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Do you know over 60% of Internet users regularly get their information from blogs that they subscribe to?
Does your business have a blog? Are you sharing information with your readers about what it is that you do and how you can help them build and grow their business? Do you have a wonderful tool, product, service, or widget that can be a money or time saver for other small businesses?
Blogging has become one of the most popular ways to get the message of your business and service out to the world. It is no longer just a way for people to share thoughts, pictures, recipes, wedding and vacation plans online with friends and family.
Business blogging is a very powerful marketing tool and every major industry uses blogs to ensure that their customers and clients are kept abreast of new developments and just about any other kind of news that needs to be available on the internet 24 hours a day. If you are not leveraging the Internet to market to a global audience and give your small business a decisive competitive edge, you are very likely leaving a lot of money on the table.
Combine blogging with social media marketing and you can literally explode your online presence in a very short time. By committing to posting to your blog at least 3 times a week you will create a wealth of content that can be used to advertise your services and build trust and rapport with your prospects. And search engines love blogs that are updated regularly!
By leveraging the Internet, your small business can get more done and complete effectively in a global marketplace, but this can be time consuming, and often confusing for a small business. That’s where outsourcing can help. Blogging is one of the services a highly technically savvy Virtual Assistance firm can handle with ease.
There are a number of great blogging platforms available today with the most popular being WordPress and the list below will help you get started with your blog.
A common checklist of blogging tehnologies that you may need to get started:
Are you ready to start building?
If you are interested in tackling this project on your own and want to learn how to build a seriously professional WordPress website/blog my best recommendation is that you sign up for the next Go For Your Dream WordPress Website Workshop. This 4 week online e-course takes you step-by-step through the process of building your website using the Premium Dream Theme. There’s also an additional 2 weeks of basic training bonus modules on 1shoppingcart, Authorize.net, PayPal, and installing a Membership site. I highly recommend this training.
Too much information! I can’t even begin to tackle a project like this.
Another alternative is to have us build it for you. We are a Web Development company paired with a Virtual Assistance firm. What does this mean? It means that we do it all, from concept to launch. Our websites are turnkey, meaning that your social media marketing is built in, your branding is complete and all you have to do is blog! And we train you on the backend of your website/blog so you are in control of your content.
For a free 20 minute consultation please call us at 888-719-6711 or use our contact page. We are here to help!
Did you know that a recent whitelist study showed that only 22 percent of all email newsletters give specific instructions to recipients to whitelist their newsletter?
I came across this nifty free tool by Chris Lang that will create a detailed set of email whitelist instructions for all major ISPs, mobile devices and spam filters. None of your information is recorded or stored, it only creates a web landing page for you as you can see by the image below.
Once you have created your page, simply “View source” and copy the code to your html editor. Voila!
As a virtual entrepreneur, virtual assistant or remote contractor, have you made your offshore competition irrelevant?
Do you live in fear that you current or potential clients will decide that outsourcing to an offshore Virtual Assistance company might be something that is interesting to them?
In their official report, 52% of all Office and Administrative Support Occupations are classified as HIGH or MIDDLE ranked jobs likely to be outsourced. As a virtual entrepreneur, virtual assistant or remote contractor, have you made your offshore competition irrelevant?
You are personally invited to join me and Development Expert Tony Bodoh for a free teleseminar where we will share real strategies that you can use today to increase your value and ensure that your clients don’t offshore your livelihood.
Thank you and I look forward to talking to you on the 19th!
Denise Griffitts
When: Friday, March 19, 2010.
Time: 11 am Pacific / 12 pm Mountain / 1 pm Central / 2 pm Eastern. Please be on time! We always begin promptly according to http://www.time.gov/so mark your calendar and be sure to call-in a few minutes early so you’re not pre-empted by other teleseminar callers.
Where: Your home office telephone.
Submit your questions prior to the call here. We will do our best within the time constraints of the call to answer as many of your questions as we can.
If you, or a client needs to build a quick affiliate program but don’t want to pay 1ShoppingCart $99 each month to have a few products available to affiliates, or don’t have sufficient sales to become part of traditional Affiliate Networks such as Commission Junction (CJ.com) Linkshare, Azoogle, etc., consider PayDot.com.
PayDot.com is free to join.
PayDotCom Vendor/Affiliate Accounts are free. You are allowed one free Vendor account to sell your product. If you, the Vendor, want to offer an unlimited number of products for sale you have the option of paying for a lifetime membership which will cost you the munificent sum of $29.
Sales are paid directly to your merchant account or Paypal account.
You can sell physical and digital products.
You can collect monthly subscriptions.
You get paid instantly. You are not required to way 30 days as with most affiliate networks.
There is no pre-approval, meaning that you don’t have to prove that you have a pre-specificed amount of sales each month to qualify.
You have access to your stats tracking.
You can provide promotional tools to your affiliates.
You will very likely need a Paypal account as most Vendors choose their as their payment method.
Your customers can pay you via your PayPal account. They can use their available PayPal funds or they can use their Checking Account, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, Eurocard, Bravo, Visa Debit, MasterCard Debit, or Novus that is on file with their PayPal account. So if you don’t already have a PayPal account, be sure to sign up now.
Once you have your affiliate program set up, please revisit this page and let us know where we can find your products!
Denise Griffitts, Founder and CEO of Your Office On The Web and Your Virtual Assistant, along with her team of highly sought after web developers and virtual assistants share insightful tips and tools that you can use immediately to build and grow your online presence.
Denise is a nationally recognized Virtual Assistance Industry Expert, Thought Leader, Coach and Mentor. She also trains and coaches virtual assistants at Virtual Assistance University, a leading provider of training and coaching for the virtual assistance industry. Whether you're just looking to get started as a VA, or you've already got a strong client base, VAU will help you skyrocket your success as a Virtual Assistant.
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