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

We delegate on a daily basis and may not even be aware of it, forms of delegation include:

• Hiring Babysitters
• Ordering Fast Food
• Using a Dry Cleaner
• Hiring Roofers, Builders or Landscapers

The list could go on and on, but I think you get the picture.

I came across an online business coach who coaches millionaire business owners (this lady knows her stuff!) anyways, there were some things that she said that really stood out to me when it comes to delegating, especially speaking to 6-figure business owners who feel they can’t afford to delegate.

Here’s what I gleamed from the video:

1. Successful delegation creates leverage in your time and business, which increases your income.
2. If you don’t delegate on a regular basis, your income can’t grow.
3. You need systems and checklists in place in order to keep your team (and yourself) organized and functioning properly.

Here’s the eye-opening part of her lecture that I think will be helpful to you, as it has for me and my business:

Write down what you spend your working time on each day, do this for about 3 days. Pay special attention to the following:

• Are you scheduling clients? (enter that amount of time here)
• Are you on coaching calls?
• Are you printing your daily/weekly agendas?
• Are you actively seeking interviews, speaking engagements or other publicity opportunities?

Now she suggests to add a dollar value to each task you listed! So if you charge $495 per hour on a coaching call, you’ll place that value next to that task. Let me tell you, I can see where I am losing money on tasks that I could easily outsource to someone else for around $45.00 per hour.

At the end of your day, are you able to see where you are actually costing your business money doing tasks that should be delegated to someone else, so you can spend that time on an income generating activity?

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Stephanie Fish, Owner of Buckeye V.A., handles the online marketing for successful speakers, published authors and coaches. Are you ready to delegate? Let’s Talk!

Guest Blogger: Nicole Dean

Podcasters and Internet radio show hosts can use private label rights content in a variety of ways to help boost their listenership. PLR articles aren’t just for information sites and here are a few ways podcasters can put them to use on their own site.

1. Use the articles to post to a blog or website in between shows to keep your show fresh in your listener’s mind.

2. Use PLR to brainstorm future show topics.

3. Make recordings of the articles and post them as bonus or mini-podcasts.

No matter how you choose to use your PLR articles to boost your podcast, it’s extremely important that you realize you need to rework the original content to make it your own. Add your own thoughts, rewrite the content to make it fit your audience, add your own personal research and data, etc.

Looking for more tips to give your subscribers about getting the most use out of their PLR? Check out the 9 Uses for PLR Articles at EasyPLR.com

Blogs are popular and needful for getting your message out in a big way. You can build a blog for free (not recommended for the serious online business owner) and start adding content, but what goes does that do if no one is reading it?

I read some where that 1/2 of the blogs online fail to convert readers to buyers. Why do you think that is? And how can you make sure that you aren’t one of them? Blogging takes time, work, dedication and consistency. If you can’t commit to this type of business structure, fact is you may just not see the success you want.

Let’s jump right in to my list of 10 Blogging Ideas to Generate Traffic

• Fresh Content- no one wants to visit a blog day after day and see the same posts. Update your blog content at least twice a week. This will be easier if you write several posts ahead of time and schedule them at the appropriate time.

• Article Marketing- the niche you’ve chosen for your blog is one that interests you. If it is interesting you will spend more time writing for it. When you create your blog content why not turn it into an article and have your virtual assistant distribute it to your niche directories.

• Social Networking- these sites include Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook and they are there for you to make connections. Connecting with your target readers and clients are much easier thanks to the variety of social networks.

• Viral Marketing- this is very important! You are going to want to share your blog online and offline. Talk to your online and offline friends, fans and family. Make sure to include your blog url on all of your printed  materials.

• Use RSS Feeds- RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication”. Readers can subscribe to your feed and get email updates when new content is posted. It is an easy way for them to keep up with your blog without spending all day online.

• Submit your blog to Search Engines- doing this allows your blog to be ranked. Google and Yahoo! are two of the most popular search engines you want to crawl your blog pages.

• Joining Forums-as a blogger you are a budding entrepreneur. Right now you are marketing yourself to find traffic and then profit. Find the forums that your target readers & clients frequent then be active!

• Visit other blogs – When someone comments on your blog be sure to visit their blog and leave a comment thanking them for visiting and commenting on yours. You could also request to be a guest blogger on someone else’s blog.

