Virtual Expert®
News and Views
April 2020
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Virtual Expert® News and Views is a monthly newsletter for Virtual Assistants, and written exclusively by Virtual Assistants. Keep current with tips, tools and industry information. Also stay up-to-date on what is happening at Virtual Expert® Training; one of the world's most elite and respected virtual assistant training programs.
Kathy Goughenour
Business Coach & Trainer
Founder Expert VA® Training / Virtual Expert®
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3 Skills Needed to Become a Booked-Solid Virtual Assistant
You’ve decided you’d like to work from home and start your own business. Becoming a virtual assistant (VA) is one of the businesses you’re thinking of starting. To help you determine if you have what it takes to become a booked-solid virtual assistant, review these three skills needed to excel as a VA.
1. Excellent written communication skills. As a virtual assistant, you communicate with clients primarily through email. If you struggle to get your thoughts across in an email, now’s the time to improve those skills.
I highly recommend Lynn Gaertner-Johnston’s training course How to Write Email That Gets Results.The course includes Lynn’s booklet 110 Tips for Writing Email that Gets Read, which you can also purchase separately at http://syntaxtraining.com/our_products.html. If you’re not certain if your writing skills are good enough, send me an email at [email protected], and I’ll give you some feedback.
2. Outstanding organizational skills. This doesn’t mean you know how to set up a filing system. Working as a VA requires much more. You have to juggle the needs of multiple clients, prioritize and keep track of and meet deadlines.
3. Computer skills. You do not need to know how to program a website (unless that’s the service you’re offering) or build a computer from scratch. But you do need to know how to use the software programs necessary to provide the services your clients need. At the very minimum, you need to know how to use Microsoft Office software programs such as Word and Excel. An excellent place to learn software programs is http://www.lynda.com. They offer high-quality training at a low cost.
Are these the only three skills needed to be a booked-solid virtual assistant? No. But they are three of the most important. If you’d like more information on how to become a booked-solid virtual assistant, apply here for a free MORE Clients MORE Profits Breakthrough Session with me now.
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About Kathy and Expert VA® Training/Virtual Expert®
Kathy Goughenour is an experienced and savvy business coach and trainer.
Kathy Goughenour’s 25+ years of marketing experience encompasses everything from print advertising and brochures to outdoor signage to the internet. She has an undergraduate degree in Marketing and an MBA.
She has worked in corporate settings, built multiple profitable small businesses herself, and created a 6-figure multi VA team. Her passion however, lies with helping others to achieve their own entrepreneurial goals through her extensive knowledge of the virtual marketing and virtual assistant field.
As a business coach and trainer, Kathy has quickly become a vital resource for helping women achieve their career and income goals as work-from-home Virtual Assistants.
Why Kathy Created Expert VA® Training
As her success grew, more and more colleagues sent their friends and family to Kathy for advice on how to start their own virtual assistant home-based businesses. Kathy enjoyed sharing her secrets to building a highly profitable Virtual Assistant business, and in 2008 started her own Virtual Assistant training program. She has now trained hundreds women (and a few men) to create success on their own terms as Expert VA®s and term she coined … Virtual Experts®.
