Pam Ivey, Cert SBM, CREVA, PREVA, CRESS, CMP

Pam Ivey is a tireless champion of the Virtual Assistant industry and considered a Thought Leader in outsourcing and online marketing. Known for her warm and engaging manner and wide-ranging, comprehensive skills and experience, she has inspired countless VAs and other professionals to achieve greater heights in their businesses.

Always at the ready to help, she taps into the Think Big mindset by offering programs for 'newbie' to seasoned VAs, freelancers from all industries, as well as solopreneurs and entrepreneurs.

Pam is at the forefront of creating industry associations, and her Success Circles have taken the principles of mastermind groups and transformed them into career boosters for virtual assistants. She has hosted hundreds of teleclasses on a variety of topics for VAs and freelancers, has helped promote many VA goups like the MIVA (Michigan Virtual Assistants), VA Classroom, VA Networking, and has attended numerous live industry conferences, often as a speaker or keynote.

Pam is:

	owner of Visual Persuasions Canada
	owner of My Creative Assistant, a multi-VA firm
	co-founder of Coaches, Authors, Speakers Professional Assistants Association
	co-founder of The Real Estate Virtual Assistant Institute
	owner REA University
	owner Learn2Launch
	co-author of The Business of Being Virtual: Industry Leaders Reveal Their Virtual Assistant Business Secrets

A seasoned Virtual Assistant, Online Business Manager and Marketing Expert, Pam works with coaches, authors, speakers, Internet/Information Marketers, small businesses, and solo-entrepreneurs. A prolific entrepreneur herself, she understands both the business owner and the Virtual Assistant perspective. Pam knows what it takes to start, run and maintain a business from scratch to 7-figures. Clients, colleagues and joint venture partners often seek out and lean on her expertise and advice, which is always given with the utmost professionalism, infused with a dash of sparkle and humour.

Whether she is speaking at a live event, giving marketing advice to a client or new VA, or has her sleeves rolled up developing a new training program, Pam does it all with enthusiasm and excitement, knowing she's fulfilling her passion of helping others achieve the business success they deserve.

Pam has over 20 years experience in administration, marketing and promotions, public relations, research, graphic design, and web design. She is a graduate with honours from the Small Business Management Program at Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario, and holds a Certified Marketing Professional designation from CMP University.

Pam Ivey - Excited to be nominated for the RBC (Royal Bank of Canada) Canadian Women Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2010!

"The purpose of the Awards is to provide national recognition to Canada's women entrepreneurs, whose successful businesses and achievements contribute so much to the Canadian and global economies as well as to their communities." Learn more at www.theawards.ca

My favorite topic to write about is, of course, the Virtual Assistant/OBM and virtual professional industries.Check out my articles. I'd love to hear your comments!

Association Affiliations

A strong believer in professional collaboration and development, Pam also belongs to the following organizations:

	Pam serves on the Panel of Experts for the Alliance of Online Entrepreneurs as its Outsourcing Expert.
	Smart Women's Institute of Entrepreneurial Learning is led by Sheri McConnell, Business Model Expert and founder of the National Association of Women Writers (now merged with Smart Women's Institute)
	International Association of Women in Business Online The mission of IAWBO is to empower women to achieve more online in record time so that each success illuminates and expands every woman’s sense of possibilities through entrepreneurship.
	Wired Woman’s mission is to create an environment that encourages women to explore opportunities in technology, science and new media and to build successful careers that will allow them to become a driving force in these expanding sectors.
	The Association of Internet Marketing and Sales Inc. (better known as AIMS) is Canada's largest association of Internet marketing and sales decision-makers with over 6,500 members across the country. At its core, AIMS is about the exchange of ideas rather than the dictating of doctrine. AIMS sparks conversations by bringing together leading thinkers as well as those in the trenches.
	CoachVille offers cutting edge coach training, business development and personal development programs. These include internet based eCourses, live Teleclasses and on-site events. CoachVille operates as the largest association/network of coaches worldwide.
	DigitalEve is a women and technology organization dedicated to helping women and thereby the complete community of individuals of all ages and cultures regardless of gender. We are committed to helping our membership develop increasingly rewarding professional and personal lives through successful participation in the digital technology.
	Pam is a proud member of the ActiveRain Real Estate Network. This network is an online community created to help real estate professionals promote their business online.
	The Women Entrepreneurs of Canada organization is a resource, support, and opportunity network for established women entrepreneurs.
	Womenowned.com offers hundreds of articles and access to business tools and resources. And now, the new Network at WomanOwned is your place for building your own online network, writing your own blog, selling products and services, and sharing with our other members.
	DigitalWomen® provides an International online community for women in business, business women around the world. Inside you will find free business resources and tools including information about grants, women loans, payday loans, cash advance loans, free business tips, work at home business ideas, free marketing and sales tips, how to write a mission statement, free daily planner, how to business articles and an opportunity to join and promote your woman-owned-business right here!
	he Virtual Assistant Networking Forum is here for all to benefit from regardless of your affiliations, abilities, location, or the color of your hair. Remember - no question is ever stupid; stupidity comes from not asking when you have the opportunity on the Virtual Assistant Networking Forum (www.VAnetworking.com) to do so.
	The Canadian Virtual Assistant Connection (CVAC) is Canada's foremost organization uniting Canadian Virtual Assistants and the world. We provide a venue for VAs to network, share knowledge and skills, plan events and obtain valuable support from other VAs in various stages of business development.
	The International Virtual Assistants Association (IVAA) is dedicated to the professional education and development of members of the Virtual Assistance profession, and to educating the public on the role and function of the Virtual Assistant.