• SEO Marketing- Use relevant keywords that your target readers are using. Spend some time researching the keyword phrases that are popular in your niche.

• Social Bookmarking- this is my favorite tool to use on my clients blog content! You’ve taken so much time and energy writing a new blog post so the right ‘eyes’ can see it, why not take an extra few minutes to share your content with others?

Using any of the these ideas will start moving traffic in your direction and build readership. Be patient, consistent and offer value.

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Stephanie provides Online Business Management services for published authors who are struggling to organize and grow their online presence.

Marketing with Articles

Did you know that article marketing can bring targeted traffic to your website? You want targeted traffic to grow your subscriber list, sell your products and/or services.

Visit my website for more Article Marketing Tips Buckeye VA

In the past few years I’ve learned a thing or two about purposeful marketing and I wanted to share this with you.

I can remember when I opened my first website, I thought for sure that I would have visitors on a daily basis, to my surprise that didn’t happen! It wasn’t until several months later, that I learned why no one came to my website.

Here’s what I learned:

• You can have a fully stocked, incredible website but if the search engines aren’t pulling your website up when people are using your keywords, then you’re not going to get the results you want.
• You need to know what keywords and keyword phrases are, why you need them and where to place them.
• Once you place your keywords on all your pages, titles and product descriptions you need to do some SERIOUS marketing.

Get out your Target and Arrow, Let the Fun Begin!

ARROW = articles
BULLS EYE = website visitors.
By writing educational, quality articles full of great content and submitting those articles on a regular basis, you may achieve the business growth you desire.

You can easily outsource the writing and submission of articles for your business, should you not have the time or desire to do this important business task yourself.

The secret to great results it CONSISTENCY!

Please contact me, Stephanie, if you are looking to outsource your article marketing, press release marketing or SEO business tasks.

Feel free to pass this newsletter to your friends

I look forward to talking with you,
Stephanie Fish
Buckeye V.A.

http://www.buckeyeva.com

buckeyeva@gmail.com

As an affiliate marketing assistant and marketer, there are a few things that I’ve noticed that sets apart one affiliate program from the rest. The tools that higher end affiliate programs use that the modest ones do not may be the reason for low affiliate action.

The higher end affiliate programs have the following 10 items pre-written and coded for quick & easy affiliate access and posting. The affiliate owner has taken all of the guess work out of the “work”.

The 10 Tools are:

1. Videos

2. Tweets

3. Facebook

4. Blog posts

5. Autoresponder messages

6. Banners

7. Adwords (suggestions)

8. Tutorial/ Helpful Tips

9. FAQ and/or Contact area

10. Prizes

Basically, your affiliates are just as busy working as you are and by making it easy to access their accounts, and using all the tools available to an online marketer, you’ll not only see more sales on your end but you’ll see more affiliates participate in your offerings. Affiliate marketing done right is a win-win business model for both parties.

To your success!

Steph

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Why hire a virtual assistant?

As a business owner it is near impossible for you to do everything on your own. Whether you have a strictly online business, a direct sales business, or a traditional bricks and mortar business you’re going to need help getting various tasks done either due to not enough hours in the day, or due to lack of skill. Thankfully, due to the wonders of computer technology, and the speed of broadband, you can contract with an entire team of professionals all without hiring a single employee. Virtual assistants come in many forms from administrative, to technical to very niche specific.

Hiring a virtual assistant (VA) can help you pass off various tasks to others so that you can concentrate on only the money makers in your business rather than tedious tasks that you don’t want to do but are still essential to a well run business such as bookkeeping, customer service, uploading information to your website, posting blog posts, article marketing and many, many other tasks. The great thing is that you can do all this without hiring a single employee, but rather instead you contract with an independent contractor that markets themselves as a Virtual Assistant.

Hiring a virtual assistant (VA) can help you take your business to the next level. It does not matter if you have a bricks and mortar business, or a solely online business, you can still hire a VA to do various tasks that either you find tedious, or that you don’t know how to do well. You can actually be holding yourself back from having a successful business if you don’t let go of some of these activities by assigning them to a VA.

When you hire a virtual assistant (VA) you only pay for the actual time spent on your tasks, not benefits, breaks, or extra taxes. In fact, everything you pay your VA is a deductible business expense, dollar for dollar. You don’t even pay for training because a VA is an expert in his or her niche. VAs can be terrific resources regarding technology and business organization so take advantage of that fact by asking your VA for advice regarding various aspects of your business. You can only find out new information if you ask the right questions.

