Virtual assistant to authorsHere's a great niche, being a virtual assistant to authors. The main benefit of finding a niche in your VA business is that with a niche you can charge higher rates than a general VA. What is a Virtual Author's Assistant? These are businesses who manage all the behind the scenes work needed in order to get a book published. "To writers, they are miracle workers. The world of publishing can be frightening, overwhelming and frustrating. An author's assistant is the expert the writer turns to guide them step by step through the process. They make phone calls, organise material, send out emails, coordinate designers, proofreaders and printers and conduct research. There are 24 services that writers ask for most often, and those are the services that virtual author's assistants provide. From their homes, Virtual Author's Assistants organize the publishing process for authors around the country and around the world." Jan King The good news is if this niche interests you, Jan King has devised a course to teach you everything you need to know to become a certified professional virtual author's assistant.
What qualifies Jan to run this course? She is a publisher-turned-coach with over 30 years in the publishing industry. She was President and CEO of Merritt Publishing for eight years, doubling its revenue until we sold the company in 1998. She had 50 employees and published over 200 books each year and sold hundreds of thousands of copies. In 1997, Merritt Publishing was named the 44th largest woman owned/run business in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Business Journal. She was also a member of Vistage (a membership organisation for CEOs) for six years, and co-founded a women's CEO group. She has authored two books, Business Plans to Game Plans and Smart Women Publish and a long-time member of the Author's Guild. She founded eWomenPublishingNetwork five years ago, an organisation devoted to transforming women who are experts in their fields into successfully published authors.
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