Title: Introduction to SendOutCards – Presenter: Linda Anderson
Are you wondering what all the hype is about SendOutCards? Come take a test drive in one of the most exciting new multi-million dollar companies, as it rises to the top of the greeting card industry. If you are a card sender, you will want to take a look at this on-line system where you can select from a library of greeting cards or design your own, adding your own text and photos.
Presentation Objectives/Benefits: Learn another way to market your business and/or produce an additional income. Learn how you can add skills to the services you are currently offering. We will show you this online system and introduce you to some of its amazing features.
Giveaway: Handouts include system features and compensation plan. Basic Training will be offered after the Introduction and Opportunity presentations
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Title: M-Commerce, Leading the Way to Great Clients, a Great Team, and Great You! - Presenter: Kyna Baker
Are you ready to start using those leadership skills that you were born with? Perhaps you would like to become a better leader. Join me as we discuss what it takes to be a great leader and how you can start using the skills and talents that you already possess.
Presentation Objectives/Benefits: Leadership skills for growth and development.
Giveaway: 30-minute leadership strategy session which will include a leadership development plan.
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Title: Infusionsoft 101: How it Can Grow your VA business - Presenter: Sharon Broughton
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Title: Keeping Your Sanity and Your Safety In A Virtual World - Presenter: Andrea Cannavina
Learn how to avoid information overload to stay organized and keep your practice streamlined, how to protect yourself online and how to manage accessibility to ensure both client satisfaction and your own sanity and efficiency.
Presentation Objectives/Benefits: Help overwhelmed, overteched and over connected entrepreneurs better manage their virtual world
Giveaway: DAFT Your Way To Organized! pdf ebook containing my email organizational process.
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Title: 5 Steps to Strategically Market Your VA Business - Presenter: Tracey D’Aviero
Are you so busy working with clients that you aren’t marketing your own VA business? Or are you still looking everywhere to find that first great client? No matter what stage your business is at, once you have started working with clients, it can be very easy to let your own marketing efforts go … maybe you’re not even marketing your business at all … Let’s make a plan to get your business front and center … strategically … so you can work ON it, as well as IN it.
Presentation Objectives/Benefits: Logical steps and a plan to implement to market your VA business, no matter what stage you are at.
Giveaway: TBA
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Title: Everything You Need to Get Great Clients – From Scratch - Presenter: Cindy Greenway
Learn the essential steps to finding great clients – from scratch – for your business. We’ll start with identifying your target market and learning the key details you must know to find exactly where they are and how to attract their attention.
Next we’ll work on establishing your core foundation so that every one of your marketing efforts will be fully leveraged. The result? You will stand out and be seen and respected as the go-to VA for the business owners you want to work with.
Get ready to work … this workshop includes time to do jump in with both feet and implement these steps into your business right away.
Presentation Objectives/Benefits: Participants will learn:
- how to select their target market
- the key details they must know about their target market
- how to confidently communicate with their target market and attract their attention
- the key foundational items they must have in place to leverage their marketing effort
Giveaway: Every participate will receive an invitation to a personal one-to-one ‘Kick Butt Session’ with Cindy Greenway
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Title: WordPress: Overview, Design and Plugins - Presenters: Tina Marie Hilton and Pam Sargant
WordPress is the new wave for creating websites, but many people still view it as a strictly a blogging platform.
Find out why so many people from web designers to business owners are forsaking traditional coded websites for WordPress in this informative presentation.
Presentation Objectives/Benefits: This presentation will cover:
- Introduction to WordPress with an explanation of just what it is and what makes it different,
- Themes and using graphics and images on your WordPress site,
- Recommendations on what plugins to use,
- Functions and backing up of your WordPress website.
Giveaways: Resources to setup and maintain WordPress sites
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Title: Social Media Branding: Creating Platforms, Influence & Profits with Social Media – Presenter: Dawn Jensen
Most business know that Social Media is an important marketing tool but few know how to connect them together to create an engaging and well-branded presence online. With Google+ branded pages, Facebook fan pages, and Linkedin Company profiles, Dawn walks you through the top Social networks, their application, and how to building a bigger, better, more credible and connected presence online.
Presentation Objectives/Benefits: Learn the following information:
- How can you, as a small business, effectively use Social Media to grow your business… and not be distracted and overwhelmed by information overload?
