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Create an Onboarding Process for Your VA Clients

First impressions matter, in every relationship – but especially in business. When a client has paid you money or agreed to work with you, their expectations kick into gear immediately. If you aren’t providing a great first impression, you could be losing a bit of your client’s trust before you even start working together. Have you developed a great onboarding process for your new clients? If you haven’t, I have some great tips for you. Your process for onboarding clients should be all about clarity and communication. 1. Send a welcome letter or email. Once a client agrees to work with you, clearly outline what comes next for them. Be succinct in your emails – try not to get too… Read More »Create an Onboarding Process for Your VA Clients

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Are You Blogging To Promote Your VA Business?

If you are not blogging to promote your Virtual Assistant business, you should be. Blogging is an easy way to promote your VA business – it takes a bit of practice to get it right, but consistent blogging helps you create regular content, showcase your expertise, and drive traffic to your website – free! Here’s how simple it is: Create regular content. When you write just one blog post a week, you will be creating new content for your VA website. And that content can be repurposed to use in your other marketing initiatives, like social media. The search engines love new content. When you publish a new article, Google and other search engines recognize that as a new page… Read More »Are You Blogging To Promote Your VA Business?

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How to Write a Great Blog Post in One Hour

How long does it take you to write a blog post? If it’s taking you more than an hour, I’m glad you are here. Many Virtual Assistants have a hard time writing efficiently, and this often causes them to waste more time than necessary when it comes to blogging. When it takes you too long to do something, that task often gets pushed aside in favour of other things. Blogging usually takes a back seat to everything else in a VA business, often because you just don’t feel that you have time to get it done. What if I told you that you can write great blog posts consistently in just one hour a week? The key to marketing is… Read More »How to Write a Great Blog Post in One Hour

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Struggling with Creating Content for Your Virtual Assistant Blog? Do This.

You probably hear it all the time. As a Virtual Assistant, you should be blogging. Many VAs struggle with getting a blog started – or keeping it going. But writing a blog is not the only way you can create content for marketing your business. There is really one main skill you need to develop to get lots of content created for your marketing. It’s called repurposing. Repurposing means to reuse something you have already created in a slightly different way. I’ll explain how to do that below. First things first, usually the thing that stops you from creating content is not knowing what to write about. VAs who say they hate to blog probably don’t hate to write –… Read More »Struggling with Creating Content for Your Virtual Assistant Blog? Do This.

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10 Content Ideas for Your Virtual Assistant Blog

I was recently working with a VA who was trying to get some content up on her blog and website, as she was starting to network with potential clients. I suggested that she populate her new blog with a few posts so that when people showed up to check her out, she wouldn’t look quite so brand new. She was stuck because she said she didn’t know what to write about. This is a common stopping place for VAs – not knowing what to write on your blog. We often don’t see our own value and we think, ‘What could I possibly write about that would interest anyone?’ So I decided to put together a quick list of some content… Read More »10 Content Ideas for Your Virtual Assistant Blog

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10 Tips to Starting a Great Virtual Assistant Blog

Having a blog these days is a really great way to update your web content regularly and it’s easy to get started. But be sure that you take the time to put a plan together to ensure that your blog is not a hodge-podge of ideas and thoughts. 1. Decide whether you want to have your blog hosted online or if you want to host it on your own server. There are advantages to both. A hosted blog allows you to have someone else handle the backend technical issues. Hosting your own blog allows you more creativity, but also costs you more time and possibly money, depending on your technical capabilities. 2. Decide who your audience is going to be.… Read More »10 Tips to Starting a Great Virtual Assistant Blog

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Hosted Blog Or Self Hosted Blog – Which is Better For Your VA Business?

There are two ways that you can get your blog online, and there are definite pros and cons to both choices. Here are some things to consider when you are trying to make this decision for your Virtual Assistant business. Hosted Blogs A hosted blog simply means that your blog is set up on someone else’s server. Free Hosted Blogs There are free services for this, such as WordPress.com, Typepad.com and Blogger.com. These services make it easy to get your blog started immediately, because you just select a template, name your blog and you are live. Benefits of a free hosted blog are: * it’s free * it’s easy and quick to set up * it’s always up to date… Read More »Hosted Blog Or Self Hosted Blog – Which is Better For Your VA Business?

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