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Joel and Sue
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Joel D Canfield is an author and award-winning speaker who helps businesses grow using the trust that comes from communication that's more human. He has written several business books, including 49 Commonsense Business Observations and The Commonsense Entrepreneur which more fully explores these commonsense business observations, and a mystery, Through the Fog, which takes place in the Irish countryside. Joel co-authored with Sue The Commonsense Virtual Assistant: Becoming an Entreprener, Not an Employee. Joel has been coaching virtual assistants since 2005.
For over 30 years Sue Canfield, Virtual Office Administrator and Owner of Awesome Assistant, has helped small business owners with administrative tasks. Since she officially began working as a VA in 2005, she has worked with over 35 clients to help them grow their businesses, specifically by using online marketing strategies such as email newsletters, blogs, articles, and social networking. Her mission is to partner with her clients to create and implement strategies to promote their businesses. Sue assists Joel in coaching other virtual assistants.
Contact Information
Call Joel and Sue at 916.390.2262 or email Sue@ChiefVirtualOfficer.com with any questions. We would be happy to discuss your specific needs and create a custom coaching program. If you'd like to just give us a one-month try, we can do that!
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More About Joel and Sue
- Virtual Office Administration—Chief Virtual Officer
- Web Design—Spinhead Web Design
- Small Business Mentoring—The Commonsense Entrepreneur
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Virtual Office Administration
Chief Virtual Officer a.k.a. Awesome Assistant
As small business owners we know how difficult it can be to juggle a busy schedule. You want to concentrate on your business and getting your work done. This can be challenging when your day is interrupted by phone calls, emails, paying bills, trying to collect payments from customers, creating, copying and mailing out that flyer. You may not have the time, money or office space to hire an assistant.
Why not outsource this position to an online office administrator? We can help you enhance and grow your business by providing professional, reliable and affordable administrative support services to independent entrepreneurs and small business owners. Our years of experience in office administration, specializing in bookkeeping, can help provide practical solutions for your business needs.
Sit back and relax while we:
- Compile your networking contacts into a database
- Create a follow up plan to keep in contact with each of them
- Design and send out an e-newsletter to your contact list
- Update your website with your latest news
- Client telephone surveys
- and much more...
- Bookkeeping
- Email marketing
- Custom E–Newsletters
- Database management
- Telephone surveys
- Update business social networking profiles
- Document creation
- Bill paying and other accounting services
- Collections
- Appointment scheduling
- Bulk mailing—stuffing and addressing envelopes
- Research assistance
- Digital Coaching
- Remote assistance with computer issues
Website Design
Spinhead Web Design
Spinhead Web Design offers full–service web design. From purchasing a domain name and creating your first website to developing dynamic efficiency and automation tools, we can help the small–business entrepreneur navigate the often complex processes involved in creating a practical online presence.
Whether you need to match your website to existing marketing collateral or create a whole new brand, Spinhead will work with you to ensure that your website perfectly suits your needs to showcase your products, services, and information.
Already have a website, but need additional functionality? All too often, your website can become a mass of seemingly unrelated information, making it difficult for prospective customers to find the information they want. Spinhead can help with search tools and innovative ways to present large amounts of data in a simple, organized fashion.
Small Business Mentoring
The Commonsense Entrepreneur
Joel helps small business owners build their businesses using the trust that comes from communication that's more human. He says:
"I like to consider myself more a mentor than a coach. I think about the title I chose for myself as co-founder of the Northern California Artistic Achievement Awards, The Grassies'—Anamchara Eolais. It means one who guides others through what could be a complicated process, but is instead a simple path to useful knowledge. It comes from the ancient Gaelic word for the older priest who mentored the younger in. not only his duties, but his thinking. It's combined with a word that means more than just information, but information which has value.
"Making decisions can be incredibly challenging in the vacuum most small business/solopreneurs find themselves. And for every idea that sees the light of day, hundreds languish for lack of a clear plan for implementation.
"Knowing that someone else is genuinely interested in your success creates a personal sense of accountability. That's the accountability I'll create: not of you to me, but of you to yourself.
"I'd love to give you some free advice. Just email a question, or a description of the issue you're facing, and I'll offer some ready-to-use suggestions and the reasons behind them. All I ask is your permission to re-print the essence of the Q&A."