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How to Outsource Linkedin Lead Generation to a Virtual Assistant
LinkedIn Lead Generation: Why It’s Important and Why It Needs to be Outsourced Marketing activities have found a new frontier in recent years – not television, not radio and definitely not print — Digital, and specifically, social media. Social media platforms...
The Key to Growing Your Business from Six to Seven Figures
Let me tell you a story... Back when we first set up Great Work Online, David and I were doing everything ourselves. When I say everything, I do mean everything – registering the business, filing paperwork, setting up bank accounts, researching servers... No task was...
The Five Main Members that Comprise Your Digital Marketing Dream Team
People today are in a position never before seen in history – with the advancement of technology, we have the world at our fingertips. We receive billions of data from our phones every day. With all this new technology and digital capability, the world of marketing...
How To Build Your Business By Hiring A Strong Team
Starting a business is not for the faint of heart. It can be a daunting endeavor, yet it can also be one of the most rewarding experiences of your life. Contrary to what you’ve been led to believe, becoming an entrepreneur does not require a college degree,...
Top Tips to Improve Your Virtual Assistant’s Performance
Congratulations! It can’t have been an easy decision to let go of the reins, but you’ve made the leap, and hired a virtual assistant. Now what? 1. Be real and don’t assume. Hiring a virtual assistant is not a magic solution to business problems. Virtual assistants are...
Building Teams to Last: The Cogs of Successful Businesses
"No man is an island." All of us have heard this saying at one point or another, and it’s probably truest once you’ve joined the workforce. Even if you believe your job doesn’t require much interaction with people – like a solo programmer on the graveyard shift for...
The Ingredients of a Successful Team
"The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team." (Phil Jackson) Good teamwork is essential to success. Building a great team does not only entail hiring the right people who possess the correct credentials, it also...
Kickoff Meetings and Getting Off to A Great Start!
During the course of your professional life, you’ll be attending many, many meetings; brainstorming sessions, telecons, performance reviews, leadership team conferences, etc. The kickoff meeting, however, is unique. It’s conducted at the start of every project, or if...
Workflow Management and the Virtual Assistant
As an entrepreneur or people manager, you will inevitably come to a point where it seems there is never enough hours in the day for you to accomplish all that you need to, when you become overwhelmed by all the tasks that need doing. To share the load and allow you to...
The Five Main Members that Comprise Your Digital Marketing Dream Team
People today are in a position never before seen in history – with the advancement of technology, we have the world at our fingertips. We receive billions of data from our phones every day. With all this new technology and digital capability, the world of marketing...
How To Build Your Business By Hiring A Strong Team
Starting a business is not for the faint of heart. It can be a daunting endeavor, yet it can also be one of the most rewarding experiences of your life. Contrary to what you’ve been led to believe, becoming an entrepreneur does not require a college degree,...
Building Teams to Last: The Cogs of Successful Businesses
"No man is an island." All of us have heard this saying at one point or another, and it’s probably truest once you’ve joined the workforce. Even if you believe your job doesn’t require much interaction with people – like a solo programmer on the graveyard shift for...
Here’s Why Business And Life Coaches Hire A Remote Team
How many times have you ended a full day of coaching sessions only to face the reality of piles of paperwork and unfinished tasks on your desk? If you have a virtual assistant on board by now, the daunting task of catching up with backlog would be a thing of the past....
Professional Entrepreneurs Share Secrets In Outsourcing To A Remote Team
CEOs are not always found at their desks in the office. They are constantly on the move—closing high-level deals, traveling for work or vacation with family, playing golf with colleagues in a Member’s Only resort or delivering keynote speeches in a convention—a...
15 Tips to Build A High Performing Remote Team
Business owners and coaches have one thing in common—both manage a team. So, what makes a business owner or a coach successful? Gary Vaynerchuck, serial entrepreneur and internet personality, has this to say: “I don’t think anyone can win in business without having...
6 Effective Tips on Onboarding Your Virtual Assistant
The day has finally arrived. You just hired your very own Virtual Assistant! You think you’re all set and about to get a head start on that new project for your second revenue stream. Sorry to burst your bubble, but you’re not quite done yet. The virtual assistant...
10 Things You Can Do Right Now To Help Your Remote Team Work Together
Coffee shops are more than just coffee to some people. While the barista prepares your two-quad shot, 22 oz vanilla latte, you glance around to find yourself a table. Chances are, you will find a digital nomad glued to his laptop and zoned out in his own world with...
