After much feedback from our members that I’ve been pushing you too hard I am taking on a new format for our MotiVAtor. I will now send it out monthly to give you more time to be held accountable for all VAinsiders to achieve their MotiVAtor goals during their course of monthly business plan. We will all come back the first Tuesday of each month to discuss in a group coaching environment what we have achieved the past month and what we plan to achieve the following month. All VAinsider levels are welcome to attend. (A bonus to you Booster level members, YAY!).

So let’s get started!

In order to attract and retain clients in your service business, the first two things you need to identify are your ideal client and your specialty niche. As a service provider, it can be tempting to believe that you should do everything for anyone, but the truth is, the more you niche down your offerings, the more attractive you’ll become to your ideal client. Once you know who your target audience is, and what you want to do for them, you can better focus on efforts to attract and maintain clients.

Network Strategically — The trick to networking isn’t to network with your virtual assistant counterparts who are also in a service business, but rather you want to network with those who need your services. For instance, if your target audience is authors for whom you want to handle all aspects of sending out newsletters, posting blog posts, formatting eBooks, editing, and so on, then you should be networking with authors. Find out where they are, and be there!

Market Continuously — Even if you have a full roster of clients today, it is important that you keep marketing. Even if you have to turn down new clients due to being full, offer to contact them when you have an opening. Create a special mailing list for potential clients to keep them informed of your status. Additionally, keeping your foot in the marketing door will keep you knowledgeable about the industry and super focused on your niche market. If you also know other service providers within your niche, this is an opportunity to cross refer when you are unable to take on a client.

Offer Premiums — You have clients now, great! Keep them! Offer your current clients specials and premiums over and above their current contract with you. By giving current clients special deals and upgrades, you will make yourself stand out from other service providers and keep the clients that you have. Often your best source of clients is simply keeping clients that you already have on contract by under promising and over delivering.

Encourage Referrals — Once you’ve established yourself with a client, after a reasonable time ask for and encourage referrals from the client. Offer a coupon to use off additional services, or take a percentage off their next invoice. At the very least, send a thank you note for each referral that is sent your way. Ensure that you let your clients know that you want and appreciate referrals.

Get Testimonials — For some service providers, it is difficult to ask a client for a testimonial, but it is something you must do. Make it part of your normal process and it will get easier as time goes on. It helps with your ongoing marketing, and will encourage and reassure potential clients on the importance of hiring you. When they see how happy someone they respect is with you, you’ll move up on their list of potential resources.

Keep in Touch — Clients with whom you’ve worked in the past are often some of your best sources of new business. Even if you do not work with someone now because their project ended or for some other reason, it is important to keep in contact. When a project ends with a client always send a thank you note. In addition, send them notices of periodic sales or openings for new clients. You never know what can happen. 

Share your thoughts and other tips you have here:

Join in and share your thoughts on the this Mastermind discussion

VAinsiders are Virtual Assistants (VAs) that strategically seek ways to help their client’s business grow because of an invested interest in their business.

~ Tawnya Sutherland, VAnetworking.com ~

VAinsider Tips

Booster and All Members: Continual reeducation is cruicial to the success of your business. Make sure you access our webinar archives and watch one every week to make you smarter and more enticing to your potential clients.
View your club benefit here

Getting Clients and Supercharge Members: Visit your Virtual Toolbar in your member area. VAinsider Club members are serious about their business and ready to invest their time into it. For further education, we’ve put together a collection of eBooks from VAnetworking’s ebook store and other resources on various topics to help you supercharge your virtual business.
View your club benefit here

Network With New VAinsider Club Members

Connect with new members to learn from, utilize for business support services, network with like-minded business entrepreneurs or to do joint ventures with.

If you are NEW to the VAinsider Club, please introduce yourself. By downloading our online questionnaire in our forum area, filling it out and posting it to the group so we can all get to know you on a more personal basis. Learning about one another is how we instill trust. And you never know who will become your next BFVA (Best Friend VA) and want to outsource to you, become your accountability partner or do a joint venture with you.

Visit our Introduction Forum area to welcome all our new VAinsider Club Members:

Accountability – Something to do for your VA Business this week

In sticking with our motivational topic above, please list what you have done this past month in order to attract and retain clients. Try to do 3 out of 5 ways below and share with us your experience:

• Network Strategically
• Market Continuously
• Offer Premiums
• Encourage Referrals
• Get Testimonials
• Keep in Touch

Stay accountable and share your thoughts and ideas in our VAinsider Club forum area

Mastermind Discussions – What you Missed at the Forum

Is Your Business Brain Foggin’ Up?

