I have been a member of Mom Masterminds since I first started my business back in 2006 and I can’t even begin to express what it has done for me. I’ve created friendships, business relationships and learned so many things from being a part of Mom Masterminds!

Recently I learned some very heartbreaking news – Melissa Ingold (you might know her as Internet Marketing Sweetie) lost her little boy in his sleep. The pain her and her family must be going through is something that no parent should ever have to go through. The work at home community pulled together to help Kelly McCausey with a fundraiser she was doing to help Melissa’s family cover the astronomical costs of the funeral. That’s how the awesome crazy deal of being able to join Mom Masterminds for only $100 came about.

The fundraiser is officially over because the community raised enough to cover the cost Melissa’s family needed but Kelly McCausey has kept the special price of being able to join Mom Masterminds for just $100.00 open through today July 15th. Starting tomorrow July 16th the price goes upt o $250.00.

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I love Canada and wish we could have stayed longer but I’m blessed to be able to have said that we spent 1 1/2 days up there. I love the in person experience. It’s so different than just connecting with them all online. There’s always so many laughs, lots of food but most of all the love the business conversation that always comes up

Here’s a dorky little video of our road trip:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qspTjPtQbi4

Now I’m looking forward to our next road trip -- NAMS 4 in Atlanta, Georgia in August!

So the last post I wrote was back in May (on the 20th to be exact!) and it was titled Will I Win? That post was in regards to waiting to find out if on the 21st of May at the OIVAC (Online International Virtual Assistants Convention) who was going to announced the 2010 Janet Jordan Virtual Assistant Achievement Award Winner.

Quite a bit of time has passed since Friday May 21st when they announced that I was the winner of the 2010 Janet Jordan Virtual Assistant Achievement Award.

It was pretty surreal, and to actually stop and think about it, it still seems surreal to me. Never in a million years did I ever think that I would be chosen as an award nominee let alone chosen as the winner! It’s a huge honor and one that I won’t take lightly or ever forget!

It’s free to attend this portion of the conference & they will be giving out door prizes too!

Would you please join me and we can find out together if I’m this year’s winner of the award!

To get to the conference room:

• Follow the link above (please join me)
• Click on the welcome mat
• Click on big red button on right that says seminar schedule
• Scroll all the way down to the middle of the page where it shows 5:15 (under Friday) and you’ll see the link to the conference room. You’ll enter your name but no password is required for this portion of the conference

This award is to honor a newcomer Virtual Assistant who has been in business for less than 5 years and has reached a milestone in their short career in the industry. This milestone needs to be an accomplishment that has helped to boost their new business to an overwhelming success.

If you’re wondering who Janet Jordan even is/was read this:

Janet Jordan was a recognized industry leader in the virtual assistance field. Mrs. Jordan’s virtual assisting career began in 1980, long before the term “Virtual Assistant” was coined. Along with running her private VA practices which included clients who spanned the globe, Mrs. Jordan also trained aspiring entrepreneurs to launch their own up-to-the-minute, compelling and relevant virtual assistant practices through Virtual Assistance U. Jordan created future leaders in the VA industry. Janet passed away in January 2006.

It all seemed pretty surreal even after I was contacted from OIVAC (Online International Virtual Assistant Convention), the great folks that put the convention on and offer the awards asking me to answer questions, submit a headshot of myself, etc. I’ve never been nominated for an award before and honestly in a million years I never would have expected to be in this position! It’s the most humbling experience ever! I mean to think that someone I worked with a few years ago finds me and the services I provide as a VA worthy of even being nominated for the Janet Jordan award just blows me away. It’s such an amazing experience and even if I don’t win the award just being nominated is an awesome experience and one that I will NOT forget!

Listen in as Vera talks to me about working from home and I share my passion about transcription. I share about how my business has grown and changed over the last four years.

Click the link below to go to the interview.

Tishia Lee Discusses Working From Home

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So the story unfolds…

Most of you know that I recently was away for 7 days. I was lucky enough to be able to attend the NAMS event in Atlanta, Georgia. I knew when I came back I had a very large transcription project scheduled.

While there (NAMS) I was given the suggestion to look for an intern and give them a trial run at transcription. Most interns are not paid but because transcription is such a time consuming project I knew I had to offer them a payment so I came to a reasonable price and went on a quest for an ‘intern’.

I found one and ended up getting screwed over!

I liked that this person is also a Virtual Assistant, liked that this person and I have a mutual acquaintance with someone and most importantly I liked the fact that this person was familiar with transcription.

On Friday the 5th at 9:25 pm they email me and I knew it was going to be bad news when the email started like this:

Hi Tishia

I just wanted to let you know where I was in the transcription. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I am only about 40 minutes in…

40 minutes in? Uhm hello! This was a 150 minute audio (2.5 hours!) This is AFTER I had already extended the deadline once during the day when this person was dealing with a sick child and at that time during the day they were a lot farther along than 40 minutes…so they said.

I won’t go into details about WHY they say they were only 40 minutes into the audio at this point because quite frankly I don’t believe it!

So the point of this?

I didn’t do my research!

I didn’t look at their VA website (had I, they would NOT have been hired because it’s not very professional looking, there are NO customer testimonials and just some other things). I didn’t ask for references.

So don’t be an idiot like me! Do your research! Ask for referrals, etc!

p.s. In case you were wondering I did find someone else to help me – my friend and ‘newbie’ to the internet marketing world Angel Williams. I also had to do a renegotiation with my client about my deadline which was a horrible feeling but I was in a major bind and had no choice. But in the end it all worked out for the best. Although I’m pretty sure Angel hates me now after that transcription project (it was looooooong)