This is the proposed schedule for VA Coaching Club Members. Sessions will be held on the third Tuesday of each month (except December), at 10am AEST (Mon 6pm USEST, 3pm PST, 5pm CST). You can convert other times here.
Access is by phone or by the web – you choose.
You will need to be a member of the club to benefit from the sessions and our session leaders and speakers.
Jan 25 Kylie Short, Tilda Virtual Services, How I Got Started
Kylie Short, founder and manager of Tilda Virtual Services in Melbourne, Australia, specialises in providing first-class Virtual Assistant services to a broad range of industries.
While these industries include information portals, online stores, internet marketers, government auditor, business coaches and marketing consultants, Kylie has a particular passion for helping small business owners… a passion fuelled by the immense pleasure she derives from her own business.
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Feb 16 Jan King, Marketing to Authors for Virtual Assistants. Special offer available to coaching club and ACS members.
Jan B. King is a publisher-turned-coach and the founder of the Virtual Author’s Assistant Training Program, the only program of its kind to help virtual assistants learn the skills and gain the experience they need to market special services to authors.
She began her career with Merritt Publishing, a then 30-year-old publishing company, in 1983. When the company’s founder retired in 1990, she became President and CEO. Ms. King transformed this small niche publisher into an employee-owned business as well as a recognized brand for financial information to professionals and consumers. In 1997, Merritt Publishing was named the 44th largest woman owned/run business in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal.
She is the author of three books. Her book Business Plans to Game Plans is praised by academics and business people alike and is in its 3rd edition (John Wiley & Sons, 2004). Her second book Smart Women Publish was published in 2005 and Authorsmarts was published in 2008. Ms. King is a long-time member of the Author’s Guild. Her views on business and on publishing have been widely quoted in Investor’s Business Daily, Fortune Small Business ,New York Newsday, the New York Times Online, Working Woman Magazine, the American Bar Association’s Bar Leader magazine, Small Business USA, Business Finance, the Los Angeles Business Journal, and on numerous business web sites.
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Mar 16 Beverly Mahone, Baby Boomer Diva
Beverly Mahone, owner of the media consulting firm BAM Enterprises, is a veteran journalist, author, media coach and motivational speaker. After spending more than 25 years as a radio and television journalist, Beverly traded it in to become a work-at-home-mom/entrepreneur. She is now using her media expertise as a consultant to coach boomer women on how to market themselves to radio, television and newspapers professionals. She is also the author of the best selling book, Whatever! A Baby Boomer’s Journey Into Middle Age.
Beverly has been classified as a baby boomer expert by the media and has appeared on numerous radio and talk programs in the United States, including MSNBC-TV and also been featured in the New York Times.
Through her online marketing skills, she has created a Boomer Diva Nation; which consists of women over 40 from the U.S. and Australia.
Not a VACoaching Club member but would like to attend this event? Then book here.
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Apr 20 Kathie Thomas – we’ll do a group coaching session. You bring the questions and I’ll have the answers!
I began working from home in March 1994 so I could be home for our 5 daughters. In those days I ran a home-based secretarial business with no idea that a new industry was about to birth with the massive changes in technology. I mean, of course, the introduction of the Internet and the worldwide web. Only 21 months later I was online, developing my first website and 3 months after that growing the first web based network of its kind in the southern hemisphere. I had absolutely no idea what was going to happen after that.
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May 18 As above for April – rescheduled due to ill health.
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Jun 15 Jeannine Clontz, Accurate Business Services. “Creating a Marketing Plan”
Jeannine Clontz, owner of Accurate Business Services specializes in word processing, desktop publishing and database management. Jeannine finds Realtor and speaker/coach support to be an important niche in her practice, although she provides support to clients in all industries. Jeannine’s passion and research in the area of business ethics has led to a speaking and writing career on the subject. She has written articles on business ethics for the IVAACast in 2003/2004, and speaks on business ethics nationwide.
Her company Accurate Business Services was established in August of 1998. Not long after starting her business, Jeannine joined IVAA (International Virtual Assistant Association), one of the organization’s first 30 members.
If you are not a VACC member but would like to attend this event, then you can sign up for it here. Cost is $10 for the session.
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Jul 20 Managing Databases. Looking at the different types of systems available via computer and online and the type of uses for those databases.
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Aug 17 Kathie Thomas, Looking at Niche VA practices – what are they, do you need one, how do you decide? We’ll explore the various niches VAs adopt and I’ll bring case studies of some I know of.
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Sep 21 Tawnya Sutherland, Founder VANetworking.com
Created 12 years ago, Tawnya’s first venture, (and still operating today) Mediamage Business Solutions was forged from the need of a divorced mother of three to find a way to put food on the table, a roof over their head and still find time to spend time with her kids.
Tawnya took those hard learned skills and founded VAnetworking, the largest and most prolific Virtual Assistant Social Network online today. With thousands of members worldwide VAnetworking is the place to find the latest information about the VA Industry, and locate the fastest growing opportunities for VAs looking to put their business on the fast track to success. Tawnya has become the go to person for Virtual Assistants wanting to share, learn more, and grow their businesses.
More recently Tawnya has decided to take her knowledge of the Virtual Assistant industry together with her skills as a Certified Internet Marketing Business Strategist to educate business owners on how to outsource their business needs to a Virtual Assistant.
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Oct 19 Sharon Williams, The24HourSecretary – PR/Marketing
Sharon Williams, President of The 24 Hour Secretary, is a Certified Author’s Assistant and Master Virtual Assistant and has more than 20 years experience in marketing and promotions. She is the inaugural recipient of the Thomas Leonard International Virtual Assistant of Distinction Award and has authored Marketing Your VA Practice, Nuts & Bolts of Branding, and a Racism in State Government report on behalf of the Maryland Legislative Black Caucus.
Sharon works with writers and authors through all phases of the book production and publishing process and is passionate about developing innovative strategies that result in positive results for our clients. Her team of knowledgeable and experienced subject matter experts are dedicated and focused on the end result — client satisfaction.
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Nov 16 Kathie Thomas – Planning for the holiday season and keeping your business going. What do you do when your clients are closing down for the Christmas period? We’ll look at planning for the holiday season or any period of time you want to have a holiday break from your business.
