Recently I was honored by the Virtual Assistant Revolution as the Revolutionary Business of the Year for 2007. I shared this honor with my good friend Yamisi Daniel. I wanted to say a few words about the other candidates for the award so you would see just what this means to me and how I feel about each of the candidates.

First I will start with my co-winner Yamisi Daniel. Yamisi just started her business this year, but has already made such strides that are usually only seen in “seasoned vetrans”. Yamisi has not only started and established a VA business, but she is also raising a young son and has still found time to write a couple of books (which I can’t wait to see in print!!). Yamisi has a go-getter attitude and never lets anything get her down. She has learned in a short amount of time what takes many of us years to master including knowing how to not only create, but also to manage a thriving business. Congratulations again Yamisi, it is truly an honor to share this award with you.

Jaime Lee Mann was the recipient of this year’s Janet Jordan Award and has done nothing but leave me in awe. I honestly don’t know how she does it some days!! She has a successful multi-VA business, a business that was built almost overnight and has remained strong even through the birth of Jaime’s second child. Jaime not only manages her clients, but her VA team and her two young children. She always has great tips and advice for newbies and is the expert on Following Up!! Way to go Jaime … how much sleep did you say you get again?

Sally Kuhlman is one of my dearest, dearest friends. Even though we have never met in person. This year Sally has done so many things to come out of her “comfort zone” and her business has soared as a result. She is the co-author of Managing Your Thriving Business for Success and we have a number of things planned for the up-coming year. Sally has also grown her business to the point that she is relying on others to assist her and I just know that 2008 is going to mean great things for her.

Connie McVicker was also another nominee for the Janet Jordan Award. In the short time that Connie has been in business she has gained a wonderful reputation and has become the expert among experts when it comes to graphic and web design. Many Virtual Assistants are certainly sporting logos and websites that have been created by Connie. Most of all, Connie has been able to build a team to assist her and does this while still being a fantastic mom to her young daughter. Good job Connie and I want you to know how amazing I think you are.

Connie and Jaime have also both found the time to create a resource series for new and veteran VAs …. Again I ask (and now of both of you) when is it you sleep?

Angela Smith does more for new Virtual Assistants than anyone I know. She always has helpful tips, advice and information. She has also managed to grow a business at her own pace into a business she can be proud of. Not only that, but she has written two books (and I know she probably has plans for others)!! Angela thanks for all you do to make the world of Virtual Assistance a little less scary for the newbies.

Patty Dost has been my right hand this year, but not only that, she has been the right hand of several others. Patty has grown her business by assisting other Virtual Assistants and by being the person that everyone can depend on to “find the answer to any question”!! Patty finds time to not only run a successful business, but has also found the time to assist VANA, which has earned her the honor of becoming the 2007 VAccolade Business Entrepreneur of the Year. Thank you for everything you have done this year Patty!!

Crystal Pina has grown a great deal this year. Crystal has learned so many things this year and has become a great resource for assisting others in the Virtual Assistant industry. Crystal is the type of person that won’t let things get in her way. She is that person that will never give up until she figures things out. It is because of this that I can’t wait to see what great things Crystal is going to continue to do in 2008. When I first met Crystal, she was determined to learn how to design her own website. This is a task that not everyone would undertake, but Crystal not only undertook this, she did it with flair and has become someone that you know (through pure determination) you want on your side when the job needs doing! I can’t wait to see what things you have in store for 2008.

Last but not least, is my good friend Terry Green who was the recipient of the Thomas Leonard award this year. Terry has grown her business in leaps and bounds this year. She has gotten a great reputation within her target market of coaches and her business is building itself alone based on the hard work that Terry put into her business in the beginning. Not only that, but just recently Terry’s business grew so much that her husband was able to come and work with her so they could take the business even farther.

So congratulations to all my friends and associates … I am still in awe that I won considering the wonderful field of candidates that the people had to choose from. I certainly can’t wait to see what great things will come from the REV members this year!!

I belong to a Virtual Assistant association called the Virtual Assistant Revolution. It has been one of the best investments I have made for my business. Just this past week they announced a contest for the Revolutionary Business of the Year and it got me to thinking … What is Revolutionary?

