April 2010 “Virtual CEO Goal” Monthly Report

Our Welcoming Lobby at the Live2Sell Group HQ

Location: Home Office – Reading Time: 4-5mins

Number of Days in the Office: 14, Total Number of Employees: 179

This month went by faster than I realized… Hence the slightly late post! My Virtual CEO Goal is still moving along nicely, and again, I feel like I am getting closer and closer to it with every passing month. I have a plan in place, written down, and I am working that plan. It’s a 12 month plan of action including everything from automating certain aspects of my business as well as hiring of important, key employees, that fundamentally will ultimately allow me to remove myself from the business on a full-time basis. I have no doubt this year will end with my mission being accomplished.

We brought on board 3 new virtual assistant clients this month, and they have been going really nicely so far. One of our clients even sent greeting cards to his VA at the companies HQ, which put a massive smile on her face upon receiving them!

I also had the pleasure of hosting a potential new client, who will be starting with us around the middle of this month. It is always a pleasure when we have clients and prospective clients come in and visit us face-to-face - it doesn’t happen often (because it doesn’t need to!), but we always roll out the red carpet when it does.

The blog has really started to gain traction this month, with almost 3,000 visitors and close to 7,000 page views. Awesome! It was nice to see that my I’m Too Busy for Bullshit post was as popular as I hoped it would be. It seems that a lot of you liked the frankness of this, as it created an awesome 50 retweets on Twitter.

Other important milestones this month included:

Tony Ruiz interviewing me for VentureMixx.com
My guest post on HotBlogTips.com on How to Build Your Own Online Brand
My guest post on How to Utilize Virtual Staff to Create Multiple Streams of Passive Income on Pat Flynn’s very popular SmartPassiveIncome.com blog. This came following my interview with Pat earlier in the month for this blog.
My youngest Son, Charlie, starting playgroup…!

A great month all-round.

May will, hopefully, see the launch of my two upcoming online collaborations with a couple of very respected bloggers. The only thing that might slow this down is getting the development side of things finalized, as I expect to be traveling a little this month, which means I wont be ‘working’ as much as I usually do. However, the show WILL go on, and we’ll do our best to get things up and ‘out there’ as soon as possible.

I would like to end this report by saying a massive ‘thank you’ to each and every one of you out there that have subscribed to the RSS feed, joined up and got the free eBook, retweeted any of the blogs’ posts, shared any of the status updates and articles on Facebook and anyone else that has helped, in any way shape of form to continue to promote the blog and spread the Virtual Business Lifestyle word.

I am humbled by your loyalty. Thank you.

Comments

Ralph says:

May 4, 2010 at 7:59 am Ralph(Quote)

That is very impressive. I think I am getting to the point where I can see how to start using VA’s. Got to keep myself from overthinking and just do something.

- Chris C. Ducker says:
  
  May 4, 2010 at 5:49 pm Chris C. Ducker(Quote)
  
  Hi Ralph
  
  Thanks for the thumbs up, bud.
  
  ‘Just do something…’ sounds like a good plan of attack to me! Let me know if you need any help finding your VA, okay!
  
  Appreciate the comment very much.
  
  Chris
  
Carey Suante says:

May 4, 2010 at 10:34 am Carey Suante(Quote)

Well, monthly reports seem to be feature on most blogs these days – from Viperchill to SmartPassiveIncome – and its always interesting!

Its something I should implement on my blog as well, i guess. Its like the scoreboard for your goals and objectives you share with us. Thanks Chris!

- Chris C. Ducker says:
  
  May 4, 2010 at 5:56 pm Chris C. Ducker(Quote)
  
  Hey Carey
  
  Thanks for the comment, bud.
  
  Yeah – they seem to be everywhere. I got the idea from Pat (all credit goes to him!).
  
  I use it, more than anything else, as a personal thing, to keep motivated towards that ultimate goal of mine this year. But, putting it ‘out there’ does kick me up the ass a little harder to make sure I achieve it, I have to say!
  
  Best, Chris
  
Emma T says:

May 4, 2010 at 10:56 am Emma T(Quote)

I’ve recently started a blog, the information you provide on this site has helped me tremendously. Thank you for all of your time & work.

- Chris C. Ducker says:
  
  May 4, 2010 at 10:26 pm Chris C. Ducker(Quote)
  
  Hi Emma
  
  Glad to be able to help out, in any way. It’s not my ‘plan’ to help people set-up blogs, but if I do so, in whatever way, then that’s cool.
  
  Good luck with it, and next time, leave a link so we can check it out!
  
  Chris
  
Drezz says:

May 4, 2010 at 8:05 pm Drezz(Quote)

These posts are great for everyone – not only do we get to see some of the inner workings of how entrepreneurs do their thing, it gives you some motivation to go out there and do it yourself.

I wish more people did it – but I suppose each person has a different comfort level.

- Chris C. Ducker says:
  
  May 4, 2010 at 9:26 pm Chris C. Ducker(Quote)
  
  Hi Drezz
  
  Good point – it does give you a bit of a ‘window’ view of things. I hope you enjoy them going forward, too.
  
  For me, its a way to track progress – plain and simple.
  
  Thanks or dropping by and commenting, bud.
  
  Chris
  
Joshua Black | The Underdog Millionaire says:

May 4, 2010 at 10:04 pm Joshua Black | The Underdog Millionaire(Quote)

Nice looking lobby Chris. It’s really red. There is so much VA business out there that I hope you do very well in your new venture.

Sounds like you have a lot of PR already.

-Joshua Black
The Underdog Millionaire

- Chris C. Ducker says:
  
  May 4, 2010 at 10:28 pm Chris C. Ducker(Quote)
  
  Hi Joshua
  
  Great to see you here again, bud!
  
  Yep, red… The color of passion, my man.
  
  Hopefully they will launch nicely, and we’ll help a ton of people in the process. It’s gonna be in interesting May – just as long as I can get them finalized…!
  
  Thanks for commenting.
  
  Chris
  
Howie says:

May 5, 2010 at 6:37 pm Howie(Quote)

I love what you have going on here, Chris….a subtle air of the “4-hour work week”, but, unique enough to call your own….

Seems like a great, transparent, month all around. Looking forward to seeing VBL grow and develop, my friend. You’ve got some great things going on here.

- Chris C. Ducker says:
  
  May 5, 2010 at 9:25 pm Chris C. Ducker(Quote)
  
  Hi Howie
  
  Thanks for the kind words, bud.
  
  Yes, the 4HWW does come into play a little. And I do mean a ‘little’. I am not saying for one single solitary second that you can work four hours a week and make a ton of money. That part of Tim’s book, for me, was a little hard to come to grips with. I guess its my old-school approach to doing business…
  
  However, working LESS – absolutely. Working on your OWN TERMS – yes. And working from WHERE and HOW you like, you betcha!
  
  I appreciate your feedback, and commitment to see how things develop here. I promise I’ll do my best to keep things ‘real’ and as close to my ultimate goal (providing awesome content that people can actually USE, rather than just ‘read’) as possible.
  
  Thanks again,
  Chris