor. 

As a fitness instructor, you like to live a healthy and balanced lifestyle, but this also includes taking care of yourself and having daily, weekly, and monthly goals set for yourself and what you would like to achieve. So one of the most important things you can do to manage your time wisely is by establishing those goals for yourself.

Make a list of all the tasks you have to do and schedule them out evenly on a calendar throughout the week or month. This will help you visualize all the things you want to achieve without overwhelming yourself each day. 

Next, to get into your new routine, you must stay strict with your time and yourself. It can be easy for us to fall into habits of procrastination. But stay disciplined and focus on using your time wisely and efficiently during the times you have planned for your business. By knowing and planning what you have to do during each time window during your day will help you avoid procrastination. There are also a variety of health and self-awareness apps that can aid you in curbing your procrastination periods. Some of our favorites include Focus@Will, Focus To Do, and Rescue Time. 

Limit technology. Unfortunately, it can oftentimes be very difficult to release ourselves completely from technology. Especially in a business, technology is how we connect with our communities, customers, and potential clients. However, making an active effort to avoid social media, emails, and texts when you are trying to stay focused can be very useful when managing your time. When working on high-priority tasks, you want to avoid all distractions. So switch off those phones and TVs to get things done quickly, so you can get back to doing what you love. 

Prioritize your time. If you’re a fitness instructor, you are constantly active and on the move. At times, this can become very overwhelming. Taking care of yourself, others and your business can be a heavy workload. It is important to prioritize balancing your time throughout the week. Always remember to focus on what works best for you, your work schedule and personal schedule.

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How Coaches Can Sell More Courses

Genean

Whether you are a business leadership coach, a motivational coach, life coach, fitness coach, or one of the many other types of coaches out there, there are people who want your expertise and skills. Take advantage of online courses as a form of selling your knowledge. As an entrepreneur, you want to share your success with others so that they can learn and succeed as well. However, you may run into dry spells where you find it difficult to continuously sell your courses. As a coach, your goal should be to consistently find new clients to share your intellect with. We have some tips for coaches on how to sell more courses. 

Podcasting:

A current and popular trend right now is podcasting. Podcasts are great for driving authority in your specific niche. Whether you lead your own podcast or join an existing podcast as a guest, participating in podcasts expands your reach in clients as you are able to reach people within your niche. It may be to your benefit to reach out to podcasters in your niche and ask about being a guest. 

Social Media:

There is no question that social media marketing is one of the best methods to get the word out about your coaching courses. With over 3.96 billion people actively using social media, advertising your courses through platforms such as Linked In, Facebook, Instagram, and Tik Tok is an effective way to gain attention and customers. Identify where your target audience is most engaged and link relevant content and promote your courses on these platforms. 

Online Communities:

Another great method for raising awareness and selling your courses is through online groups, more specifically, Facebook groups. Facebook is a great platform for finding communities within your niche. You can begin by starting your own Facebook group related to your courses where you provide snippets and incite on your expertise. Here, you can engage and communicate with clients directly and share updates. An important part of these groups, however, is consistency. Make a point to be active in the group by posting a few times a day. This will make your group stand out amongst others. As you begin to build a community, make sure to take advantage of the platform to sell your courses and provide value. 

Choose the proper platform for your course:

Now that you have integrated yourself into the online community of your niche, you need to focus on the course itself. Make sure to always provide high-quality videos with high-quality editing. Next, your course needs to be easily accessible to your customers. You can host your course on your own website or you can consider third-party platforms. A marketplace platform can host your courses for a fee and allow you to customize your branding. Some examples of a marketplace platform you might want to consider utilizing are Masterclass and Udemy. 

The selling of your course can be time consuming. Don’t get overwhelmed. This is the perfect opportunity to allow a virtual assistant to take care of these back end tasks that will help grow your business. Delegate and hire a VA to handle your social media, schedule podcast interviews, and upload your courses to your marketing platform. 

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What Is a CRM & How Can It Help Your Business?

