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Victoria Ring is
an author, publisher and entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in
the small business marketing field. She has published and authored 22 books,
hundreds of articles as well as a series entitled "Victoria's Reports"
which centered around the topic of marketing and building a successful
freelance business working from home.
Victoria Ring is a
Certified Paralegal and Debtor Bankruptcy Specialist. She obtained her
Associate's Degree in Business Management from Columbus Business University
(1986) and her Associates in Paralegal Studies from Ashworth College (2001.)
She currently serves as the CEO for two successful companies: 713Training.Com,
LLC, and Graphico Publishing,
both of which were built from the "ground up" by Victoria.
Additionally, Victoria
Ring was the first paralegal to develop a virtual bankruptcy assistant
service that provided online paralegal services to bankruptcy attorneys
nationwide. After building a successful business of her own (The Lawyer
Assistant), she discovered a great lack of education in the drafting of
well-detailed bankruptcy petitions. In 2003, Victoria began training these
skills to attorneys, paralegals, legal assistants and other professionals.
Today, Victoria has personally assisted thousands of people in starting
their own successful virtual bankruptcy home business. She provides several
two-day training seminars per year which have been approved by NALS for
7 CLE credits.
Victoria Ring is also
a popular speaker. Her style of training is unique because she has the
ability to make learning fun for the audience. Here are just two of the
hundreds of testimonials she has received from attendees at conferences
she has spoken at:
"I
learned more from Victoria Ring in one day than I have learned in the paralegal
course I enrolled in. She makes everything simple to understand and her
kind and meek personality allowed me to feel comfortable in participating
in the group discussions." J.P, Dayton OH
"Thank
you Victoria for an excellent seminar. You were so kind to answer everyone's
questions in simple, easy-to-understand terms. What I enjoyed the most
is that you didn't stand at the podium and read a rehearsed speech. Instead,
your ability to interact with the entire audience on an "ad-lib" basis
demonstrates the traits of a true professional." K.R, Columbus OH
Victoria Ring has also
served as a key-note speaker in full-day seminars for bankruptcy paralegals
through Lorman Education and NBI-SEMS. She also was the speaker at
two workshops at the 2005 National Notary Association Conference in Las
Vegas, Nevada.
Additionally, Victoria
Ring hosts weekly teleconferences which are used as ongoing training
purposes for customers who purchase her books. She also hosts her own private
seminars several times per year in various areas of the United States.
Victoria Ring currently
resides in Columbus, Ohio with her 15-year old cat Zipper. She loves Jesus
Christ and has dedicated a website to his honor where she publishes Christian-related
articles. (Ref: ServantofJesusChrist.Com)
How to Start a Virtual
Bankruptcy Assistant Service
ISBN: 09761591-71
The Virtual Bankruptcy
Assistant Training Workbook
ISBN: 09761591-8X
The Chapter 13 Plan Training
Workbook
ISBN: 09788782-21
The Foreclosure Mediation
Training Guide
ISBN: 09788782-13
How to Increase Profits
for Your Law Firm
ISBN: 09761591-98
How to Start Operate and
Market a Freelance Notary Signing Agent Business
ISBN: 09761591-04
The Best of The Notary
News
ISBN: 09761591-39
Marketing Secrets for
Notary Signing Agents with CD-Rom
ISBN: 09761591-63
From Author to Publisher
to Profit with CD-Rom
ISBN: 09761591-47
Road to Success: Bankruptcy
Training Seminar
Copyright 2005
How to Market a Virtual
Bankruptcy Assistant Service
Copyright 2005
How to Draft a Bankruptcy
Petition (2 Training CDs)
Copyright 2005 - No longer
sold due to changes in the law
How to Draft a Bankruptcy
Petition (10 Training CDs)
Copyright 2007
How to Design a Basic
Web Page for Marketing Online
Copyright 2004
How to Earn More Money
as a Notary Signing Agent
Copyright 2004
Getting Jobs and Marketing
Your Notary Signing Agent Business
Copyright 2004
The
Main Line
From
1978 to 1980, Victoria Ring served as writer, page designer and publisher
of a monthly employee newsletter for Columbia Gas of Ohio, a utility company
located in Columbus Ohio. In addition, she wrote and published a
weekly menu for the employee cafeteria, which became popular due to its
colorful and descriptive words describing the food. (i.e., “Hamburger”
became “Rootin’ Tootin’ Mouth-Watering Hamburger” etc.) This play on words
helped to boost cafeteria sales (managed by Senese Services) by 38% in
1978.
