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Ann Tardy – "KEYNOTE: Ambition on a Mission: 9 Strategies to Make Your Work Matter"
From Silicon Valley corporate attorney to middle leader advocate, mentoring expert, and work enthusiast, Ann Tardy has never met a dull moment. As the Founder and Chief Catalyst of The LifeMoxie Consulting Group, Ann primes people to influence change. By designing and implementing middle leader development and mentoring solutions, she has contributed to the moxie evolution in organizations such as Pacific Gas & Electric, Kaiser Permanente, and Scotts Miracle Gro. Prior to LifeMoxie, Ann danced with entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley for 12 years as a corporate attorney and Chief Legal Counsel for start-up companies. For fun, she volunteered as the Director of the Entrepreneurial Education Program to teach middle school girls how to start and run businesses. Ann earned a JD from Chicago-Kent College of Law and BS in Accountancy from the University of Illinois before passing the CPA and Bar exams in California and Illinois. Ann is the author of Ambition on a Mission: 9 Strategies for Taking Life by the Horns and Moxie for Managers: The Secret to Evolving from Manager to Leader. An avid cyclist, Ann recently created The Moxie Ride and cycled 4,200 miles across the country to discover what people love about their jobs.

Leesa Barnes – "How to Bring More Excitement & More Income to Your Virtual Support Business Managing Telesummits for Your Clients"
Leesa Barnes is an award winning motivational teacher and is widely considered one of the leading authorities on virtual events. Leesa is the President of the International Association of Virtual Event Managers (IAVEM) and author of Multiple Streams of Virtual Event Income. Leesa has influenced thousands worldwide with her practical advice on success & leadership. She has shared the virtual & non-virtual stage with success gurus such as Les Brown, T. Harv Eker, Marianne Williamson, James Malinchek, Michael Port, David Meerman Scott and John Assaraf. She has received countless awards for her innovation and her advice has appeared in books and media, such as The Globe & Mail, Wall Street Journal, Profit Magazine and CTV. Leesa has been setting up virtual events since 2001 and since 2009, has connected those who want to produce profitable virtual events with the people and tools that can help them do so. To find out more about Leesa, visit virtualeventsuccess.com.

Patty Benton – "Develop A Business Foundation…Empower Your Business"
Patty Benton, owner of JERPAT, LLC, is passionate in helping other Virtual Professionals who want to launch their businesses, or are struggling to have the business they intended. Patty is the Creator and Founder of the Failure is NOT an Option Program, established in 2005, training professionals working from their homes, how to develop a solid business foundation and a solid understanding of marketing their business while enjoying their businesses. She is also the author of The Marketing Train System and Failure is NOT an Option! A guide to building your Business Foundation SUCCESSFULLY books!

Sharon Broughton – "Becoming a Techie VA"
Sharon Broughton is an AssistU grad and has been in business since 2002. She earned her CPVA designation from AssistU in 2007 (www.assistu.com) and was awarded the "Volunteer of the Year Award" from AssistU in 2008. In 2010, Sharon earned her Online Business Manager certification. She has worked with several highly successful online marketers, including Ali Brown and Fabienne Fredrickson. Sharon runs Sharon Broughton Team and The Techie VA. Sharon trains virtual assistants on the technical and strategic skills necessary to have a successful six figure practice. She specializes in Infusionsoft, product launches, sales page and squeeze page design.

Jeannine Clontz – "Do You Have An Itch to Niche?"
Jeannine Clontz has owned her own successful VA practice, Accurate Business Services, since 1998. She specializes in marketing and social media support, for busy entrepreneurs. Jeannine’s passion and research in the area of business ethics has led to a speaking and writing career on the subject, as well as other business-related topics. A longtime IVAA member, Jeannine served as the Association’s president for two terms, most recently in 2010-2011. She’s a writer, speaker, author, and VA coach, who holds many industry and niche related certifications. A winner of multiple awards, Jeannine most recently received the 2009 Small Business Administration (SBA.gov) Home-Based Business Champion for the St. Louis District; and the 2009 Thomas Leonard International Virtual Assistant of Distinction. She is passionate about helping VAs increase their success through speaking, mentoring and coaching start-up and established VAs.

