Many of the virtual assistants I coach tell me they either don’t do any marketing, or do ‘some’, but nothing consistently. This is especially surprising to me for VAs who promote themselves as Internet Marketing Virtual Assistants.  There are some great resources available to you from well respected and established virtual assistants in our industry, some [...]

Blog forums are a great place to start generating free traffic for your blog. Because of the obvious shared interest in the topic, blog forums create new interest and grow your following. Some of the better known blog forum sites are: Blogger Forum, Bloggeries and Blogst Forum. A basic Google search will yield vast numbers [...]

Join me for an interactive and FREE teleseminar where I’ll share what I believe is the current State of the Virtual Assistance Industry, what it means to you, and your business, and why I believe 2010 can be an exceptional year for VAs. Date: Wednesday, January 13th, 2010 Time: 7:00 – 8:30 PM EASTERN Registration [...]

In Part One we discussed blog basics, promotion and whether or not it was a worthwhile endeavour. Continuing along those lines, and equally important to your website, a blog will also require a bit of SEO (search engine optimization), carefully chosen keywords and tags, as well as, listings with directories and indexes such as Technorati, [...]

I’ve always believed in lifetime learning, especially since I started my business. Keeping up with technology alone requires continual research and information. One of the things I’ve always wondered was whether or not I could capture any ‘international’ business, outside of the business that comes to me naturally through normal marketing and networking channels.  If I could [...]

Web logs (blogs) came into play in the late 1990s, but today they offer options beyond those of aspiring writers or the simple online diaries of old. The terrain of the blogosphere has changed radically. Governments and big business have homed in on blogs as a focus of social media marketing with blogging options such [...]

No matter how long we’ve been in business, and I’ve noticed this especially with my women coaching clients, we still struggle with our value and how that translates into our rates.   I recently spoke with a client who’s been in business almost as long as me.  She said that clients had started ‘coming out of [...]

There are many Internet marketing strategies to promote an online business.  Using popular options like article marketing, pay-per-click advertising, forum marketing and email marketing can increase your success.  The business owner will need to track click-throughs and conversion rates to achieve more success by converting people into paying customers.  Today, social media sites are very [...]