- What are the 3 big myths that prevent most people (perhaps you) from using social media effectively?
- What are the 5 best actions to take on social media for authentic and profitable marketing?
Giveaways: PDF Social Strategy workbook and 30 minute Social Business Strategy Coaching session.
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Title: Marketing for an Upturn in Yours and Your Clients Economy - Presenter: Brian Kaplan
Marketing for an Upturn will educate you and your clients in the reality of advertising versus marketing. It will give you the tools and understanding how to Acquire, Retain and build Referral Networks through Referral Marketing. Top of Mind Awareness Through Others is the key to continuous growth.
Virtual Assistants and their clients will benefit from attending this seminar, taking home tools that will do the following.
- Make your company and your clients have raving fans for clients. (Create T.O.M.A.T.O.’s)
- Increase Your Credibility, Your Visibility and Your Profitability.
- Build Referral Networks that go out of their way to tell their associates about you and your services.
- Increase yours and your clients Time to properly Network within your community and through Social Media.
- Increase and Leverage your time to create profitability and to attract and service the clients you deserve.
Presentation Objectives/Benefits: Are you getting “Back to the Future” with the way you network within your circle of influence – this seminar will show you how with consistency we will provide you proven methods. Our clients are building repeat clients that are committed to helping grow their companies.
Giveaway: PPT Slide Show, Workbook (PDF), networking accountability worksheets.
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Title: Basic PC Maintenance – Tools to Keep Your PC Functioning- Presenter: Terence Kierans
This presentation covers keeping you PC operating well, rather than repairing it. So I will make a few assumptions like it is running fairly well to begin with. Like a car, your PC needs regular maintenance to keep it running smoothly. Some of these maintenance tasks should be carried out daily, others weekly, monthly or even yearly. I’ll give you a recommended checklist at the end of the presentation. Where specific types of applications are needed, I shall be making recommendations based on personal experience—but you may already have them installed according to your own tastes or experience.
Presentation Objectives/Benefits: A working knowledge of how to minimise PC problems by carrying out routine maintenance.
Giveaway: PC Maintenance Checklist
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Title: SEO, Site Rankings and How You Can Grow Your Business - Presenter: Chartly Leetham
What is SEO (Search Engine Optimization), it’s importance to small business and how a VA can add to their portfolio. Charly answers these questions in this presentation, explaining how being indexed by search engines will help a business market successfully online. She offers advice on how a business owner can get listed quickly and start ranking for their chosen keywords using her own tried and tested techniques. Charly will tailor this presentation to show VAs how they can help their customers on a day-to-day basis to grow their business and add value to their customer.
Presentation Objectives/Benefits:
- Discover why SEO is important to businesses
- Discover the key factors to gaining & maintaing high rankings in the result pages
- Learn why “Content Is King”
- Discover how you can grow your business and help your customers achieve high search engine rankings.
Giveaway: Get Ranked: 11 Steps To Search Engine Optimization
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Title: How to Turn Around Your VA Business to Become a Confident and Sought After VA - Presenter: Carmen MacDougall
This presentation is not for the faint hearted and is only for those who are willing to make a huge transformation to attract new opportunities for their VA practice. Carmen will show you how to completely transform your approach and mindset as a VA business owner, to skyrocket your confidence when handling enquiries, networking or new clients to gain better results. The aim is to equip you with simple yet effective tools to help you turn your new VA business around and significantly boost your business and income opportunities. Carmen has used her model on hundreds of VAs who have gone on to win award.
Presentation Objectives/Benefits: Attendees will gain an insight into what differentiates one VA from the other. You will learn some simple yet highly effective tools which you can start to use immediately so that you can truly stand out as a sought after VA and join the group of successful VAs. I will teach you how to come out of your comfort zone of playing it safe and revolutionise your thinking and your behaviour, to build up your confidence and make a huge transformation.
Put on your seatbelts, be ready for a big ride, and know that by the end of it you will have rebooted your excitement for your VA business because you are ready for a complete turnaround!!
Giveaway: Drawing for one on one VA Mentoring Programme membership worth £1430.
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Title: Get More Energy - Presenter: Warwick Merry
The current demand on people is high. We need to get more and more done with less – less time and less resources. How do you maintain a high level of energy in a healthy manner? How can you remain focussed on what needs to be done without caffeine, energy drinks and other short term stimulus?