To me revolutionary means that you have had great successes and done things that revolutionize not only your business, but the industry. Looking back, the revolutionary things I have done are:

1. Written two books, in my thriving business series.
2. Added subcontractors to my business and turned it from a “one-man” show to a multi-VA business, which allows me to best service all my client’s needs
3. Become a Success Partner with the Canadian Virtual Assistant Network

These are all very important ways that I have Revolutionized my business, but perhaps the biggest thing I have done is to take each thing that happens in my business and learn from it.

I hadn’t shared with many that I was having a troublesome month and was very frustrated with the way things had been going in my business. Through no fault of my own or my team’s, a couple of my clients ended their relationships with my business; one sold his business and the other decided to close the doors for good. I went from racing down the speedway back to riding my horse in a leisurely pace. It was only then that I realized what revolutionary truly means.

To me, revolutionary means being able to look adversity in the face and not allow it to beat you. To be revolutionary means you can ride out the downs and enjoy the ups knowing that even when you are in a down the next up is right around the corner. Want to know why it’s right around the corner?

Because I am a Revolutionary business owner. I have a plan and I know that in no time I am going to be up at the top of that hill bigger, stronger and more successful than I was when I was on the top of the last hill. Even better I am going to climb an even higher hill this time, because the ideas I have for my business to take it to the next level are truly revolutionary!!

This year, mark my word, I will:

1. Add more clients to my client list to the point that I will need a full time Project Manager to assist me.
2. Write even more books in my thriving business series
3. Mentor other Virtual Assistants who are afraid to come out of the closet with their downs for fear that others won’t see them as the success that they are

So there you have it …

REVOLUTIONARY (to me) MEANS HAVING A PLAN TO BE A SUCCESS!!

As a Travel agent, you are in the market for making people’s dreams come true. This is probably the appeal that pushes most agents towards pursuing this career. Little did anyone tell you that there would be so many “behind the scenes” tasks that would require so much of your energy. So, how can a travel agent find more time to get back to what they love … granting wishes!! The answer is simple: partner with a Virtual Assistant. By partnering with a Virtual Assistant they can take care of those “behind the scenes” tasks on your behalf. Here are just a few ideas a Virtual Assistant can assist a Travel Agent:

1. Client Database
A Virtual Assistant can take your client lists and insert them into a database. Once this is accomplished, they can even maintain that database on your behalf. They can insert such information as places clients love to go, personal information such as birthdays and anniversaries they have celebrated, and what they did and/or didn’t like about the places they have traveled in the past. Imagine how much better your customer service will be when all this information is at your finger tips instead of having to search through paper files and notes that are maintained in several locations.

2. Client Contact
Imagine having someone that could order a fruit basket to be waiting for your clients at their destination, send birthday cards, anniversary cards, and conduct impartial surveys upon your client’s return. Customer service is key for word of mouth and referral marketing. By providing these little extras for your clients, they are sure to be talking about you to others. Your Virtual Assistant can also put together the itinerary packages for delivery to your client.

3. Client Follow-Up
Follow-up is crucial for travel agents so that they can better inform future clients with respect to different destinations. Having a Virtual Assistant that can contact clients after their holiday and listen to what they liked and/or didn’t like can be crucial for future consultations.

4. Internet Research
Having all the important little tidbits about your client’s destination is a wonderful little extra to provide to your clients. Your Virtual Assistant can find out rules for different countries, key tourist spots (together with maps and directions), country customs, etc. They can compile this data into a brochure or information packet for you to provide to your clients. Also, your Virtual Assistant can research destinations that you would like to know more about before starting to advise your clients so that you can decide if the destination is one that would be suitable to promote.

5. Marketing Materials
Even outside of the ordinary marketing materials such as brochures and business cards, imagine being able to provide your clients with feature sheets on various destinations including different facts, ideas and tidbits for different popular and/or unique destinations. Perhaps fact sheets of what to bring or what not to bring, airline and country regulations, etc. All these little extras are things that a Virtual Assistant would be pleased to assist you with preparing.

6. Newsletters
Staying in touch with your clients via a newsletter is a certain way to ensure that they think of you when they are ready to take their next trip. Your Virtual Assistant can do the research, write articles and put together a newsletter containing tips, advice and features within the travel industry. Not only would this reach your existing clients, but could also be a way to market to future clients as well.

7. Website Preparation and Maintenance
An excellent way to keep in touch with your clients and provide up-to-date information would be through a website. Your Virtual Assistant can assist you with getting a website prepared and then maintaining the data and information you provide on your website.

