Congratulations to Regina Brown of Brown’s Professional Services, who is the recipient of this week’s VAccolade Business Entrepreneur Award.
Regina holds a Quickbooks Pro Advisor Certification and is trained in tax preparation. She also offers such services as property management, human resources, and office management. Regina has been a valued member of VAnetworking since November 2008.
Whether you have an established VA or are looking to hire one; you must always be thinking forward; what type of work you will assign, how you will communicate the tasks and how the work will be done. You want a VA you can easily communicate with. A VA who can follow directions accurately, written, oral or through an instant message system, is vital to a successful VA-client relationship.
I was thinking today about a conversation I had a year ago with a potential client. He said he was finally going to let go of the mindset that so many entrepeneurs have. That was, thinking that he wouldn’t be successful unless he did everything himself so his business remained his business.
We had a lot of discussion around that and before our chat, I hadn’t realized what a mental block that could be for many people who could really benefit from the services of a Virtual Assistant.
By ‘outsourcing your higher learning’, I don’t mean you should delegate your university education or your college assignments. That wouldn’t be ethical. But how many times have you thought something like…
“I’m ready to put a shopping cart on my website, I should really learn how to do that.”
“I know I should be putting out a newsletter but I don’t know where to start.”
“As soon as I get a minute to figure out Facebook, I’ll put up a profile.”
“I’ll get my bookkeeping straightened out when I get around to learning how to use QuickBooks.”
