“When I was a kid I learned that if you pray for patience you’ll be delivered lessons to help you learn it. Mama didn’t raise no fool. So I skipped that and at 40 I still haven’t learned this lesson. But I’ve been working on it lately and here’s what’s been coming up.” - Lorelei

Join us as we chat candidly on all things patience, frustration, and navigating it with grace and gratitude. We’ll chat bout patience in business, relationships, parenting, and more!

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In this quick episode we’ll go through the updated tax strategies we’ve learned surrounding income reporting as a contractor.

If tax convos aren’t your thing, this is the episode for you because we’ll keep it clean and simple with informative links here in the show notes to help you quickly and easily understand if you’re required to complete a 1099 with your clients as a contractor.

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Ep. 9 - Make Tax Season Super Simple with This Monthly Process

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Join us as we chat about building trust and comfort in your working relationship with clients. We give our top tips for how to make new or existing business relationships feel like a safe space for both sides.

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Project Management tools: Trello, Asana, Slack, Monday, Airtable

Our favorite invoicing platforms: PayPal, Waveapps.com

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Join us as we chat about building trust and comfort in your working relationship with your Virtual Assistant. We give our top tips for how to make new or existing business relationships feel like a safe space for both sides.

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With the changes to Google and Yahoo’s email marketing regulations in Q1 of 2024, we thought we would go through the steps and share how to implement the changes for you and/or your clients.

Having a custom domain is the best way to ensure your emails are being delivered to the inboxes of your community. So let’s dive in!

How do you know if this info relates to you:

You use an email marketing platform such as Flodesk, ActiveCampaign, MailChimp, Convertkit, etcetera to communicate with your audience AND are at risk of sending 5,000+ emails in any given 24hour period. -Think you don’t? Growing your business, and even with a small list if a few emails go out, it’s easy to meet this threshold.

WHEN:

They are non-specific. They are saying February but full changes across all accounts should be in early April. Our suggestion is to act now

HOW:

4 things you need:

1. Email Marketing Platform

2. Custom Domain (you don’t need to have a website to have a domain)

3. Custom Domain Email

4. A place for your audience to unsubscribe with one click (most providers have this built in) + bonus if you give them a way to manage preferences

Untilize these platforms for even more info

It’s so much easier that you realize!

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When it’s time to head into work, do you feel like your heels are dug in and you simply… don’t wanna? This episode we go through our top tips for falling back in love with your business, or helping your Virtual Assistant clients fall back in love with theirs!

”Movement Creates Momentum” - Andrea Crowder

Questions to help:

What’s been made to complicated? How can I simplify?

Is there an area where I may have given up too soon?

Is there something I'm pushing myself to do because it’s industry standard that doesn’t really feel correct for me?

Is there something wrong with the pricing/delivery/or design of the thing you feel hesitation around?

Grassroots: go to the people. Listen. Talk to people. Friends, family, or peers in your industry may have really great feedback! Start a convo and see what energy fills you as you speak, and what advice, tips, or suggestions they may have (take what resonates, leave what feels dense.)

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The 5 Second Rule - https://youtu.be/nI2VQ-ZsNr0?si=CXEMleWhjs4fhGHh

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Does it feel like you’re constantly sharing but not many people are biting? Here’s what we’ve suggested to our clients to help bridge the gap between the viewer and the offer so it finally starts to make sense.

Questions to ask yourself before sharing your story…

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In today’s age, a college degree isn’t always necessary to have a career you love. With so many resources at our fingertips, many are choosing a debt-free way to excel in the workplace - benefitting both themselves and the companies they work with.

Why? Because this route shows ingenuity, commitment to figuring it out, and a pivoting power that can’t be taught in school.

Here are a few of our favorite ways we’ve increased our capabilities and offerings without going into debt to do it!

Degree Free Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/degree-free/id1573874032

YouTube University - anything is searchable here if you have the time and energy to dig through videos to find what you need!

The Personal MBA: https://amzn.to/48WIx2o

The Business Playbook: https://amzn.to/3O9u3UM

Seek a mentor to show you the way! Business coaches such as Andrea Crowder help bridge the gap from beginner to pro through sharing their lessons and processes along the way.

And if you’re a VA or looking to become one, The Next Level VA is where we’ve poured all the actionable steps to either launch or scale your business!

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In this two-part series join us in the conversation about being debt free in life and business!

We’ve both been on this journey for several years and have learned so much along the way, especially when launching and scaling successful Virtual Assistant Businesses!

Listen in for our top tips on beginning your debt free journey, and check out our next episode where we break down how to keep this going in your own business too!

Dave Ramsey -https://www.ramseysolutions.com

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While January is "the push month" and is excellent for bettering ourselves, it can lead to feeling overwhelmed. So, in this week's episode, we are giving you our top three tips to avoid overwhelm and to maintain balance in your virtual assistant business all year.

Andrea Crowder instagram: https://www.instagram.com/love_andreacrowder?igsh=NXhjN3U4ZmMwOHR6

Stardust Cycle Tracking: https://stardust.app

Celtic Sea Salt: https://www.celticseasalt.com

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