Upcoming Webinars

GETTING CLIENTS & SUPER CHARGE MEMBERS ONLY:
Date Tuesday, March 13th, 2012 at 4PM PST
Time: 4PM PDT
Topic: Getting Media Attention
In this class we will discuss creating a press kit for your business and what should be included. We will also provide you with some ideas for how to get the press interested in your business so that you can get the media attention that will result in attracting clients.

SUPER CHARGE MEMBERS ONLY:
Date: Tuesday, March 20th, 2012 at 4PM PST
Topic: Business Support Teams
During this class we will discuss the various people that business owners seek support from. Once this section is complete in your manual others will know who your support system is, how you find that support and why it is important to your success. We will also discuss strategies for obtaining business support through local and on-line networking.

SUPER CHARGE MEMBERS ONLY:
Date: Tuesday, March 27th, 2012 at 4PM PST
Topic: Internet Marketing Q & A – LIVE Website Critiques
Bring your mic and internet marketing questions to our LIVE open-air webinar Q & A with Tawnya Sutherland, a Certified Internet Marketing Business Strategist. She will help, guide, advise and find you the resources you’ll need for success with your online marketing plan. Each week Tawnya will bring to light your most darkest issues surrounding how to be seen online by your market and how to strategically entice your market to easily buy from your website. Who would have known making money online was this easy? Topics will be on the fly brought up by the attendees so bring your questions with you! Tawnya is an Internet Marketing Business Strategist with a long-term goal of helping Virtual Assistants worldwide turn their website clicks into cash for their business. She will also be available to give LIVE Website Critiques as time permits (submit your website at our VAinsider forum area ahead of time if possible).

ALL MEMBERS:
Date: 1st Tuesday of every month at 4PM PST (exceptions are ProactiveVA webinars held 3 times yearly)
Topic: Group Accountability and Strategy Implementation Within Your Service Business
Get engaged with other VAs who are part of our VAinsider Club and be held accountable for the work you have achieved over the course of the past month. This is a business social night held the 1st Tuesday of every month for our VAinsider Club members. It’s a social networking evening to express everything on our virtual minds, from introducing new VAinsider Club members to discussing positive flows within our businesses for the upcoming month. We guarantee it will be a fun and informative social night for all to hang with their business colleagues in a safe and confidential environment at the VAinsiders Club!

Go here for login area & to retrieve password:

http://vainsiders.com/proactive-vas/

Please use your full name [first and last name] as username and the password which you can find by clicking on the links on the website link above.

RFPs Submitted this past week

Please visit our forum area to view all the new requests for virtual assistance at:

http://www.vanetworking.com/forum/rfp

Be sure to follow us on Twitter #VAinsiders as we tweet these RFPs immediately after they are posted. Hashtag #VAinsiders

Make sure that you are putting your best foot forward when responding to RFPs. A quick email with “I am interested in your RFP” just won’t cut it in today’s competitive market. Make sure your response lets the potential client know exactly what you can do for them and why you are the best person for the contract!!

Here are some great references from our own VAnetworking forum on answering RFPs:

How to get email from RFP

How to respond to RFPs

Also, remember that we have a resource book on responding to RFPs available for free in the NEW VAinsider area.

Finally, for a daily listing, be sure to subscribe to this link.

To your success,

Tawnya Sutherland

VAinsider President

The most common way people give up their power, is by thinking they don’t have any….Alice Walker

I was planning on writing this week’s MotiVAtor based on quotes and things that we can all use as little reminders. However the other day I had an experience that made me look at just this one.  I didn’t see this clearly at first but wow what a tool it could be when harnessed.

You see I planned a little surprise, I thought it would be great. Why wouldn’t it, everyone loves a surprise from a loved one (No this was not a prank surprise).. Well sometimes the best laid plans have issues. Mine was I forgot to weigh all the variables.  What I saw during the roll out of this plan was not quite what I expected.  I was actually a little shocked.  But after a little time had passed and we talked about it I realized what I had done wrong, but that’s not the theme here. What is important is the way they reacted to me.  I won’t go into the story but they reacted in a very protectionary mode.

So I got to thinking, if someone threaten your loved ones how would you act? I’m sure you would instantly find aggression. So the question to be asked is, why can’t we harvest this aggression that we have inside us for our loved ones, and move it into our business?

