Virtual Buzz Assistant

What is better: A virtual assistant team or one great virtual assistant?

My Virtual Assistant Network may not like this article.  However, I exist in that vague in-between region of helping virtual assistants become better marketers and a higher value to their clients vs helping business people use virtual assistants to improve their business process and get the best return on the money they spend.

So let me recommend something to you – do not hire a virtual assistant.  Hire a team of virtual assistants.  Not a pre-built team.  Build your own.

Here is why.

• Not all your eggs in one basket.
• Focus on a few tasks for each VA
• Measure the effectiveness of each virtual assistant and expand or cancel based on individual performance.
• Get one experienced virtual assistant to manage the team of other virtual assistants
• If one person stops being a VA, you are not so dependent on one person.  You can more easily replace a limited skill set and focused tasks instead of one person that has been running your entire Internet marketing strategy.
• You can leverage better pricing by expanding your work with someone slowly.
• A business can see how a Virtual Assistant performs on a small number of tasks before entrusting them with more tasks.

Building a team of virtual assistants is cost effective and more stable for you in the long run.  It is also wise because you can hire the best VA for each task.  Blog writers are not necessarily good at online advocacy or link building.

Define how you would like to measure the success of each virtual assistant and hire a virtual assistant manager to coordinate and send you reports.  Of course, this only happens after you have a few VA’s that you have engaged and are working with.

This is even true if you are only hiring writers.  Hire 3 to do 2-3 articles or blog posts each.  Compare all the articles.  Which ones are most likely to get linked to?  Which ones are best for search engines?  Then hire all three if they are good.  Or hire the best one.  But remember, if you only hire one, he could later stop writing, become exclusive with another client or raise his pricing.  So having a team of writers is safer for you.

A virtual assistant can help you.  A virtual assistant team can transform your business and help you exceed your goals in less time.

You can create a lot of buzz with your employees via great customer service and great products.  But how do you create virtual buzz on the internet without distracting your employees?

Virtual Assistants can easily be trained to create virtual buzz on the web for you one a regular basis.  Not getting exactly what you want?  Great, move on and try another.  It is not like they are employees – and they know that.  Virtual Buzz Assistants want to keep you happy long term and perform better because of it.

Here are some Virtual Buzz Tasks that a Virtual Assistant can do for you.

1. Blog Writing
2. Blog Commenting
3. Blog Management
4. Website Updates
5. Affiliate Management and Recruiting
6. eBook Writing
7. White Paper Research and Writing
8. Contest Management and Promotion
9. Online Advocacy
10. Profile Management
11. Social Network Management
12. Press Release writing and submission
13. Article Marketing
14. SEO
15. eNewsletter writing and publishing
16. Link Building
17. Video development
18. Directory listings
19. Social Network Expansion
20. email followups
21. CRM Management
22. JV Development

There are more, but if you did all of these, wow, you would be well known on the web.  You can create all the virtual buzz you want with a virtual assistant.  Just don’t expect to have sales leads gushing in after only a few weeks.  These strategies take time.

There are many free resources that you can build that will grow in value if you use them frequently and do not try to cheat the system.  You can get great a great SEO boost from social media, but not by just setting up an account and using it only to link to yourself.

Here are 10 places that you can something up and use it regularly, and occasionally get an SEO boost by linking to something on your website or blog.  Keep in mind, a Virtual Assistant can keep these active for you so that when you are ready, a respected resource is there instead of a vacant building.

1. Blogger Blog
2. WordPress Blog
3. Squidoo
4. Hubpages
5. Gather
6. Facebook
7. Blog Catalog
8. Tumblr.com
9. Del.icio.us
10. Diigo

In all of these places you can publish information or links and in come create bigger audiences.  If you build up your power and visibility on these sites, you can then occasionally link to your own site or blog and get a nice SEO boost.  The important part of this is that you do not do the same thing on all the different sites.

A virtual assitant can grow and maintain these resources for you in a fairly short period of time.  The boost and power it will give you makes it a wise investment.

I read a long and detailed blog post here on Virtual Assistants.

 You might think that I am unhappy with bad buzz for virtual assistants, but nothing could be further from the truth.  Our goal at Virtual Buzz Assistant is to create a network of people that have specific specialty services that have high value and are in demand.  Plus, we require them to be English speakers.

Part way down in the article, it is mentioned that ideally you could work with a US Virtual Assistant that manages an Indian Virtual Assistant for certain tasks.  That is exactly our goal here.  First our VBA’s become proficient at creating buzz, then I hope they learn how to outsource some of the tasks and oversee the project for quality and proper execution.

I personally think that a Virtual Assistant that does not specialize is doomed to lower pay and has a much more difficult job of selling their general services.  Several times in the past I have thought about hiring a VA for marketing, but I never believed it could be successful because of the generalist nature of the offering.  This network is a direct result.