Monday, November 10, 2014

Two Steps to Setting Broad and Specific Goals


"A goal is a dream with a deadline" - Napoleon Hill

Setting goals for your life and business allows you to choose how you want to move through your daily life.  Meeting these goals will lead to a feeling of satisfaction and daily accomplishments. Be sure to keep track of your goals to see your progress. While meeting your goals be sure to have rewards along the ways.

 Setting Broad Overreaching Goals [short-term and long-term]

  • Goals must be specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-related.
  • To reach goals for yourself and your organization, effective goals must be broken down into smaller pieces.
  • Use positive statements to direct a way to affirm your commitment to completing your goals.
  • Set priorities to determine the criteria you will use to determine if and how well the goals are to be met.
  • Include a time frame for completion, such as goals for employees or virtual professionals who perform routine processing functions. Are more goals more time-sensitive than others?
  • Keep your incremental goals small.
  • Make use of a journal to track all your goals to keep you motivated to continue your progress.


Setting Specific Manageable Goals

  • List all your deadlines that your plan to meet on your calendar. Testing your product will move you closer to completing your short-term goals.
  • Goal statements are a result of what you expect and the time involved to achieve your goals.
  • Goals should be developed from all involved parties.
  • Goals should be challenging and achievable.
  • Goals should be revised with new goals when the needs of the job changes.
  • Take the time to assess where you are in your larger target goal.


Resources:

Free goal setting worksheets

Developing and Writing Measurable Goals and Objectives


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Thursday, June 6, 2013

Today's Virtual Administrative Assistants



"Trust is a core ingredient to build successful relationships."

"Virtual Assistants today can do so much more than just basic administrative tasks, their skill sets now run the entire gambit of abilities form basic secretarial work to full on accounting, web management, and strategic planning."  Tawna Sutherland 

The best virtual clients are ones who recognize the value hiring a virtual administrative assistant to take on the tasks or projects that they don’t have the time to complete or the skills.  

Some virtual assistants have spent time in online virtual assistant classes to update their administrative, social media, bookkeeping, web design, and other skills for business needs of today.

Most Virtual Assistants specialize in different areas so you can usually find one to suit your business. 

They might be:
  • Bookkeepers
  • Business Coaches for Virtual Assistants
  • Freelancers for Writes and Authors
  • Event Planners
  • Investigative and Research
  • Legal Virtual Administrative Assistants
  • Resume Writing
  • Social Media Management Assistants
  • Web Designers


Be sure to take advantage of their free consultations and try to make sure their personality matches your business and not just their skill set.

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Tags: virtual administrative assistants, business coaches, web designers, executive assistants, bookkeepers, event planners, freelancers, research, secretarial work, accounting, web management, strategic planners


Your Ace Virtual Assistant to the Rescue

Are you spending to much time with your paperwork than actually running your business?  You are a professional that is seldom in one place, but want information consistently at your fingertips?

  • Are you short on office space and/or equipment?
  • Do your projects become emergencies, spend long hours to them completed, or pay staff overtime?
  • Do you have projects that no one can get to, that have sat on the back burner for months or years?
  • Are you spending too much time handling office duties instead of using the skills that started your business?
  • Do you have projects that could be done by an assistant, but can't justify hiring a full time staff person to do them?
  • Do you ever wish you had someone who could spend just a few hours getting you organized?
  • Do you feel frustrated trying to learn a software package and don't know where to begin?
  • Would you like a nice business card but don't want to print 500 of them?
If the answer is yes, then you have found the right personal virtual assistant to assist you.  I can provide virtual assistance locally, nationally, & internationally.

Your Ace Virtual Assistant is a Texas business providing professional administrative support to your business.

I will provide impeccable strong work ethics and customer service in accomplishing your long-term work projects and goals.

My main goal is to partner with my clients to provide a satisfying customer relationship, because your business is very important to me. 

 Clients partnering with Your Ace Virtual Assistant would:
  • Achieve your long-term and short-term business projects and tasks.
  • Receive opportunities for your professional growth from my years of advanced administrative training in the corporate and virtual world.

I personally guarantee your work requests will be handled professionally and confidentiality.

Cora Belle Marburger, GVA
214-395-8845 Office

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Top 10 Reasons to Hire a Virtual Office Assistant

Having a Virtual Assistant (VA) is an essential need for the busy entrepreneur, small business owner, or a person on the run.  With the advent of new technologies and ways of doing business, the VA is here to help you along your way.  
Here are ten reasons to hire a Virtual Assistant:

1. Focus on making money.

Having a VA allows you the freedom to create more profitability for your company by allowing you to concentrate solely on your business, not the mundane tasks that are inherent in business.
Making money is what business people do and the more time they have to concentrate on their business, the more money and opportunity they will create.

2. Saves you money.

Why invest in payroll, benefits, insurance, etc., when you could be delegating that money to building your business. Why worry about personnel calling in sick or taking vacations? There is no need to hire in-house personnel when a VA can be there when you need them to perform the duties that you need in running your business.

3. Freedom to pursue your pleasurable activities.

Having a VA work with you frees you up to pursue the activities that help keep your creative juices flowing.
When you are bogged down wondering if the bills are paid, you are not thinking about new and exciting ways in which your business could be growing.

