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Publicity Virtual Assistant Classes

Diana Ennen is offering Publicity Virtual Assistant Classes. To learn more about these online classes please visit: Virtual Word Publishing

Online Event Success Tip: Don’t leave without this info!

Online events are awesome for clients and experts, alike!

  1. You can attend while sitting at home, at the beach or even while you’re exercising. What a great way to be able to learn from experts around the globe.
  2. They don’t always bust your budget! Some are actually free.
  3. You can get quality, real life advice from the expert.
  4. You might actually get to pick the experts brain for no-cost at all.
  5. No matter where your located at, you can reach your global target audience, besides,  clients are drawn to free teleseminars like bees to honey!
  6. Teleseminars don’t have to break your marketing budget!

I”m sure you have your own unique reason for enjoying a teleseminar. Whether your attending as a guest or hosting the event as the expert, you need to make sure you do not walk away from the event with out:

  • contact names and emails from the attendees with their permission to add them to your mailing list!

When collecting names and emails, make sure you:

  1. Get permission to add them to your mailing list.
  2. Plan on sending them a special report, something that has value.
  3. Once you add their name to your mailing list, place a note inside the ezine body stating that you received their information at the “insert teleseminar name” so they can be reminded that you had permission to contact them.
  4. Create a special mailing list just for this specific teleseminar, you can use this for your marketing plan.
  5. Don’t drag your feet contact them! Time goes so fast, for everyone, but especially for internet marketers. So the sooner you contact them, the more likely they are to remember you.

Do you have any other useful suggestions to add to this list?

Like I always say: “Today’s Marketing brings Tomorrows Success”. So don’t put off communicating today to your potential clients and customers. You offer them something they need, they just need help finding you!

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Stephanie Fish, owner of Buckeye V.A. enjoys helping clients manage their online marketing. Contact Stephanie today, to find out when she can help you with your online marketing.

Who Needs A Virtual Assistant?

Do you need a virtual assistant? If you answer ‘YES’ to 5 or more of these questions then you need a virtual assistant! Please contact me today for your free 30 minute consultation.

To Your Success!

Stephanie Fish


TEST

  1. You work long hours IN your business but not ON your business?
  2. You can’t leave your business or it would fall apart without you?
  3. You want to delegate more tasks so you can pursue other streams of revenue?
  4. You have plans to grow your business but you can’t due to time constraints?
  5. You’re completely stressed about business and have lost the joy of running it?
  6. You find yourself late or missing appointments more than once per week?
  7. Profitability isn’t where it could be?
  8. I want to take more time off with family without guilt or stress.
  9. I can’t turn my business brain off  and my sleep and health are suffering as a result.
  10. Your business lags behind in online marketing which I’m sure means lost business.

Please contact me, Stephanie Fish, today if your are serious about contracting with a Virtual Assistant.

Suffering from Business Burnout? COP’s is Here To Help You!

Business burnout can be suffered by any business owner, whether you own and manage an online business or brick-and-morter business. Most people would agree that business burnout can occur for many different reasons but the most common reasons are (1) When a person tries to do every task on their own or (2) They don’t know their limitations and try to do everything for everyone, and actually  end up neglecting themselves.
 
Here are 3 common ways to get control over your “business burnout”:
 
1) Chart- (also known as “plan”) Make a list of every task that needs to be accomplished, whether its personal, household or business related. Once you have everything written down assign a day of the week that you can solely focus on that specific task. Remember, every task should help you reach your goal. Charting your tasks and goals are very important for any size business. Here’s a little exercise that can help you chart your way to success. Get a large piece of paper and draw a bulls-eye with about 5 rings. The middle ring is your ultimate goal, from there each ring would be a step towards your goal. The most outer ring would be where you are today. Beside each task you should give yourself a date that represents the date you would like to begin and end each goal. Making sure you are giving yourself ample time to get a task completed makes you more focused and relaxed, there’s nothing worse than getting yourself upset over a task that wasn’t completed in an unrealistic time frame to begin with. Charting takes a little effort and some getting used to, but the pay off in the end will be worth it. If you are completely unable to focus on charting by yourself, then utilizing the assistance of a virtual assistant or business coach will be to your best advantage.
 
 
 
2) Outsource- Outsourcing isn’t just for the “big businesses” anymore! Every business can benefit from outsourcing, if its done correctly. If you look at your competition or perhaps a company that you admire, you’ll see that they have a team in place, with most projects and tasks being outsourced to another company. The owner does not do every task himself, infact his business is so large in part by having a team of specialists in place so that he/she can now focus on other aspects of the business. Outsourcing does not have to cost you a small fortune, if done correctly in the beginning. That’s why its so important to have your chart infront of you at all times.   
 
 
 
3) (Be) Purposeful- Did you know purposeful means “compulsive, determined, driven”? To be successful in business every decision you make should be made on purpose and with a purpose. I find it very intreging how some people just jump into their businesses without a purpose and when they don’t see the increase in sales right away they give up. They might have a goal in mind, say for instance “I want to make $1,000 per week in sales” this is a statement, not a goal.  What is it that you really want out of owning and running your own business? It can be as simple as you not wanting to work for someone else. Being a purposeful business owner takes time, a lot of thought and an inner desire to make it to the next level and stick with your business. Being purposeful in charting your business must include having a team in place. You can’t do it all yourself.
 
COPs isn’t just for law anymore, it’s what helps your business succeed in this world and help you fulfill your business dreams. Remember the next time you feel like throwing in the towel, hanging up a “closed” sign and shutting your business doors, that COPs is right here waiting on you. 
 
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Stephanie Fish, owner of Buckeye V.A. offers virtual assistance in marketing, research, and consulting to business owners who are ready to take that next step in business. To learn more about outsourcing and building your business team, be sure to sign-up for our newsletter at www.buckeyeva.com  Article may be reprinted for free as long as the author’s resource box is kept intact and all links remain live and clickable. The Article Source must also be included. All rights are reserved by the author
 
 
 
 

What is a Virtual Assistant, exactly?

According to Wikipedia.com:

Virtual Assistants (typically abbreviated to VAs), are business owners who provide professional[1] — usually other independent entrepreneurs and consultancy small businesses. Virtual Assistants work from their own office (hence “virtual”), thus making it a fairly popular (and growing) profession in centralized economies[2] with “fly-in, fly-out” (FIFO) staffing practices.[3] It is estimated that there are as few as 5,000-8,000 or as many as 35,000 Virtual Assistants worldwide.[4][5] administrative, technical, or creative (social) assistance to clients

Common modes of communication and data delivery include the Internet, e-mail and phone call conferences,[6] online work spaces, and fax machine. Professionals in this business work on a contractual basis and a long-lasting cooperation is standard. Typically 5 years of administrative experience in an office is expected at such positions as executive assistant, office manager/supervisor, secretary, legal assistant, paralegal, legal secretary, real estate assistant, et cetera.

  • A virtual assistant is an independently contracted business owner, not an employee. They work out of their own offices, manage the work from their clients and how it is carried out, set their own rates, as well as operating standards and policies, and pay their own self-employment taxes.[7]
  • Virtual assistants help small businesses expand their business instead of dealing with administration duties. Virtual assistants are cost effective because you only pay them when they work. Since they are independent contractors they are tax deductible.