The very best reason why to hire a virtual assistant is the time savings and freedom that you will experience due to outsourcing some of your tasks to a VA. You will once again regain your nights for movies and family, your weekends for time with your spouse and your friends all without even one employee being on the payroll. Instead, you’ll have an assistant who will be conducting these tasks on your behalf who cares about your return on investment because if you’re successful they are successful.

As you see, hiring an experienced and dependable virtual assistant to help you run your business can pay off in many ways. You’ll have more time for family, or other money making activities, and if you play your cards right you’ll have one or more experts at your finger tips to help make your business more successful than you ever dreamed possible.

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Stephanie Fish, owner of Buckeye V.A. is currently accepting new clients. If you need office support without the burden of in-house staffer, contact Stephanie today!

Infoproduct sellers know that the hard work starts after you launch your product — whether it’s an eBook, a full video course, or even a consulting package.

The real work is in getting your sales message in front of your potential customers so they can buy!

The “old” method used to be writing and submitting articles to the article directories. And, it still works, but I’ve found something that works even better. You’ll love this.

Instead of submitting your articles to EzineArticles.com where there are as of today 212,234 other Authors competing for attention, why not cut out the middle man and position yourself right in front of your potential customers – where they’re ALREADY hanging out?

My good friend, Nicole Dean, did it. In fact, she pulled off a huge stunt this summer and got featured and endorsed on some of the hottest blogs in her industry – and in their newsletters.

Now, you don’t have to go as big as she did, but I’m telling you – her method works. As of right now, she’s got a waiting list of people who want her to “steal” their traffic – and she can’t keep up.

Do you think she’s got something that you can learn from? I KNOW she does.

Check out her system here: Blog World Tour Guide

Nicole is the real deal. I truly believe that this report will help you to:

1. Make more sales.

2. Build your list.

3. Excite and motivate your top affiliates.

4. Get you KNOWN as an expert in your field.

5. Open doors for you like crazy.

So, if that’s what you’re looking for, run, don’t walk and grab a copy of Nicole’s system today.

Here’s the link again: Blog World Tour Guide

P.S. We all know that time is money, so save yourself both by outsourcing to Stephanie, today!

Opportunities are all around us, thanks to today’s technology. When an author looks outside their four walls for marketing solutions, they welcome a new breed, Virtual Assistants, who assist with all of their online book marketing needs.

New Philadelphia, Ohio (May 2011) Virtually assisting business owners is not a new concept, however, the internet has opened a new way virtual assistants are conducting business, by providing services for authors who need help with marketing their newly published book.

Authors are using the internet to reach a broader spectrum of readers by means of outsourcing to virtual publicity assistants. By contracting with a virtual publicity assistant, an author is able to spend their time networking and working on their next book, while the virtual publicity assistant handles all of their online marketing and networking needs.

One such virtual publicity assistant, Stephanie Fish owner of Buckeye V.A., who has been helping authors since 2005, can take your newest published or self published book and help conduct online book tours while researching possible podcast interviews. Another popular online marketing task that is outsourced is that of publishing articles and press releases to the correct media outlets, insuring that your target audience is sure to view your information.

Fish has been providing services to well-known authors such as Diana Ennen and Jill Hart, who have recently published their new book written specifically to Christian Work At Home Moms.  Ennen, contacted Fish, to virtually assist her with their social media marketing needs.

When searching for your publicity virtual assistant, Fish recommends the following:

• Use search engine terms such as: “virtual authors assistant”, “virtual publicity assistant”
• Ask another author if they use a virtual assistant and see what they recommends
• Once you find a virtual assistant, read their testimonial page to see who they’ve assisted and what type of work they have performed.

Virtual publicity assistants are able to take your online marketing goals and help your business be seen by your target audience. After all, it’s the authors responsibility to let their clients know that they are here, ready to serve their needs. To learn more about the online book marketing services that Stephanie Fish offers, please contact her at http://www.buckeyeva.com

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Stephanie Fish, owner of Buckeye. V.A. Helps authors with their online book marketing tasks. Taking small steps daily leads to great exposure tomorrow. Visit Buckeye V.A. Online today for more information on how to outsource to Fish.