Jonathan Cooper – "Trimming the Fat: Expenses of International Money Transfers"
Our company, ATMCash, is an online money transfer service. From our website, ATMCash.com, US residents can conveniently and inexpensively transfer money to their Virtual Assistants in over 150 countries. The employer will appreciate the ability to complete reloads from their online account in 30 seconds. The VA will appreciate the access to funds from the over 1.5 million ATMs worldwide and knowing that the moment the sender loads the funds, they are instantly available for withdrawal. Our costs are the lowest in the industry; we provide live phone and chat support and already have transferred millions of dollars servicing freelancers and Virtual Assistants.

Sydni Craig-Hart – "5 Simple Steps to Attracting More Ideal Clients" and "How to Create Mutually Respectful Relationships with Your Clients"
Sydni Craig-Hart liberates Administrative Professionals from the corporate world by showing them how to become savvy, successful Virtual Assistants. Her company, EAtoVA.com gives Administrative Professionals the support, tools and information they need to successfully transition into a profitable career in Virtual Assistance and create a thriving practice. She is also the co-founder of Smart Simple Marketing, a full-service marketing, coaching and consulting firm that specializes in helping solo-service professionals to attract more clients, create more money in their business and automate their marketing systems. Sydni’s work has been featured at Entrepreneur.com, OfficeArrow.com, AdminSecret.com, in Black Enterprise magazine, and numerous other radio shows, websites, and blogs. Because of her extraordinary work she was nominated for the AssistU Virtual Assistant of the Year award in 2008. The strategies Sydni has implemented in her own business have helped her to create a multiple six-figure income and can help you to create your own version of success. If you’re struggling to create a profitable business, or don’t know where to start, Sydni can help. Simply to schedule a FREE "Business Breakthrough" session.

Sydni created a six-figure VA practice in less than 2 years and will happily teach you how to do the same. Visit VASuccessSecrets.com to listen to Sydni’s FREE audio class "How to Start and Grow A Profitable Virtual Assistant Business… In Less Than Six Months."

Michelle Dale – "Build a Successful Virtual Business Without Boundaries"
Michelle Dale is an online entrepreneur and founder of the successful internet-based virtual assistant company, Virtual Miss Friday, which she developed while traveling and living in a variety of different countries. Michelle’s passion for both travel and career made Virtual Assistance the ideal solution for her ‘inner’ entrepreneur. Having worked alongside enterprising directors and independent business owners in her former life, Michelle now works as a consultant and business manager and assists businesses of all sizes into making the transition from offline to online, using unique and diverse methods of online business management. Michelle and her team of highly-skilled VAs provide a service which is turning businesses all over the world into lucrative, paperless enterprises. Michelle’s newest venture, Virtual Assistant-Live, features "The Virtually Anywhere Series" a collection of coaching and learning programs thoughtfully created by Michelle Dale with one aim in mind – your success. The extremely high level of quality, attention to detail and assistance from Michelle and her team ensures that the products offered are unique, cutting-edge and unparalleled in the online business world.

Diana Ennen – "Marketing and Publicity – Yes You Can Grow Your Business To Exactly Where You Want It To Be"
Diana Ennen is the President of Virtual Word Publishing specializing in publicity and marketing, virtual assistant and PR coaching, and more. She has been featured on CNN Radio, Fox Business News, Forbes, Readers Digest, Wall Street Journal, Family Circle, Entrepreneur, Business Week, Smart Money, USA Today, Woman’s World, etc. TV credits include CBS4News, Homekeepers Christian Network and Cornerstone TV. She is also the co-author of Virtual Assistant the Series: Becoming a Highly Successful, Sought After VA (4th Edition) and So You Want to be a Work-at-Home Mom: A Christian’s Guide to Starting a Home-Based Business.

