Saving Your Bottom Line with a Virtual Assistant
Not sure what you are looking for exactly, but know you need office help? Let’s brainstorm for a moment.
YOU NEED:
- Someone who can help streamline your workload
- An assistant who can help you to organize your administrative tasks and get them completed in a timely manner
- An individual who can help keep you away from your desk and computer and free up your time for more important things
- A professional who is serious about the success of your business
BUT YOU DON’T NEED:
- A regular in-house employee
- To provide employee-related benefits such as insurance, sick time, and vacation time
- To provide office space, equipment, and paying for overtime
- The additional hassles of having an employee (personal issues, calling in sick, paying for downtime)
- To have someone 24/7
THE BOTTOM LINE:
One of the best solutions to your dilemma is to team up with a virtual assistant. If you were to hire a regular employee – whether it is part-time or full-time – you will find yourself dealing with a lot of extra costs and hassles (many have been mentioned above). Bringing years of experience and knowledge to the table, a virtual assistant strives to reduce your stress level and become your right-hand person!
It’s not only cost-effective, but a VA can play a vital role to the success of your business. The possibilities are endless!
Michelle Jasper is owner of Admin Café, a virtual assistant business providing professional support to a variety of small business owners. Contact information: http://www.admincafe.net
Women Business Owners National Organization Celebrates Six Years Today!
Founded in 2004, Women Business Owners (WBO) organization, a 501(c)3 has been educating, empowering and enriching the lives of women business leaders throughout the world. Now in its sixth year, the WBO has started 2010 with a bang! Newly elected President, Cindy Clark of Business Coaching by Cindy Clark has announced some exciting changes to begin this year. Members can expect more teleseminars, networking events and an even more informative magazine than ever before. Members are already getting pumped for the Women’s Business Convention to be held in Napa, California this fall.
The WBO started with one woman’s dream to bring women entrepreneurs to the forefront of the business world through education and empowerment. Anna Campbell, owner of My Business Journal founded WBO in 2004 with only a handful of members. Today, WBO has grown to hundreds of successful business owners from all over the globe. The WBO is expecting an even greater number of members to join this year with the addition of many new events and benefits!
Perhaps the most exciting addition to this year’s WBO events schedule is the monthly WBO Business Coffee Clubs, an opportunity for women business owners to come together for an hour a month and enhance their business through networking, business goal creation and achievement. The WBO is currently looking for members to host their own WBO Coffee Clubs in their area, giving women business owners the opportunity to reach out to their neighboring women entrepreneurs.
If you’re a woman business owner and would like to find out more about the Women Business Owners Organization, stop by the WBO website: http://www.womenbizowners.org or call 1- 877-209-9461.
Come join the fun and discover why the WBO just keeps getting bigger and better every year!
A “New Look” for The Merry Bird Designs
Jan 22, 2010 – For the past four years, a flying, pen and ink Humming Bird represented The Merry Bird website and business. Today a new logo flies in its place to represent The Merry Bird Designs.
The new logo projects quality design services offered to future and present clients by Kristine Sheehan, TheMerryBird.
Logo creation, Ad Design, Book Cover Art and custom motifs for stationery are a few services provided by TheMerryBird. All work is secured by contract and deposit. Paypal, Check or Money Order accepted.
You will still find a flying bird when you visit www.themerrybird.com, but this bird will fly into the sunset along “Your Stationery in Flight”.
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About TheMerryBird.com: The Merry Bird Designs company of Connecticut has officially been in business since March 2006. Kristine Sheehan, the owner, began working in the design/art industry because her passion is drawing with pen and ink, painting and photography and computer graphics. Her company offers Logo Development, Book Cover Creation, Ad Design and a line of pen and ink motifs on note cards, holiday tags and invitations. The Merry Bird Designs is ever changing and adding more beautiful ideas to choose from, come take a peek, Fly in! http://www.themerrybird.com
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Scratch Board Art Exhibit Opens in Rhode Island
Visitors are welcome to view scratch board art created by local artist Lisa Wald Guarino during February and March 2010 at the BankRI exhibit located at 137 Pitman Street (near Eastside Market food store), Providence, RI.BankRI is open Monday through Friday 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Sunday noon to 4 p.m.
A formal reception is planned for Thursday, March 18, 2010 to meet the artist and enjoy cheese and wine. The reception will open at 5pm and close at 9pm.
Scratchboard is a unique art medium which produces pictures of amazing realism, incredible detail, or fascinating contrast. It is “The art of taking away” as you start with a black surface and scratch off to show the white underneath.
Local artist, Lisa Wald Guarino is a nationally known artist through the Women Business Owners organization and her website. http://www.lisasart.com/scratchboard.html
Connecticut Woman Business Owner transitions to Business Coach
Cindy Clark is an expert business coach who has been a successful business owner for over a decade. As a Virtual Assistant for nine years, Cindy found herself coaching clients in areas of business success, systems development, marketing strategies and communications so often that it felt only natural that she would move into the business coaching profession.
As a Virtual Assistant (VA), Cindy’s clients felt at ease talking to Cindy about their business concerns, feeling as though their concerns were really being heard and taken seriously. As a Systems and Strategies expert, Cindy would advise her VA clients in how to implement successful systems and strategies for maximum business success.