8. Bookkeeping
Perhaps the most dreaded task by most Travel Agents is bookkeeping. Your Virtual Assistant can assist you to prepare invoices to your clients, pay your suppliers and utilities. By maintaining an up-to-date set of books, you can begin to see your financial picture at any time, together with cash flows and expenses.

9. Supplies Ordering
Your Virtual Assistant can take care of not only ordering your office supplies for delivery, but also ordering the brochures that are provided by the different tour groups, airlines and hotels.

10. Email and Voicemail Management
Imagine having someone that would be able to group your email into different categories such as spam, client inquiries, new clients, feedback, training, etc. This would make the task of opening your email so much easier if all you had to deal with is the emails that need your attention. You could also provide your Virtual Assistant with responses to simple inquiries that she could answer on your behalf. Also, your Virtual Assistant could check your voicemail and return phone call on your behalf when you are out of the office.

By partnering with a Virtual Assistant it will provide you, the travel agent, with more opportunities to visit the destinations you are telling your clients about, more time to meet with clients and you can get back to the job of making people’s dreams come true. At that point you will have truly created a thriving business.

About the Author:
Yvonne Weld is owner of ABLE Virtual Assistant Services and the author of several books on creating a thriving business. This series provides the reader with tools and resources for both creating and maintaining a thriving business. For your FREE Preview Manuals and for more information on how you can ensure you have truly created a thriving business, visit the Web site at http://www.yvonneweld.com.

There is so much debate about the subject of niching … I wanted to share an article that my friend Dale wrote that I included in my book because I thought it was so well written. I would love to hear your comments. Do you have a niche? Why or why not? What are your thoughts? Please share.

Itching for a Niche:
Finding the Right One and Finding It Quick
By Dale Noles

In the fast paced business circles on the Internet where entrepreneurial businesses owners pursue the success that they long for, find that a key player to their arsenal of business tools, quite often, is missing. The sheer numbers of entrepreneurial business owners that are marketing their businesses in vain are more prevalent than you may realize. The sad fact is these business owners pump dollar after dollar into their business with little to show for it at the end of the month.

Three Killers

The reason that these unfortunate business owners are coming up empty month after month usually can be attributed to several things. Three of the larger culprits are; inferior product or service, substandard customer service and the most common is lack of an identifiable Niche Market.

While having an inferior product or service can make a business stall faster than a 757 without gas. It does not mean that the business is doomed for failure. How many times have you bought a product or used a service that you thought or even spoke out loud that you would not ever do that again? Yet, occasionally you buy into it again anyway.

Similarly, when was the last time you bought a sandwich from a fast food restaurant (and I use that term ‘restaurant’ loosely) and commented at the rudeness of the cashier? Customer service is sadly lacking in that particular industry but it does not hold exclusivity rights by any stretch of the imagination. This kind of disservice tends to stick in your mind until the hunger pains return, whereby the passion for the anti-service looses the battle to the urge to splurge.

This leaves the third business killer coined “Shotgun Marketing” as the last of the topics to discuss here and the forerunner for issues that can easily be avoided without much pain and suffering. This by no means indicates that a business cannot be successful without a Niche Market. It does mean that a lack of Niche Marketing can hinder and make success somewhat elusive to very passionate business owners with the best intentions. They may have a fabulous product or service and impeccable customer service relations but come up short on connecting with the right crowd. Why is this so and what can be done to rectify the situation?

Target Practice

While the process of actually determining a Niche (Target Market) is a fairly simple and straightforward process, the implementation can be a bit more confusing to engage than one would hope. In VA Training, my coaching business, I have found the easiest way to coach business owners to realizing what Niche Market is best suited for them is by helping them through a series of steps where the end result is a better understanding of themselves and their potential Niche.

The first step in the process is to get an accurate depiction of what product or service you provide. Does this bring you joy? Do you get excited when you tell others what you do? The illustrations below help to show how this process is put into effect. Understanding what it is that brings you the most joy and fulfillment in business will help you work through the next step.

Who Knew You Were a Guru?

Just because you like doing something does not automatically make you masterful at it. The point is to find the common thread between what talents you have and what brings you happiness. Where the two of these overlap you will find your Unique Selling Proposition (USP), that is, what makes you stand out from the crowd. Your USP is what makes your business unique. Your USP is a marketing tool when wielded like the weapon that it can be.

