Each month in 2010 we'll be giving away a free featured link in the Virtual Assistant Directory here at VAF!

It's easy to win, here's how:

Draft and publish a blog post about Virtual Assistant Forums - it can be about a resource here, your experiences here, a particular topic/thread, your thoughts on the site and community overall... whatever you wish to write about, as long as it's related to VAF in some way and includes at least one live link back to the forums and approximately 250 words or more.

Then, submit a reply here with a link to your blog post.
You can enter every month if you wish, but you must draft a NEW blog post for each entry.

We'll select the best post each month and award the author a free featured link in the VAF Virtual Assistant Directory.

Featured links display on the directory home page, rotate sitewide in the VAF sidebar, and are shown at the top of their category/search results in the directory, above regular listings. Featured listings in the VAF directory receive 400% more impressions and clicks than regular listings.

[P.S. if you haven't submitted a link to your VA business site and blog, it's free...

VAF Admin

Join VAF member Christina Nelson of Vital Office Solutions on

Friday, October 23, 2009 at 3PM PST / 6PM EST

in the VAF Chatroom for a live chat event:



About our guest hostess: While managing her VA business Christina discovered Wordpress and created her first website at http://www.vitalofficesolutions.com. While she continued to offer basic virtual assistance, the bug had bitten and Christina taught herself Wordpress from the inside out and Christina’s expertise in the program has resulted in her being consider a “Wordpress Guru”. She has recently launched a new site, the “Dear Abby" of Wordpress containing helpful information. http://www.christina-nelson.com


Be sure to join us for this informative, free chatroom event for YOUR chance to win a customized Wordpress theme by Christina [not including installation].

VAF Admin

Join us May 28th at 5pm PST / 8pm EST in the VAF Chatroom as the author of GET CLIENTS NOW!, C.J. Hayden, answers the question:

What's Stopping You From Getting Clients... and What To Do About It

What are the barriers that prevent talented VA's from building a thriving business? You can overcome these challenges and attract more clients with less effort by making a few simple changes. Learn how you may be sabotaging your own marketing, the three most reliable ways to build your business quickly, when Internet marketing is a useful tool and when it won't help you, and how to build a system to make marketing simple and effortless.

C.J. Hayden is the best-selling author of Get Clients Now!, Get Hired Now!, and The One-Person Marketing Plan Workbook. C.J. is a Master Certified Coach who has helped thousands of independent professionals to make a better living doing what they love. C.J. has taught marketing for John F. Kennedy University, Mills College, SCORE, and the U.S. Small Business Administration. Find out more about C.J. at http://www.getclientsnow.com .

Read our review of GET CLIENTS NOW!, here....

VAF Admin

We''re certain YOU have a great idea for a social group here at VAF and this blog post is your invitation to start one up. Here's how:

Click the GROUPS link in the main menu, then choose GROUPS (<--- or just click that link right there!) Once you reach the main page where all of our current social groups are listed, scroll down to the bottom and you'll see a link to Create a New Group. Click that link and fill in the fields on the next page - give your group a NAME (something nice and descriptive so people understand what it's all about!), fill in the description, make your group public or private, and click "Save" - your group is then ready to invite people to join!

Get people to join and participate in your group by posting a link and description in the TALK section, or - if it's a business-related group, post about it in the topic section that you think makes the most sense. Send PMs to your friends on the boards, Tweet your new group, etc. and before you know it you'll have an active mini-forum of your very own right here on VAF!

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If there's a forum section you'd like to subscribe to, click into the main forum section of your choosing and select 'forum tools' at the top right, then select 'subscribe' and 'instant email notification' to rec'v notice in your inbox each time a new post is made in that section!

If you subscribe but don't rec'v the notifications - please check that our emails are not going into your junk folder and add virtualassistantforums.com to your whitelist

As always, you can still subscribe to individual threads - and we've updated that feature to include instant email notification as well (you can adjust your subscription settings in your profile).

VAF Admin

We were looking at the site menu recently and it dawned on us that not only were there so FEW of the great features here on VAF appropriately linked up in the menu, but there wasn't a *single* pixel of space left for all the great new features and pages we have planned for 2009. So we did a little remodeling

Please take a moment to check out the new (and we hope, improved) VAF main menu - there are now drop downs to help you more easily find and use the many key features here at Virtual Assistant Forums.

VAF Admin