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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27 Feb
Since I have started the Social Media Marketing training class, I have become a raving fan of Craig Cannings and the VA Classroom. I really think is is a great place for new and veteran Virtual Assistants alike to get comprehensive training on important niches like Internet Marketing and Social Media Marketing. This has become [...]
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26 Feb
Here at the Virtual Perception, it is my goal to provide great resources to new and aspiring Virtual Assistants, and answer common questions about getting started and how to be successful. Today I would like to welcome Ruth Martin of Maplewood Virtual Assistance, who was kind enough to answer our Q&A With An Experienced VA [...]
Posted in Business Start-up, Q and A, VA Resources 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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19 Feb
I just wanted to share a brand new blog that is perfect for aspiring, new or veteran Virtual Assistants to get get great guidance and advice from a real veteran of our VA industry.
Candy Beauchamp, of OffAssist, has started up this great new blog, 2 Minutes with a VA. Candy takes to opportunity to answer [...]
Posted in Education And Training, Q and A, 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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12 Jun
I just wanted to let you know that I added a great new resource to my VA Resourcespage today. It is a new eBook just put out there by systems diva, Kristi Pavlik of Adonai Business Solutions, and it has created a bit of buzz already in the VA community. (3 different people happened to mention it to [...]
Posted in 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 [...]
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04 May
A few new things have gone on here at The Virtual Perception. First I’ve changed our look so a more workable theme for this blog. I hope my new readers like it!
I’ve also added 2 new pages, Resources for Virtual Assistants and General Business Resources. I designed both pages to feature a collection of resources that I have run across [...]
Posted in The Virtual Perception News, VA Business, VA Resources by: MegBarberVA
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