Nina Feldman – "How to Create Mutually Respectful Relationships with Your Clients"
Nina Feldman has been in the office support business since 1981 and currently runs Nina Feldman Connections, a service that’s free to clients and designed to match them with expert subcontractors and computer consultants. She likes helping people figure out how to solve problems; VAs call her when they or their clients are "stumped" as to where to find services. Nina helped create the Industry Production Standards (IPS), which helps VAs estimate keyboarded projects, particularly transcription. (Office Business Center). She was Association of Business Support Services (ABSSI) 2001 Member of the Year, is moderator of the ABSSI Yahoo! Group and was moderator of the IVAA Yahoo! Group for many years. Her 1990s book How to Run a Successful Homebased Word Processing Business sold over 2,000 copies. Nina frequently acts as a consultant to other VAs on customer relations and fair pricing. Her mission is to help VAs value their skills and handle situations with clients so that they become allies and partners rather than adversaries.

Patty Gale – "Bridging the Gap with Branding"
Patty Gale is the creator and owner of Inspired WebWorks. She brings more than 20 years of offline business experience and 10 years of web development expertise to small, local businesses, solo entrepreneurs and organizations across a wide variety of industries such as health & fitness, ministries, business coaching, published authors and schools. When she got started back in 2001, most of us were still on AOL dial-up and resources to learn how to create a website (in language we could understand), were practically non-existent. Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg, and his co-founders, were still in high school and a ‘tweet’ was something that birds did. Her expertise in helping small business owners understand the web ‘in plain English’ led her to be a coach for Early to Rise’s "5 Days in July Internet Marketing Conference" in 2007 and 2008. Growing up in a family-run business, Patty knows small business and is very passionate about seeing them succeed using the power of their stories and the internet. She founded Inspired WebWorks because she believes that it should be simple for small businesses to have an amazing presence on the web.

Cindy Greenway – "3 Essentials to Building a Successful Virtual Assistant Business"
Cindy took a leap of faith in 2003 when she started her Virtual Assistant business, only six months after the birth of her first son. It wasn’t until late 2002 that she even learned of the term Virtual Assistant. Since the start of her business, Cindy has worked with highly respected and successful online-based business owners by implementing and managing technology, automating and streamlining various processes, overseeing and managing current marketing strategies, building a virtual team, and contributing to the development of new products, programs and services. Cindy loves her work and is passionate about the Virtual Assistant profession. Nothing satisfies her more than training and mentoring new and seasoned virtual assistants so they can build a rewarding business with valuable skills and great clients. Learn more about Cindy at www.HotSkillsVATraining.com.

Tonya Hofmann – "Dominate Your Industry!"
Tonya Hofmann is an international speaker, an executive and entrepreneurial coach and a corporate educator. She is an expert in the field of sales training, qualified internet traffic, social media traffic, building excitement on websites, programs/memberships/advertising avenues for multiple income streams and learning target market values. She appreciates her on-going opportunity of influencing and interacting meaningfully with both private and public sector organizations and start-up companies to the Fortune 500! Tonya has done hundreds of presentations, training sessions and one-on-one coaching to open eyes to all the possibilities of what it takes to be in business, how to grow your business and insights into missed opportunities. She is the founder and CEO of Your Local City, Inc., founder of the Ultimate Networking Conference and founder of Stand Out In Your Business along with other unique businesses since she was 25 years old! She has won numerous awards, such as the ’08 International eWomen Network Conference for Business Match Maker of the Year, Nominated for the Austin Business Journal’s Profiles in Power and the U.S. Small Business Conference’s Most Connected Person in Dallas. She loves connecting sponsors, vendors and attendees to great events all over the world!