The
GrapeVine Journal
From
1991 to 1995, Victoria Ring published a monthly mail order 2-color magazine,
which had a distribution per issue of 5,000. Revenue was generated from
the sale of small space advertising, subscriptions and Victoria's own typesetting
services. Operating as a one person operation from her apartment, Victoria
wrote articles, conducted research on mail order scams, analyzed product
reviews and published reports of her findings, typeset the publication
in camera ready format, labeled and mailed the copies after delivery from
printer as well as maintaining a subscriber base of 1,200 to 1,500.
The
Do-It-Yourself Web Designer's Ezine
Published
from 1999 through 2000, this ezine contained hints, tips, step-by-step
instruction and web reference links for people who designed their own websites
and marketed them on the internet. Subscriber base: 2,775
The
Citator
While
serving on the Board of Directors for the Paralegal Association of Central
Ohio (“PACO”) during 2001-2002, Victoria Ring assumed the duties as editor
and typesetter for the organizational newsletter. During her tenure, she
also designed PACO’s original website and established their first online
presence. Although the website has been revised since Victoria first designed
it, you can currently view it online at http://www.pacoparalegals.org/
The
Bankruptcy Paralegal Connection
This
weekly ezine was distributed to bankruptcy attorneys and paralegals nationwide
from 2001-2003. It contained hands-on tips specifically for legal professionals
working in the area of debtor bankruptcy law. The subscriber base was comprised
of approximately 80% attorneys and 20% paralegals.
The
Teleconference News
This
weekly ezine was published to notary publics and virtual bankruptcy assistants
nationwide. It covered tips, information and step-by-step techniques to
further the education and marketing of these two nitch markets.
Networking
Exchange
Began
in 1988, this business was developed to promote networking and the exchange
of ideas between small business owners through a monthly publication entitled
“The Networking News.” Through this company, Victoria Ring received
her education in operating a small business because she made many mistakes.
But these mistakes only helped her to advance. One lesson she learned was
in target marketing and eventually this company developed into Graphico
Publishing.
Graphico
Publishing
Using
the talents Victoria learned working as a typesetter for Battelle Memorial
Institute during the day, she served as writer, editor and publisher of
"The GrapeVine News." This publication was devoted to to exposing mail
order business opportunity scams. She also wrote 350 individual reports
and 17 books regarding her many personal business experiences which are
still sold as part of CDRom packages for homebased entrepreneurs. Graphico
Publishing still exists as the publisher of Victoria’s books but with the
development of the internet, Victoria started a company that was entirely
internet based.
YouOnLine.Net
This
company was Victoria's first internet business. It was dedicated to teaching
small business owners basic web design and aiding them in promotion on
the internet through her own personal marketing experiences. The company
was sold in 1998 when Victoria began her formal education in the paralegal
field even though she had worked for law firms through The Columbus Bar
Association since 1977.
Bankruptcy
Paralegal Services aka Bankruptcy2Go
To
aide low income families during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Victoria developed
the first nationwide “virtual” bankruptcy paralegal service to assist victims
in the preparation of their bankruptcy petitions. This company was sold
in 2003 due to the implementation of new Ohio paralegal regulations, preventing
a paralegal from preparing pro-se bankruptcy petitions without the direct
supervision of an attorney.
The
Lawyer Assistant
In
2001, Victoria developed The Lawyer Assistant in order to meet the demands
of debtor bankruptcy attorneys nationwide. This company not only increased
the profits for law firms but provided them with the ability to expand
their bankruptcy clientele. The Lawyer Assistant also provided client billing
and invoicing services to several local attorney firms utilizing Time Slips
software; as well as transcription for attorneys practicing in the personal
injury, corporate and employment areas of law. Due to the rapid growth
of the company, it was sold to an attorney in Bronxville NY so Victoria
could direct her knowledge to bankruptcy paralegal training and education.
