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Hi There! Since you are a busy online women business owner, I’ll keep this post short!

Let me start out by asking you “Are you achieving the goals you set out to accomplish this year?”

If the answer is “Not really”, then you need to know the secret of having a successful online business: Outsource Your Marketing!

The internet has changed everything.  Not just where you work your business, but also the way you network your business. When you run an online business you have to learn how to “work” the “net” (network).

Outsourcing your business marketing  tasks such as:

• Facebook Fan Page (creation and management)
• Ning Forum (setup and alterations)
• Twitter account (setup and management)
• Article Marketing
• Press Release Marketing
• Squidoo Lens creation
• Keyword and Phrase Research

These are just a few of the marketing tasks you do not know how to do, care to do on your own, or perhaps you just don’t have the time to spend doing yourself.

What type of online business owners outsource to Buckeye VA? I’m so glad you asked!

• Authors
• Life Coaches
• Virtual Assistants
• Party Planners
• Website Designers
• Chiropractors

I would love to hear from you! Please contact me, Stephanie, today if you are serious about your business marketing success!

How Do I Make Time for Social Media Marketing?

If you’ve been online for the last year, you know how important social media marketing is for your business growth. You also may know that social media marketing takes time, and who has the time?

What if I told you that there is a way to ‘make more time’ in your business schedule for social media marketing? OK, you can’t really ‘make more time’, the secret to making it feel like you’ve made more time is actually found in ‘outsourcing’, specifically to a Social Media Marketing Assistant.

How do I know when it’s time to outsource?

When you’ve reached a point in your business where you do not have the time to personally market your business via the vast array of social media outlets, then its time for you to find a social media marketer. As a social media marketing assistant, I will help you manage your accounts, still allowing you to personally communicate with your target market. As a business owner, you know how important it is to stay in touch with your followers and fans, while still maintaining a balance in your business.

As a social media manager and publicity assistant, I can be the extra hands and eyes for you and your business social media marketing needs. I welcome you to contact me to set up your free 30 minute SKYPE consultation.

Don’t waste anymore of your precious time trying to balance your business marketing, let an experienced social media manager today!

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Stephanie Fish, owner of Buckeye V.A. works with serious authors, speakers, life coaches and virtual assistants. Having worked with professional business owners since 2006, Stephanie understands the complex marketing needs of online business owners.

Have you ever taken the time to research your niche online? It’s an interesting and grounding experience when you do. Even though you are unique, when you are looking at your niche like the rest of your audience does. like through a Google search, you see that you are not so unique after all. That is, you are not “standing out in the crowd”. There may be one million returns on your niche or you may be on the first page of google, but how will you capture that potential clients attention? Better yet, how will you gain the trust of that person?

There are a few tried and true internet marketing techniques that the experts have been using to reach out to their potential clients, not only for marketing purposes but also to build a relationship. Perhaps, you may find some or all of these tips useful for your business as well.

1. Article Submission – Article marketing works. But make sure they are able to find your article by using your keywords/keyword phrases in your title, first paragraph and Author’s Box. Also, use an unique url in your Bio to invite your readers to a specific area on your website that pertains to that specific article.

2. Press Release Submission – Make sure your Press Release is newsworthy and submitted to only the specific newspapers that your target market readers read. Taking the time to research what your target market reads will bring you a ROI (return on investment).

3. Teleseminars – You have two choices; either host your own or you can send a request letter to some possible Joint Ventures.

4. Networking Online – Create a Facebook Fan Page and make a point to converse with your friends on a regular basis. Build those relationships.

5. Networking Offline – Join your local entrepreneur club, Chamber of Commerce, Toastmasters. Seek speaking opportunities in your community.

6. Newsletters - Share your expertise instead of selling it. Make your newsletter something that your audience wants to read every time you send it.

7. Outsourcing – Have your virtual assistant help you with a campaign, or manage some of your business tasks to help you get and stay on schedule.

8. Podcast Radio - You can host your own podcast and seek to interview others. You can create (or outsource to a virtual assistant) a letter seeking to be interviewed.

9. Video Marketing- Give a testimonial about how your services helped a client or better yet, ask one of your clients to send you a video testimonial! An upcoming event that’s sure to be seen as a must-attend for your clients. Don’t forget to add your opt in page url and perhaps your facebook and twitter connection information.

10. Volunteering- Volunteering in your local community and online gives you an opportunity to build relationships with others that you may not have met otherwise. You may be permitted to wear your business logo attire, which is a great way to market your business.

Each of the above internet marketing techniques should have a call-to-action, meaning, you need to invite your readers to take some type of action to communicate with you. Such call-to-actions can be:

• Leave a comment on your website/blog
• Join your forum
• Share their thoughts about your newsletter
• Connect with you via Social Media
• Buy your products or use your services

The more interaction you have with your readers the more likely they will come to know and trust you enough to become a client and refer you to their colleagues.

