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Work At Home

Does More Work “Magically” Appear?

Congratulations! You’ve hired a Virtual Assistant and delegated all those tasks you didn’t want to do. Are you truly relieved? Has more “busy” work “magically” appeared now that you have done that? Does that happen with any change in your routine or life? If more work seems to appear as you delegate to a VA [...]

January 20, 2012 Continue Reading →

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 →

Top Ten Tips for Being a Joyful Entrepreneur – Guest Blogger Laura West

A JOYFUL entrepreneur? I know it’s more popular to think of entrepreneurs as “haggard,” working hard and hustling to make their mark. But you can have a successful business with ease. It can, and should, be fun. We define a “Joyful Entrepreneur” as one who enjoys and takes ownership of his/her business (whether he owns [...]

October 21, 2011 Continue Reading →

Your Virtual Assistant or Online Business Manager Can Design and Manage Your Newsletter/Ezine

Communicating with your customers or potential customers is very important. When you continually remind them of what you offer and how you can help them, they’ll trust you and want to use your business for their needs. They’ll also feel comfortable enough to tell others about you as well. If you don’t continually put your [...]

October 13, 2011 Continue Reading →

Your Virtual Assistant or Online Business Manager Can Design and Manage Your WordPress Website/Blog

There are so many different ways to create a website or blog. Some are free like Blogger while others are paid like WordPress. While free is good, it’s not the best way to go because it shows you’re not series about your business. Generally you’ll have ads on your site that you have no control [...]

October 6, 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 →

What Does a Business Manager Do for a Business?

In a regular office setting, you’ll find an office manager who handles all of the office needs. This may include ordering office supplies, phone calls, managing employees, and a lot more. Most of the time, an online business doesn’t have an office manager to help with all of these tasks. There isn’t a person in [...]

September 8, 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 →

Tips for Requesting Testimonials: How Your VA or OBM Can Help

When you grow online only, it’s very difficult to build trust. It’s also difficult for people to talk to others when you don’t have a store front for them to visit. When a person can’t shake your hand or see how you handle other people within your store, they may be leery about making that [...]

August 25, 2011 Continue Reading →

Smart Do-It-Yourself Entrepreneurs Know When to Delegate – Guest Blogger @KimDeYoung

Most entrepreneurs seem to have a do-it-yourself mentality especially when money is tight. For some reason, we feel as if we have to do it all ourselves. The reality is that to be really successful in business, you can’t do it all. You have to delegate. I personally believe our goal in business is to do [...]

August 11, 2011 Continue Reading →