Hello everyone, I am TaCreacia and I am the owner of FourSquare Solutions. I am new to the VA business. My website is www.foursquaresolutions.net please take a look and let me know what you think.

Hi TaCreacia, welcome to the forums! It's great to have you here!

Event planning must be a really fun niche to specialize in - how did you get into that? I'm so curious to know if you're able to manage planning an event in a truly virtual capacity?

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Thanks for the warm welcome.

As far as the event planning, for the most part you can handle the planning virtually. I have been working for this one company out of Jacksonville, FL for over a year and I set up all the events they have. I have grown to have a great contact database of suppliers, tv stations etc that I contact when I need to set up advertising. It might require me to do more phone calls and sometimes I have to go to a locations but the client pays me for that also. The client and I work very well together and he trust my judgement on a lot of things and pretty much allows me to set everything up.

I send him a daily update on whats going on either by fax, email or a phone call. He is more pleased that way. There are times that he calls me late at night because somethings he need have to be done first thing in the am. But this is rare but does happen.

I have been doing events for over 10 years and I started by doing them for organization I am in and doing it as a volunteer. I enjoy it and I have a true love for doing events so I have kind of set a Virtual way of handling the set up. I am only requested onsite when the event happens and mostly that's just to watch it all fall in place.

Welcome to the forum TaCreacia. This is a great place to start with wonderful people to help you get through the beginning of your business. There is a great deal of reading so be prepared.

Hope to see you around.

Be Well,

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Be Well,
Carla
www.bwellbusinessservices.com
virtually meeting your needs

Thanks Carla, I will be around alot. I am loving the post on this forum. Tess you have done a great job

Aw, thank you, that's so nice to hear I can't really take credit for it though - it's truly a community effort!

Your event planning gigs sound like a *lot* of fun - congrats on finding such an entertaining niche

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Welcome to the forum TaCreacia. I'm a newbie as well.

You will find lots of information on this forum and everyone is very friendly and helpful.

Hope to see you around.

Mattie

Thanks for the welcome.

Welcome! The event planning does sound like a lot of fun! Where about in Central Florida are you? We frequent Disney much too often!

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Dawn Riley
A Virtual Assistant in Paradise
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I am in the South part of Orlando by the Millenia Mall area.