17 Jul
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Recently, Entrepreneur.com posted a fantastic article titled, “Should You Outsource Your Online Presence?“. The article highlighted the value of outsourcing your social media marketing to Virtual Professionals.
Check out this quote from the beginning of the article..
“Between blogging, tweeting, Facebooking and updating a LinkedIn profile, it’s a wonder how a business owner has [...]
Posted in Education And Training, Great Tools & Tricks, VA Resources by: MegBarberVA
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15 Jul
As Virtual Assistants, a majority of us run our businesses out of our home, be it from a designated office, or a designated corner of the living room (hey, whatever works, right?). One major thing that may not be first mind is just how secure our office is. Working from home may give us a [...]
Posted in Business Start-up, Great Tools & Tricks, VA Business, VA Tools, Work At Home by: MegBarberVA
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20 Feb
Marketing with little or no budget can be tough.
I get a lot of inquiries from new and aspiring Virtual Assistants asking about how they can get VA work, or if I know of any companies that will hire them and just give them VA work. My question for them is what are they doing to [...]
Posted in Great Tools & Tricks, VA Resources by: MegBarberVA
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23 Jan
This is first in a series that I want to do of Q&A interviews with experienced Virtual Assistants. The aim is to give new and aspiring VAs insight into how they started their businesses, how they run their businesses and how it fits into their lives. This will be the first in hopefully a long [...]
Posted in Education And Training, Great Tools & Tricks, Q and A, VA Business, VA Resources by: MegBarberVA
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09 Sep
Today, a brand new book for VAs was released from fellow VA Alyssa Gregory named, VA Secrets Revealed!. The book is an insiders guide to becoming a successful virtual assistant from one who knows.
What’s covered in the book includes:
Common mistakes VAs make
Whether the VA Business is right for you
Finding & keeping clients
Marketing on a budget
Secrets [...]
Posted in Education And Training, Great Tools & Tricks, VA Business, VA Resources by: MegBarberVA
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23 May
The importance of online social networking seems to be a subject I am preaching about a lot to my real estate clients. But it is also crucial to running a Virtual Assistant business.
By virtue of being “Virtual” the life blood of our business comes from online sources. So we must reach out and market ourselves online [...]
Posted in Great Tools & Tricks, VA Resources by: MegBarberVA
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14 Feb
Every now and then I run across cool tools for my biz that I find so useful that I must share it. Well today I would like to give some love to www.DocStoc.com.
Recently in one of my networking groups, someoneone turned my attention to DocStoc.com and when I went to visit, I saw what this site had to offer and [...]
Posted in Business Start-up, Great Tools & Tricks by: MegBarberVA
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