Seriously, this is something you really need to add to your business if you haven’t already. I have made many of these myself and love them!

There are many people who use these two terms, VIP and VRD, as if they were the same thing. I see them differently.

I see a VIP day as being with a person for 2 to 4 or 5 hours. Your client is fully in charge of the agenda, so you, as their coach/mentor, have no plans to make and no preparations to make. I like clients to give me some of the topics they want to discuss. That way, I may have some resources that might be helpful to them.

These VIP days can be ‘stand alone’ sessions for a particular client or they can be part of a high-end Platinum program that people are paying you very well for. They are a great bonus or reward for paying up front.

A virtual retreat day (VRD), in my opinion, is with a chosen group and theme. I’ve done them on Niche, setting up High-End Platinum Programs, How to Get Paid What You’re Worth, and other topics.

I like to keep these groups small, usually no more than 5 people so everyone gets a lot of personal attention.

Basically, we turn the phone on and off 4-5 times during the day. Everyone calls on a bridged line. I teach for maybe 20 to 40 minutes and answer any questions. I give them their ‘homework’ and we all hang up. They do their job and I start hanging! Then we all get back on the phone at a certain point and go over the work they’ve done. Then we move on to the next teaching point and continue in this way for about 4 hours. It’s a quick way to learn or experience a lot instead of doing a 6 week teleclass or longer. People like that!

One of the most fun I’ve ever done, and should do again, was a virtual organization day retreat.

Some clients and I were lamenting how messy our home offices were, so we met on a Friday afternoon over the phone. Every single one of us committed to what we were going to do, from clearing desks to filing and deleting emails. Anything that had to do with the organization of your office.

We made our commitments, I wrote them all down, then we would hang up the phone. We took 45 minutes to do our ‘work’ and then got back on the phone and shared what we had accomplished. And we were all in awe of everything we had done!

We did this all afternoon and after we all got our last call, I was so loaded I just kept going.

Get creative with these “Days”. There really are no hard and fast rules here.

Your clients will thank you!