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Social Media

Your Virtual Assistant Can Help with Social Media and Social Bookmarking

There are a number of ways to market your business using the internet. All of them will work if you have the ability to find your market in the places you choose. Finding websites that attract your market can be hard to do, but it can be done when you do some research and communicate [...]

December 2, 2011 Continue Reading →

3 Tips for Advertising Your Business Through Facebook

Facebook is the most popular social networking site online right now. There are more than 800 million active users and more than 50% of those active users log in on any given day. There are more than 350 million active users that access Facebook with their cell phone. With those statistics, who in their right [...]

November 25, 2011 Continue Reading →

How Can Social Media Management Help You Grow?

Social media is one of the most important things for business owners to participate in, but it can also be one of the most difficult things to handle. It takes a lot of time and planning to make it work properly. If it’s not done correctly, it will not work for you and that means [...]

September 29, 2011 Continue Reading →

3 Tips for Hiring a Virtual Assistant or Online Business Manager to Help with Social Networking

There are so many things you can outsource to a Virtual Assistant or Online Business Manager, but one task that many don’t think about is social networking. Almost all business owners are using at least Facebook and Twitter to promote and grow. If you’re doing it correctly, it can be a very time-consuming task. This [...]

September 1, 2011 Continue Reading →

101+ Reasons to Tweet, Update, Blog and Otherwise Shout About Your Business-Guest Blogger @MichelleShaeffr

Looking for ideas to help you figure out what to tweet about, post on your fan page, share on your blog, issue a press release on, or otherwise shout about you and your business to get some attention? Your ideas are here! Quick, bookmark this post so you can find it again when you’re working [...]

April 19, 2011 Continue Reading →

Is Social Media Confusing, Overwhelming or a Complete Mystery to You?

If you are new to the world of Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, you may feel completely lost, confused and overwhelmed. You have to create an account, set up a profile, upload pictures, find friends and followers and eventually post content to these sites. Figuring out how to set up those accounts and use them effectively [...]

February 15, 2011 Continue Reading →

Best 2010/2011 Small Business Planning Tips and Tricks – Guest Blogger Jodi Crosby (@SmartVAforU)

As the holidays and the end of the year approach, have you made your 2011 business plan?  Is there anything you can do for your small business to make your 2011 the best year ever? Here are a few of my favorite 2010/2011 Tips lists from around the web to help you accomplish this goal: [...]

December 27, 2010 Continue Reading →

Learn How to Effectively Use LinkedIn to Build Credibility with Christine Gallagher (@ChristineG)

What comes to mind when someone mentions LinkedIn?  Is it just a big mystery to you? Do you have a profile but no idea how to use it effectively? The fact is, LinkedIn users are among the wealthiest, most educated and most connected peeps in all of social media.  And, it’s one of the best ways to create and [...]

December 2, 2010 Continue Reading →

How Can A Social Media Virtual Assistant Help You Build Your Business? – Guest Blogger Jodi Crosby (@SmartVAforU)

The first step for anybody helping you build your business is a clear understanding of your company’s primary goals and marketing plan. To effectively understand these two areas, a good Social Media Virtual Assistant will walk you through a process which includes assessment, brainstorming or mind mapping, action planning and evaluation. The goal of this [...]

June 22, 2010 Continue Reading →

10 Ways to Keep Your Website and Blog Fresh and Appealing – Guest Blogger Susan Young (@SueYoungMedia)

Here are 10 easy ways for Virtual Assistants to attract more readers and visitors (a.k.a. prospects and clients) to your website and blog. 1. Keep it current. Update your content with new posts, articles, links, videos and resources. The Internet is fluid. Information can be changed in the snap of a finger. Fresh and interesting posts can easily be created, new Tweets [...]

June 17, 2010 Continue Reading →