Archive for Best Business Practices

Round-up Friday: Random Tips for the Business Owner

This week it seems there was a mishmash of topics on articles that I found useful but all will help you with business and marketing development.  So let’s get started. First up, is from Small Business Trends discussing event promotion.  What I found interesting was what they defined as an event and how to use [...]

Free Web Hosting, I think not.

I often see many new and emerging virtual assistants who use free hosted services such as WordPress.com, Weebly or Microsoft Live to run their websites. Stop Now! I will give you my thoughts on why this should not be acceptable for you business website then you decide. They own you content. They own and control [...]

Round-up Friday: Am I using Social Media Right?

There are no hard fast rules for social media. There are practices and uses that are acceptable and some that are not, so today focuses on social networks best practices. Let’s start with the planning and strategy stage. Danielle Leitch explains the importance of organizing your content and how to get started with a content [...]

The Art of Follow-up

I belong to several forums for Virtual Assistants and often times I see inquiries about getting clients.  Several newbies stated that they do not know where to begin, however it is not how to begin but how to continue the relationship.  Finding new prospects is easy, forming relationships with them is where the work needs [...]