Virtual Assistant Blog

September 23, 2008 | 1 Comment

Common buckeye

If you are a virtual assistant and you are setting up a virtual assistant blog to demonstrate your skills, promote your virtual assistant business and promote your clients, this blog post is for you.

What should your virtual assistant blog focus be?

  • Business casual is a dress code that is someplace between formal and casual.  Your Virtual Assistant blog should be written business casual.  People should get to know you but you should not forget your blog has a business focus and you are selling your virtual assistant services.  Find that happy place in between.
  • Your virtual assistant blog should contain examples of how you have helped clients.  Help a new blog reader visualize exactly how you help people.
  • A good virtual assistant blog will be written with search engine terms in mind.  What are your potential clients searching for - write articles about that.
  • Don’t blog for your competition.  You might think that writing articles about being a virtual assistant is appropriate.  But too much of that is more likely to generate your competition looking at your blog instead of your potential clients.  For example, if you do a lot of book keeping, are you not more likely to find a client via search engines if you write articles about how to hire a virtual assistant to help with book keeping?
  • Contact information - You HAVE TO make it easy for people to contact you.  Really easy.  Why spend all that time writing your virtual assistant blog if your visitors just get frustrated when they cannot find the contact page and information.
  • Testimonials - Your clients can get some great PR and you get better credibility if you ask them for testimonials that you can place online.  Just be sure that you are secure with your client as publishing your client list can be an invitation for other virtual assistants to contact them.
  • How to - Don’t just tell, show potential clients how to do things that you can assist them with.

Your virtual assistant blog is a great tool that will help you build relationships and trust before people decide to hire you as their virtual assistant.  By taking the VA Blog writing seriously, it can be a great tool for getting search engine results, bulding an audience and generating great sales leads.

Posted by Ron McDaniel | Filed Under Blog 

Virtual Assistant Blog

August 27, 2008 | 1 Comment

Communication Skills Lab

Welcome to the Virtual Assistant Blog

This virtual assistant blog is written for all virtual assistants, but especially virtual assistants that choose to focus on marketing to create a higher value for their clients and have a more specialized set of marketing skills.

Blogging is a critical skill for virtual marketing assistants.  If we did not produce a virtual assistant blog that is of great value we would not be setting a very good example.

If you join our virtual buzz assistant network, an entire area of courses cover how to make blogs more effective.  How to write more effectively for them.  How to write for search engines and people.  Which wordpress plugin tools get the best SEO results.

These are the kinds of skills that our virtual buzz assistants develop so that they can use blogs and other new media tools to create buzz and internet marketing results for clients.  And some of them have a virtual buzz assistant blog for themselves as well, which is an excellent way to show your skills and demonstrate your blog buzz knowledge.

If this is your first visit to our Virtual Assistant Blog, I suggest that you subscribe to the RSS or the email subscription on the right.  The email option is automated through feedblitz and it will send you an email summary every night that we have posts.  That way you never miss an important article.

I always subscribe to my favorite blogs because commenting on a blog right after it has a new post can generate some buzz and visibility for you.  Plus that way I never miss a blog post.  Sure, I get some I don’t care about as well, but it only takes a second to delete it or move on in the RSS reader.

If you have a virtual assistant blog, be sure to comment on this post and link to yours.  I hope that this post can become a central point where we can list many virtual assistant blogs and anyone interested in the topic will be able to find more information than they could ever read.

Do you have a virtual assistant blog?  Comment below and let me know!

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Posted by Ron McDaniel | Filed Under Blog 

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