CVAC Webinars
With the aim of promoting the virtual assistant profession, CVAC
offers ongoing learning opportunities to its members and virtual
assistants worldwide. We bring you seasoned professionals and leading
experts in the VA industry and elsewhere to offer an array of topics
relevant to new and experienced virtual assistants. We want to provide
you with the knowledge and tools to help you start and build vibrant VA
practices, which will in turn strengthen the industry as a whole.
All classes are web-based as such come to you live from your desktop. Complete instructions are provided upon registration.
To view a list or download any of our archived webinars, please click here
Upcoming
CVAC’s Webinar Series September 2011 to June 2012
All classes are web-based as such come to you live from your desktop. Complete instructions are provided upon registration.
Click on Webinar Title to sign up.
| 22-Feb-12 |
1:00 pm EST/ 10:00 am PST |
Erin Blaskie | How to Create Passive Revenue in Your Business |
| 15-Mar-12 |
2:00 pm EST/ 11:00 am PST |
Donna Gunter | Best Strategies Helping Introverted Virtual Assistants (or VAs Who Hate to Market Themselves) Massively |
| 25-Apr-12 |
1:00 pm EST/ 10:00 am PST |
Ivana Taylor | How to Get Your Ideal Customer to Choose You |
| 31-May-12 |
2:00 pm EST/ 11:00 am PST |
Stephanie Lee | Killer Customer Service – How to Dazzle & Delight (and turn one client into many!) |
| 13-Jun-12 |
12:00 pm EST/ 9:00 am PST |
Dawn Jensen |
New, Hot, & Sexy: The
Update – Leveraging Your LinkedIn Profile for Business
|
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How to Create Passive Revenue in Your Business
Wednesday, 22-Feb-12 at 1:00p.m. EST/10:00a.m. PST
This presentation will help you find out how you can create alternate streams of income in your business to turn your business into a six-figure (and beyond) enterprise! We’ll uncover how to use affiliate marketing, referral based business models, team based business models, info-products, alternate business forms and more to create residual, passive revenue that you can bank on now and into the future.
Erin Blaskie’s Bio
Erin Blaskie started her first company at the age of 21. BSETC was launched to support entrepreneurs with their ever-growing businesses. Today, the company supports hundreds of businesses from around the globe with their web and graphic design, their social media endeavours, their Internet marketing and their administration.
In her spare time, Erin manages Entrepreneur DIY and The VA Coach, guest co-hosts on the Macgasm podcast and blogs for both Lawyerist and Microsoft’s Business on Main.
Over the past few years, Erin has serviced high profile clients, such as Travelocity, Crystal Light, Tassimo and Magnum Ice Cream, has been featured in five published books, received runner-up business woman of the year from Office Arrow and has spoke at both national and International events.
Click here to view Online Biz University website.
Get Found Online: 7 Best Strategies Helping Introverted Virtual Assistants (or VAs Who Hate to Market Themselves) Massively Increase Their Visibility Online, Today!
Thursday, March 15, 2012 at 2:00p.m. EST/11:00a.m. PST
Are you ready to take your business off the sidelines and get it out there in a big way so you can grow your business and get found online in a way that doesn’t make you nauseated? Chances are you’ve tried blueprints, templates, and paint-by-number systems but you never get the results you were promised. All you end up with is frustration, confusion, and disappointment. Nothing seems to fit your introverted personality.
Don’t give up!
The solution to your problem is so close to you, you probably can’t even see it. What is that solution?
It begins by taking inventory of your natural introverted gifts. Then, you’ll discover how to take those gifts and implement them using proven Internet marketing strategies to make them work exceptionally well for introverts. Then, when someone “meets” you online (and soon you’ll be everywhere!), they’ll swear that there’s no way you’re really an introvert!
Isn’t it time to stop chasing clients and learn the secret of how to create a thriving online virtual assistant business where clients beg you to work with them, even if you’re an introvert (or hate talking about what you do!)?
In this tell-all seminar, Donna will reveal:
· The 3 natural gifts almost every introvert possesses that serves as the foundation of your Internet marketing success
· The million dollar questions you must answer BEFORE you start any marketing (hint: without this, everything you do will be a waste of time)
· A simple two-step plan that will instantly establish you as an expert in your field
· The most effective method (hands down) of establishing relationships online (yes, even for introverts!)
· How just one email per week can help you build a waiting list of clients
· The best 15 minutes a day you can use to quickly build your network from zero to hundreds or thousands
· The one Internet marketing secret NO ONE tells you about that will quadruple your marketing reach (and it's not what you think!)
· The most effective strategy to share your expertise with hundreds of potential clients in only an hour a month
Donna Gunter’s Bio
Donna Gunter, author of "Get More Clients Online: How to Get 95% of Your Clients from Internet Marketing" and founder of OnlineBizU.com, helps introverted independent service professionals stop the client chase and create online businesses that drives clients to them. She accomplishes this by teaching them how to successfully market themselves and their businesses online without sacrificing their introverted souls.
Donna opened her first online business as an online business manager/virtual assistant in 1999 and successfully built this virtual company from her small, rural, East Texas hometown using only connections made online and Internet marketing strategies that she tweaked to fit her INFP personality.