50
State Notary
This
online business was developed at the same time as The Lawyer Assistant
as a hobby for Victoria. But it grew rapidly and became very successful
because of real estate boom. The company provided a nationwide notary directory
for signing agents and was marketed to mortgage and title companies nationwide.
Victoria has wrote four (4) books and developed three (3) training videos
for notary signing agents. She also introduced notary publics to skills
training in preparing bankruptcy petitions and sold 1,000s of books and
videos from her website. Victoria sold company in 2006 due to the increase
in business with 713Training.Com
713Training.Com
This
online business (started in 2005) currently provides a nationwide virtual
bankruptcy assistant directory for bankruptcy attorneys nationwide. Victoria
has also written two (2) books and developed three (3) training videos
to train virtual bankruptcy assistants (working under the direction of
attorneys) in the drafting of a well-detailed bankruptcy petition. Victoria
also provides weekly teleconferences and online web seminars and
conferences dedicated to training and education in the unique field of
preparing well-detailed Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy petitions.
Servant
of Jesus Christ
This
website provides the entire King James Bible online in HTML format, as
a PDF download or in TXT format for publishers. Additionally, there
are many excellent Christian and inspirational articles available free
of charge to visitors. The articles on are updated on a frequent basis.
Secretarial
Procedures Instructor - 1987-1988
Columbus
Business University, Columbus, Ohio. Served as class instructor and developed
training curriculum including books, tests, quizzes and grading scale.
Speaker:
Bankruptcy Foreclosure and Repossession in Ohio- May 30, 2002
Hosted
by Lorman Education, Hilliard, OH. Bankruptcy Foreclosure and Repossession
in Ohio seminar. Victoria spoke with two bankruptcy attorney speakers:
Todd Finneran, Esq. and Waymon B. McLeskey III, Esq.
Speaker:
Bankruptcy Paralegal Seminar - 2002
Hosted
by Lorman Education. Keynote speaker for four (4) one-day training courses
held in Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati Ohio to teach bankruptcy paralegals
how to draft a Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy petition.
Speaker:
Marketing for Notary Signing Agents - May 30, 2005
Hosted
by The National Notary Association. Keynote speaker to a group of 500 at
a breakout seminar session at the National Notary Conference in Las Vegas,
Nevada. Topic of discussion: Marketing Tips for Notary Signing Agents.
Also participated in a question and answer luncheon before a group of 650
on the same topic.
Speaker:
Virtual Bankruptcy Seminar - September 9-10 2005
Hosted
by 713Training.Com at the Concourse Hotel, Columbus Ohio. Two-day seminar
that provided marketing information for starting and building a virtual
bankruptcy assistant business. Number of attendees: 33
Speaker:
Bankruptcy Training Seminar - April 22, 2006
Hosted
by 713Training.Com at the Midwest Hotel and Conference Center, Columbus,
Ohio. One-day seminar that provided a general overview of the bankruptcy
petition with a concentration on training of Schedules A and B. Number
of attendees: 11
Speaker:
Bankruptcy Training Seminar - July 22, 2006
Hosted
by 713Training.Com at the Midwest Hotel and Conference Center, Columbus,
Ohio. One-day seminar that provided a general overview of the bankruptcy
petition with a concentration on training of Schedules I and J. Number
of attendees: 12
Speaker:
Bankruptcy Training Seminar - September 23, 2006
Hosted
by 713Training.Com at the Midwest Hotel and Conference Center, Columbus,
Ohio. One-day seminar that provided a general overview of the bankruptcy
petition with a concentration on training of the Statement of Affairs.
Number of attendees: 15
Speaker:
Bankruptcy Training Seminar - October 22, 2006
Hosted
by 713Training.Com at the Holiday Inn, Midtown Manhattan, New York NY.
One-day seminar that provided a general overview of the bankruptcy petition
with a concentration on training of the Statement of Affairs. Number of
attendees: 14
Speaker
Topic: Marketing a Home Business - November 8, 2006
Spoke
for 1 hour at NAPO (National Association of Professional Organizers) Luncheon
on the topic of marketing a home business. Meeting held at Buckeye Subs
and Salads, 650 High Street, Worthington OH 43085.
