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Today is Day # 7 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 7: I Spy!

Are you and your potential clients playing “I Spy”? Can your next client find you? Perhaps they are googling your field of expertise,  but they can’t find you or your services. Did you know that the more articles you market, the better your search results will be? That could mean, that all of those clients you know that you can help, can’t find you if the search engines can’t find you either. So stop playing “I Spy” and get “found” by your potential clients.

Write that article to educate and inform your next client and win them over!

A Virtual Assistant (also known as a VA) is an entrepreneur who offers services to small businesses via their remote location. A Virtual Assistant is responsible for his/her own taxes and other expenses related directly to their business, which means, that you do not have to pay any additional state or local taxes for outsourcing that is not related directly to your business.

Virtual Assistants (VA’s) use today’s technology to communicate to you and your clients, by means of Instant Messenger, Skype, Email and private Chat  rooms. VA’s also serve a variety of niche’s, this is a great way to build your own virtual team.

Your business may need a team of highly skilled VA’s that  includes:

• Web Designer
• Graphic Designer
• Content Management
• Customer Service
• Marketing Submission
• Research

The list of highly skilled VA’s is not limited to the above list, each business owner has their own business needs. The services offered by VA’s allows small business owners to get the help they need with their daily business tasks so you, the owner, concentrate on generating revenue.

Some of the tasks a Virtual Assistant may offer:

*Reminder Services- Birthdays, Anniversaries, or any special date
*Client Management-Schedule meetings, appointments, answer customer e-mails, send information
*Marketing-Submitting press releases ,articles podcast, affiliate programs
*Data Entry -Word processing, Spreadsheets-Letters, Reports, Contracts
*Transcription-mp3, interviews, medical, legal, various business recordings
*Arrangements – Travel, Speaking engagements (online and offline), Retreats and more
*Invoicing/Billing- Send reminders of outstanding bills
*Personal Assistance-run local errands

So what’s stopping you from outsourcing your business success?

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If you’re looking to outsource your business related tasks,  contact Stephanie, for your free 30 minute consultation, today!

If you are one of the million small brick-n-mortar businesses looking at ways to reach more customers and to stay in touch with current customers then maybe you should look into blogging. Now, I’m not talking about a “online diary” type of blog, but a custom-made blog that is made to look and work just as a website store.

5 Reasons You Need A Business Blog!

1. COMMUNICATE-Staying in touch with current and prospective customers is so easy when you add an RSS feed and/or ezine signup box.

2. UPDATE-You can update your A WordPress blog that’s being used as a website is so easy to keep update the design and to add content.

3. With a WordPress blog you can easily pre-date your posts, which saves you money spent from having to use an autoresponder.

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