Saturday, April 30, 2011

Facebook Marketing Strategies: How to Create a Facebook Account

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Facebook is the most popular social media that has millions of subscribers. It allows the user to get connected to various people they want , add more friends and keep in touch with their families worldwide. With that opportunity to connect with many audience, Facebook Marketing Strategies are then formulated. Facebook Marketing Strategies is now widely used by business owners to promote, sell, and advertise their products and services. So to start up on you Facebook Marketing Strategies, Here are the steps on how to create a Facebook account. 1. Go to http://www.facebook.com. log-in using your email address and password. Then click the “Login” button. 2. Fill-in the form. Enter your first name, last name, email address, password, gender and birthday. Then click the green “Sign Up” button....
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Facebook Account Maintenance: How to Block a Person from your Facebook Account

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There might be an annoying person, a stalker or perhaps someone whom you don’t know that is harassing you on Facebook or while applying your Facebook Account Maintenance. You can avoid these persons or protect your personal details by blocking them.  The simple ways on how to block a person on Facebook are given below: 1. Go to http://www.facebook.com. Sign in using your email address and password. Then click the “Login” button. 2. Click the “Account” tab on the upper right side of the page. Under the “Account” tab, select “Privacy Settings”. This is just below “Account Settings”.   3. Go to the “Block Lists” tab. This can be...
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Friday, April 29, 2011

Virtual Assistant Business: Why It Transcends Other Online Businesses

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Many individuals are trying to be successful in an online business. But what exactly is an online business? An online business is any organization that offer services or products to others with the help of the Internet. There are different types of online business - corporate websites, web services (virtual assistance), online shops, affiliate shops and information sites/blogs. But how is the virtual assistant business better than other online businesses? Here we discuss the other types of online business and its disadvantages. Corporate Websites These are websites created solely for promotional and marketing purposes.  They’re created...
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iSocialMedia: The Virtual Assistants and Social Media Marketing

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What can catch your attention? A TV commercial that’s boring or a Youtube video sensation that tickles every viewer? What would you prefer to read? A plain newspaper ad or an interesting post from your facebook group? How about a flyer compared to a tweet of your friend. The answer might relate to a choice where social media is also linked. Most of the population nowadays spend more time in surfing the internet than on TV, newspaper and radio. They might prefer to watch their favorite TV show in the internet or just download it (at least they can watch it anytime they want), enjoy their cup of coffee over yahoo news rather than a biodegradable newspaper, listen and watch music videos in YouTube than enduring radio ads just to catch up Lady Gaga’s latest single. That’s why, where people is,...
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Thursday, April 28, 2011

The SEO Virtual Assistant with White Hat SEO

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Most of the entrepreneurs that are selling their products online realized that the best place to find costumers are from search engines. Having on the top of search engines are very beneficial. Many of the potential visitors buy products on the site that appear on page one in search engines. It is very time consuming to scan all of the thousands results from search engine, when they already find the product they want from page one.  Because of these, search engine optimization services (SEO services) sprouted in the field of internet marketing. This SEO services thing is one of the tasks of virtual assistant. They’re not just a simple SEO virtual assistant; virtual assistant is like an angel that helps those entrepreneurs. They’re an angel that knows the proper techniques in SEO, by using...
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Why is twitter marketing great for business?

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Twitter, one of the most popular social networking sites, has celebrated its fifth birthday last March 21, 2011. The social network was founded in 2006 by Biz Stone and Evan Williams, the creators of Blogger.com, and Jack Dorsey, a software architect. Since then, Twitter has grown from a simple media platform to an indispensable tool in business marketing giving birth to twitter marketing. The following are the ways that twitter can be of great help to your business. 1. Brand awareness Since the first tweet was made 5 years ago, the total number of registered members today is more than 106 million with an estimated daily growth of 300,000 users. Also, you can place a button in your website that your customers can simply click to connect to you to twitter. By simply being present in twitter,...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Link Building:A Way For Website’s Popularity

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Audio Book: Play to listen Websites, like people, want to be popular. The only difference is that, websites ought to because it is essential for ranking in search engines and getting more people to visit the site.Popularity is one of the factors that can land your website in the first page of a search engine results page (SERP). For search engines popularity means the number of links to your site. The more quality links your site has, the higher it ranks. To achieve this, a link building campaign must be done. Link building is the process of obtaining relevant inbound links to your websites to gain high rankings in search engines and increase...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Virtual Assistant as a Home-based Business: IT’S IN!

