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What U.S. Companies Are Paying Virtual Assistants For

Published by CarlanaCharles on October 1st, 2010

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I came across a 2009 report by the Moving Ahead Communications and the Ohio Help Group. It listed the top tasks outsourced to virtual assistants by U.S. companies. I would like to share this to both potential clients and fellow virtual assistants. Small business owners and companies will get ideas on how they can use virtual assistants to help them in their business. Fellow virtual assistants will gain insights into industry trends and do some additions in their service offerings. So, without further ado, here are the top virtual assistant tasks.

  1. Creating private label rights (PLR) articles, reports, e-books, blog posts and other content that can be used both offline and online marketing promotions.
  2. Writing press releases and submitting them to free and paid press release sites, as preferred by the client to create buzz for a client
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Making the Most Out of Your Internet Marketing VA

Published by CarlanaCharles on September 9th, 2010

Marketing virtual assistants can be very useful for your business. Aside from the usual Internet marketing tasks of article marketing, social bookmarking, and blogging; you can also ask your marketing VA to do the following:

  • 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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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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Who said hiring a Virtual Assistant would cost an arm and a leg?

Published by CarlanaCharles on February 12th, 2010

Business Woman With LaptopSmall business owners, whether they work from home or not, tend to lack the time needed to accomplish all their daily tasks and grow their business. Many professionals, no matter their field of business, tend to believe that obtaining support that is affordable is almost impossible. The truth in fact is quite contrary; hiring a Virtual Assistant can actually help save your business money and provide you with the time to spend on generating new business. A Virtual Assistant can actually help you by taking some of your work load off you, so that you can concentrate on the actual income-generating aspect of your company.

Consider the following example. Let

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Signs that you should fire a client.

Published by CarlanaCharles on February 9th, 2010

Severing ties with clients don't have to be a bad thingAs a business owner or any professional for that matter, at some point in time you are likely to experience the need to cut ties with a client. This can occur for a myriad of reasons. When it gets to this point, the client does not seem to be worth the time, energy, money or trouble anymore.
Letting a client go is not a bad thing. In fact, it can be a necessary step if your business is to ever get to the point that you would have envisioned it. The key is to wrapping up the relationship with the client properly and professionally once this can be done. To avoid burning bridges, you will want to ensure that all unfinished work is wrapped up, possibly assist in finding a replacement and just generally doing things that will demonstrate that there are no hard feelings. However, if the relationship has not been amicable, these may not be possible at all.

Here are my top 9 signs that it is time to let a client go. I will expand on these later on and repost sometime soon.
1- Consistently pays late and probably never paid an invoice on time. Need I say more?
2- Talking to the client or checking your inbox and seeing an email from them fills you with dread. There is no joy in working for and communicating with the client. Client can be considered a

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