Goals for 2008

December 28, 2007 · Filed Under Revolutionary Thinking, Virtual Assistants · 1 Comment 

It seems cliché to write a blog post about making changes in the New Year right now– but frankly, it is on everyone’s minds so here we go….

2007 was a great year for me. My business grew in leaps and bounds and I am so happy about where Mann Made Time is today. But, I’m not happy with my level of stress and the time I’ve been taking away from my family to work.

2008 is going to be different. I’m almost at the end of my first week of vacation for the holidays and I haven’t done a stitch of client work. I kind of miss it, but I am really enjoying this time with my kids and my husband.

Next week is when the real work will start. One full week to focus on my business. I should have done this eons ago, but better late than never. I’m going to share some of my goals here, and I hope they will serve as inspiration for my fellow VAs:

·        Set up a collaboration site for my clients to post their projects to. This will hopefully eliminate the massive amounts of emails I receive, and there will be one central place for my team to work from.

·        Hire a bookkeeper. My books are in an awful state, and I will be outsourcing this task monthly so I don’t get this behind ever again.

·        Complete my policy and procedure manual.

·        Prepare handbooks for my associate VAs, so my team members will all be on the same page with regards to how I want my business to operate.

·        Overhaul my filing system to increase efficiency.

·        Put a better backup system in place for my computer. The technique I’m using now has served its purpose, but it’s time to step it up.

·        Improve my newsletters and create autoresponders for my info products.

·        Become a better affiliate sales person to increase my passive income.

I’m not sure if I will be able to complete all of these items next week, but at least I have these goals written down. I’ll take a good stab at it next week, but I’m going to try to relax a bit too.

2008 will be a revolutionary year for Mann Made Time – you can hold me to it!

Happy New Year everyone.

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