Posts made in October, 2008

Twitter and AWeber – a Marriage Made in Heaven!

Posted by on Oct 30, 2008 in Virtual Assistance | 0 comments

If you publish your own newsletter or ezine, or provide this service for your virtual assistance clients you are very likely already familiar with Aweber which is the newsletter delivery service that I use.  Recently Aweber integrated Twitter into their service and you can now broadcast your email newsletter to people who are not subscribed to your list but who do follow you on Twitter.  By automatically sending a tweet, a link to an online version of the newsletter will show up in your...

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Online Marketing Tips

Posted by on Oct 25, 2008 in Virtual Assistance | 0 comments

Each week I get emails asking me for recommendations on learning materials and programs, business automation tools, and other products and systems that can help you grow and build your online business. These are resources that are personally used by me, my development team and my virtual assistance team. Web Video University Did you know that 65% of online surfers will finish watching a video ad which is a far better success rate than the 20% who complete reading a text ad.  This online...

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Free and Easy Text Conversion Tool

Posted by on Oct 24, 2008 in Virtual Assistance | 0 comments

I know a lot of VA’s who do transcription as well as virtual assistants who compile e-books for themselves or their clients.  One of the most annoying and time consuming issues when typing any kind of document is to find that somewhere, somehow, you’ve typed entire sentences or paragraphs in the wrong case.  Do you want to scrap the document and start over?  The simple answer is go to www.TryingToBreak.com and avoid a mini-meltdown.  This free and simple web based tool supports...

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Free WordPress and Blogger Templates

Posted by on Oct 22, 2008 in Virtual Assistance | 0 comments

So many new Virtual Assistants are asking me for advice on blogging and where to get professional, and free, templates that I went on a hunt for free templates.  I use WordPress but was able to find a good linkfor Blogger templates at Gecko & Fly.    For free WordPress templates try these sites: AlexKing.org Blogging Pro Emily Robins.com Weblog Tools Collection WordPress.org If you come across any great Blogger themes, please be sure to let us know. Your Partner in...

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Top 5 Reasons Your Clients Struggle with Marketing & How You Can Help Them

Posted by on Oct 20, 2008 in virtual assistant industry | 0 comments

If you’re like most Virtual Assistants, Web Developers, Coaches, or other online service professionals, you wish you could clone yourself. Phones ringing, email piling up and client project lists growing longer and longer.  At the same time, you wish you could clone your best clients–and keep the ones you have.In the midst of this, comes the question: “Do you do…copywriting…sales letters…marketing…(fill in the blank)?”  Since you really want to...

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