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 the same thing. I see them differently.
I see a VIP day as being with one person for 2-4 or 5 hours. Your client is fully in charge of the schedule, so you, as a coach / mentor, have no plans to make or preparations to make. I like that clients give me some of the topics they want to discuss. That way, I can 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 pay 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 group and a chosen theme. I’ve done them on Niche, setting up High End Platinum shows, 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 are on and off the phone 4-5 times during the day. Everybody calls for a bridge line. I teach for about 20 to 40 minutes and answer any questions. I give them their ‘allowance’ and we all hang up. They do their job and I can hang up! Then we all go back to the phone at a certain point and review the work that they have done. We then move on to the next teaching point and continue in this way for about 4 hours. It’s a quick way to learn or experiment a lot rather than doing a 6-week teleclass or something more snooty. People likes it!
One of the most fun I have ever done, and should do it again, was a Virtual Organizing Retreat Day.
Some clients and I were lamenting how cluttered our home offices were, so we met on a Friday afternoon by phone. Each of us made a commitment to what we were going to do, from cleaning desks to archiving and deleting emails. Everything that has to do with the organization of your office.
We made our commitments, I wrote them all down and then we hung up the phone. We took 45 minutes to do our “work”, then we got back on the phone and shared what we had accomplished. And we were all in awe of how much we had done!
We did this all afternoon and after we all had our last call it was so loaded that I just kept going.
Get creative with these “Days”. There are really no hard and fast rules here.
Your customers will thank you!
