Patty Benton

Using Subcontractors

Using Subcontractors By Patty Benton www.moretime4u.org © 2005 JERPAT Virtual Assistants Business has finally started to pick up. Things are not steady, but instead you find at times that you have too many orders to fill or too many projects to co... Read >

Simple Marketing Tips

Simple Marketing Tips By Patty Benton www.moretime4u.org © 2004 JERPAT Virtual Assistants Marketing is one of the most important pieces of your business plan. Without marketing, people will not be able to find what your business is about and all y... Read >

Organizing Your Desktop-Computer Desktop That Is!

Organizing Your Desktop-Computer Desktop That Is! By Patty Benton www.moretime4u.org © 2005 JERPAT Virtual Assistants In my years as a teacher, organization was something that was lost on me. I was the teacher with stacks of papers on her desk, bo... Read >

Opening a Business SUCCESSFULLY

Opening a Business SUCCESSFULLY By Patty Benton www.moretime4u.org © 2005 JERPAT Virtual Assistants Opening a business can be frustrating and rewarding all at the same time. Unfortunately many potentially successful businesseses close their doors ... Read >

Marketing Resolutions for the New Year

Marketing Resolutions for the New Year By Patty Benton www.moretime4u.org © 2005 JERPAT Virtual Assistants Everyone knows that with the New Year comes the big New Year's resolutions. Many of us make personal goals, such as losing weight, being nic... Read >

How to Work with a Virtual Assistant

How to Work with a Virtual Assistant By Patty Benton www.moretime4u.org © 2005 JERPAT Virtual Assistants When someone asks me what I do, and I tell them I am a Virtual Assistant, I am bombarded with questions. What is a Virtual Assistant? Who use... Read >

5 Tips to Successful Time Management

5 Tips to Successful Time Management By Patty Benton www.moretime4u.org © 2005 JERPAT Virtual Assistants Could you do with another hour added to your day? How about 10? Well, unless you are magical, this isn't going to happen (unless you hire a V... Read >

Two Important Keys to a Successful Business-Integrity and Reputation

Two Important Keys to a Successful Business-Integrity and Reputation By Patty Benton www.moretime4u.org © 2005 JERPAT Virtual Assistants As a business owner and coach, I come across the issue of building integrity and reputation on a daily basis. ... Read >

Finding the Purpose in Online Networking Groups

Finding the Purpose in Online Networking Groups By Patty Benton www.moretime4u.org © 2005 JERPAT Have you ever wondered what the purpose of networking groups online are? We all know they are for getting to know others with the hopes of someday obt... Read >

Customer Dis-Service Today

Customer Dis-Service Today © 2005 JERPAT On any given errand day, I can walk into almost any store and deal with a bad customer service representative. While looking for an item, such as out-of-stock laundry detergent, I'm met with frowns, blank sta... Read >

Me Time

By Patty Benton www.moretime4u.org © 2005 JERPAT Virtual Assistants Recently I was talking with a Christian women's business coach, Kimberly Chastain, and she asked me what I did for myself. I laughed. When do I have time to do anything for myself?... Read >

Setting Your Goals to Work!

Setting Your Goals to Work! Adapted from "Failure is NOT an Option" by Patty Benton, www.virtualvacoach.com/vaguide.html www.moretime4u.org © 2005 JERPAT Virtual Assistants I was very fortunate to be included in the Success Principles Workshop with... Read >

Traveling with Your Business

Traveling with Your Business By Patty Benton www.moretime4u.org © 2005 JERPAT Virtual Assistants Recently, we took a two week trip to visit family in Georgia and Iowa. We spent a total of 6 days in the car driving. Now first of all, any small bus... Read >

Why Do I Need a Coach?

Why Do I Need a Coach? © 2005 JERPAT Virtual Assistants "I'm thinking of starting my own Virtual Assistant business, but I don't know where to start. How do I find out about state/local regulations? How do I organize everything? How do I think up a n... Read >

Why Do I Need SEO

Why Do I Need SEO © 2005 JERPAT Virtual Assistants You've gone through the steps of setting up your business, getting all your licenses and insurance in place and you've designed your site or hired someone to design it for you…. Now, how do you get... Read >