Strong Enough for a Man

Having the wherewithal to realize where the overlap occurs of your best product or service, your love of what you do and knowing the kind of businesses, industries or individuals that would or could use your product or service will begin to clarify the direction you should be focusing on in regards to marketing. Your USP becomes a more valuable asset as you hone in on specifics.

This is where you can begin to formulate your Niche. Simply, they can be described as a Potential Client base. If there is a possibility that a business or individual would fall into that group, then there is a better than good chance that your product or service will have an appeal to them. If a business or individual does not fall within the group of those who would or could use your wares, they would not be considered a potential client. However, that does not mean that they cannot use your product or service, it is just means that it is unlikely.

Scratched that Niche

If you follow the plan close enough you should have effectively identified a Niche. Recapping what I mentioned above, the process is simplistic. The work behind the process can get daunting. Essentially you must get inside the heads of your Potential Clients and Non Potential Clients and think through them. Because this can be a long and sometimes tiresome task, it may take hours, days, weeks, months or even years before some business owners finally figure out whom their business attracts. Research is crucial to shorten the time it can take to get to the point of having and identifiable Niche Market.

The research that should be done to get the best possible idea of your Niche Market is called a Marketing Plan and is part of a larger puzzle called a Business Plan. If you are serious about your business, you should have both. The Marketing Plan is paramount to effectively selling your business to your Niche Market. These documents are not designed to be wall placards, either. Their purpose is to keep your business on track.

But Made for a Woman

In order to maximize your effort in marketing, you have to understand your Niche Market. You have identified the group that could or would use your product or service but now you should pare it down to the groups, companies, industries, individuals that will more than likely clamor after what you do. This group should consist of specificities to the teeth. Why would they buy from you, how would they use it, why is it important to them, what do they read, how do they dress, what is their marital status, what is their gender, are they animal lovers, what vehicle do they typically drive, etc.? I am talking about doing your homework and getting demographics.

The more specifically you can define who is most likely to really need you the better chances you will have of making your business successful right from the start. The reason that most new businesses fail in the first five years can be attributed to lack of funding and poor marketing. Poor marketing is a result of not knowing your Niche Market like you should.

Swoon Them

Every letter that you write, business card you hand out, flyer, brochure, clothes, web site, e-mail or anything that can be thought of, heard, seen, tasted or touched that comes from your business should be done with your Niche Market in mind. Make them aware of just how much you know and care about them. Make their experience of your business a personal and pleasurable experience that is consistent. Eventually, you marketing will begin generate a pulsating, living, experience for your Niche Market. Entice your Niche Market with the love and care that you have for them and you can expect success.

About the Author

Dale Noles, of the Selon Group has a background which includes corporate training, MIS, marketing, branding, advertising and radio media. He has extensive knowledge of all aspects of e-zine construction / distribution, web production, SEO and graphic design. In an effort to assist aspiring Virtual Assistants, Dale developed a unique mentoring program through VATraining.com.

My dear friend Heather has just developed an e-book which is just awesome. For anyone thinking of starting a newsletter, this e-book tells you how to start a newsletter, how to find content for your newsletter and provides a number of invaluable tips and hints in how to market and publish your newsletter.

Newsletters are a great way to keep in touch with clients and other colleagues and everyone should have one. Please take a look and the best thing …. it is only $7.

Expand Your Business One Subscriber at a Time

Recently I met with a photographer friend and we were discussing my Virtual Assistant business. I had never thought about the benefits that a photographer could gain from partnering with a Virtual Assistant until I spoke with her. Our conversation opened my eyes to a whole new market I had never considered, but the more I thought about it, the more excited I became by the prospects. I started to make a plan and make a list of the ways that such a partnership could be best utilized.

1. Website Maintenance

Utilizing a Virtual Assistant to upload recent photographs, set up client galleries and maintain pricing and availability schedules on a photographers’ website is an invaluable service. Many photographers spend so much time maintaining their website; time they would much rather be utilizing behind the camera. Other photographers utilize their web designers and find that the prices are much higher than a Virtual Assistant’s price and the turnaround time is often longer than a Virtual Assistant’s is.

2. Blog Maintenance

Many photographers have begun to blog about their experiences and share their personalities with prospective clients. Virtual Assistants could easily upload articles, photos and stories to the photographer’s blog and also insert links to helpful information for the photographer’s prospective clients. For those photographers that are not as computer savvy, but realize the advantage of the personal contact a blog can provide, can use a Virtual Assistant that can provide services to, not only maintain your blog, but install a blog as well.

