Obstacles Virtual Assistants Face While Working Alone

As many of you know, we are running a "much anticipated" webinar event tomorrow (Thursday, August 7th at 2pm EST) with Freshbooks CEO, Mike McDerment titled: "Virtual Nirvana: How to remain inspired and productive when you work alone." Over the past week or so, we have been asking Virtual Assistants about the obstacles they are currently facing as Solopreneurs and have received some very interesting responses such as..... - Concerns over getting new clients (a very common one). - Learning to put plans on paper rather than “Flying by the seat of my pants”. - Time Management issues – when I am “at home” , I am not at the office and feel like I need to be always working (Common work/life balance issue) - Challenges getting my name out there. - Challenges deciding where to focus my marketing efforts and sticking to it. - Struggles in filtering the noise with all the things I need to do for the business. - Confidence in abilities (new Virtual Assistant). - Isolation, distractions within my home office. - Feeling that my virtual work intrudes on my spouse, my home – hard to get away from work, spend more time working than enjoying life. - Challenge keeping track of “To dos” and priorities. - Worry too much about client work (Should I have done this , Are they going to be happy with this etc – mind never slows down...). - Take on too much and then get overwhelmed. - Keeping motivated Can you relate to any of these obstacles? I sure can! I have been working as a Virtual Business Owner and have had to certainly overcome a few of these obstacles in the past few years. We have taken all the feedback we have received and have incorporated it into tomorrow's webinar to make it as relevant as possible. We also want to make the event as interactive as possible, so bring your questions! Oh, one last thing... Freshbooks will be providing a $25 discount coupon code to all participants on the call towards one of their small business billing software packages. PLUS, we will be giving away one "Pure Digital Flip" camcorder sometime during the call. Here is the link to our webinar page - hope to see you there! VAClassroom Event Page

VAClassroom Teleseminar for Virtual Assistants, Solopreneurs and Small Business Owners

I just wanted to let you know of an exciting free webinar event we are hosting at VAClassroom on Thursday August 7th at 2pm (EST) of this week. I have to say that I am unusually excited about this event! Let me tell you why... My friends at Freshbooks have graciously loaned their CEO Mike McDerment to us for an hour so he can share some powerful insights on: "Virtual Nirvana: How to Remain Productive and Inspired When You Work Alone." You see, Mike is a serial Entrepreneur who has already led two successful Internet start-ups before his roaring success with Freshbooks.com. When he first started out he was not as fortunate to have the talented staff he now has with Freshbooks - he was a "Lone Ranger." Mike has experienced firsthand the "Good, Bad, and Ugly" of working as a Virtual Solopreneur, like many of you! Our intent with this webinar is to help re-charge your Virtual Business batteries and keep you engaged and passionate about the work you do! Now, Mike and his Team at Freshbooks.com have graciously offered a $25 discount coupon on their small business billing packages for every participant on the call, which is awesome. Also, our team at VAClassroom will be giving away a "Pure Digital Flip Camcorder" to one of the webinar participants on the call, so be sure to stick around until the end! I own The Flip and have used it for all my videos on YouTube - excellent tool! To claim one of the 300 spots for this webinar event, just sign-up at the below link: http://www.vaclassroom.com/teleseminar.aspx Also, you will be able to access this event via the web at: http://www.vaclassroom.com/instantteleseminar.com This is going to be a great event and we look forward to seeing you there!