In this session, find easy steps to build an energy supply in your life. One that is sustainable for the long term. Discover how removing energy drains from your day helps you Get More Results and feel fabulous about who you are and what you are working to achieve.
Presentation Objectives/Benefits: Attendees will get some laughs and more importantly, some tips tools and techniques to maintain high levels of energy and remove energy drainers from their life.
Giveaway: A Birthday Present! It is a simple Birthday Checklist to look at what you achieved last year and what you can achieve for the year ahead.
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Title: Testosterone-Free Marketing - Presenter: Denise Michaels
If the thought of marketing and selling almost drives you to chocolate – don’t miss this presentation by Denise Michaels, author of the Business Bestseller, sold in 15 countries, “Testosterone-Free Marketing.” If you love your business but hate getting the word out – this session is for you. Denise will make you laugh – but more importantly she’ll make you think about ways to get the word out about your VA business with confidence and clarity.
Presentation Objectives/Benefits: Participants will understand why they have held back from achieving all the success they want and how to turn it around so you have more fun, feel more confident and make a lot more money.
Giveaway: TBA
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Title: How to Be an Affiliate Manager - Presenter: Becki Noles
Presentation Description: How would you like to have your own secret sales force out there promoting your products and services every day? If you’re anything like me, it’s a no-brainer and “Uh, yeah I do!” comes to mind very quickly. If you have a product or service, then you need an affiliate program and there are potentially thousands of people out there ready and willing to promote your programs, products and services right now. There has never been a better time to become a R.O.C.K.’I.N. Affiliate Manager for both you and your clients.
An affiliate manager sets up the affiliate program and provides both the client and the affiliate with support in regards to the affiliate program. One of the biggest roles an affiliate manager plays is to manage affiliate program by helping affiliates generate sales, track purchase, etc. This not only benefits the client, but also the affiliate marketer.
Presentation Objectives/Benefits: During this presentation we will go over:
- the steps to create a successful program
- what software programs are available for affiliate management
- how to recruit affiliates
- how to get affiliates to sell your products easily
- how to get performance bonuses in addition to project/package/hourly rates
- and so much more
Giveaway: 3 Keys to Your Affiliate Kingdom: How to Create the Perfect Email List ebook
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Title: Helping VA Develop Their Niche and Target Market and Using Automated Technologies – Presenter: Dale Noles
You are a New VA!! NOW WHAT?!?!? This workshop is hands on, bring your thinking cap and be ready to lay the foundation to build your VA Business! I will show you the steps to help you figure out how to market your business and who to market it to.
You will leave this workshop with the tools to rev up your new Business and a clear direction for getting clients. You will get some tips on how to market your business effectively. If you are a new VA, you WILL NOT WANT TO MISS THIS WORKSHOP!! Sign up now.
Who is this Presentation for? This Workshop is for New or Aspiring VAs who want to get moving with their business by structuring it to work for them rather than against them. Also if you are a VA that wants to revamp your business and start from scratch, this workshop is for you, too!
Presentation Objectives/Benefits: Here’s what you’ll get by taking advantage of:
I am going to teach you how to determine your Niche of services using a few simple steps. Then I will teach you how to determine a Target Market that fits your business effectively. Then with an altered mindset, I will teach you how you can bring your new Target Market to you!
That is correct… bring your Target Market to you! No fancy selling and no advertising budget is necessary to make it happen. Remember that without action, you won’t see results. Therefore this workshop was designed to give you the push you need to grow your virtual assistant business, but you need to be working in it for it to succeed. Be prepared to think and take notes. You will not want to miss anything!
Giveaway: Handout that will aid in the Workshop.
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Title: Understand and Maximize Your Brain for Performance - Presenter: Diana Pettie
Presentation Objectives/Benefits:
Giveaway: TBA
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Title: LinkedIn Leverage for VAs – Presenter: Jo Saunders
LinkedIn is the largest professional networking tool and can be used to expand and extend your professional network both on and offline, bring amazing opportunities to you and provide another avenues for sales. With over 150 million professionals using LinkedIn it is the must have social media profile in your VA marketing toolkit.