Imagine being able to stand up to people during heavy negotiations or disputes.
It’s in you! So this week I want you all to find this inner strong voice, and find a way to use it to become more confident in your business dealings.

Join in and share your thoughts on the this Mastermind discussion

VAinsiders are Virtual Assistants (VAs) that strategically seek ways to help their client’s business grow because of an invested interest in their business.

~ Tawnya Sutherland, VAnetworking.com ~

VAinsider Tips!!

On Thursday we held an education webinar with Karon Thackston, Website & SEO Copywriting Expert, and if you missed it, you’ll want to listen to the recording here

Ask a dozen Virtual Assistants what they struggle with when it comes to their websites and you’ll typically hear things like:

“Prospects can’t find my website on the search engines.”
“If they do find me online, they stay at my site for a few seconds then leave.”
“I don’t know what my site visitors are really looking for.”
“I’m not sure how to position myself as the obvious choice.”
“I need big-time help getting site visitors to take the action I want them to take.”

There’s an easy way to solve all those problems: improve the copy (text) on your website. Relax! Copywriting isn’t hard once you get the basics down. What messes most people up is reading one book or a few blog posts then trying to make it on their own. It takes practice and guidance from a pro to be able to write copy that entices your visitors and ranks high with Google and other engines. And that’s exactly what you’ll get when you register for this 6-week, hands-on workshop, entitled Writing Website Copy that Ranks High & Gets More Clients.

Finally! A Step-by-Step System for Turning Your VA Website into a Client-Generating Machine

Don’t miss listen to the recording as Karon has a special offer at the end of it just for you.

LISTEN BY CLICKING HERE

Network With New VAinsider Club Members

Connect with new members to learn from, utilize for business support services, network with like-minded business entreprenuers or to do joint ventures with.  This week we welcome to the VAinsider Club:

Natalie J. Olson from Colorado representing www.YourVirtualConcierge.biz

Why not pull up your thread and re-introduce yourself and tell us how things are going for you and your business at our VAinsider Club Members intro area

Accountability – Something to do for your VA Business this week

Many of you have yet to take the opportunity to create a contingency plan (disaster recovery plan). I’d like you to start thinking about this and share your thoughts regarding same in our forum. For our Supercharge VAinisders, please review the last 3 webinars in our Thriving Business Accountability membership area.

Mastermind Discussions – What you Missed at the Forum

It’s All About You!

Upcoming Seminars – VAinsiders only

Our Get Clients Workshop webinar from this week on “Responding to RFPS” is now uploaded in your member area for viewing (Get Clients/Supercharge Members). Please make a point of watching this sometime this week and participate in the accountability thread above.

NEXT VAinsiders Club Workshop:

Date: Tuesday, September 27th, 2011 (Typically 4th Tuesday of every month)

Time: 4PM PDT

Presented by: Tawnya Sutherland, Founder of VAnetworking.com

Membership Level: Supercharge VAinsider

Topic: Internet Marketing Q & A – LIVE Website Critiques

Bring your mic and internet marketing questions to our LIVE open-air webinar Q & A with Tawnya Sutherland, a Certified Internet Marketing Business Strategist. She will help, guide, advise and find you the resources you’ll need for success with your online marketing plan. Each week Tawnya will bring to light your most darkest issues surrounding how to be seen online by your market and how to strategically entice your market to easily buy from your website. Who would have known making money online was this easy? Tawnya is a usability expert with a long-term goal of helping Virtual Assistants worldwide turn their website clicks into cash for their business. She will also be available to give LIVE Website Critiques as time permits (submit your website at our VAinsider forum area ahead of time if possible).

PLEASE NOTE: These Q & A sessions are not recorded nor archived so we highly recommend you do your best to attend these webinars monthly for your company to most benefit.

Go here for login area & to retrieve password:

http://vainsiders.com/proactive-vas/

Please use your full name [first and last name] as username and the password which you can find by clicking on the links on the same page above.

RFPs Submitted this past week

Please visit our forum area to view all the new requests for virtual assistance at:

http://www.vanetworking.com/forum/rfp

Be sure to follow us on Twitter #VAinsiders as we tweet these RFPs immediately after they are posted. Hashtag #VAinsiders

Make sure that you are putting your best foot forward when responding to RFPs. A quick email with “I am interested in your RFP” just won’t cut it in today’s competitive market. Make sure your response lets the potential client know exactly what you can do for them and why you are the best person for the contract!!

