Michelle Poole set up her Virtual Personal Aid business after many years experience and now offers virtual office services to help companies grow and increase their revenue. Personal Aid to Executive Assistant now Virtual Assistant. She has been kind enough to give us some insight on her virtual assistant business in the UK to help Internet Infopreneurs and online marketers. Read on:
There’s a lot of sensationalism about getting help in your business as it is not possible to grow a thriving company while doing it all on your own. But do you fear that:
- You’ll lose control
- Someone will see your activities and giggle
- Somebody will screw up your ‘baby ‘
- They won’t be in a position to do it as well as you, or as fast
Obviously therefore but let us look at the positives: Read more... (727 words, 1 image, estimated 2:54 mins reading time)
Anymore it is a necessity to have a website to start a business or to improve an existing business. After all, most people will use Google these days to find a business in their local area before they use the yellow pages. The yellow pages will eventually be obsolete. Michael Reiss has written this post giving you a few web design tips to help search engines find your business website.
One feature that a lot of sites share is that they have a row of links along the top and bottom of each of their pages. These links are commonly referred to as site-wide links. It can be good to you if you have a particular page you want your customers to see. This could be a sales page or a product list page that may convince them to buy a particular item. Organize any site-wide links in a logical way to enable visitors to quickly find other pages. Consider using an alphabetical listing or other clear organizational methods to ease navigation. Always offer concise but clear descriptions of a page’s content and keep the links organized in an easy to follow way. Read more... (582 words, 1 image, estimated 2:20 mins reading time)
Sorry I haven’t been around for a while, but I am no longer in New York. I just moved to Minnesota and am not completely settled in yet. My office and big PCs are not yet set up. I have been getting some work done from my laptop, but won’t be back into full swing until my office is complete. It is taking much longer than I had anticipated. People here seem to operate at a snail’s pace compared to what I have gotten use to in New York.
I will be here for a while, at least 6 months and probably a bit longer, before moving all of my stuff again. I am slowly making my way back west towards home in Hawaii. This winter I will be in Arizona for a few months getting out of the cold in Minnesota while visiting loved ones in the dessert. Read more... (503 words, 2 images, estimated 2:01 mins reading time)
Lots of people want to become Affiliate Marketers because they have been fed the hype that it is such an easy thing to do to make money online. While it is indeed something that can be quite lucrative, there are still thousands that fail simply because they don’t know what they are doing. There is a bit of a learning curve that goes along with affiliate marketing and it does take time and work to get found by your buyers. Everything has its benefits and drawbacks and the disappointments of failing at affiliate marketing online could be really great. If you’re planning to join the field of other Internet marketers in affiliate programs, there are several things you will need to know: Read more... (655 words, 1 image, estimated 2:37 mins reading time)
If you have had a difficult time getting your taxes together to file this year for your online marketing revenue, you may want to consider outsourcing all of your bookkeeping needs to someone else so that you don’t have to worry about it next year. It will give you more free time and less headaches next tax season. Accounting and taxes are what outsourced bookkeeping services are all about and Mckayla E. Supernault can help you with that. Don’t wait until next year tax time to make a decision. Read Mckayla’s guest post to see if this is something you should be outsourcing in preparation for next year’s taxes.
You won’t have to worry about whether or not your bookkeeping will be done correctly when you have hired a professional to handle it for you. Doing the books
without sufficient understanding could create big financial difficulties for you later on! Read more... (512 words, 4 images, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)
Thousands of people around the planet are using Twitter, but most of them have no idea how to use it for marketing. Many use Twitter to make political statements, connect with friends or people at work, or even to make new friends. Some are trying to market their businesses, but out of ignorance are not doing it successfully.
Today our guest poster, James Duncan, has given us 5 marketing strategy tips to use with Twitter. I think you may find them useful. Let’s get right into the five guidelines to help you plan and execute marketing with Twitter:
Tip 1 Read more... (554 words, 3 images, estimated 2:13 mins reading time)
In the not so distant past, membership sites where a huge part of the majority of all Internet Marketing business strategies. They were really huge because it was a very super easy way to get a steady stream of reliable income going to the bank each and every month. Unfortunately there too many shady business practices going on that made it bad for the rest of us that are honest Internet marketers and the FTC shut down this type of sales funnel.
However, that does not mean that membership sites are a bad business model. Actually, they are still a fabulous business strategy that will bring in a extra monthly stream of income when done correctly. When people pay a small amount every month for information in the form of a coaching class that will last three to six months, you will know almost exactly what you make with no big time fluctuations. So how do you set up a membership site? Read more... (440 words, 1 image, estimated 1:46 mins reading time)
As everyone knows, first impressions count. That’s why every website should have an outstanding landing page or home page. Whether your site contains only 4 or 5 pages, or is an authority site with a thousand pages, your home page is the place to make a powerful impression. Felicity Stark gives you 3 tips for revamping you websites home page.
First-time visitors often end up on your home page. They want to know who you are, what you can do for them, why they should trust you and what makes you different. Most of all, they want these answers fast.
Here are 3 tips to a winning home page:
Clarity
Is your website design simple and clear? Does it quickly communicate your company’s personality and value proposition? Does it tell them what makes you different and why they should trust you? Read more... (448 words, 2 images, estimated 1:48 mins reading time)