Presentation Goals/Objectives: In this workshop, Jo Saunders of Wildfire Social Marketing will guide you through your profile, give some basic driving skills to get more leverage from LinkedIn and provide assistance on how to tweak your profile to help you get found for your niche. You will learn how to improve your Google rank, what sort of content to share and you will create an Action Plan to use immediately. She will also give an overview of Groups, Company Pages, LinkedIn etiquette and how to get recommendations and build your network.
Giveaway: TBA
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Title: Relationship Marketing Strategies to Double your Business and More - Presenter: Katrina Sawa
In this world of internet marketing, building relationships with your prospects, referral sources and as many people as you can meet and add to your database is your most important marketing strategy. As a business owner or entrepreneur, if you are NOT marketing to those people who know you and have already done business with you then YOU ARE MISSING OUT ON A LOT OF SALES!
If you’d like to learn how to easily increase your database, market effectively to your database and to your unique target market with my easy to implement strategies without breaking the bank, then you’ll want to attend this session.
Presentation Objectives/Benefits: In this talk you will learn:
- Creative marketing practices for finding, managing and keeping on “Top of Mind” with your database, that really work!
- How to change up your website to make it work FOR you, not just look pretty
- How and where to maximize your networking
- Effective online and offline marketing tactics
- How to write and send effective email marketing campaigns
- Easy strategies for follow up marketing
Giveaway: Do It Yourself Marketing Planning Guide and Workbook that allows you to brainstorm, plan and systematize your interactive, relationship marketing system to maximize your time and money and attract more clients right away! (Value $147)
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Title: Enjoy a Better Life, Simplify Your Business - Presenter: Katrina Sawa
Are you constantly struggling in your business or working way too hard for not enough profits? Want to find out how to work less in your business and make more? No, this isn’t a magic pill or silver bullet approach or concept; it’s plain and simple business building strategies that are guaranteed to give you a better quality of life! These are the business basics that you MUST have in place in order to grow a smooth-running, highly profitable business.
Presentation Objectives/Benefits:
- How to redesign your business around the type of lifestyle you want to live
- Ways to automate and systematize in your business some things that are taking WAY too much of your time or money
- How to fine tune and hone in on what products and services you’re providing and TO WHOM in order to fully leverage your time, expertise and revenues
Giveaway: TBA
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Title: Grow Your Business with LinkedIn: Use the Overlooked Social Media Site to Get Noticed - Presenter: Janet Slack
Strategies for LinkedIn will contain an hour of proven techniques to look better on the social networking platform LinkedIn. You will learn how to create a more attractive profile that get results and how to use the platform to its fullest potential.
Presentation Objectives/Benefits: Participants will learn:
- How to create a profile on LinkedIn that gets results
- How to use the LinkedIn platform
- Tips and tricks for becoming known on LinkedIn.
Giveaway: Biz Tips: The Book by Janet Slack, Looking Good on LinkedIn Webinar Recording and FREE 30 day Social Media News Flash membership
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Title: How to Eliminate Email Overload and Triple Productivity -Presenter: Steuart Snooks
This session looks at how busy professionals can eliminate the single greatest time-waster of modern business life. It will show how you can quickly eliminate email overload, get control, reduce frustration, save an enormous amount of time and triple your productivity.
Presentation Objectives/Benefits: The presentation will look at:
- Increasing information and the inevitable bottleneck
- Incremental changes won’t solve the problem; we need a radical approach
- The three steps to eliminate e-mail overload and triple your productivity
Giveaway: TBD
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Title: Add Passive Income to Your Service Business With Affiliate Marketing – Presenter: Tawnya Sutherland
Learn how to add another revenue stream to your service business that can lead into more passive income by offering other people’s stuff for sale online. The magical part about affiliate marketing is that you don’t have to spend time and effort to create products on your website to sell. Affiliate marketing can help you make more money online besides just selling your services. You can be set up and ready to go within a few days and there is no need to spend any time creating your own products or purchasing inventory.
You’ll learn:
• What is Affiliate Marketing?
• How to choose the right affiliate programs for your VA business
• Strategic ways to earn affiliate moola
• Why Every Affiliate Marketer Needs a List
• Mistakes to avoid in Affiliate Marketing
Giveaway: The VAaffiliate Marketing Guide (PDF) includes 13 surefire ways to help you generate an income with your Virtual Assistant website. The great thing is you can apply these tips to all the affiliate programs you are involved with.