Jan B. King – "How to Become a Virtual Author’s Assistant"
Jan B. King is a publisher-turned-coach and the founder of the Virtual Author’s and Speaker’s Assistant Training Programs. She began her career with Merritt Publishing, a then 30-year-old publishing company, in 1983. When the company’s founder retired in 1990, she became President and CEO. Ms. King transformed this small niche publisher into an employee-owned business as well as a recognized brand for financial information to professionals and consumers. In 1997, Merritt Publishing was named the 44th largest woman owned/run business in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal. She is the author of three books. Her book Business Plans to Game Plans is praised by academics and business people alike and is in its 3rd edition (John Wiley & Sons, 2004). Her second book Smart Women Publish was published in 2005 and Authorsmarts was published in 2008. Ms. King is a long-time member of the Author’s Guild. Her views on business and on publishing have been widely quoted in Investor’s Business Daily, Fortune Small Business, New York Newsday, the New York Times Online, Working Woman Magazine, the American Bar Association’s Bar Leader magazine, Small Business USA, Business Finance, the Los Angeles Business Journal, and on numerous business websites.

Sue Kramer-Harrawood – "The Commitment of Long-Term Client Relationships"
Sue Kramer Harrawood is the President of Peace of Mind Virtual Assistance. Founded in 2003, Peace of Mind Virtual Assistance connects established small business owners to highly skilled virtual specialists. Sue wears many hats including head cheerleader/aka leader of the Peace of Mind VA team, VA, OBM, speaker and VA/Client Relationship coach. She is passionate about the VA industry and doesn’t let her shyness get in the way as she educates the business community about the benefits of partnering with virtual professionals AND teaches VAs how to have enjoyable long-term client relationships. Sue’s experience as an industry leader, IVAA Marketing Director (2005–2009), IVAA committee member, VA, OBM and VA client helps her understand both the VA and client mindset. At the 2011 IVAA Summit in Portland Sue launched the VA/Client Relationship Coaching Program which is specifically designed to help VAs, VA clients and potential VA clients with the joys and challenges of the VA/client relationship. Sue’s transparent, friendly, no nonsense communication style allows clients to let their hair down and get to the real meat of issues they are facing. For more information about Peace of Mind Virtual Assistance, Sue or the VA/Client Relationship Coaching Program please visit http://www.vapeaceofmind.com.

Charly Leetham – "SEO for Business Owners – How a VA Can Help!"
Charly Leetham’s goal is to assist small business owners realize the power of the internet as a channel to market in an appropriate and cost-effective manner. She helps solopreneurs and small businesses map their business processes and plan their web presence. Charly has a passion for IT and helping people overcome their technology challenges. It is this enthusiasm that appeals to her audiences and makes Charly such an inspirational teacher. She has more than 20 years experience in the IT industry, ranging from hands-on technical to high-level business management. She has installed and configured computing equipment and has managed business contracts in excess of $26 million dollars. This IT experience and running a successful business from home is what attracted the Women’s Ecommerce Association International Board of Advisors to invite Charly to be an advisor for Women in Ecommerce. Charly has also won the MCEI Women in Business Marketing Award 2010 and was shortlisted for the Telstra Business Woman of the Year 2010 and 2011 awards.

Mike Michalowicz – "8 Shockingly Simple Ways To Out-Sell, Out-Market and Out-Perform The Competition"
Mike Michalowicz is an entrepreneur three times over and has had the good fortune of selling two of his companies; one to private equity and one to a Fortune 500. He currently operates a third and has built all of his companies (starting out of his basement in every instance) through bootstrapping and discovered that the use of behavioral influence and social psychology plays a major role in the success of entrepreneurs. Some of his other qualifications include: 1) columnist for the Wall Street Journal Small Business Section; 2) segment host on MSNBC’s Your Business; 3) author of The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur (deemed a cult classic by Entrepreneur Magazine); 4) keynote to business groups, entrepreneurs and CEOs throughout the world; 5) keynote to universities throughout the country and world, such as, Harvard, Princeton, UPenn, Columbia, Pepperdine, USC, University of Copenhagen, and University of the West Indies.