Here are some great references from our own VAnetworking forum on answering RFPs:

How to get email from RFP

How to respond to RFPs

Also, remember that we have a resource book on responding to RFPs available for free in the NEW VAinsider area.

Finally, for a daily listing, be sure to subscribe to this link.

To your success,

Tawnya Sutherland

VAinsider President

So they’re back to school, the kids that is! Maybe this coming Tuesday after you have sent the kids to school, you should sit down with you favourite bottle of wine and celebrate the fact that the kids are gone…Well, ok drop the wine and maybe celebrate a little later.  But now that you have the house to yourself again, maybe now is a good time to take stock of your office and your new found free time.

SO this week I want you to take Tuesday to yourself. Reorganize you new found time to suit yourself for the coming months. Take the extra time to find new clients or take that upgrade course you found over the summer.  Either, take it from the kids, new year, new organization… But please take a day to yourself first, as if your mind is clear those around you will feel the lack of stress in you. You deserve it.

Join in and share your thoughts on the this Mastermind discussion

VAinsiders are Virtual Assistants (VAs) that strategically seek ways to help their client’s business grow because of an invested interest in their business.

~ Tawnya Sutherland, VAnetworking.com ~

VAinsider Tips!!

Yearly VAinsider Club memberships are on sale right now and it’s a good time to add a year to your existing package so don’t miss the boat! Only 25 discounted seats available in each level.

Visit VAinsiders here.

SAVE $25 on our Booster memberships
SAVE ANOTHER BIG $75 on our Get Client memberships
OR SAVE A HUGE $125 on our Supercharge Memberships

Hurry over to grab your seat as they are limited to 25 at each level. I look forward to seeing you on the INSIDE

Network With New VAinsider Club Members

Connect with new members to learn from, utilize for business support services, network with like-minded business entrepreneurs or to do joint ventures with.  This week we welcome to the VAinsider Club:

Introducing a new VAinsider from Ontario, Laurie Rank. I hope you all read her bio and get to know her here for future networking with you and your business.

Why not pull up your thread and re-introduce yourself and tell us how things are going for you and your business at our VAinsider Club Members intro area

Accountability – Something to do for your VA Business this week

Your accountability this week is to journal all of your business days from start to finish this week. This will give you a base to help us all look at your schedule in more depth to find ways to maximize and minimize blocks of time to help your business run smoother.

Project management is crucial to success of your business and I’m going to give some tips with this over the next few weeks. Right now though, your job is to journal one work week for us and post at the forum a screen shot.

If you look at the online version of this newsletter, you’ll see a glimpse of how I organize my days with the blank areas used for making money.

Good luck and please share your results below in our private VAinsider Club forum area

Mastermind Discussions – What you Missed at the Forum

Summer’s End & Upgrading

Upcoming Seminars – VAinsiders only

I am on holidays this week and doubt I will have access to anything but WI-FI which means the webinar room won’t work for me. It was just a #VAjot networking night anyhow and you may all still attend if you like to discuss your businesses. Unfortunately I can’t make it but will see you next week!

RFPs Submitted this past week

Please visit our forum area to view all the new requests for virtual assistance at:

http://www.vanetworking.com/forum/rfp

Be sure to follow us on Twitter #VAinsiders as we tweet these RFPs immediately after they are posted. Hashtag #VAinsiders

Make sure that you are putting your best foot forward when responding to RFPs. A quick email with “I am interested in your RFP” just won’t cut it in today’s competitive market. Make sure your response lets the potential client know exactly what you can do for them and why you are the best person for the contract!!

Here are some great references from our own VAnetworking forum on answering RFPs:

How to get email from RFP

How to respond to RFPs

Also, remember that we have a resource book on responding to RFPs available for free in the NEW VAinsider area.

Finally, for a daily listing, be sure to subscribe to this link.

To your success,

Tawnya Sutherland

VAinsider President

Be on the edge.

I just finished watching the Lady Gaga video, The Edge of Glory (Yeah, yeah I know)

WATCH VIDEO HERE

It got me thinking! Entrepreneurs such as us need to be ‘on the edge’. We need to have the courage to trust ourselves and our judgements. We need to stay on the edge of technology, and we need to stay on the edge of ourselves, always striving to be better   So I would like to take this week’s motivator to motivate you to stay on the edge, regardless of how scary or how much work it takes. Some days it will be fun, some days it will be scary, and some days it will seem to be an unending chore.  It is however a necessary task that all entrepreneurs have to do.  Take a few moments each day, or a scheduled time each week to find out what’s new out there that you can offer to your clients to make their lives better and yours more profitable.

