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Who’s the best fit for your business?

Who’s the best fit for your business?

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Who’s the best fit for your business; a virtual assistant, a techie virtual assistant, certified online business manager or all of the above?

Hey Friend, who’s the best fit for your business? This is determined by where you’re at in your business. Let’s take a look at the different done for you service providers roles. Who’s the best fit for you and your business a Virtual Assistant (VA), a Techie Virtual Assistant  (TVA), Certified Online Business Manager (OBM) or all of the above. Depending on what stage your business is in all three may be what you need to take your business to the next level.

 

Who is the best fit in your business

VA

Commonly, your first hire is going to be a virtual assistant, that special savior that get you back to doing what you love and take all those administrative tasks that you’re burying yourself with you.

Trying to be everything to everybody. Trust me, I've got that badge along with the busy badge.

A Virtual Assistant will sort through your inbox, organize the to-do list, protect the time on your calendars, they simply will be the organization and time-saving machine for you and your business.

A Virtual Assistant will be a doer of all the admin tasks that you have in your business.

TVA

Depending on what drains your energy and time in your business, a Techie Virtual Assistant, possibly could come before an Admin VA. Most, but not all TVA are subject matter experts on a software application. You’ll find a few Techie VA that are rockstars at a few different subject matters that are closely related. A Techie VA is a Done For You service providers.

The Miss Task Team is a group of Techie Virtual Assistant or Subject Matter Experts. Our Techie Superpowers are working with WordPress Website Design and email service providers, such as MailChimp, ConvertKit, and Ontraport.

OBM

A Certified Online Business Manager. I’ve made the transition from VA, TVA to a Certified Online Business Manager. A Certified OBM actually supports the business owner and manages the business.

An org chart for a digital business would have the OBM directly under the owner managing all the team members. The focus of the OBM is on the how and the who. How the vision of the business owner is going to be carried out and by whom.

We manage all of the things. An OBM manages all the people, all the operations, all of the things that are going on with the projects that you have in your business so that you're able to focus on your vision and the elements that actually only you can do in your business.

Hope this has helped to clarify who’s the best fit for your business right now! Who do you need? A Virtual Assistant, a Techie Virtual Assistant, Certified Online Business Manager or all of the above.

Two Resources

What? Yep, I have two resources that you could download. One is my Overwhelmed to Outsourced Planner and the other is my 100+ Ways An OBM Can Boost Business.

Enjoy! Let me know if you have any questions.

Creating A Vision For Your Online Business

Creating A Vision For Your Online Business

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Creating A Vision For Your Online Business

Creating A Vision For Your Business

Have you given thought about creating a vision for your online business? With all the day in and day out of running an online business keeping an eye on the vision of where you want to go can get shoved to the wayside. Whether you create a vision board, doodle about it in a notebook or write it out in detail. Visually seeing the results that you’d like to receive in your business can be extremely helpful.

The concept of creating a vision board isn’t anything new. It’s all part of the Law Of Attraction that you hear so much buzz about. I love me some LOA!

If you’re not into the Law Of Attraction, a little too woo-woo for you? Then I suggest you learn about Cameron Herold Vivid Vision. Here is a quick 11ish minute video of Cameron speaking about a Vivid Vision for your business.

Do you enjoy to read?

Cameron Herold covers this subject in his books: Vivid Vision and Double Double.

Do you

Do you see yourself getting to your vision of what you want for your business? Maybe you’ve already reached your first vision and are working at creating a vision to take you even further.

Besides creating your vision, have you created a plan mapped or did a mind map of how you think you can get there?

Track The Achievement

Do you track your achievements along the way so that you’re able to look back when you’re feeling defeated and overwhelmed with all the aspects of creating a vision into reality?

Maybe you’ve gotten over the first six-figure hump, but now are getting stuck in the daily grind of managing it all now and not able to move forward. It may be time to sit down again and begin creating a vision to take your business to the next level.

James Wedmore talked about this on his podcast Episode 254: How to Prevent Your Business from Crashing Down.. Without creating a vision for your business the path and belief to get there may not happen.

A little foggy

For the first few years of my business, my vision was foggy. I wanted to help everyone do everything. You know the saying a jack of all trades master of none? Trying to be all the things is stressful. Trying to help all the people is stressful.

I've since narrowed my focus down into two areas. Web Design because it is a beautiful creative outlet and online business management (OBM). Because I love the operations and managing of the business that an online business manager gets to concentrate on.

But it took really turning inward and looking at what were the things that I did that brought me joy and excitement, and releasing the things that caused me stress and overwhelm. It was simply a matter of trusting my own self and creating a vision of what I truly loved offering in my business.

This quote is from Life, The Truth, and Being Free by Steve Maraboli, “If you don’t know exactly where you’re going, how will you know when you get there?”

Go-To Apps For Managing My Business

Go-To Apps For Managing My Business

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Go-To Apps For Managing My Business

Go-To Apps For Managing My Business

Hey Friends, if you’re a little like me and spend a great deal of time managing your online business from your phone. Great minds, all I have to say. Here are a few of my go-to apps for my business.

  • Spark
  • Tide Lite
  • Voxer
  • Insight Timer
  • Podcasts

Let’s Get The Apps Out

Spark

oh boy, this is my new favorite email management application that I’ve been for the past six months. This app makes it easy to pin the emails that need to be looked at later. Mark something as unread. Send a message at a later time. For my brain, it makes cleaning out the inbox easy and painless. Psst… I wrote about Spark here too.

Voxer

This is a walkie talkie app for your phone that you can talk back and forth to people in the app. You can listen as they are talking or when you have time. Its a bit easier than text and you can actually hear the voice inflection. (:

This wasn’t on the list, but another go-to app more recently, I’ve been using Marco Polo for conversations. Marco Polo is actually a short video conversation that you can have. Not only can you hear them, but you can see them too. Yay!

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A Little Side Note

Have you heard that the ambient from working in a coffee shop is more productive? It could also be the energy of productivity is all around you in a coffee shop.

Insight Timer

this app helped kick start my meditation practice. They offer so many guided meditations or you can use the timer with selected chimes and sounds. It allows you to do you.

Tide Lite

This app is for productivity and time management. It is based on The Pomodoro Technique. It provides background noises, can you say coffee shop in my office, for a specific amount of time that you want. The default is 25 minutes. It has a number of add on that you can turn on such as break time and longer break times.

Podcasts

I love the podcast app just as much as my Kindle. I listen to so many and L-O-V-E them! I listen to them in the car, on a walk, when I exercise. It’s my go too. When I was a sales rep and travel all the time I would listen to hours of podcasts while I drove or flew. Time flies when you’re having fun.

That is a quick list of my go-to apps. What are yours?