Hi Everyone,

I wanted to let you all know of a FREE online appointment booking site that I recently checked out. It's called GenBook. It allows your clients to book appointment with you online. Once they book an appointment then an email is sent to you and you can log into your GenBook account for more details.

They also include the html code so that you can provide a button on your website for a direct link to the GenBook website. Or if you don't have your website up, they provide you with a booking page.

The system allows you to set up your own calendar so that you can mark off times that you are "closed" or you can mark off other times that you are unavailable.

You can also enter specific services that clients can select that they are interested in or that they are booking your time for. This system also allows for multiple staff members to be listed for scheduling.

For businesses with multiple VA's, you could use it for calendaring time for different services among your VA's. For example, one of your VA's that does web design could go in and put on the calendar what day they'll be working on that and for what specific service.

They have a FREE set up which provides you with pretty much everything I've described here. They also have a paid account option where you get a few more features.

Check it out. I think it's a great option for those of who work with clients that have odd hours, who are pretty tech savvy, or who like to be very independent.

If anyone has used this or uses it in the future, let us know what you think!

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Kimberly
Facebook Marketing Magic!

I like that! Thanks Kimberly.

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Shari Sultana
Online Business Manager (marketing for retail ecommerce)

Thanks Kim
I saw a similar setup on another VAs site not too long ago but this one looks a bit more sophisticated. Definitely a cool concept - thanks for sharing!

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I like that, thanks. I am also looking at Timedriver. I have a client who is an educator who is using this to book appointments. I think it's a great marketing tool to have on your website and a good way to reach out and shorten the bridge between you and prospective clients.

Oh, that is very nice. I certainly will check that out today, including Timedriver. I think it's so important that your clients have easy access to stay connected with you therefore this is a great solution.

Thanks for sharing!

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Brenda A. Jones
www.brevos.com

I think these utilities are important as I believe they set a "mood" that you run a very busy VA practice and they had better hurry in to try to secure some of your time :-)

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Taryn Merrick, Eco Virtual Assistant on the Mac Platform
www.merrickmgt.com

That's an excellent point. I think I'm going to get an account and put the button on my website.

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Kimberly
Facebook Marketing Magic!

Thank you for this great recommendation. I showed a client this concept and they are adding it to their business site and added additional work for me to manage it all.

Thank you!
Mary

I signed up yesterday and not only is it easy and intuitive, I can see it has great potential for so many different uses.

@Mary,
I'm glad that you found a good use for it for your client!

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Kimberly
Facebook Marketing Magic!

I just added this to my site also. It is simple to add and simple to use - and free also. Thanks for the resource!