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Stephanie Fish, owner of Buckeye V.A. is a social media marketer and online marketing assistant for small business owners who are ready to stand out in the crowd. Stephanie works with life coaches, authors, virtual assistants and work at home parents who want publicity for their online businesses. Being over worked is no fun, try outsourcing to Stephanie to know first hand how freeing it is to outsource your marketing, learn more here http://www.buckeyeva.com/services

Social Media Marketing is crucial to your businesses growth, you already know this!  What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the term “social media”? I immediately think of “TIME”! Who’s got the time for more marketing??

Since marketing is a tool you use to get your products and services out to your consumer group, you really have to take the time to setup a clear marketing plan that includes your favorite social media outlet.

Just keep in mind, that although you can successfully outsource your marketing efforts to a social media marketing manager, you need to be involved on a personal level with at least one specific social media outlet on a regular basis. This is great way to build real relationships!

Marketing with personality, purpose and on a real-life level will help you with all of your marketing efforts, including:

• Article Submissions
• Press Release Submissions
• Teleseminar and other online classes

If you find yourself out of “time” before you can accomplish this weeks marketing goals, then I welcome you to contact me for a free 30 minute consultation.

I’d love to hear your thoughts, please leave a great comment!

If you’re looking to outsource your marketing please contact me!

A Social Media Manager (a.k.a Social Network Manager) is a niche Virtual Assistant who specializes in managing their clients social networking accounts. No matter what business you own, if you are an internet marketer then you know how important it is to stay active on your social networks with other  business owners and your target market. Social Media outlets, such as: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Squidoo and Ning, have opened the door for you to reach more of your target market than ever before.

With this great networking opportunity also came more tasks added to your to-do list, more responsibility for running your business  in order to stay afloat with today’s fast-paced business world.

Here is a list of 5 Specific Tasks your Social Media Manager can do to promote you and your business:

1. Create and Update your Social Account Profiles
2. Broadcast your article, press release, teleseminar and /or classes
3. Research  Followers
4. Accept invitations
5. Connect your website to your social networking accounts

The idea behind outsourcing your marketing and social network account management is to save you time on the “busy work” of working your business, but to also free up your time so you can focus in on the actual connecting of your target market. As your social media manager works behind the scenes of your social networking, they can bring to your attention possible business building opportunities such as:

• Joint Ventures
• Speaking
• Blog Tours

When you decide to outsource your social media marketing, you’ll get a sense of a new freedom that you’re not used to!

To Your Success!!

I’d love to hear from you, either leave a comment below or contact me!

Stephanie Fish, Social Media Manager and Marketing Assistant. Outsourcing your social media marketing gives you more time in your schedule to focus on networking.

Congratulations! You made it to: Day # 10 of a 10 day series entitled :

“10 Reasons to Market Your Business with Articles”

Outsourcing (delegating) a minimum of 5 hours of article marketing per month can benefit your business.  Perhaps if you have a better understanding behind the “why” you should be marketing your business with articles, then this task will never see the end of your to-do list again.

Day 10:  Recap Your Article Marketing “Why”

In the previous 9 days you’ve learned some very powerful “why’s” of article marketing and how it plays an important role in your business. So let’s recap what you’ve read:

1. You build relationships with potential clients you may not have otherwise met.
2. You use your article marketing to build trust wit h your readers.
3. You become known as the “expert” in your chosen field.
4. You generate publicity.
5. You gain pre-qualified website traffic.
6. You feed your “content hungry” target market.
7. You have the potential to be seen by thousands of people in your target market.
8. Article marketing allows you to pre-sell your products or services.
9. You market your business without having to meet face-to-face.
10. You reap the benefits of continual web traffic for years to come.

My hope was to inform and educate you, the professional business owner, on how powerful article marketing can be for your business. If you market your business on a consistent basis, perhaps as little as 5 hours per month, you should reap the benefits for years to come.

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Please contact me, today, for a free 30 minute consultation to see which service you can use for your business needs!

Article marketing is a great way to share your expertise, educate your readers and bring in some search engine love.  The problem with article marketing is that it takes time. If you’re already over-booked, the last thing you want to do is add another task to your schedule, which means you’re either going to chose not to market your business with articles or you’re going to outsource the task.

If you chose to outsource your article marketing then you want to be sure to have all of your information gathered so you can forward it to your marketing assistant. (Don’t worry if your article marketing information is not organized, you can ask your VA to allocate some of the time purchased to organize your information.)

Gathered information may include:

• articles written that aren’t submitted
• articles that have been submitted
• current article directories that you use
• preferred article directories that you want to submit
• username and passwords associated with your article directory accounts
• your bio in plain text and html
• your choice of email and password for new directory accounts

When you first begin to outsource your article marketing, you may want to meet with your virtual marketing assistant via phone (or Skype). Doing this will allow you both to ask and answer questions in real time, without having to play email tag.

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Until next time!

If you’re looking to outsource your article marketing please contact me, Stephanie, today!

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!

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!