From 2000-2004 she trained women to create businesses as Virtual Assistants for a VA training company while also running her own business. After coaching and training virtual assistants for several years, she made the leap into professional business coaching and unveiled her internet marketing coaching company in 2003, which is now called IntrovertMarketingCoach.com. In 2007 she founded OnlineBizU.com, the premier online marketing strategy and training membership community for introverted service business owners.
You can find Donna online at http://www.OnlineBizU.com
Click here to view DIYMarketers’ website.
How to Get Your Ideal Customer to Choose You
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 at 1:00p.m. EST/10:00a.m. PST
Take a look at any successful , happy and profitable business and you’ll find three things: A business owner with an obvious passion, a targeted customer and a turnkey marketing system tailored to delivering a specific customer experience. In this session you will identify your competitive advantage, choose a specific customer profile and then develop an offering that will get your ideal customer to choose you every time, regardless of price.
Ivana Taylor’s bio
Ivana Taylor is the publisher of DIYMarketers.com – an online marketing publication that provides marketing advice and short cuts for CEOs with no marketing department. She is the DIY Marketing expert and book editor for Small Business Trends and a contributing author to AMEX Open Forum. Her strategic consulting firm, Third Force specializes in helping companies find their best customers and be the one they choose – regardless of price. Ivana is the co-author of Excel for Marketing Managers. You can find her on Twitter as @DIYMarketers and @StrategyStew
Click here to view Scratchpad Secretaries’ website.
Killer Customer Service – How to Dazzle & Delight (and turn one client into many!)
Thursday, May 31, 2012 at 2:00p.m. EST/11:00a.m. PST
Customer service is the driving factor in my business success. Learn my secrets to a happy client base...a client base that continues to send business my way over and over again! I'll share some tips and tricks that will help you change the way you think about running your business, setting your boundaries, and what it means to deliver top-notch service; all focused on increasing your roster and your bank account!
Stephanie Lee’s Bio
Stephanie Lee is a very busy Mom Entrepreneur running ScratchpadSecretaries.com, a successful Administrative Services company she founded in 2008, and the recently launched Moms Who Mean Business - an online resource for moms wanting to start a successful business from home. Specializing in Email Management and Calendar Maintenance, she works closely with her clients to help their businesses run more efficiently by taking the admin off their plates. Her popular weekly e-report "Killer Tips to Rock Your Start Up", is full of helpful, practical and implementable tidbits to make sure you really rock your biz and work smarter, not harder.
Autumn of 2011 will see the launch of her first product, "How to Start Your own VA Business - 6 No Cost Strategies for Starting off on the Right Foot". She is also featured as an expert VA in "Mom Incorporated", a realistic guide to running a business with baby in tow, due to hit the shelves in October.
Click here to view Virtual Options’ website.
New, Hot, & Sexy: The Update – Leveraging Your LinkedIn Profile for Business
Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at 12:00p.m. EST/9:00a.m. PST
Linkedin IS the place for business to business relationships to build. Explore with Dawn the top ways to make your profile pop, applications you must have and great ways to leverage your network while you are in your seat. How to Immediately Increase the your Profile being found
· Making an impact with your profile
· Mastering the connection process
· How to position yourself as the expert in your niche
Dawn Raquel Jensen’s bio
Mentored by leaders in business and personal achievement, Dawn delivers dynamic, interactive training that helps you deliver measurable results in a fraction of the time it would take to do on your own. Backed by practical, proven resources, coaching is just one advantage she provides business owners who are looking to prosper in today's click-and-mortar marketplace. Whether you’re just getting started, getting more involved, or wanting more business using Social Media and “Click” Marketing, as a Social entrepreneur, Dawn will help you get results and get your business buzzing on Social networks.
Since 1996, Dawn has been training local and national clients in software and technology. She spent eight years as a US Navy Reserve Journalist and Public Affairs Specialist taking part in a mobile public affairs unit covering military national and world events for joint military forces both here in the United States and abroad. Dawn received her Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the University of Central Florida. She is also a graduate of DINFOS (Defense Information School) which specializes in Public Affairs and Visual Information.
Through this unique skill set along and her practical, hands-on technical knowledge, Dawn founded Virtual Options Coaching & Training in 2001. Virtual Options is Central Florida’s boutique Social Media & technology training firms that offers digital marketing and managed services for select clients who are looking for best practices & policy, as well as building Social business exposure and expertise online.
She has focused on training academics and librarians for the past eight years specializing in Social Media and digital marketing training. In the last three years. Dawn has been consulting with businesses and on how they can include their Social Media in more of their marketing efforts. She is a much sought after speaker and trainer.
Academic establishments such as: Stetson University, Rollins College, University of Central Florida, Barry University, have hosted Dawn as a guest trainer for their faculty and staff. She has spoken and trained some of the nation’s most prominent organizations including: Girls Scouts of America, Banco Popular, Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Institute, Disney, SCORE, and the National Association of Women Business Owners.
Master 25 “in-demand” skills in one of the hottest growth areas for VAs:
Internet Marketing!
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