I just hosted an almost 90-minute call today called 5 Winning Habits of Highly Profitable Virtual Event Managers. Attendees who were on Twitter while listening to the live recording posted wonderful summaries of the points they heard during the call.

I want to thank Lynn Pearce for hosting me on this call. A few tweeted that Lynn and I had great chemistry on the phone. Must be her British accent 🙂

I did get some questions after the call that I answered on Twitter, however, 140 characters is just not enough, so I’m providing longer answers below.

Answer: Many virtual assistance (VA) have shared with me that they’re tired of being known as a generalist or a multi-functional VA. This limits how much they can charge and being a multi-functional VA means they don’t stand out.

If you’re already booking conference bridge lines or inviting speakers to your client’s events, you can focus on becoming much more specialized and only focus on producing virtual events. So, instead of planning your own virtual event, a VA can offer that service to their client.

I know, this sounds like things you’re already doing. But the goal of becoming a virtual event manager is to provide a complete A-Z specialization in producing virtual events.

Answer: This is a fabulous idea for a number of reasons – 1) it enhances relationships between members and 2) it allows you to test out different virtual event platforms.

I haven’t incorporated a live virtual component in the association, but there’s no reason why it can’t be added. My hope is that members will be proactive enough to organize impromptu virtual meetings between each other and maybe set up their own peer-lead mastermind groups.

I also invite members to attend the training provided by the many virtual event platforms out there. If there’s a large enough interest in a specific tool, my plan is to invite vendors to conduct specialized training just for us so we can see the tool in action and ask questions. This will evolve as the association does.

Answer: Whoops! That’s a mistake. Membership in the association is month-to-month. Denise found this in the terms & conditions for the association and minimum length is 30-days, not 3-months. My team is correcting this and will provide an update.

Update: The terms has been updated.

Answer: This is a wonderful idea and while there isn’t an official service provided by the association to connect speakers to virtual events, if you post your request in the Forums, I know that the community will help out. All you can do is ask, right?

If you have any additional questions, feel free to list them below.