15 Rules to Live by When You Run a Remote Team
You heave a sigh of relief and proceed to get down to business. Your remote team is finally on board. Armed with task lists, you can’t wait to assign it to them. But before you do, keep in mind that you may be collaborating with a multi-cultural team (a group of...
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Tasks You Can Outsource to a Virtual Assistant
It’s 5 AM and you are up before the alarm—for the 3rd time this week! You glance at the clock with a sticky note on its face—Office@6am. Time-lapse sequence — shower, get dressed, drive from home to office, quick coffee run, unlock office door, turn on lights and...
Cost Effective Virtual Assistant Services
Reality Check for start-up and growing business owners! If you have asked yourself any or all of the questions below, help is just a click away. Are there tasks that you need to do that you dislike? Are there tasks that you can’t do on your own? Are there tasks you...
10 Key Skills of Virtual Assistants
There is a growing number of skilled freelance virtual assistants to help business owners run their business. With the increasingly competitive landscape, virtual assistants with general administrative, operational or marketing skills have been honing their skills...
Outsourcing Business Tasks to a Virtual Assistant
Hiring the right Virtual Assistant equipped with business task skills can help run your business efficiently, generate savings on manpower costs and even provide you with valuable marketing support. This allows you to spend more time in growing your business. Here are...
What To Outsource
Have you ever heard of the phrase, “Jack of all Trades, Master of None”? There are some business owners who believe that maintaining one or two employees is sufficient to run the business. More often than not, these employees are expected to take on multi- functions...
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We Were Interviewed by The Authority Positioning Coach-Mike Saunders, MBA:How To Scale Up Your Business With a VA
“Delegate your weaknesses and focus on your strength.” – Pam Pormentilla If you are a business owner and, on the fence, deciding whether to hire a virtual assistant, you will find great takeaways from this podcast. Mike Saunders, The Authority...
Top 8 Tools for Managing Remote Teams
Picture this — Coconut palm trees stretched along a white sandy beach, the wide blue ocean as far as the eyes can see, the sea and the salty breeze blows by as you sip a refreshingly cool tropical coconut drink, while you swing lazily on a hammock in an island...
How to Manage a Virtual Assistant Effectively When You Have No Time
Long distance relationships can work. Business owners must stay in their zone of genius and learn how to manage a virtual assistant effectively. Both parties must want and need to make it work. Similarly, in a virtual office, a business owner and a virtual assistant...
7 Tips for Managing Freelancers and Independent Contractors
If you were in a relationship, would you treat your partner any different if you were married or just in an exclusive relationship? The same question can be applied to managing a virtual assistant or a regular employee. Virtual assistants or members of a remote team...
Building a Better Business with Outsourcing
“Do what you do best and outsource the rest.”- Peter Drucker Outsourcing is a very powerful management tool for entrepreneurs to harness talent with the right skill to help a business increase productivity and reduce work cycles. There are multi-tasking business...
Why Business Owners Don’t Outsource
Well organized business entrepreneurs usually start the day with a To Do List. A simple list could be categorized into work related and personal. It is time-bound. If they are driven and multi-taskers, the list gets longer and there is the compelling need to tick off...
How to On-board your Virtual Assistant Remote Team
“You can do anything, but not everything.” – David Allen Business owners are always on the look out for strategies on how to run their business more efficiently for their business to scale-up. Some stop short at hiring a virtual assistant or a remote team because they...
12 Best Time Management Techniques
“Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” - Jim Rohn Freedom. Flexibility. Time…lots of it! There is no need to get up early to commute to work. You even get paid for working at home at your own pace… while still in your jammies! Sounds great, doesn’t it? Most...
How to Survive Working During The Kids Holidays
If you are a work-from-home-dad or mom with children, then this is for you. Being cooped up at home with the kids like on winter break can be pretty daunting for full-time parents. Chores, work and errands seem harder to do because your kids are driving you crazy with...
100 Virtual Assistant Skills you can Outsource
More and more SBO’s (Small Business Owners) are relying on VAs (Virtual Assistants) to get relief from burgeoning daily tasks and responsibilities, catching up on lost sleep or to go on a quick getaway, while the business runs more efficiently than ever. VAs are...
Are You Ready To Build Your Remote Team And Why You Should?
NBA, NFA and NHL playoffs and world series are often marked with fiery team spirit, which affects even their fans. Playing for a team even for a season requires skill and teamwork. Each team player is expected to provide team support to a key player while executing a...