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The online revolution made many things possible.  Because of the internet, people from different parts of the world are connected. Through the internet, businesses are able to make their products and services visible and available anywhere in the world.  Also, the online revolution has made working from the four walls of our home possible. You may now be probably thinking about starting your own home-based business. One of the most popular options is becoming a Virtual Assistant (VA).  If you have been working with the Internet and have good administrative and office skills, perhaps working as a virtual assistant from home might...
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Thursday, April 21, 2011

The Legal Components of a Virtual Assistant Business

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Thinking of putting up a virtual assistant business? Then let’s talk about legalities. If you think that the virtual world and online businesses are free of legal obligations, then think again. Almost all countries and states requires that every business, whether online or offline must register to the government. This measure is for internal revenue purposes. Well, you know, the government. Wrap up all legal and financial aspects of starting up before securing your first client. Before you open the doors of your virtual assistant business, it is your duty to ensure that your business is working on legal grounds. To avoid future legal entanglements...
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011

The Pros and Cons of Being a Virtual Assistant

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The virtual assistant industry has grown tremendously over the past few years.  It has created more jobs and opened opportunities to work from home.  Since then, many have become interested in working at home as virtual assistants. Are you one of the VA wannabes? Before dipping your toes in the realm of virtual assistance, you need to have a good knowledge or at least a bird’s -eye view of what you are getting into. You may start by asking your successful virtual assistant neighbor. She may tell you that entering a VA business was the best thing she did. On the other hand, you may hear news that your other friend has given up being...
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Friday, April 15, 2011

11 Things to Remember Before Starting Your Virtual Assistant Business

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There are only two kinds of online businesses: virtual assistance and others. Just kidding. Seriously though, what is it with virtual assistance that makes it a great online business? Well, for one thing, it can do all the task that other online businesses offer. Now, how was that for versatility? Multitasking is in the genes of virtual assistants and who knows what else they can do? There are rumors of VA’s capable of doing this. Just rumors though. Aside from virtual assistants’ versatility, putting up a virtual assistant business is cheap with high Return on Investment (ROI). All you need is a computer set and an internet connection...
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Thursday, April 14, 2011

Web Content: Gaining Traffic and Link Building with Quality Articles

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If you are in the online business, I’m sure you are familiar with the saying “content is king”. Somehow, it’s true because the key to good website traffic is quality content. One that will be a surefire marketing success. Gaining traffic and link building comes with this quality content. Here are the characteristics of a good web content that will draw uncontrollable traffic and a very big bonus of link building for your site. Search engine friendly When I say search engine friendly, it means spiders or crawlers can see it. It should not belong to the invisible part of the Internet. How do you make your web content visible to spiders? Simple....
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011

The Future of Virtual Assistance Industry

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Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) is an act of assigning a task or responsibility using a third party. The most common BPO service is called virtual assistance. What’s in store for virtual assistance? Maybe the crystal ball can help. In it, virtual assistants are contracted to do specific tasks on a company’s behalf. Companies that are hiring virtual assistants are trying to save not only money but also other resources, such as time. Hiring regular staff to do the tasks means having to pay for taxes, benefits, holiday pay, office space and equipment. Business exists to make profit, and hiring a virtual assistant is one way to save more money...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Tips On How To Create A Twitter Account: First Step in Twitter Marketing

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Twitter Marketing is now hitting the block. So what are you waiting for? Don’t let your business sink in a very vast ocean. Start up by creating an account and get twitter followers as much as you want. Creating an account on Twitter is just like signing up in other websites. As long as you already have your name and email, it’s very simple. It’s as easy as peeling a banana with your own hands.  As easy as this. With lesser peels! This banana, however, can be messy the first time around so it’s good to start off by not wasting time and effort on unnecessary decisions. So are you ready to start your Twitter marketing? Let’s start with...
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Taking a Peek in the Crystal ball: The Future of Virtual Assistance

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Before we take a peek in the crystal ball, let us first reminisce the past and rekindle the birth of this profession. It is undeniable that virtual assistants sprung from the bosoms of secretaries.  In ancient times, when typewriters were expensive, secretaries ruled the world of administrative support. In fact, there is not a single executive without a secretary. Secretaries were a fad back then. But in the turn of the century, the world became obsessed with technology and the Internet. Everything was removed from its hinges. The dawn of another century witnessed the blossoming of yet another profession that revolutionized the business...
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Saturday, April 9, 2011

What’s on the Menu? Services offered by Virtual Assistant Companies

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During the recession when many businesses crumble into pieces and economic meltdown is as common as oxygen, businessmen tried to find ways to cut cost. Luckily they were able to. Recession not only has a negative effect on the economy at that time in fact it became a seedbed of new business ideas and solutions. One business that boomed during the recession is virtual assistance. At first it was only a home-based business by entrepreneurs who mostly were victims of recession but later when many investors saw that the demand for virtual assistants increased they became aware that it could be a good business. So many businessmen put up...
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So You’re Finally a Virtual Assistant...Now, What?

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Well, first off, you gotta find a job. DUH Before you get working on your job though, you gotta remember that there are a lot of things expected from you as a virtual assistant. ATTITUDE For starters, you shouldn't look like this while doing your job: Getting all grumpy about work won’t work, lady. That’s bad. That doesn’t mean you CAN’T be bored though. Life is boring if you can’t be bored. It’s just discouraged. Seriously though, you have to have a positive attitude towards work to be able to excel in it. COMPETENCE Before you start working on a job, another thing that’s expected from you is not just that you can do your job, but...
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