Virtual Assistant Forums...

Forums can be a great way to meet new people, talk shop about your business and collaborate on issues you may be having. Forums also allows you to have a network of individuals who are in a similar place as you – whether it’s your work or your personal life.

Finding forums, for me, has always been a challenge. It’s easy to Google them and find where they exist but it’s hard to find the right fit. Some forums are not frequently visited and therefore posting becomes a conversation with yourself and other forums are too off-topic.

Another thing that I find happens is that you register for the forum (can’t post otherwise) but you never hear anything back. This happened to me with the Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce (http://www.virtualassistantnetworking.com/). I registered to be a member of their forum after I received a flurry of traffic from some linkbacks within their forum but I was never accepted. Now I’m just curious as to why I received the free link love!

I have been lucky enough to stumble upon one forum – http://www.virtualassistantforums.com. It seems really good so far and the people are really friendly and helpful.

So, I ask my fellow VAs – where do you frequent? Which forums have you found to be particularly helpful? Are there any that you joined that weren’t helpful?