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CRM stands for Customer Relationship Manager. In a nutshell it is “the process of managing interactions with existing as well as past and potential customers and is one of the many different approaches that allow a company to manage and analyze its own interactions with its past, current and potential customers.”

A CRM can help a business of any size drive its growth anywhere but down. There are 4 key components of CRM work that someone like us would do for your company.

  1. Retain Customers
    a. When people buy a product or especially a service, your goal is to retain them
    and keep them coming back for more. But how do you do this? By customer
    interaction. People like when companies make their purchase personal and feel
    like the business truly cares for their satisfaction. This is done mainly through
    email or social media marketing and simply a fast reply time.
  2. Sales Increase
    a. It’s a proven fact that when you streamline your business on online platforms and
    interact with your following- sales will go up.
  3. Transparency
    a. Being “transparent” with the consumers again causes people to gain trust in not
    only your company but the “man behind the screen”. You can accomplish this by
    replying to customer inquiries, posting your company’s mission or about us
    statements, and introducing employees or the owner.
  4. Better Understand Your Consumer Audience
    a. Using a CRM can help you better understand who is looking, buying, and liking
    your product or service. Platforms such as Facebook and Instagram offer very
    easy to use/access user analytics. Diving into your target demographic and
    learning more about the analytics behind it all can truly benefit your business.
    Getting started with CRM can be a daunting task but with the right help it can be done in a timely and efficient manner.

Life By Design is capable of helping you with all things surrounding the avenue of CRM and
allows you to really focus on your passion- running the business you love.

I have a few I prefer, with my favorite right now being Hubspot, then Active Campaign with Zoho being third.

What’s your favorite CRM?

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How Posture Can Help You Succeed In Your Business

In any business, posture is a big part of what stands between your success or failure. A few days ago we talked about not being emotionally attached to the outcome of whether or not the prospect says yes or no. Well, posture and not being attached to the outcome really go hand in hand. You have to master both of these to have the best chance of success in your business.

So what does it mean to have posture?

It means you are unshakable. The inability to be discouraged or swayed. It means that you have a solid belief in what you are doing and you don’t shake in your shoes and collapse when someone says something negative or someone doesn’t believe in what you are doing. You just move on. To succeed, you need to believe it regardless of what others think, and you need to stand firm on that belief.

So how do you do that?

Well first of all, it takes time. It takes dedication and consistency. It takes personal growth training and lots of it. My favorite for building posture is industry trainer, Dani Johnson. You can do a free 30 day bootcamp at smarternetworker.com that is amazing and will teach you posture and so much more.

Posture is something you learn over time through personal development, but until then, sometimes you just got to put it on like you do your pants. Before you go out there and prospect people, just make a decision that you will not break under the pressure of some idiot who calls you unqualified, or says “it will never work”, or “you don’t have enough education”. You have to posture yourself to a place of pure belief so that when you hear those things, not if, when, you will not crack, but you will stay strong in the belief of what you are doing.

Don’t let those people kill your dreams that can absolutely change your life and the life of your family. Put on some posture and don’t crack.

A professional business owner will not apologize or defend their position. Never defend. Just understand that it’s not for everyone and move on and just say thank you. Defending shows desperation. Never get into a place of arguing and convincing. It makes you look weak, and makes you look desperate.

Professionals never try to convince or defend. They simply introduce what they do, ask if the person is open to learning. If the person says no, they move on. Don’t get into a battle because you will lose. It’s not worth it.

Not allowing yourself to be affected by the outcome, being yourself, having enthusiasm and passion, and having unshakeable posture will take time to build. But it comes through practice, practice and more practice.

You won’t get it right all the time, especially at first, but you build your posture through practice and personal development training, such as the training I mentioned before at smarternetworker.com, This will get you to a professional level if you don’t quit and don’t let the negative opinions kill your belief.

Comfort zones are comfortable but you don’t get very far if you stay in them. So get outside of your comfort zone today, work on building your posture, and believe that it’s worth it and never give up. That’s how you make it in any business.

To your success,

Genean Roberts