With great pride I would like to announce that I have received my certification to become an “official” online business manager. The training took place from March to August under the watchful eyes of Tina Forsyth and Andrea J. Lee, two very well know entitites in the world of multiple streams of income for online businesses.

If you are interested what the certification entails, check out the website: http://www.certifiedobm.com. The training was very thorough and brought all my virtual assistant skills and my management knowledge together in one sophisticated model that will support my clients’ businesses successfully in their growth and active maintenance periods.

Tina, herself a very successful online business manager and mentor of new and existing online business managers (OBMs)  is the first to officially talk about the “OBM” role. People have worked unofficially in the role of an OBM before, but Tina has defined, finalized and announced the term of the OBM for everybody to see in her book: “How to become an online business manager”. 

Most people I’ve talked to read this book with a strong interest as it offers ambitious virtual assistants a fresh career opportunity with more responsibility and added value. It is also a good read for business owners who want to know what this hype about online business management is all about. Business owners nowadays more and more realise that they need to let go of some tasks in their business to grow. There is simply no other way to achieve growth.

If you look in the offline world, the brick and mortar businesses never really function with one owner by him/herself for long! They either get their spouse, their children, family members and eventually outside help into the business to grow. It’s still a bit the “do it yourself” mentality online, though. The more you grow the more you realise how burned out you get if you don’t delegate. Your business is not simply a business. Most entrepreneurs and coaches start their online business based on their passion and life purpose (and that’s probably why it’s so hard to let go and delegate!), but to succeed and share your message with the world, you need to look outside and gracously receive help from other talented human beings who love your business (almost ) as much as you do. Yes, this is possible.

When I look at some of my clients’ businesses and the amazing things they help their clients with I know that I’m in the right job. I like helping people and when I help you, I actually help a whole lot of other people because they are able to access you with my assistance. Without your OBM and VAs you don’t grow your online business and these people miss out because you only have so much time to serve clients one-on-one.

Thanks to Tina and Andrea for all your support and help with the online manager certification. You both are an inspiration! Check out my resource page for some excellent programs Andrea and Tina created to help you with your strategies.