Riding the Tiger – when you realize something is bigger than you control is no longer possible.

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I’m on the other side now – having transitioned from ‘being’ the OBM for clients to being the business owner who needs her own OBM. It’s a different world for sure, and I’d like to share with you what i’m learning along the way via a series of videos – this is the first one.

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I’ve been working in the virtual support industry for over 10 years now, as an OBM for much of that time (of course) and also in coaching/supporting the business owners who are hiring their own virtual teams.
And there is one thing that can very easily go wrong when it comes to business owners hiring their [...]

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One of my favorite speakers at Shine was Barbara Corcoran - real estate mogul and all around great business woman. I loved her no-holds-barred approach to sharing her story, talk about telling it like it is! (She has some of the funniest firing stories i’ve ever heard…)
During her conversation Barbara talked about how every business needs [...]

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Drumroll please… I’d like to give congratulations to the world’s very first Certified Online Business Managers.
Let’s give a round of applause to:

Charly Alexander

Denise Milligan

Donna Frindt

Heike Miller

Janet E. Smith

These ladies tackled our admittedly tough Certification process last week and came out shining, and so it is our absolute pleasure to award them the designation of Certified [...]

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Wondering if you should hire an Online Business Manager? Here are 5 tell-tale signs that it may be time for you to add an OBM to your team.
1. Your business is growing while your own free-time is shrinking.
I’m betting you started your business to create more [...]

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Alot of people ask me “what does an Online Business Manager actually do?” I thought it would be fun to give folks a ’sneak peek’ over my shoulder as I go about my day – give you a taste of what I actually do all day and how I spend my time as an OBM.
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I was reminded this week how great a resource Elance is – we needed someone to do some fast turnaround graphics for us, and as always we got a really good response to our posting and found an excellent designer who did a great job.
It had been a really long time since i’d used Elance to find [...]

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A common complaint that we hear from business owners re: their team is some variation of:
It doesn’t matter who I hire to do X, they never do it the way I want!
or
I’ve tried to get my VA to do X right, but she never does as good a job as I do.
When it comes to [...]

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