4. One-stop shopping.

A VA can perform duties that range from word processing, maintaining billing- both personal and business, creating marketing tools such as brochures, flyers and business cards, travel arrangements, maintaining databases and sending out mailings, etc. There is no business duty that a VA cannot perform or would be willing to learn.

5. Tailored to fit your business needs.

Whether you need one letter typed or need monthly billing to clients, a VA can perform these duties. They are set up to fit each individual client’s needs. Fees are arranged for one-time tasks to retainer of 10, 20, or 40 hours per week or month. Whatever your needs are, the VA and you create your own individual working partnership.

6. Freedom to work from any location.

Whether you are in your office, your home or on vacation a VA is always accessible to you. Contact is maintained through telephone, fax, E-mail, and online messaging.

7. Delegate time-consuming responsibilities.

Let a VA take care of those responsibilitiesso that you may pursue (worry-free) the business of living your life and running your business.

8. Highly trained personnel for your business projects.

VA’s are professionals that have training in the corporate, small business and professional worldand have tailored their skills to meet with the needs of the modern day business professional. They have found that every professional has varying needs and offer their expertise in caring for these needs.

9. Individual virtual services provided.

For the entrepreneur, freelancer or small business, it is important that your particular needs are seen as unique. A VA is the person who will oversee your business and/or personal life. They can maintain your mailing lists, maintain correspondence, and keep track of memberships that need to be renewed, remind you of important dates, arrange travel or send flowers and special occasion cards. They act as your partner in caring for those tasks personally.

10. Let your VA strengths be your business strengths.

Why waste time on tasks that are not your primary objective?Being a successful business owner entails hiring the right people for the right job. By hiring a VA, you are partnering with the professional that has the knowledge of the inner workings of the administrative and corporate fields.





Your Ace Virtual Assistant
The Right VA at the Right Time!

Cora Belle Marburger, GVA
214-395-8845 Office
texasva2003@gmail.com
www.youraceassistant.us
www.coramarburger.com
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Administrative Assistants Expand Their Tech Horizons

Yesterday’s Secretaries’ are often on the leading edge of implementing software today.
Administrative assistants may have to design a newsletter using desktop publishing software, create a Web site or build a spreadsheet to track corporate expenses. Assistants who keep up with the technology are pretty much assured that there will always be a demand for their services. Some assistants adept at technology are cutting the corporate edge altogether to become virtual assistants, says the International Association of Virtual Office Assistants. Starting salaries for these independent contractors run as high as $45 an hour, depending on each business. 

 Your Ace Virtual Assistant
The Right VA at the Right Time!

Cora Belle Marburger, GVA
214-395-8845 Office
texasva2003@gmail.com
www.youraceassistant.us
www.coramarburger.com
acevirtualassistant2.prohost.mobi (cell)
Facebook: texasva2003
Linkedin: coramarburger
Twitter: CoraOnlyVA
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Finding the Right Virtual Assistant for Your Business Needs




My best clients are ones who recognize the value in hiring me to take on the tasks or projects that they don’t have the time to complete or the skills.  My clients are amazed at how little time it takes me to do their tasks or projects.

Most VA’s specialize in different areas so you can usually find one to suit your business.  Be sure to take advantage of their free consultations and try to make sure their personality matches your business and not just their skill set.

Please pass my name on to anyone that you know who might need a virtual assistant. I have been in business since 2002.  I have all the software and equipment in my office to support my clients for short-term & long-term contracts. Earlier this year rebuild my business website and have built a website for a cell phone, I’m continuing to networking my business in the media using accounts with Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

Your Ace Virtual Assistant
The Right VA at the Right Time!


Cora Belle Marburger, GVA
214-395-8845 Office
texasva2003@gmail.com
www.youraceassistant.us
www.coramarburger.com
acevirtualassistant2.prohost.mobi (cell)
Facebook: texasva2003
Linkedin: coramarburger
Twitter: CoraOnlyVA
Tumblr: texasva2003.tumblr.com
Google: texasva2003.blogspot.com

Tuesday, June 4, 2013



Tips for Creating a Website.

1. Website
Create current useful content to keep your visitors returning to your website often to see your useful articles and helpful resources. Be sure to link to relevant pages within your site and update your website on a weekly basis. Your visitors might want to link to your website and hire you as their main virtual assistant.

2. Search Optimization
Your website needs search engines like Google, Bing, Foxfire, etc if you want to optimize your contents with having your keywords into headlines and high into your website.  Tracking your site can be done with Google analytics.  They track your website visitors with keywords used in search and can tell you which areas in your website were checked. Use Google's Webmaster Tools to submit your sitemap to help get your pages indexed in search results.

3. Marketing Yourself
Be sure to submit your articles to directories for search engines to bring attention to your website and help you in your key word search results to your over all rankings.

4. Browser searches
Be sure to search for quality sites that compliment to your business services and always ask the website owners if they will link to your site and in return you can link to their website.  This is the ultimate compliment!

5. Business contacts
To stay in contact with other VA’s, your clients, and possible new clients be sure to join social media sites like LinkedIn, Twitter Facebook to share your current website articles and resources.


Your Ace Virtual Assistant
The Right VA at the Right Time!
Cora Belle Marburger, GVA