10 Ways to Show Your Expertise in 2012:

1. Article Marketing
2. Video Marketing
3. Press Release Marketing
4. Blogging
5. Interviews
6. Teleseminars
7. Webinars
8. Guest Blogging
9. Social Media Marketing
10. Offline Speaking Engagements

As a professional business owner its not unusual to be bombarded with messages all day long;  whether through Facebook feeds, Twitter updates, LinkedIn group messages or comments being made on our own blogs. All of this online communication can often times lead to overwhelm and in many cases room for errors and missed opportunities.

How can you be sure to that you don’t miss a ‘golden opportunity’? By delegating!

Looking to delegate your digital marketing? Contact Stephanie to schedule your free 20 minute consultation

New Philadelphia, OH (August 2011)-Self Published Authors have enough to worry about without adding the stress of internet marketing and social media management to the mix. Which is exactly why Stephanie Fish, owner and founder of Buckeye V.A., began offering full-service internet marketing solutions for over-worked self published authors. By incorporating all aspects of internet marketing such as: newsletter, video and audio marketing, publicity, and social media management, the self published author is sure to get the word out about their book.

Fish is a six year veteran virtual marketing assistant that handles the day-to-day online marketing that published authors are steadily relying on in today’s technological age to get the word out about their books. “A virtual marketing assistant is much like an in-house clerical worker, only we work virtually, from our own offices.” Fish says,  “Communication takes place over the phone or internet by means of Skype or email. The internet provides a multitude of online office and communication products and software that makes running a virtual office run efficiently to maximize the clients online success.”

Fish begins by offering a free consultation  to fully understand what the authors internet marketing goals include.  Perhaps the goals of the published author is to connect with their target readers through a social networking campaing while increasing their newsletter subscribers. As is the case for Jill Hart, President of CWAHM.com (Christian Work at Home Mom), and Diana Ennen , President of Virtual Word Publishing, who are the author’s of “So You Want to Work from Home”. Ennen says, ” Fish began helping with  our publicity campaign which includes  a variety of internet marketing tasks such as: social media, article and press release distribution and research.”

As a professional internet marketer and publicity assistant, Fish is able to take the clients goals and create a strategic internet marketing plan that brings the desired results that the published author is seeking. Many published authors are busy with offline book promotions and are looking for an online  manager that can handle the many online tasks that are necessary for a total internet marketing success plan.

Published Authors can contact Stephanie for a free consultation directly through her website at: http://www.buckeyeva.com/contact/

About BuckeyeVA.com
Buckeye V.A. Is a full service internet marketing virtual assistant company, established in 2006. Headquartered in New Philadelphia, OH, Stephanie Fish offers a S.M.A.R.T solution that incorporates social media management, link building, organic SEO and publicity. To schedule your free consultation today by visiting www.buckeyeva.com.

In 2001 I began researching online jobs and found plenty of scams and other unethical practices making the first page of google. I knew from my initial research that I was not getting the results I had hoped for. Then I began researching how others were using the internet to make an income.

When I first starting working from home as a virtual assistant, I created and sold primitive crafts. I absolutely love the primitive flare, but within a year of being an online business owner I knew that this was more of a hobby than a business. This fact made me dig even deeper into researching business ideas online. It didn’t take long before I saw that the only real, legitimate “job” was one that I created for myself in the form of a business.

My first client taught me how to use my skills as an internet research assistant to help her find authors in her niche along with possible Joint Venture partners to host an online teleseminar, among other important business growing facts that she needed for her upcoming book. She knew the value that would be added to her business by actively outsourcing the research needs of her growing business.

If you currently have an online business the information you might be interested in knowing more about may include:

• Who your competitors are?
• What are they doing to grow their business?
• What keywords are they using on their website pages?
• How do you go about increasing your webtraffic?
• Who should you Joint Venture with?

Maybe your research isn’t about your competitors, perhaps you are looking to start an online business that compliments your offline business. You might want to know:

1. What are others in your field doing online to increase their offline customer base?
2. What does their website look like?
3. Do they blog?
4. Are they on any social media networks?
5. Do they offer any products online?

As an online business owner, the very foundation of your business requires research.  You can add more time to your week by outsourcing this specifics of your research to an assistant that have has the experience you need to fulfill this basic business task.

In closing, business owners need research for numerous other reasons. Finding the time to complete an internet research task is not always feasible for business owners. Hiring a third party, such as an internet research assistant, to research your specific business needs can not only save you precious time, it can give you the advantage of an objective point of view.

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Stephanie Fish, owner of Buckeye V.A. provides quality virtual marketing services to a variety of business owners who need more time in their week. Contact Stephanie today for current services and rates.

Your virtual assistant can create the database in google docs using their Excel spreadsheet, then send it to you, before uploading the database to your shopping cart or ezine program. This will insure that you always have a hard copy of your mailing list.

To Your Success!
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Stephanie Fish, owner of Buckeye V.A., Ohio-based professional social media management and marketing business. Providing online marketing services for professional business owners, such as: life coaches, authors and offline companies. Do you know the importance of having an internet presence to meet the needs of your clients and the media? Stephanie provides free online marketing strategies, tips and checklists to her website visitors, while you’re there be sure to sign-up for my free marketing ezine list.

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.

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.

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.