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Title: Your Business is What You Make It – Presenter: Hazel Theocharous
We start our businesses because we have a passion for something and we want to introduce it to our community. But is that all that you want? Be inspired by what others have achieved. But, realise how they have achieved it and work towards that.
Presentation Objectives/Benefits: Participants will get a sense of motivation and will learn how they too can achieve their success.
Giveaway: E-Report on ‘The Best 10 Tips’ for your business
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Title: Learn to Work in a Value-Based Business Model and Stop Trading Hours for Dollars -Presenter: Donna Toothaker
Are you nervous to raise your rates? Are you tired of tracking every minute of client work? Most importantly, are you tired of trading hours for dollars, and not getting paid for your true value and worth? Learn how (and why!) to create service and support packages for clients. Moving to the “package model” in your business will allow you to charge what you’re worth, service clients in a bigger and better way, and create a client list of raving fans. Learn the strategies and tools to create (and price!) packages that make sense for your business… and for your clients! You’ll learn the different types of packages, what to include in your packages, how to overcome any possible client/prospect objections and you’ll learn the strategies that you can implement immediately to begin moving out of the hourly model and into the package model. You’ll learn all the tips, tricks and techniques for creating a successful and “value based” business. And you’ll get step-by-step action items to complete during the session. Stop selling your time and learn how to sell your true value, worth and outcome that working with you has for your clients.
Presentation Objectives/Benefits: The audience will learn all the information about the value-based business model. They’ll learn how to move out of the dollars-for-hours model and into working in a model that allows them to make money from their value (experience, expertise, etc), not just time.
Giveaway: Top 5 Strategies to Land More Clients and Generate More Income – Fast, Easy and at No-Cost!
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Title: How to Create the Freedom in Your Business to Work From Anywhere in the World - Presenter: Hannah Vallance
An inspirational presentation on the essentials of running a business and earning an income while you travel the world. Enjoy the freedom of your self-employment; find out how to design your life exactly as you please and make the concept of ‘annual vacation’ a thing of the past. We cover the 3 biggest obstacles to relocating your office to the beach and how to breeze past them; we explain the specifics of integrating your life so you can embrace the travel bug whenever you like; and reveal unseen business benefits of taking your laptop round the world!
Presentation Objectives and Benefits:
- Inspiration- Demonstrate exactly how to maximize the freedom of being a VA
- Insight- Highlight some of the obstacles which can derail travel plans
- Practical tips- Share some key initial steps to achieving this lifestyle
- Learn how to sidestep obstacles to keep travel plans on track
- Learn the key strategies to keeping a mobile business profitable
- Find out how to make sure your travel dreams fit seamlessly into your life
- Discover money saving and travel strategies which will open up the world to any intrepid VA
Giveaway: The Ultimate Life, Work and Travel Manifesto-The 7 Keys Principles to Creating an Internet Lifestyle and an Exclusive Offer for membership to specialist coaching program – ’180 days to your office on the beach’
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Title: Strategies, Tactics and Attracting New Business on a Shoestring Budget - Presenter: Sharon Williams
Some business owners confuse marketing strategy and tactics with goals and objectives; or even worse, can not differentiate between their purposes in an overall marketing plan. In this 2 hour session, Ms. Williams will clearly differentiate these elements and provide a wide range of suggested ways to attract new business without busting your wallet.
Presentation Objectives/Benefits:
- Attendees will walk away understanding the meaning of and role of four important elements of a marketing plan.
- A comprehensive list of no cost/low cost marketing ideas
- Framework of a marketing calendar that can be implemented immediately
Giveaway: Monthly Marketing Calendar
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Title: Creating a Business Plan - Presenter: Sharon Williams
Creating a business plan pays off in a significant increase in clarity and a better shot at creating or expanding a successful company. It helps you think strategically about the road ahead and enables you to adapt to whatever conditions that may occur. In this 3 hour session, attendees will be able to consider practical and realistic goals, make some tough choices and develop an intelligent framework for action.
Presentation Objectives/Benefits: Participants will develop the framework of a business plan that makes logical sense and allows you to think long term, sharpen your decision-making process and give your business an intelligent basis for growth.
Giveaway: Business Plan Development Workbook
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