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The SmallBizChat Podcast: Growing Your Business with a Virtual Assistant with Carole Copeland Thomas

February 13, 2020 By Melinda Emerson Leave a Comment

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Growing Your Business with a Virtual Assistant 1200 x 1200Carole Copeland Thomas is an esteemed speaker, trainer, executive coach, and global thought leader specializing in issues impacting the ever-changing global marketplace, as well as topics such as multiculturalism and empowerment. A business owner for over thirty years, Carole has shared her expertise with companies like Verizon, SHRM, and the Federal Highway Administration, and she has spoken in several countries, including the United States, England, Canada, India, El Salvador, Australia, South Africa, and Kenya. Among her many accomplishments, Carole is a non-profit co-founder and humanitarian, founder of the Multicultural Symposium Series, and host of a weekly issues-oriented radio show called Focus on Empowerment.

Carole joins me today to discuss her experience of working with a virtual assistant and managing virtual team members from around the globe as well as some of the highs and lows she has faced along the way. Carole highlights some of the positive attributes of the best remote workers she has collaborated with, along with some of the roadblocks that prevented other relationships with virtual workers from coming to fruition. Additionally, Carole shares a devastating story involving one of her first virtual assistants and how she is responding and giving back.

 “In many ways, your clock is a 24-hour clock. You just become adapted to it.” – Carole Copeland Thomas

Listen to the podcast below:

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Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode:

  • The evolution of Carole’s business and professional journey, how her company operates today, and the primary revenue-generating aspects of her platform
  • How technology has transformed the business landscape over the past thirty years
  • Different types of workers that can potentially play a role in the growth of your business
  • What topics/subject matter Carole addresses through her work
  • The challenges that come along with managing a remote team
  • The structure of Carole’s team, and the dynamic between Carole and her virtual team members
  • The platform Carole has used to find remote workers, and challenges faced along the way
  • How Carole manages time zones when working with global team members
  • The importance of professionalism when it comes to virtual team members
  • Why it is essential to develop a system while working with your current virtual team, and the relationship between delegating work and implementing systems
  • How Carole is giving back in the face of a tragedy involving one of her virtual team members

Resources Mentioned:

  • Zoom
  • Upwork
  • The Aiza Ballera Family Fund
  • Denise Gray-Felder
  • Joe Heaps
  • eSpeakers

Connect with Carole Copeland Thomas:

  • Carole Copeland Thomas
  • Carole Copeland-Thomas on Twitter
  • Carole Copeland-Thomas on LinkedIn
  • Carole Copeland-Thomas on Facebook
  • Multicultural Symposium Series

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Melinda F. Emerson, “SmallBizLady” is America’s #1 Small Business Expert. She is an internationally renowned keynote speaker on small business development, social selling, and online marketing strategy. As CEO of Quintessence Group, her Philadelphia-based marketing consulting firm serves Fortune 500 brands that target the small business market. Clients include Amazon, Adobe, Verizon, VISA, Google, FedEx, Chase, American Express, The Hartford, and Pitney Bowes. She also has an online school, www.smallbizladyuniversity.com, that teaches people online marketing and how to start and grow a successful small business and publishes a blog SucceedAsYourOwnBoss.com. Her advice is widely read, reaching more than 3 million entrepreneurs each week online. She hosts The Smallbizchat Podcast and is the bestselling author of Become Your Own Boss in 12 Months, Revised and Expanded, and Fix Your Business, a 90 Day Plan to Get Back Your Life and Reduce Chaos in Your Business.

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