John Mitchell – "Contracts That Work – A Client’s View"
John Mitchell is a leader who helps other leaders develop and maximize their potential. His clients seek to change the world. They lead and manage organizations large and small throughout our society. John specializes in working with leaders to accelerate the pace of their personal and professional development. He seeks to support leaders who are committed to making a difference in their own lives and in the lives of the people who have chosen them to lead. His 20 plus years of experience includes practicing law in a large international law firm, leading a large urban affiliate of a not-for-profit housing development organization, and starting a successful company that helps leaders develop and hone their own unique leadership style. He also has extensive leadership experience serving on various not-for-profit boards, and in civic and professional organizations. His experience is supplemented by his educational pursuits at Northwestern University that include a Bachelor of Science, Juris Doctor, and Master of Business Administration degrees. When John is not working, he is on the move running or cycling along Chicago’s beautiful lakefront or enjoying time with his wife at one of the city’s many restaurants, cultural institutions or music festivals.

Emily Morgan – "Making Virtual Personal: Brand Strategies for Virtual Professionals"
Emily Morgan is President and Founder of Delegate Solutions, a Boutique Executive Support Services firm and Entrepreneur’s Entourage, an Internet Marketing firm. She is a Reach-Certified Personal Brand Strategist and is completing a second certification in online identity development. She works with Virtual Professionals to extract and express a brand that is unique and authentic to them and then apply that brand to their virtual business. Emily has been featured in numerous media outlets including the New York Times and NBC News on the topic of Virtual Business. She is an active member IVAA and recently served on the board of DVVAA. This past year, Emily launched Virtual Fabulosity, a resource website designed to equip and encourage virtual business owners to run their companies with passion and flair.

Kay Morgan – "QuickBooks® Tips and Tricks"
Kay Morgan is the President of Your Front eOffice, Inc., specializing in bookkeeping using QuickBooks® accounting software. Her company services startups to mid-size corporations with setup, training, cleanup, as well as handling day-to-day bookkeeping. Your Front eOffice serves companies locally and as far away as Australia and the United Kingdom. Kay is a Certified QuickBooks® ProAdvisor and a Sleeter Certified Consultant. She also participates in several accounting groups including The Sleeter Group and the Chicago QuickBooks ProAdvisor Group where she currently serves as president. She is also a member of her local Chamber.

Mary Motz – "The Secret Life of Domain Names"
Mary Motz loves to help solopreneurs conquer the web. Not just websites and blogs – but their whole virtual office infrastructure. After years of testing, kicking tires and tinkering, Mary is uniquely qualified to establish your bullet-proof, easy-maintenance online business systems, leveraging the best of what the web has to offer and minimizing your cost of ownership. In addition to her career experience, she is a Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW – Professional/Site Design) and a Internet Marketing Certified VA. She is also a member of several virtual professional organizations, including International Association of Online Business Managers, International Virtual Assistants Association and is a former President of the Delaware Valley Virtual Assistants Association. Connect with her on Twitter @provirtual, and her website: www.provirtualsolutions.com.

Gwen Nicodemus – "Another Social Networking Site – Should you use Google+?"
Gwen Nicodemus is a freelance writer, elearning designer, and ex-engineer.

 

 

Kelly Poelker – "Q&A Power Hour: Everything You Want to Know About Becoming a VA"
After 17 years in the corporate arena Kelly Poelker left her cubicle behind to start her own empire as a Virtual Assistant. Kelly started her company, Another 8 Hours, where for over a decade she has been partnering with clients to keep them out of overwhelm. Another 8 Hours has partnered with Fortune 100 and 500 companies, TV and radio show hosts, internationally recognized speakers and coaches as well as award-winning authors. Kelly is the co-author of Amazon best seller and VA industry bible, Virtual Assistant – The Series: Become a Highly Successful, Sought After VA—the longest standing book in the industry that has helped thousands of virtual assistants get started in business. Her books (along with co-author, Diana Ennen) are the most widely used training material in college VA programs across the country. In 2007, Kelly founded Academy of Virtual Professionals, an online training facility for virtual professionals.