SO if you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space…

Join in and share your thoughts on the this Mastermind discussion

VAinsiders are Virtual Assistants (VAs) that strategically seek ways to help their client’s business grow because of an invested interest in their business.

~ Tawnya Sutherland, VAnetworking.com ~

VAinsider Tips!!

You may have noticed that I missed writing a couple of Monday VAmotivators this past month. The reason for this was because of some unexpected surgery I had to have and my apologies. Thanks to all who connected up to wish me all the lovely get well wishes. I’m almost 100% recouperated now.

NOW as compensation to you, I’m giving all our VAinsider Club members a new ebook to learn all about Google+. It’s the newest social networking rage right now and this ebook will teach how to get setup easily and quickly so you can start connecting with Google+.

Download the free Google+ ebook here.

Network With New VAinsider Club Members

Connect with new members to learn from, utilize for business support services, network with like-minded business entrepreneurs or to do joint ventures with.  This week we welcome to the VAinsider Club:

Denise Joy Marron is an Online Training Manager – VA Support Specialist and Owner of DJM Training Support Solutions, an online training consultancy based in Adelaide, South Australia but servicing the world virtually.

Visit our Introduction Forum area here to welcome all our new VAinsider Club Members

Accountability – Something to do for your VA Business this week

Accountability this week is SIMPLE: Go into the forum and read 3 new members introductions and post a comment to their threads to welcome them.

I cannot express how valuable it is to your business that you make a point of getting to know your VAinsider Club members on a more deeper level. You never know when you’ll need to refer work to another VA and wouldn’t it be nice to know one that you can trust to refer your client to? Or what if you need an accountability partner, who better to have pushing you onward than another club member who has the same drive and passion for their VA business as you do?  Or what if you are looking for another VA to do a joint venture with?

Getting to know your fellow club members is a perfect step forward in helping your business grow.

Good luck and please share your prospecting results in our private VAinsider Club forum area

Mastermind Discussions – What you Missed at the Forum

Get Out of Your Comfort Zone!

Upcoming Seminars – VAinsiders only

Our Thriving Business Accountability Workshop webinar from last week on Contingency Planning – Economical is now uploaded in your member area for viewing (Supercharge Members). Please make a point of watching this sometime this week. It’s was all about putting power into action.

Next VAinsiders Club Workshop

Date: Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011
Time: 4PM PDT

Levels: Supercharge

Presented by: Tawnya Sutherland, Founder of VAnetworking.com

Topic: Internet Marketing Q & A – LIVE Website Critiques

Description: Bring your mic and internet marketing questions to our LIVE open-air webinar Q & A with Tawnya Sutherland, a Certified Internet Marketing Business Strategist.  She will help, guide, advise and find you the resources you’ll need for success with your online marketing plan. Each week Tawnya will bring to light your most darkest issues surrounding how to be seen online by your market and how to strategically entice your market to easily buy from your website. Who would have known making money online was this easy? Tawnya is a usability expert with a long-term goal of helping Virtual Assistants worldwide turn their website clicks into cash for their business. She will also be available to give LIVE Website Critiques as time permits (submit your website at our VAinsider forum area ahead of time if possible).

Go here for login area & to retrieve password:

http://vainsiders.com/proactive-vas/

Please use your full name [first and last name] as username and the password which you can find by clicking on the links on the same page above.

RFPs Submitted this past week

Please visit our forum area to view all the new requests for virtual assistance at:

http://www.vanetworking.com/forum/rfp

Be sure to follow us on Twitter #VAinsiders as we tweet these RFPs immediately after they are posted. Hashtag #VAinsiders

Make sure that you are putting your best foot forward when responding to RFPs. A quick email with “I am interested in your RFP” just won’t cut it in today’s competitive market. Make sure your response lets the potential client know exactly what you can do for them and why you are the best person for the contract!!

Here are some great references from our own VAnetworking forum on answering RFPs:

How to get email from RFP

How to respond to RFPs

Also, remember that we have a resource book on responding to RFPs available for free in the NEW VAinsider area.

Finally, for a daily listing, be sure to subscribe to this link.

