Good Word

I joined Team Ali Brown in 2006 when Ali was known as “The Ezine Queen.” Now known as the “mil­lion­aire entre­pre­neur men­tor for women,” Ali appeared on the first year sea­son finale of Secret Mil­lion­aire (ABC, 4/10/11). Need help with build­ing your entre­pre­neur­ial busi­ness from the ground up and higher than your imag­i­na­tion? Check out: Ali Brown

I love get­ting hand-written thank you notes from her (often with a gift inside). A com­pi­la­tion of her com­ments reads:

THANK YOU for all your amaz­ing help! I’m really glad you’re a part of my team. I appre­ci­ate your work and ideas to help us take Ali Inter­na­tional to the next level. I appre­ci­ate you and all that you do.
Ali

I met Nancy Tier­ney of Fire­cracker Com­mu­ni­ca­tions when a fel­low VA, to whom I will always be grate­ful, referred me to her. She’s a fire­cracker alright, and a joy to work with (funny too!). If you need a strong start to your inter­net mar­ket­ing sys­tem or inspired copy­writ­ing that will make your web­site or other mar­ket­ing copy sing, check out Nancy’s site.

Nancy was kind enough to fea­ture me in her ezine in Feb­ru­ary 2012, and here’s what she said in part:

I met Kristy, vir­tu­ally, this sum­mer when I needed a depend­able, highly skilled VA to man­age my shop­ping cart and email sys­tems, proof­read my blog posts and ezine and cre­ate dif­fer­ent web pages and such. She came highly rec­om­mended by a friend of a friend. Plus, her past expe­ri­ence was impres­sive. So, I hired her to be my VA.

Now, I’ve worked with other VAs before. And I’ve appre­ci­ated every sin­gle one of them! They all have made my life and work so much eas­ier. But Kristy is the first VA I’ve ever had who’s not just an “assis­tant.” She’s a part­ner. She’s not only is great at what she does, she is always think­ing ahead of me, giv­ing me ideas and sug­ges­tions on every­thing from social media tac­tics to pro­mo­tional ideas to cool ways to cal­cu­late my web­site traf­fic. She knows a lot! And she is gen­er­ous with what she knows.
Nancy

I met Stacey Lane when I began local net­work­ing after I first started my busi­ness. I was imme­di­ately attracted to her mag­netic per­son­al­ity, savvy com­ments, and delight­ful sense of humor. I couldn’t wait to work with her some day and for­tu­nately I got the chance. Need career coach­ing? She’s your resource: Stacey Lane.

Stacey was kind enough to say to me:

You’re more like a phe­nom­e­nal busi­ness part­ner than a VA, but with­out all the has­sles. You are always a step ahead of me, strate­gic and knowl­edge­able. You make it all look so easy, but man­ag­ing all of the details that go into all the behind-the-scenes stuff is what you do so well. All busi­ness with a great sense of humor — such a great com­bi­na­tion!
Stacey

I loved the time that I worked for Kendall because I learned so much and she hon­ored that every­one has a “unique bril­liance.” She’s a mil­lion dol­lar mar­ket­ing coach who helps women entre­pre­neurs align money, mar­ket­ing, and their soul. Check out what she has to offer here: Kendall Sum­mer­hawk.

Here’s what she wrote to me right before she broke the 7-figure mark:

You are a bless­ing to me and my busi­ness! Thanks to your sup­port I have dou­bled my income in just five months. I love how you antic­i­pate what I need and get it done quickly and beau­ti­fully. I would not be a mul­ti­ple 6-figure coach with­out your sup­port Kristy!
Kendall

I’ll always be grate­ful for Ron­nie for being one of the first to hire me as a VA (for the NW Coaches Asso­ci­a­tion). I LOVE to hear her speak. She has a way of edu­cat­ing peo­ple about mar­ket­ing in the most enter­tain­ing way. In the com­mu­nity col­lege class that I teach, I send my stu­dents to her web­site to learn all about mar­ket­ing (ele­va­tor speeches and ideal client con­cepts to name a few): Veronika Noize.

Lovely words from Ronnie:

I rec­og­nize what an excep­tional job YOU are doing. I’ve had two other VAs and nei­ther could hold a can­dle to you; your pro­fes­sion­al­ism shines like a bea­con on a dark and stormy night. Our orga­ni­za­tion is very for­tu­nate to have you on the team. With grat­i­tude (the kind that comes from know­ing how good you really are!)
Ronnie