Laura Pumo – "VA Subcontracting: 7 Secrets of a Highly Sought-After Subcontractor"
Laura Pumo is President of Office DEVA founded in 2002. In 1999, Laura realized that technology was starting to move very quickly. So quickly, that she started investigating ways she could work remotely from her corporate position. After a few years of research, Laura discovered that there was already a blossoming industry out there – virtual assistance! Much time and research went into creating Office DEVA; education classes, seminars, research and mentoring. In December of 2003, Laura quit her corporate job and signed her very first client just a few months later in February. In 2004, Laura was elected to the Delaware Valley Virtual Assistants Association as Vice President of Communications & Membership. In 2007, Laura launched Office DEVA’s Apprenticeship Program – a 6-week mentorship and coaching series for newer virtual assistants just breaking into the industry; Laura coached virtual assistants about subcontracting and the dynamics of working with clients. Some graduates of the program became subcontractors with Office DEVA. In April 2010, Laura became the Membership Director of the International Virtual Assistants Association (IVAA) where she’s held various volunteer positions over the last 5 years. Since 2002, the Office DEVA company has grown to 7 associates and consultants.

Nora Rubinoff – "Balancing Life and Work: Are We Making Technological Progress?"
Nora Rubinoff has three decades of computing, technical and administrative experience. Her areas of expertise include online business management and operations; social media; WordPress blogs; project management; e-mail and internet marketing; surveys and analysis; productivity hacks and customer relationship management. Nora is fluent on both the Mac and PC platforms. A Certified Master Virtual Assistant and IVAA EthicsCheck certified, Nora is also an expert coach, mentor and trainer. Nora is a frequently requested speaker on the topics of virtual assistance and small business technology. Nora is a past member of the board of directors for the International Virtual Assistants Association, is a Cincinnati Enquirer Advisory Panelist, a member of the Microsoft Work Essentials Research Panel and a member of the Lakota Community Advisory Board. Nora is the recipient of the Women of Excellence Award and the Karen S. House Award for Regional Collaboration. Nora’s enthusiasm for helping both emerging and established Virtual Assistants navigate technology and best business practices is well known in the industry.

Katrina Sawa – "Put Your Small Business on Autopilot and Watch Your Profits Skyrocket!" and "STOP Avoiding Your Follow Up!"
Katrina Sawa is known as The JumpStart Your Biz Coach because she literally kicks her clients and their businesses into high gear. Katrina is the creator of the JumpStart Your Marketing™ System, JumpStart Your Business in 90 Days System and 7 Step Love & Money System of which she holds a live event on every year. She works with motivated women entrepreneurs who want to start, grow and market their business the right way from the start. Katrina helps you move faster and more affordably towards your ultimate revenue and professional goals using online and offline marketing strategies, plus she kicks you in the butt to implement it all too! Katrina is an author, speaker and award-winning coach who has been featured on the Oprah and Friends XMRadioNetwork, News10 and Good Day Sacramento plus various business print and online publications. Kat takes her clients from inspiration to implementation in their businesses. She enjoys inspiring, motivating and educating other women on how to design a business to fit their life with automated, passive revenue streams plus diversified and leveraged programs, products and services. Get her Free Entrepreneur’s Success Kit plus two other Free Business-Building Gifts online at JumpStartYourMarketing.com/gifts!

