Included in the Program, Fees

Program Fees
Everything you read about below is included for one fee for the entire program, which starts with training and continues with support for the life of your business. Your investment for the entire package:

• $597 US, one time payment, or
• Three payments of $199, one every 30 days.

You can choose your option by selecting the blue button for the one payment option or the red button for the three payment option. Regardless of the option you choose, you have access to all training materials right away. All fees are nonrefundable once you have accepted your invitation to the password protected web site.

Program Includes

The acclaimed The Complete Virtual Author’s Assistant Training Program, the comprehensive, jam-packed, self-paced, step-by-step course of videos and instructional downloads.  No having to pay for shipping, no waiting weeks for delivery -  instant gratification.  You will have immediate access to over 335 pages of instructions, notes, checklists, planners and step-by-step guidance that will be a reference long after you complete the class.

Here’s how it works:

If you are already a virtual professional, you may want to learn just the 24 author services and we have the materials arranged “by subject” just for you.  We have had very motivated participants complete the course  in a long weekend!

If you are new to working virtually, you may want us to guide you through building your virtual business and we have the course arranged in a 30-day course, just for you.
* Each day you will be given a simple business/marketing task and a simple author’s assistant lesson.
* Follow the course and do a little each day at the end of 30 days you will have an up and running virtual business and be fully trained as a virtual author’s assistant!

The training course is just one aspect of the password-protected, exclusive Virtual Author’s Assistant Online Headquarters. The Online HQ is available to you not only during the class, but afterward so you can get updates and get your questions answered when you are working with author clients.   A dynamic on-line peer community that will support you well beyond the class, including recommended industry professionals to refer your clients to, such as editors, cover designers, publicists and many more.  Includes all the links to the sites recommended in the course and recommended by your peers. You can ask your questions in our forum and get answers from peers and professionals.

See an eight-minute YouTube video tour of the VAA Online Headquarters below!

A gateway to continuous learning and honing your skills for years to come, with many ways to learn, whatever fits your style. There are fun to watch slidecast videos of all sessions you can view again and again. If there is an author service you want to watch and hear about again, you can do that anytime, even months later. Each of the services has downloads that give you the step-by-step of everything you will see on the slidecasts, so if you like reading better than watching or listening, you can do that too!  And whenever there is a new trend in the book publishing industry (like authors using Twitter), we add to the course and offer webinars to introduce you to the new materials.  In fact, we have had recent webinars on marketing to authors, using social network and how to sell self-publishing services to authors.  Once you have registered for the basic course, everything else is included – you never pay extra for  and you always have access to updated material.

When you have successfully completed the course, you become a certified PVAA (Professional Virtual Author’s Assistant) and earn a free Business Profile page on our Author’s Assistant Directory. With a first page Google ranking our AA Directory is for writers looking for author’s assistants.  As a graduate of our course you can create a personal page on the directory, marketing your new business and services.

But we didn’t want to create a good course, we wanted to create a full business support system so we added nine amazing bonuses:

Bonus # 1:
To help you get your virtual author’s assistant business off to the right start and as quickly as possible we have included 47 sample forms and letters, checklists, and worksheets you can use day after day and year after year in working with authors. We give this to you in both a hard copy format (you can use them with a pencil or pen) and in downloadable spreadsheets so you can use them right on the computer and attach them to your emails as reports to your authors).  Here just a sample of SOME of the things you’ll find:
* Permissions Planner and Tracker (includes sample forms to get required permissions)
* Peer/Audience Review Tracker
* Testimonial Request Forms and Tracker
* Manuscript Submission Planner and Tracker
* Book Numbers and Listings Planner (includes links for all technical listings)
* Book Marketing Timetable and Checklist (includes on-page marketing plan)
* Book Review Submission Tracker (includes links to book review locations)
* Book Awards Submission Tracker (includes links to legitimate book award sites)
* Virtual Book Tour Planner and Tracker
* Book Event Checklist
* Amazon Best Seller Campaign Planner and Tracker
* Glossary of Publishing Terms

Bonus #2:
An Actual Business Plan for Your Virtual Author’s Assistant Business. Not a sample, not an outline, but an actual working business plan that you can use from day one.  Just make the changes that fit your new business.  (I would charge you $2,400 if you hired me to write one for you)

Bonus # 3:
Specialty classes to keep you up to date offered live virtually many times a year. We know that your learning about book publishing doesn’t end when you finish the course.  In this fast-paced ever-changing environment, your clients expect you to keep up and bring them the latest ways to market and publish their books.  We bring you new concepts and interesting experts who talk specifically about how to market these services to authors.  If you have to miss a class, don’t worry – we record them all so you will have the information when you need it.

Bonus #4:
Proposal and Contract for Author’s Assistant Services. One of the hardest things for a new virtual professional to do is market their new skills.  To help get you off to a great start we created a VAA proposal that puts in your hands a document that sells your business for you. It lets you put your best foot forward and present your new skills as a new professional in your field.  Creating contracts can be costly and time consuming. Our fourth gift to you is a working contact you can use with your very first client.  Our priority is to see you succeed and in the shortest time possible.

Bonus #5:
VAA Marketing Plan. A comprehensive marketing plan is included in your 30 day VAA course.  But creating a long term marketing plan for your business leads to greater success.

Bonus # 6:
We added a whole unit of the course devoted to help you find profitable author clients who want to do business with you. Here is a sample of just SOME of the  forms and letters, checklists, and worksheets specifically designed to help you grow your business quickly by helping you market to authors immediately:

* New Client Checklist.  You won’t have to fumble around and guess as to what to ask a new client.  We have created a form that will save you hours of time and guesswork
* Proposal contact worksheet to brainstorm new sources of author clients
* Press Releases to announce your certification and promote your VAA business
* Four high-value professional marketing tools you can use to hand to or email to authors to lead discussions about all the services you can provide to them
* Three valuable eBooks to give to promising prospects and clients
* Two Prospect Free Reports to entice people to sign up on your web site mailing list
* Marketing slidecast video the VAA can embed on her own site to educate authors to how and why to use the services of the author’s assistant
* A Library of VAA Articles that can be used with our permission on your VAA site or in your newsletter to educate potential clients and highlight your expertise
* Numerous samples of client correspondence
* Sample elevator speeches and language to talk to author clients

Bonus # 7:
Live updates and news in our Publishing Inspirations Blog and the Professional Virtual Author’s Assistant eNewsletter. You’ll stay informed and updated on developments in the publishing world and the world of people working at home.  Saving you hours of time each week not having to read publication after publication to keep up to speed in this industry.

Bonus # 8:
The acclaimed VAA Forum.  Continued support from your fellow author assistant professionals and book industry professionals, long after you take the course and whenever you have a question working with an author.  Let’s say you have a new author and you are asked to handle something brand new for you.  Just ask!  Your peers will have the answer. (Other websites charge outrageous monthly fees for continued access to their sites.)

Bonus #9:
And this is HUGE…Live Talks with Jan. People keep Jan on retainer and pay her $6,000 a year for her advice and expertise.  You will get access to Jan as part of the course….forever.  Not only is Jan the instructor of the VAA course but she is available online everyday in the VAA Headquarters forum or to email directly to answer any questions or concerns you might have as you work with your author clients.  She also teaches many of the specialty classes so you have many opportunities to access her expertise and energy for publishing.

We took a lot of time creating all the aspects of this course. We wanted products that you could actually use and would benefit your life and your new business. Not just a bunch of useless freebies that would clutter up your computer and distract you from your success.

Still not sure? Take our “I Love Authors” Quiz before you decide by clicking the link to the left!