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What Can A Marketing VA Do For You?

Published by CarlanaCharles on September 8th, 2010

One of the most in demand virtual assistance services today is Internet marketing services. This is primarily due to the growing importance of an online component in the overall marketing policy of a business, regardless of size.

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Your Internet marketing VA can do a lot of tasks for you, many of which you are more than willing to delegate because of these tasks require a lot of time and effort. Here are some of them:

  1. Develop and maintain your web site. A web site is a crucial component of your whole marketing mix. If you don
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Creating a Social Media Marketing Plan for a Small Business (Part II)

Published by CarlanaCharles on September 3rd, 2010

In the last post, I gave you the first four things you need

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Creating a Social Media Marketing Plan for a Small Business (Part I)

Published by CarlanaCharles on September 2nd, 2010

Since I have already talked about the reasons why small business should embrace social media, I am now going to talk about creating a social media marketing plan. Now, this plan is dependent upon the assumption that the small businessman will be starting from scratch when it comes to social media.

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1. Create an email account that you will use for registering to social media sites. The reason why you need to do this is because you will probably receiving weekly notifications, confirmation emails and newsletters from the sites you registered. You do not want those emails cluttering your main inbox. So, a free email account in Gmail, Yahoo Mail or AOL Mail.

2. Make a list of the social media sites you want to be involved in. Now, don

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The Business Uses of Twitter

Published by CarlanaCharles on August 28th, 2010

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If you haven

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4 Compelling Reasons to Use Social Media

Published by CarlanaCharles on August 27th, 2010

A lot of potential clients I have talked to are I interested about social media marketing. That in itself is good news for all social media marketing virtual assistants out there. The hard part is convincing them that it

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Social Media: A Powerful Tool for the Small Business

Published by CarlanaCharles on April 22nd, 2010

In the business world today, a small business needs to be able to rely on strong and powerful tools. One such tool that is easy to use yet at the same time produces positive results is social media.

Social media makes it possible to can reach millions of potential clients or customers. Think of it, you could spend thousands using direct mail to reach people and many of them will just throw out your advertisement with the rest of the junk mail. However, with a social media like Facebook or Twitter, you can sit back and watch your message spread across the Internet.

If you have a small business, let us say a nightclub, and you have a hot band booked and want to get the word out, how would you achieve that goal? In the days before social media sites and hubs, you would print flyers, perhaps advertise on the radio or local television, and definitely try to tell your clientele, hoping they would spread word of the band

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Internet marketing and the small business.

Published by CarlanaCharles on April 21st, 2010

In the past, if you had a small business and you wanted to gain visibility, there were a few options open to you. First, you could simply make a flyer and distribute copies to the local stores, on car windows, or hand it out to your customers. If that was too much effort, you could always take out an advertisement on radio or television. Nowadays, marketing has become so much easier!

If you are connected in any way to the Internet, then you have tons of places where you can market your company, products or services. There are many different types of internet marketing that you can use to boost the visibility of your company.

Types of internet marketing that are available to small businesses

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5 reasons why small business should embrace social media.

Published by CarlanaCharles on February 3rd, 2010

Social Media CollageSocial media marketing is not a fad but a growing trend amongst small businesses. Still, not all are on board with the trend and many are yet to participate or participate actively. Social marketing is here to stay and because your business is here for the long haul as well, it is important that you embrace it now. Here are the 5 reasons why you start your social media marketing campaign today:

1.Get an edge on your competitors. Because most small businesses are still not into social marketing, you have the opportunity to get a competitive advantage over your competitors who are not using social media marketing. Jump on the bandwagon and become one of the early adopters! Your customers will thank you for it.

2. Your customers are utilizing it. Internet users are utilizing social media to influence their purchasing and where they spend. They are influenced by the rants that consumers make about products and will often check out forums and groups for opinions when purchasing. By being active in social media you can diffuse any negative reactions to your product or brand. If you are not using social media it will be challenging to keep your fingers on the pulse of your clients.

3. Your toughest competitors are probably already using it. If you follow your competitors closely, you

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Social Media Do’s & Dont’s – Part 2

Published by CarlanaCharles on January 11th, 2010
social media do and dontSo you thought that was it, huh? Now why would I give you to Don

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