In case you missed my show yesterday with Professor Lauri Smedley on her book on Virtual Entrepreneurship, I’m posting this link so you can listen to it. As always, your comments and feedback are always appreciated. Click the play button and the show will begin to play and if you have time to spare, why not listen to previous shows? There should also be a little box below that you can click to listen. Hope it shows up well as it can be a bit iffy at times! Do enjoy the show.

• Create a Twitter account for the event and ask your registrants to follow the account. This can serve as a venue to communicate with your registrant before the event and your attendees during the event.
• Construct a hash tag for the event. For example, when I attended the International Freelancers Day, the hash tag for the event is #IFD2010. More than a month after the event, attendees are still tweeting about the lessons they learned from the event but using the hash tag #IFD10Chat. An easy to
  
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  • Create marketing materials. Marketing virtual assistants are usually knowledgeable in desktop publishing. Ask your marketing to redesign your business cards. Such a VA would also come in handy when you need brochures, fliers, and postcards for your offline marketing efforts. Your marketing VA can design these materials, submit the designs for your approval, and find a company that can print those materials for you. All you have to do is find people that will distribute those materials for you.
  • Get your business listed. Yellow pages, both online and offline are still feasible ways to generate new business. Task your Internet marketing VA into listing your company in national and local online directories like Manta.com. At the same, have your VA find out how you can get listed in printed local directories.
  • Write newsletters. Newsletter is one of the most widely used Internet marketing techniques. Customers and other web site visitors are asked to opt-in to newsletters that are directly sent to their email in regular intervals. Your marketing VA can do your newsletter for you and email it to your subscriber
    
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    Don’t you just get annoyed when someone send you an email in ALL CAPS, SCREAMING AT YOU or the businessman with the highly unprofessional email address? Check out the post and share your email pet peeves in the comments section below..

    Email is a very convenient and important tool in business communication. It

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    Most post has generally tended to around the business that I do but I felt like sharing something a bit different today. When I got this via email yesterday, it made me stop to reflect. In the process of trying to build and take my business to new levels, I admit that I’ve let some close relationships slide. I stopped going out and was spending all my time tweaking things on my site, networking on others and just putting all I had into developing my business. I paid dearly. Some of my relationships got so strained it became hard to have the sort of relationships I shared with these people in the past. Work addiction can cause

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    We all have passions, dreams and aspirations some may consider lofty and unrealistic. I think that only the dreamer can determine if his or her ambitions are lofty and worth pursuing. No one else can determine that for another person.

    Most people spend most of their lives earning a living instead of creating a life worth living. The sad truth is, it very easy for this to happen. In my last blog post for 2009 I shared about pursuing passions. It is so important to do something that excites and inspires you every once in a while or else drudgery and monotony are sure to step in!

    The 2 steps I suggest are basic and uncomplicated, although one may argue that putting the steps into practice is where things tend to get a tad iffy.

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    As always,
    Carlana

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    Another year has come and in a few hours it will be gone. I have so much to be thankful for, personally and professionally.
    This year was quite and experience, I have learned a lot and feel stronger and even more confident about my business and the direction it is taking. I

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    The site looks cool and is functional and for those of you who landed here via www.ciboneyvirtual.com, the new domain name is my name -Carlana Charles.

    You can now share comments and blog post as I’ve added ‘Sexy Bookmarks’ to the site as well and for those who sign up for my newsletter, you’ll get a copy of my PDF on Social Media Do’s & Dont’s, really interesting stuff for those now venturing into or trying to get a handle on social media.

    Also, you might have noticed a red button marked “Appointment” on the right side of the screen. Check it out; you can schedule an appointment with me now to discuss how I can help you and your business. I’m always searching for innovative ways to facilitate communication with our customers and here we are removing the back and forth of tying to find a convenient time for the both of us. Check it out!

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    Welcome to Ciboney Virtual Solutions

    I am so happy you chose to stop by!

    At the end of the day, have you ever found yourself wondering where did all your time go or how you were going to meet that fast approaching deadline for that very important project? Perhaps you are overwhelmed by the process of managing or growing your business, feel stuck and don

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