As time went on, Cindy began working more and more in collaboration with her VA clients on marketing and business plans, creating collaborating teams as well as assisting some clients in changing their business model. Cindy’s clients found growing success through Cindy’s strategies, systems and effective communication strategies.
Cindy is also an avid volunteer within her community and as the National President for Women Business Owners (WBO), a national 501c3 non-profit organization serving women business leaders through local business coffee clubs, a national conference, teleconferences and online connections.
Now YOU Too Can Benefit from Cindy’s Strategies and Systems Business Coaching!
Cindy Clark is available throug her website http://www.cindyclarkbizcoaching.com/ and phone (860) 967-4050.
National Women Business Organization Visits Napa CA to Select 2010 Conference Site
Women Business Owners (WBO), a national 501c3 non-profit organization selected Napa, CA as their 2010 and potentially 2011 conference site. National President, Cindy Clark, National Vice President, Wendy VanHatten, and the organization’s Founder, Anna Campbell, met this past week in Napa, CA in order to secure the location for their upcoming women’s conference this fall.
WBO’s mission is to empower, educate, and enrich the lives of women business leaders throughout the world. WBO connects women from around the world through their online social networks, teleconferences, local coffee clubs, and annual national conference. http://www.womenbizowners.org
Three hotels were selected as their primary locations to visit and gather information from for their presentation to the WBO board at their February 2010 board meeting. Marriott Napa Valley Hotel & Spa, Embassy Suites Napa Valley, and Hilton Garden Inn Napa were selected due to their meeting space and guestroom accommodation availability.
Marriott Napa Valley Hotel & Spa located at 3425 Solano Avenue Napa, CA, 94558 features an elegant entrance, easy access off of Highway 29 and is conveniently located near local restaurants and shopping. They also boast a convenient and private stop for scheduled group reservations on the Napa Valley Wine Train immediately across from their hotel entrance. Their hotel includes onsite resort style spa treatments, wine sampling, comfortable sleeping rooms, and gourmet style restaurants. All of their guest rooms and several banquet rooms are going through renovations and the transformation is breath taking. http://www.napavalleymarriott.com/
Embassy Suites Napa Valley located at 1075 California Boulevard, Napa, CA, 94559 features a beautiful duck pond and elegant entrance off of Highway 29 and is conveniently located near local shops and restaurants. Their onsite restaurants boast a world winning chef and a complimentary made to order breakfast for all guests. http://embassysuites1.hilton.com
Hilton Garden Inn Napa located at 3585 Solano Avenue, Napa, CA, 94558 features a welcoming entrance with a warm fire, open dining area, and friendly hotel staff. Their guestrooms have recently been renovated and their meeting space perfectly accommodates up to 75 people. They also provide complimentary high-speed wired and wireless internet access to all guestrooms. Their guestrooms also include a refrigerator, microwave, coffee maker, and large work desks with adjustable lighting and ergonomic chairs. http://hiltongardeninn1.hilton.com
The accommodations in Napa, Ca are elegant, comfortable, and convenient to local wineries, outlet shopping, and restaurants. The service from local shops and wineries was impeccable. Visiting this area was a reawakening of our souls to the basic luxuries of life in the hills and valleys of Northern California and the exquisite wine country.
Author Diane Tegarden Appearing on The Vicki Wagner Show
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Author Diane Tegarden Appearing on The Vicki Wagner Show
January 3, 2010, Los Angeles, CA: Author Diane Tegarden will be interviewed on The Vicki Wagner Show, West Hollywood, CA (cable channel WEHO 36) on Tuesday January 12, 2010 at 6:30pm.
The episode will be airing “live” and the topic will be Tegarden’s first book “Getting OUT of Limbo – A Self Help Divorce Book for Women.” Tegarden states, “This book is a tool for empowerment, it provides you with tools to begin to understand your finances and how they affect your relationship. The rest of the book deals with the other areas of a divorce, like: child custody, dividing up the bills and belongings, and the emotional aspects. Being in Limbo is a time to take inventory of yourself, and your situation. It is a time to seek help from others and invest in your future by educating yourself. Maybe you’ll make a decision, maybe you won’t. Only you can determine what’s right for you, but at least you’ll make an informed, well thought out choice.”
Tegarden’s latest book is a science fiction novel, with its grips deep in renewable energy and how it will affect the earth in the future. According to Tegarden, “A preventable vision of the future is one wherein you are shown what the future will be like if we don’t change our way of “doing business as usual”. We can make many choices today to affect the future and make it a bright and beautiful world filled with life!”
Tegarden’s radio show airs on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Tuesday of each month at 10am PST/ 11am MST/ 12 noon CST/ 1pm EST for a half-hour. Tegarden hosts interviews on environmental problems and their solutions through Renewable Energy technologies.
To read Tegarden’s environmental articles, visit:
http://www.examiner.com/x-14744-LA-Renewable-Energy-Examiner
For more details on all of Tegarden’s books, or to schedule her for your event, please visit her website at www.firewalkerpublications.com.
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