Renee Shupe – "Capture Everything. How to Use Evernote to Manage Clients, Projects and Your Business!"
Renee Shupe is the owner of Redhead Business Solutions a WordPress customization, training and coaching firm and at any given time has a variety of projects going on and she uses Evernote to manage it all; through tags, notebooks, and automation, everything she does is captured. Renee has been working online since 2008 and loves the flexibility of running her own business. With her marketing and technology background, Renee has been able to provide WordPress solutions for many clients and as the creator of Let’s Learn WordPress, a new program specifically for DIY Entrepreneurs and Virtual Assistants she’s taking WordPress and making it something everyone can manage. A self-proclaimed Digital Evangelist, Renee has fun finding gadgets and apps that make her business and personal life easier and she’s starting to share them with everyone because everyone should be able to work in a cloud. Renee lives in Western Canada with her husband, 17 year old step son, two fur babies named Tweety and Fozzie, and she has an obsession with deep-fried pickles after her last trip to New Orleans.

Donna Toothaker – "Learn to Create and Sell Service & Support Packages to Clients, Move into a Value-Based Business Model, and Stop Trading Hours for Dollars"
Donna Toothaker is a Virtual Assistant, Author, Speaker and VA Success Coach. She is CEO, founder and coach of Step It UP VA Coaching, and the creator of the 6 Steps to 6-Figure VA Success System. As a virtual assistant and CEO of www.1stva.com, Donna has been an integral ‘educator’ and ‘advocate’ of the benefits and necessity of virtual team building for small business owners and entrepreneurs to create a successful enterprise. Donna walks the walk and has built her own team of virtual professionals who support her company. Today Donna passes on the valuable information she learned throughout her years as a virtual assistant to others. Following her passion to "pay it forward" she opened the doors of her coaching and mentoring programs to other VAs, assisting them in the exciting pathway to great success. Donna’s expert ability to laser focus and joyfully guide others makes her the number one choice of VAs across the globe when it comes to a coach that gives the recipe for 6-figure success. Her highly sought-after VA coaching programs have been created for success-driven VAs who wish to create the 6-figure business of their dreams.

Yvonne Weld – "Investments Every VA Should be Making in Their Business"
Yvonne Weld is the owner of ABLE Virtual Assistant Services, located just outside of London, Ontario, Canada. Able Virtual Assistant Services is a multi-VA business that creates marketing plans for their clients and then supports them with the maintenance and execution of that plan. Yvonne also coaches and mentors Virtual Assistants to reach their goal of having a successful business. After just two years in business, Yvonne was chosen as a Success Partner with the Canadian Virtual Assistant Network an honor usually bestowed to successful Virtual Assistants that have been in business for five or more years. From 2009-2011, she joined Tawnya Sutherland as VAinsider President with VAnetworking where she worked to create new programs for the members of the VAinsider club. She is also the author of two books, The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Thriving Business and Managing your Thriving Business. In her spare time she likes to read, watch Reality TV programs and spend time with her husband Kevin and their two children Brennan and Emily.

Carla Wilson – "Video Marketing 101"
Carla Wilson is a self-proclaimed digital media junkie – which is a huge help to her solopreneur and multi-VA team clients who know they need to use audio and video in their online marketing, but aren’t sure how. Carla’s passion for audio began in college where she met her husband while they were both studying Sound Recording Technology (think geeky music majors who also studied physics and electronics). After many years working in various areas of Sales and Marketing, Carla began her Virtual Assistant practice, Wilson Virtual Assistants, in 2003. When her husband was laid off from his corporate job in 2010, they both knew it was time to revisit their passions in audio and video, and started a new company called Wilson Media Services. Their services include digital audio and video recording and editing, podcast production and online marketing support. Carla is a Certified Virtual Assistant ™, EthicsCheck ™ certified and Virtual Events Specialist. She enjoys giving back to the industry by volunteering for the International Virtual Assistants Association on its Board of Directors, where she currently serves as Vice President/President Elect. She lives in southeastern Pennsylvania with her husband, son and 4 cats.