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Article marketing is a great way to get your website seen by the search engines and by your target market, but there is a fear that seems to be going around. Its the fear that centers around “duplicate content” and being penalized by google.

It seems that business owners worry that if they submit the same article to many directories, that google would see that as duplicate content and some how, penalize them for this.  There’s a post by Lynn Terry of  ClickNewz.com where she has outlined what google sees as duplicate content.

You can also visit Google.com and learn directly from them what they view as duplicate content, you’ll soon see that article marketing is still a tried and true way to bring in the search results you need,  help build incoming links to your website, and educate your target market about your business.

Enjoy your day and if you’re looking to outsource your article and/or press release submissions please contact me today!

Thanks!

Stephanie Fish, Buckeye V.A.

In a nut shell, outsourcing is the exchange of money for time. As the business owner you would pay a virtual assistant for his/her time to help you manage your various business related tasks.

How do you know you need a Virtual Assistant?

When you first started your home-based business you wanted freedom, correct? Then something happened, you began to live day-to-day in front of your computer. Your family only sees you for a few minutes a day and your “work schedule” now interferes with your life. You realize you don’t have the freedom you thought you would. Cue in the Virtual Assistant.

Reality is, for many of us, we can’t do it all on our own. We either lack the knowledge or expertise to meet some of the needs of our business or we lack the time to get it done. Now ask yourself two questions.

1. What tasks do I do myself?
2. What tasks do I outsource?

The things only YOU can do might include:

* Hosting a Digital Event.
* Writing the content for your website, membership website and/or blog.
* Meeting with clients.
* Writing your new book or report.
* Speaking with publishers.
* Hosting your podcast.

Things you can outsource to a Virtual Assistant might include:

* Researching potential speakers, meeting rooms, prize donors for the digital event.
* Submitting your articles, press releases, blog and podcast to the proper outlets.
* Adding and formating your pre-written content for your website, membership website and/or blog.
* Co-Hosting your podcast.
* Updating your website with the most current search engine keywords and phrases. (Search Engine Optimization)

How do I choose the right Virtual Assistant for my outsourcing needs?

A virtual assistant is a generic term, so you need to spend some time (or contact a business coach who can help you) figuring out what type of virtual assistant you need and what type of business related tasks you should outsource to your VA. There are two types of virtual assistants: the generalist and the niche-specialist. You may find that you need one or more of both types depending on your business needs and the number of businesses you own.

In the beginning, all outsourcing relationships can be a little rocky. You are, after all,  bringing in a person who knows very little about you and the way you work your business. It may take some time and patience with each other as you learn to communicate how you want things done and what the desired finished product should look like. To make this new relationship prosper,don’t under estimate the necessity of good communication, by scheduling a conference call a few times a month you and your virtual assistant will see great results.

In summary, bringing the right Virtual Assistant into your business can bring not only the growth and success you’ve been working so hard on your own to achieve, but your Virtual Assistant can also be the key to finding the freedom you’ve wanted all along as well.

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Stephanie Fish owner of Buckeye V.A. is a virtual assistant specializes with a niche in online marketing and business submissions. Stephanie is firm believer that internet marketing shouldn’t bust your marketing budget. To learn more about Buckeye V.A. and how she can help you with your online marketing goals visit http://www.buckeyeva.com. Article may be reprinted with full Bio left intake and unchanged in anyway.

I have so much fun plugging in plugin’s for clients. Not all of my clients need the same plugins, but for the most part, they use the same ones.

My top 5 WordPress Plugins are:

1. All in One SEO
2. Akismet
3. Contact Form
4. Lijit
5. Featured Content Gallery

There are so many free wordpress plugins to fit every business need and blog personality. Good luck with your WordPress and press on!!

Be a Blessing and Be Blessed!

Stephanie Fish, Buckeye V.A.

Internet Marketing Assisting in submission services!

It’s no secret that today’s online business owner is looking for ways to market their online (and offline) business and one way of marketing ( that’s growing by leaps and bounds) is the “digital marketing events” sector. You might be asking “Who can benefit from a digital marketing event” or  more specifically “Who can I market too by utilizing a digital marketing event”, if you fit into either of these questions then I recommend you continue reading this article.

All of these questions are relevant to today’s online business owner and the answer can be find in marketing your business by means of a digital marketing events. By being prepared ahead of time, you’ll be able to maximize your marketing efforts by doing as many of the following suggestions as possible:

1. Be a guest at an digital (a.k.a. virtual) event
2. Host your own digital event
3. Participate by either donating an e-report or e-book
4. Offer your services to the host, at no-cost, in exchange for a banner on the main events website
5. Blog about the host, guests, the event details, what you learned, etc.
6. Sign-up to be an affiliate of the host and/or guests, then when you blog about the event you can earn an income
7. Swap business information with the host and/or guests while attending the virtual event
8. Offer to include the host/guests business information to your ezine readers, in exchange for your business information to be included in their ezine
9. Be a guest blogger to your blog followers, make sure you can “plug” a direct link to your business somewhere in the post.
10. Create your own digital event!

As you can see there is a variety of ways that you, the online business owner, can benefit from participating in and/or hosting your own digital event. There  the many digital marketing events that are held on a regular basis complements of the internet. Be as purposeful as possible when taking time out of your busy schedule to attend a digital marketing event, once its over you can not get that opportunity again. You may not “run into” the same attendees again.