Speaker:
VA Summit 2007, IVAA - January 12, 2007
Spoke
for 35 minutes on the topic: How to Be a Virtual Bankruptcy Assistant.
This presentation was conducted online at a virtual conference using a
PowerPoint slide presentation. Sponsored by the International Association
of Virtual Assistants, (IVAA). Click
here to view a video of the material covered in this event.
Speaker:
Bankruptcy Training Seminar - February 23-24, 2007
Hosted
by 713Training.Com at the Holiday Inn, Newark, California. The first 2-day
training seminar approved for 12 CLE credits. Training covered all Schedules
and Forms of a bankruptcy petition with interactive class quizzes. Number
of attendees: 22
Speaker:
Chapter 13 Plan Training Seminar - October 27, 2007
Hosted
by 713Training.Com at Donatos Restaurant, Grove City Ohio. The first 1-day
training seminar developed to teach preparing the Chapter 13 Plan of a
bankruptcy petition. Number of attendees: 3
Paralegal
Training: Bob Phillips and Associates - April 10-14, 2008
Provided
training of employees, paralegals and attorney Bob Phillips in Chapter
7 and Chapter 13 Plan bankruptcy petition input as well as Client Intake
Interview tips and techniques. Training took place in Cumming, Georgia.
Law firm website: Click
here.
Paralegal
Training: Donna Nellis - May 6-7, 2008
1-on-1
Personalized Training and development of new virtual bankruptcy assistant
business in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Speaker:
American Freelance Paralegal Association - May 15, 2008
Provided
an overview of the virtual bankruptcy assistant field to a paralegal organization
located online. Click here.
Virtual
Bankruptcy Assistant Training: Bernice Fiala - May 18-19, 2008
1-on-1
Personalized Training and development of new virtual bankruptcy assistant
business in Homewood, Illinois and development of website. Click
here.
First
Web Seminar Hosted by 713Training.Com - June 2, 2008
After
several days of research and testing, Victoria chose the software developed
by IBM/Lotus to host her web seminars and to conduct 1-on-1 Personalized
Training, thereby reducing transportation and lodging costs for her customers.
Now, instead of Victoria traveling to the customer's home office to set
up their company, she simply trains the customer without leaving her office
or the customer taking on the added expense. This was a revolutionary day
and advancement in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 petition training.
Virtual
Bankruptcy Assistant Training: Julie Koempel - May 7-8, 2008
The
first person to be trained virtually using new IBM/Lotus software. 1-on-1
Personalized Training and development of new virtual bankruptcy assistant
business in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Host
of Weekly Teleconferences - July 2005 to Present
Weekly
teleconferences that provides training and marketing information to virtual
bankruptcy assistants. In addition to training, successful virtual assistants
are often interviewed in order to provide attendees with different perspectives
and other forms of knowledge.
Constitutional
Educational Research Foundation (CERF), Paralegal Certification, 2002.
Ashworth
College, Associates Degree in Paralegal Studies, 2003
CLE
course: Plaintiff's Pleadings and Motions through Ohio State Bar Association
CLE Institute. Score: 90%
CLE
course: Professionalism in the Practice of Law through Ohio State Bar
Association CLE Institute. Score: 80%
Columbus
Business University, Columbus, Ohio in 1986. (Three quarters). Major:
Business Management, Minor: Accounting. GPA: 3.42
ABA
- American Bar Association (associate member)
AAfPE
-- American Association for Paralegal Education
SPAN
--
Small Publishers Association of North America
CBA
-- Columbus Bar Association, Bankruptcy Law Committee
PACO
-- Paralegal Association of Central Ohio, former Board Member
NFPA
-- National Federation of Paralegal Associations
NAVBA
-- President of the National Association for Virtual Bankruptcy Assistants
NVAS
-- National Virtual Associates Society
SEVAG
-- Southeastern Virtual Assistants Group
SVAC
-- Specialist Virtual Assistants Club
NSA
Ohio - National Speaker's Association, Ohio Chapter
NAWBO
- National Association of Women's Business Owners
IVAA
- International Virtual Assistants Association
NALS
- Victoria Ring's seminars were approved for 7 CLE credits (2006) |
