All About the VAinsider Club
The VAinsider Club was started in 2005 because of an elite group of Virtual Assistants who wanted to kick things up a notch at the FREE VAnetworking.com Forum.
With thousands of members at this free social network for Virtual Assistants, a group of members wanted something a little more “exclusive,” a “total package” designed for the discriminating VA who hasn’t got the time to shop the forums for the best deal.
They knew what they wanted and were willing to pay for it.
Welcome, the VAinsider Club!
What is a Virtual Assistant (VA)?
VAnetworking.com: “A Virtual Assistant (VA) is a highly-trained independent entrepreneur who provides a myriad of business support services virtually via phone, fax and internet based technology to support and meet the growing needs of businesses worldwide.
Partnering with a VA reduces stress, protects cash flow, eliminates administrative hassles, and enables business people to find the success they originally set out to achieve.
A VA is your right hand person helping you to succeed in your business. The irony is you may never meet your VA as odds are they live nowhere near you!”
About VAnetworking.com
Since 2003, we have been the most popular, friendly, informative, educational and resourceful social networking community online for Virtual Assistants and virtual entrepreneurs to connect, share, discuss, promote & network their businesses at!
About VAinsiders:
In 2005, Tawnya Sutherland decided that it was time to give Virtual Assistants an opportunity to become proactive and grow their VA businesses. She started the VAinsider Club to provide Virtual Assistants around the world with training, guidance and support as they grew their Virtual Assistant businesses.
Today the VAinsider Club is made up of both new and veteran VAs that truly care about the success of their business and the VA industry, as a whole. VAinsiders understand that creating a solid and successful business takes the support of others and the VAinsider Club is providing that support for them. The VAinsider club has become a place where members can get answers to their questions, celebrate their successes and just “hang out” with likeminded business owners in a fun, collaborative and exciting way.
With hundreds of members to date, VAinsiders is the fastest growing club of its kind for VAs looking to put their business on the fast track.
Founder – Tawnya Sutherland:
When people want information regarding any topic within the Virtual Assistant industry they turn to one of its Pioneers, Tawnya Sutherland.
“Create the skill base you need to enable you to outsource your workload to a VA specialized in the skill set you need to free working capital, and more importantly your time. Allowing you more time to do what you do, promote your business”
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.
”Virtual Assistants today can do so much more than just basic administrative tasks, their skill sets now run the entire gambit of abilities from basic secretarial work to full on accounting, web management, and strategic planning”
With her member site VAinsider Club, Tawnya has also created a built in resource of talent for those entrepreneurs looking for the skilled personal they need to help lessen the load of business ownership, freeing themselves up to re-concentrate on the expansion of their business’ or get that free time that they so well deserve.
As if this wasn’t enough to keep someone busy, Tawnya, and her business partners are the owners of five well established businesses including an Airport with a flight training school, and several other online businesses.
Tawnya uses her Internet Marketing skills to help business entrepreneurs turn clicks into cash.
Tawnya started the VAinsider Club so Virtual Assistants could access top notch advice and support from Tawnya and her exclusive worldwide network of business experts.
President – Yvonne Weld:
Yvonne Weld is the owner of ABLE Virtual Assistant Services, located just outside of London, Ontario, Canada. Able Virtual Assistant Services is a multi-VA business that offers bookkeeping and administrative services to consultants and other so
lopreneurs. As a graduate of the Small Business Centre, Yvonne has the professional training to complement her practical skills and knows what it takes to run a successful business. Yvonne also coaches and mentors Virtual Assistants to reach their goal of having a successful business. In February 2009, Yvonne joined the VAnetworking team as VAinsider President where her role is to create new programs for the members of the VAinsider club and to provide training and mentoring for its members. She is also a member of the board of VAcertified.
Additionally, she is the author of The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Thriving Business, a guidebook that takes you step by step through the process of creating a Procedures Manual for your business, protecting your business from unexpected absences due to injury, sickness or even death. She is also the co-author, along with her good friend Sally Kuhlman, of Managing Your Thriving Business for Success, a book that provides tips and advice with respect to scheduling, time management, goal setting, stress management, determining return on investment and other management topics.
Outside of Yvonne’s career achievements she is devoted to her family including her husband Kevin and children Brennan and Emily. She also enjoys doing Aikido, golfing and reading.
About Tawnya and Yvonne:
Tawnya and Yvonne share a passion for the Virtual Assistant industry and for educating and assisting VAs (both new and veteran) to achieve their full potential. They also love to educate others about the Virtual Assistant industry and how partnering with a Virtual Assistant can strengthen any business. They have made it their goal to spread the word about Virtual Assistants and teach others about the benefits of outsourcing to Virtual Assistants.
Tawnya and Yvonne are idea people and brainstorm constantly about how they can achieve their goals for both Virtual Assistants and for growing the industry. Watch out as these two take the world by storm and work to get people asking “Who is your VA?” rather than the standard “What is a VA?” we are hearing right now.