To your success,

Tawnya Sutherland

VAinsider President

I want you to do something this week…

I want you to go for a walk > BY YOURSELF. Do not bring your mate, kids, dog, or any friend.  Just go by yourself.  On your walk, find a secluded spot (I like looking out over a sunset personally) and just sit.  Don’t go with an agenda, just go for some “NO THINKING TIME”.  It will be scary as we live in a world of constant stimulation.

NOTE: If you don’t do this often you are going to feel quite out of place, but do it any way.

Once you get into the habit of doing this you will find the time quite clarifying. The point here is just to give you two things, one, is to work on clearing your mind a little. Yes I’m sure a bunch of you are going to say, but I meditate, or I do yoga, or whatever other activity runs along these lines. But there is an added advantage to doing the walks, other than time in the fresh air. I want you to be alone, without a CD playing of singing whales, or melodic chants.  Just be alone with yourself in the fresh air. This will actually make you a little tired in beginning but go with it.

You will soon find that you come back with energy and a clearer mind.

Join in and share your thoughts on the this Mastermind discussion

VAinsiders are Virtual Assistants (VAs) that strategically seek ways to help their client’s business grow because of an invested interest in their business.

~ Tawnya Sutherland, VAnetworking.com ~

VAinsider Tips!!

If you are a Get Client or Supercharge VAinsider, I highly recommend downloading the Virtual Biz Articles ebook that comes F.R.E.E. with your membership.

Ebook Description: To help ease a Virtual Assistant’s business day, VAnetworking has put together a collection of business links to help aid anyone who works virtually. From A (Accounting Software) to Z (Zip Codes), there are over 150 resources together with links and a cost scale.

Download the Virtual Biz Articles ebook here

Accountability – Something to do for your VA Business this week

This is part 3 of our “Planting a Seed” accountability to prospect new clients.

The first week I asked you to pop by a couple of local businesses this week and drop off your brochure, business card and possibly a small token (gift) to keep your visit memorable.

Second week I challenged you to follow up with these prospects again either in person or via phone to see if your prospects have any questions about virtual assistance.

NOW I’d like you to drop a note in the mail to the prospects above and thank you for talking to you. I want you to also put together a small savings coupon (for discount on your services) that expires in two weeks from the date of mailing. Make sure your telephone number and all contact info is on this coupon too.

Good luck and please share your prospecting results in our private VAinsider Club forum area

Mastermind Discussions – What you Missed at the Forum

Do you have a Millionaire Mindset?

Upcoming Seminars – VAinsiders only

Our Proactive VA Part 2 webinar from last week is now uploaded in your member area for viewing. Please make a point of watching this sometime this week. It’s was all about putting power into action.

Next VAinsiders Club Worksho[

Date: Thursday, July 26th, 2011
Time: 4PM PDT

Levels: Supercharge

Presented by: Tawnya Sutherland, Founder of VAnetworking.com

Topic: Internet Marketing Q & A – LIVE Website Critiques

Description: Bring your mic and internet marketing questions to our LIVE open-air webinar Q & A with Tawnya Sutherland, a Certified Internet Marketing Business Strategist.  She will help, guide, advise and find you the resources you’ll need for success with your online marketing plan. Each week Tawnya will bring to light your most darkest issues surrounding how to be seen online by your market and how to strategically entice your market to easily buy from your website. Who would have known making money online was this easy? Tawnya is a usability expert with a long-term goal of helping Virtual Assistants worldwide turn their website clicks into cash for their business. She will also be available to give LIVE Website Critiques as time permits (submit your website at our VAinsider forum area ahead of time if possible).

Go here for login area & to retrieve password:

http://vainsiders.com/proactive-vas/

Please use your full name [first and last name] as username and the password which you can find by clicking on the links on the same page above.

RFPs Submitted this past week

Please visit our forum area to view all the new requests for virtual assistance at:

http://www.vanetworking.com/forum/rfp

Be sure to follow us on Twitter #VAinsiders as we tweet these RFPs immediately after they are posted. Hashtag #VAinsiders

Make sure that you are putting your best foot forward when responding to RFPs. A quick email with “I am interested in your RFP” just won’t cut it in today’s competitive market. Make sure your response lets the potential client know exactly what you can do for them and why you are the best person for the contract!!

Here are some great references from our own VAnetworking forum on answering RFPs:

How to get email from RFP

How to respond to RFPs

Also, remember that we have a resource book on responding to RFPs available for free in the NEW VAinsider area.

Finally, for a daily listing, be sure to subscribe to this link.

To your success,

Tawnya Sutherland

VAinsider President