Work from Home Survey

Working from home can be such a mystery, that is when you taking this journey on your own! With so many resources, paid and no-cost, available to you on the web no wonder you don’t know where to start. By taking this survey you’re on your way to get your work from home questions answered.

I hope to give you helpful resources, so make sure you answer each question on the work from home survey. Don’t forget to leave your name and email so I can contact you!

God Bless,

Stephanie Fish

Virtual Internet Marketing Assistant for New Online Business Owners~

I have not posted online this summer, but for a really great reason! Or should I REASONS! You see, when summer officially started I had one client, my pre-summer plan was to have a minimum of 3 clients. For the first week I was so focused on the fact that I had NOT met my goal that I completely neglected to see the “silver” lining on that so-called storm cloud.

As the Lord would have it, my eyes were finally opened (and not a minute too late!) to the most awesome opportunity I have had in all my virtual assistant career! I was invited to take a free (yes, free!) all expense paid, online class that taught me how to use a “online cart” that meets the needs for every online business.

I could not believe it! My prayers were answered, not by having met my client goal…but by stretching me, growing me and teaching me something new for my VA business.

Off I go to create a Fall 2009 plan. To your success!

Be a Blessing and Be Blessed,

Steph

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To schedule a free phone or email consultation please contact me today!

The BIG Question

Before I even opened my virtual assistance business I heard other business owners talk about ‘elevator speeches’, I honestly didn’t think much of it..that is until this past month when I had some local business owners ask me what it is I do from home, exactly.  I told them I was a” virtual assistant servicing small and home-based businesses with their online business needs”, in return I received some blank stares and a quick ‘oh, that’s interesting.’  Needless to say, I completely failed the ‘elevator speech’ guidelines!

Enter challenge!!

Do you have a 30 second ‘speech’ memorized for potential customers/clients? It sounds like an easy question, but once you think you have it down and then repeat it out loud, what does it sound like? What is the reaction of your potential customer?

I’ve done that for my virtual assistant business over the past month and it just doesn’t sound right. It doesn’t sound natural. So my challenge this week, for you and myself, is to get your 30 second speech down without a hitch.
So the next time someone asks you ‘what do you do from home’ you can give them an intelligent answer that catches their attention and gets them to ask more questions about your business.

Good Luck!

P.S.Don’t forget to subscribe to my feed (on the home page).

P.S.S. I’m currently accepting new clients. This is the perfect time to outsource the day-to-day business chores, especially if you plan on taking a vacation and spend time with your friends and family! Contact me today for your free consultation!

How is your virtual store working out for you? Have you spent more money the design than on the marketing? Don’t get me wrong, your website says a lot about yourself and products, but having a beautiful, hip website isn’t good enough in today’s tough market. If you are not actively marketing your business, you are missing out on potential customers.

Marketing doesn’t cost you anything except time. Either you spend your time marketing your business yourself or you spend money to buy time from a virtual assistant. When you buy time from a virtual assistant, you aren’t purchasing any marketing secrets, you’re purchasing her time to market your business in a professional way. Chances are, your virtual assistant has many marketing ‘miles’ under her belt, which means you’re getting more for your money than doing it yourself.

Marketing helps your business in a few ways:

• Helps the search engines ‘find’ you by the content your submit online, such as articles and press releases. Not to mention your blog posts.
• By regularly submitting ‘virtual’ information (as mentioned above) you become a ‘real’ person to your potential customers
• Can set you up as an expert in your field

Potential customers are spending hours every day searching for your products, but if you don’t actively market your website how will they find you? Perhaps you have a website that is not performing as well as you’d like, maybe the rankings are low.  Marketing is one of the most important business tasks you can perform, so do it well and do it often.

To your success!

I’m currently accepting clients, please schedule your free 30 minute consultation today!

The recent snow flurries reminded me that winter is upon us and that means added stress, particularly due to the fact that the Holidays are right around the corner. Can you believe that November 1 means that Christmas is only 8 Saturdays away!

When I start to count down the weeks until Christmas I start to feel over-whelmed and that can cause anyone to get lost in the chaos and loose focus of their business goals. 

Right around this time of year, business owners start to take on added stress. They may have to deal with the stress of meeting end-of-the-year deadlines, clients and customers added demands (after all, they are feeling the stress from their clients and customers) and  not to forget, the stress of pre-planning for the upcoming new year!

Whew!  That’s enough stress to throw even the most calm business owner into a tizzy! By outsourcing just one task, such as article marketing, you can save yourself up to 10 hours in one months time. Just think what you could do with those “unspoken” for 10 hours?

While you’re here sign-up for my newsletter and learn about the “Top 15 Outsourced Tasks” www.buckeyeva.com

God Bless!

P.S. Don’t forget to vote!

There are many versions to this candy recipe, but I’m going to share my twist on it!

INGREDIENTS:

• 1/2 cup butter, melted
• 1 pound confectioners’ sugar
• 1 1/2 cups peanut butter
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1# Coating Chocolate

*Melt chocolate over double broiler. While that is melting you’ll want to cover your work area with waxed paper.

*In a large bowl, combine (your kiddos can do this step, if you over watch them) all of the above ingredients.

*Roll dough into quarter-sized balls, then roll each Buckeye into the chocolate, only covering 3/4th of the way so the peanut butter shows at the top.  I use a tooth pick to hold the Buckeye while rolling in chocolate.

*Once the Buckeye is covered with chocolate you’ll want to place it on the waxed paper for several hours, until the chocolate is firm.

Enjoy!!