3. Client Contact and Follow Up

Virtual Assistants are a great asset in maintaining client contact on your behalf. A simple greeting, sent in the photographer’s behalf, on a wedding anniversary is one of those touches that not all photographers have the time to provide. Your Virtual Assistant can keep track of the important dates and make sure that your clients are never forgotten. Christmas cards, thank you notes and birthday greetings are just a few other contacts that your Virtual Assistant can make on your behalf. Perhaps you have always thought of sending a survey to your clients. Wouldn’t it be great to have this taken care of for you? Your clients are more likely to provide honest feedback to your VA and your VA can provide you with a summary of the survey results for future marketing and business operation decision making.

4. Email Management

Many photographers would love to have someone reply to the many inquiries they receive via email. Simple messages of unavailability, directing potential clients to online portfolios and a thank you for inquiries are just some of the emails that could easily be answered on a photographer’s behalf. Imagine only having to deal with one email each day with a summary of the emails received and how they were handled on your behalf.

5. Scheduling and Appointment Setting

Virtual Assistants can maintain a calendar on your behalf of availabilities, bookings and appointments with potential clients. By allowing someone else to schedule your appointments, you can spend more time being creative. Your Virtual Assistant would simply work with an online calendar of which you would both have access and would also provide you with daily, weekly, monthly and yearly agendas. Reminder calls are just another way that your Virtual Assistant can assist you in making sure that potential clients are never left waiting and appointments are never missed.

6. Marketing Materials

A Virtual Assistant can work with you to create a portfolio, promo package or other marketing materials required for meetings with potential clients, trade shows and networking events. Virtual Assistants can also create and maintain a newsletter to update past clients and provide potential clients with great information on what is happening in your business.

7. Basic Administration and Research

Typing of contracts, filing, proofreading services, formatting documents and voice mail management are just a few of the many secretarial type tasks that your Virtual Assistant can provide on your behalf. Your Virtual Assistant can also conduct market research to see what your competition is up to and find out what potential clients are looking for.

8. Database Management

A Virtual Assistant can not only create a database of your past and present clients, but they can also maintain this database. They can track important dates and maintain contact with your clients. They can also track prospects and leads, as well as referral partners and potential joint venture partners. Other things that can be maintained in a database are inventory, pricing and promotions. Any data you would like to maintain a list of can easily be accomplished by your Virtual Assistant.

9. Bookkeeping

Even those Virtual Assistants that don’t specialize in bookkeeping services (and several do), can still provide bookkeeping services such as creation of invoices, tracking of deposits paid and accounts payable management. Your Virtual Assistant can work hand-in-hand with your accountant or bookkeeper to ensure that your financial matters are kept up-to-date and worry free.

10. Organizational Tasks and Business Support

Just having a partnership with a Virtual Assistant provides you with the ability to bounce ideas off someone for future development and growth of your business. Your Virtual Assistant will be open to offering you feedback and suggestions in how to better organize your files, time and business for even greater success. After all, if you don’t succeed, neither does your Virtual Assistant.

Remember, the single most important thing about partnering with a Virtual Assistant is that you are gaining an invaluable member of your team. Your new partner will be there only when you need them with invaluable expertise and a drive to succeed and make your business thrive.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Yvonne Weld is the owner of ABLE Virtual Assistant Services and offers administrative and bookkeeping support to busy solopreneurs. She is also the author of The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Thriving Business and Managing Your Thriving Business for Success. For more information and for your free downloads, visit her Web site.

I am so excited to say that my friend Sally and I have officially launched our book today. “Managing Your Thriving Business for Success”. This book is the 2nd in my series of Creating a Thriving Business.

”Managing Your Thriving Business for Success” provides you with the tools to successfully manage your own thriving business through the introduction of proper business strategies. Success can be easily attributed to seven key factors which are outlined in the book:

• Good time management and scheduling
• Setting goals and evaluating them continually
• Setting boundaries and sticking to them
• Good business planning, both short term and long term
• Evaluating our return on investment for every business decision
• Ensuring that we don’t “Go it Alone”
• Proper stress management

By utilizing the management techniques discussed in the book you will reach your goal of having a successful and thriving business.

