Re: VA Survival Guide
I just got back from vacation, but I'm sorry I missed the chance to respond to this conversation when it first took place.
As Susan mentions, one of the reasons for the price is that it is bundled with additional materials that I feel are a huge value. These are items that myself and others have found a great deal of useful information in for building their businesses, and as of now, are no longer available for purchase.
And as Tess points out I've actually written a post on how I feel about our reluctance to pay for things that could make a difference in our businesses.
Janine also makes some great points that mirror the way I feel about the value of purchasing needed information rather than spending countless hours trying to find it for free.
And from personal experience I do understand the need to find low-cost helps for our businesses, trust me, I've been there. I was unemployed when I started my business and seriously weighed every penny I spent. And yes, even $50 can seem expensive to some.
Yet it's that same personal experience that is behind the cost of my book/workbook. I realized that if I wanted my business to really start making money I was going to have to invest money into it. I was careful about the products I invested in, and feel that those investments have paid off in a big way.
Certainly to some of us $50 may be out of reach, but if we really examined what we are spending on other things (for me it was coffee at the local coffee shop when I was working remotely) we might surprise ourselves at how easily we spend that amount on things that don't have any effect on our businesses at all.
I believe that virtual assistants that find themselves at a point where they are serious about investing in their businesses will find the $50 worth the cost.
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