Consulting and strategic-thinking elevates
your efforts and fast-tracks your achievements.
Reaching out to a consultant saves you headaches, saves you time, and delivers answers and resources you’re seeking for your business dilemmas and challenges. There are a variety of types of support available—it all depends on what you may need and where you are in your business.
There’s nothing wrong with not knowing, what you don’t know. Some days you simply want someone with experience and management-level acumen to volley around ideas with you—to help you think through your next steps. At other times, your creativity may need a boost or you’re searching for someone who has done this before, to be your guide and help you step around any pitfalls or dark places.
Regardless of which session you choose, you can be assured you gain the benefit of 30+ years’ experience, skills, and know-how infused in every conversation.
MaplewoodVA provides:
Get-Going Exploratory Consultation (Complimentary)
This is a 20-minute exploratory call designed for prospective clients. It’s focused on your specific needs plus determining which MaplewoodVA services can meet these needs. This is ideal for prospective clients who may not be sure which type of support or services best matches their needs but they understand they can’t do everything by themselves any longer. This call comes with no cost to you and with no obligation for either of us to commit to work together. It’s purely exploratory.
During the Get-Going Consultation we focus on:
- Your expectations and the results you’re seeking to take your business to the next level.
- Affirming that working with a virtual assistant can ease your tensions over trying to do it all yourself.
- Discussing how we work and determining if our working styles are compatible.
- Providing you a free no-obligation, quotation of services. See, we don’t hand out one-size-fits-all pricing sheets because we understand that no two businesses operate the same way nor serve the same target market. We pride ourselves in recognizing this truth and striving to always give you exactly what you need, in the way you need it, so each quotation prepared is based off our conversation of what you’re asking for. We also recognize while various services may be priced at an hourly rate, in many situations, the task requires less than 60 minutes to complete, therefore, your invoice is for less.
A consultation is the first step towards giving you the outcomes you desire…and deserve.
Consulting Session
A consulting session is designed to discuss your chosen topic. Consulting sessions can be purchased in 60-minutes or 30-minutes or customized for half-days. As your consultant, we will work together—following a topic specific agenda. Consulting can be an immediate fix to help with challenges and point you towards resources, colleagues, or other helps to address what’s needed. We will work through exploring your options and coming away with more insight and ideas around your chosen topic.
Strategy Session
A strategy session is designed for brainstorming and coming up with an action plan around your topic of choice. Strategy sessions are scheduled in 60-minute time blocks and can be customized for half-day sessions. We can work through an issue or roll-up our sleeves and assemble actionable steps to get done what needs to happen. Strategy sessions can cover the Why, the When, and the How.
Read what others have said…
I highly recommend Ruth’s consulting services. She brings clarity to technically confusing projects resolving the issues with ease. As a virtual assistant since 2000, she understands the importance of time and efficiently completing a project.
~Electra Ford, Virtual Office Center
Ruth is great to work with. She listens ‘between the lines’ and helps draw out what needs to be said. Her advice is right on target.
~Donnette Cowgill, Transcriptionist, Pros and Commas
Ruth has revolutionized my business and enabled me to move ahead on projects I’ve literally had in the works for years. They don’t call her the ‘Details Diva’ for nothing…although diva is the last word I would use to describe Ruth. She is so pleasant and efficient. I’m going to keep her as my own trade secret.
~Allison Ricciardi, LMHC, Founder & Director, The Raphael Remedy & CatholicTherapists.com