The introductory price for this book is $29.95 and you can get more information at our website at Managing Your Thriving Business for Success

Dear Affiliates of The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Thriving Business:

Are you looking for some extra spending money for the upcoming holiday season? Until December 31st, as an affiliate of The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Thriving Business, I am going to give you a whopping 50% for each and every sale that you make through your affiliate link. That is $25 for each and every sale you make!!

So how can you promote my book? Here are just a few ideas:

• Blog about my book on your personal or business blog (use the buttons or links already created on your affiliate tools webpage).

• Include an article in your next newsletter or blog post about why someone should create a Thriving Business. (An article with your affiliate link has already been created on your affiliate tools webpage).

• Add a resource button in your newsletter, on your webpage or in your marketing materials.

• Send a notice to your subscriber list about my book.

So good luck, and I will make it my personal guarantee that any books you sell prior to December 15th are paid no later than the 19th of December in plenty of time for some holiday shopping. (Note: any sales made after December 15th will be paid the first week of January as usual).

Thanks again and happy promoting!!

Yvonne Weld
Author – “The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Thriving Business”

P.S. If you are not yet an affiliate of my book, here is the link to become an affiliate:

Affiliate Program for The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Thriving Business

My good friend Sally at Virtual Simplicity has tagged me so I am answering the question “5 Reasons I Love Being A VA” …

1. Flexibility – I work when I want and with whom I want doing the things I want and love to do.
2. Supportive Community – I can’t believe the friends I have met since I started my business.
3. Constant Learning – I feel like everyday I learn something new – a new technology, an easier way to do things ….
4. Awesome Clients … I can honestly say I love working with every single one of my clients
5. Opportunity to Educate … since we are such a new industry I have the opportunity to spread the word and educate others about what a VA is

So I am tagging Heather, Terry, and Karen

Many of us find it very hard as Virtual Assistants and mothers to balance time for work and time for family. Perhaps the biggest problem is that as our business grows and we become more and more successful it is often at the expense of time with our children. It is at this time that it is crucial to remember just why you became a Virtual Assistant. For many of you I am sure the answer is the same as it is for me; to have a career that allows me to also be at home with my children.

So what is a successful Virtual Assistant to do? How do we run a successful business and be a fulltime mother (or father)? The answer is in finding a balance that works for you, your business and your family. Here are some ways to ensure that you can balance both:

Schedule around your family’s schedule
Make sure to schedule productive working time during school hours, naptimes and after the children have gone to bed for the evening. By productive working time, I am talking about the important client matters that require your full attention and focus. Also schedule time to return phone calls when the house is more likely to be quiet and you are less likely to be interrupted. This will allow you to maintain your professional image.

Enlist the help of others
Look to your support system and enlist the help of your spouse, older siblings, friends and grandparents to help during busy times. If you don’t have a nearby support system, enlist the help of a student or young adult as a “mother’s helper”. Why not find another working mom in your area and agree to trade play dates? Set up a system where you can take her children one day a week and in exchange she can take your children one day a week. Make sure that you utilize this time and whatever you do, don’t over utilize the services of a helpful friend or relative.

Get them involved in your business
Even if your children are young, explain to them about your business in terms they can understand. By understanding that you just aren’t “playing on the computer” they will be able to respect what you are doing easier. I know my son finds it very exciting to go to school and explain what a Virtual Assistant is to his friends. If your children are older, find small jobs that they can help you with such as filing, affixing stamps/labels, shredding papers, etc.. They will love to be a part of what you are doing and most children are just eager to spend time with you and love to feel that their parents want them to be a part of their business too.

Set time aside for family time
It will be much easier for your children to respect “work time” if you respect “family time”. Give your children your full attention when you are with them. If your idea of quality family time is putting on the TV while you are chatting with friends on the internet, it will be much harder for them to distinguish between work time and family time. If necessary utilize a timer to allow your child to begin to see the distinction between the two times. If you begin to spend quality time with your child they will be more likely to give you the space you need during work time.

Reward your children
Make sure that as your children learn the boundaries that you have set that you praise them and reward them for allowing you to get your work done and for not disturbing you during that time. By rewards I don’t mean buying them something every time that they are following your boundaries, I am talking about rewarding them with praise and extra quality time.

With a little creativity, some good scheduling and discipline on your part to follow these guidelines, not only will you have a thriving business, but also a thriving family.