Jun 6, 2018 | Email Marketing, Virtual Services
Your email list is extremely important. You need to be working on building the list daily because email marketing is 75-80% of all landing page traffic. When you launch a new product or service, your audience needs to hear about it directly. You need it to promote it to your email list which should be your targeted market! As a result, you will see your sales go up!
Here I share 20 ways to grow your email list.
- Host a webinar or Telesummit, making signing up a requirement to participate.
- Create a website that has several places where they can sign up for your newsletter.
- Encourage your current subscribers to forward and share your emails.
- Add a link to your email signature. Have you ever used WiseStamp?
- Use your Facebook business page to promote an offer that requires them to sign up.
- Add a call to action to your FB cover photo that encourages them to sign up with their email.
- Add a call to action to all YouTube videos.
- Collect email addresses at offline events.
- Create a quiz that requires that they enter their email address.
- Pin your free offering optin on Pinterest.
- Look for guest blogging opportunities.
- Host a Twitter chat!
- Comment on other people’s blog posts, using your website URL that goes to your optin.
- Add a call to action to your podcasts telling your audience how to sign up for your lead magnet.
- Create a free, online tool and have users sign up with their email address.
- Utilize SEO to drive organic traffic to your website.
- Consistently connect with other bloggers.
- Run a Facebook ad
- Create content consistently. Killer content.
- Make your blog posts available to download.
Work on your email list consistently. This is how you grow your business. This is how you get your valuable information out there. Never stop. Never give up. Just keep moving forward and taking action. You can do this!
Jul 6, 2017 | Virtual Services
Ready to overcome overwhelm? A Virtual Assistant can help!
Delegate! Delegate! Delegate! I know. It’s hard. I get it! Letting someone else have any control over your business is scary.
BUT….are the little day to day administrative tasks that are taking up so much of your time truly making you money? Is there enough time in your day to promote growth in YOUR business? Does just thinking about it overwhelm you?
Yes….No….YES! Is that how you answered? If so…..we need to chat!
I’m sure you’re wondering….”How am I ever going to have time to train someone?”
Well, that’s easy…there is very little training you have to do if you find a qualified VA! Tell them what you need to be done, and they do it. They may have a few questions. But it is definitely not like starting from scratch.
You’re also thinking…..”What if they mess up?”
There’s that. It can happen.
BUT….what if THIS happens: You find a VA that fits your needs. You TRUST them. Then, they, in turn, will build on that trust. That’s how it usually goes. To me…my clients are important. I treat them like a new friend. I want to make them happy. I want them to see the benefits in hiring me immediately.
When you start with a new VA, first just give them a couple tasks. You will be able to tell rather quickly if you and the VA are going to work well together. There is this click that I tend to know right away when I start working with a client(often before I start working…..to the degree that I decide to NOT take them on as a client if I feel it isn’t a good match). Go with your gut. Your gut instinct is usually pretty accurate!
You can click here and see all that a VA can offer you. And if you don’t see something on this list….ask! I know I am always willing to learn something new. Heck, I LOVE learning new skills!! Just as you want to grow your business, I am always working on growing mine.
It is so rewarding to us, as VA’s, to see YOU succeed. Helping others is why we do what we do!
What overwhelms you? Can I help make it less of a stress? Let me know!
Jun 19, 2017 | Outsourcing, Virtual Services
Are you a coach? Do you have a virtual assistant?
No?? Are you serious? How in the world are you getting it all done in a day? Wow!
Let me tell you what all a virtual assistant can do for you and your coaching business! We can take soooo much stress off your plate each day. Seriously!
- Are you trying to get your social media all written and scheduled out?
- Are you replying to everyone who contacts you via your social media? Emails?
- Who updates your website by adding your new blogs?
- Who makes sure your website is secure? That all the plug-ins are up to date. Themes are up to date. Etc. You? Oh my!
- Who helps you get your speaking info out?
- Do your webinars go smoothly when you do them all yourself?
- Are your newsletters going out consistently?
If you answered yes, I do all of these tasks….you need to re-evaluate your system!
Wouldn’t you rather be doing things that make you the most money? That you ENJOY doing?
A Virtual Assistant can do ALL those tasks and more!
I know…you are maybe a control freak. You don’t feel comfortable handing things over. Yet, as your coaching business grows, more and more things fall through the cracks. Is that how you want to be known?
“Well….I had an appointment with my coach. But she forgot to write it down…now it’s 2 weeks before I can get in again! So frustrating. Maybe I’ll look for a new coach. Arg!”
NO!! YOU can do this! Do you KNOW all that a VA can offer?
Here are just a few things:
- Social Media: Have it scheduled…..never have a day that posts don’t go out!
- Email & Schedule Management: Get your email inbox down to ZERO…..DAILY!
- Blogging tasks: Make sure your blog is posted AND optimized!
- Email Marketing: Send out consistent emails & newsletters!
- Image creating: See all those memes on Facebook? You can have those!
- Webinar set up: They really need to run smoothly! Can you do that all alone?
- Telesummit prep: This, too….needs to run smoothly!
- Transcription: Ugh, who has time to do that?! (Yep, a VA!)
- SEO/Web Marketer: Getting more important each day!
- Bookkeeping: Keep your bills paid on time!
- Online research: Can you say TIME CONSUMING??
- Client/Customer service: Timely customer service. VERY important these days!
Today is the day to take control of your time. Today is the day you start doing what you LOVE doing and start delegating the things you DON’T LOVE to a Virtual Assistant!
Contact me TODAY! I look forward to showing you how to take your business to another level!
Also, if you want to have a great list of what a Virtual Assistant can do, click here.
Jun 9, 2017 | Time management, Virtual Services
Staying focused in your business is extremely important. Whether your business is a coaching business, virtual assistant business, e-commerce business…whatever it is! You MUST stay focused. Here are 8 tips I found helpful for my own virtual assistant business. I hope you find them helpful as well!
1. Have the RIGHT systems and processes in place. This will save you so much time and even energy! Efficient systems and processes for each task saves time and helps you stay on track to meet your goals.
2. Organize your emails. Use your folders, filters and rules to keep track of everything! If you aren’t going to read that newsletter that comes in….trash it! Don’t keep unneeded or unwanted emails. Even better…UNSUBSCRIBE to them! Have you ever used unroll.me? It is AWESOME! LOVE it!
3. Declutter. If your desk has piles of papers, books, whatever all over it….that makes it hard to stay focused. Have a clean working area at all times! Every night when you’re done…put things where they go! File them. Trash them. Whatever needs done, don’t stop your day until it is done!
4. Review your processes on a regular basis. If something isn’t working as smooth as you want, change it! Maybe talk to your mentor or coach….they may have a better way of doing some things!
5. Invoice regularly. If you don’t invoice the clients regularly, they can’t pay you regularly. If they don’t know what they owe, it’s not their fault! Get organized!
6. Make daily to-do lists. This helps your brain stay focused and what an amazing feeling when you have everything crossed off that list!
7. Take breaks. At least 2-3 a day! NOT counting your lunch break. Don’t eat lunch at your desk. (I know…sometimes you’re in the middle of a launch and have no choice) BUT for the most part…take those breaks! Stretch. Take a walk. Take a nap! Get your mind refreshed so that you are thinking clearly at all times!
8. Hire Help! Virtual Assistants can help you get the things that take your mind away from your main goal, DONE! And in less time, usually, than it will take you!
How do you stay focused? Share below in the comments! I would love to hear YOUR tips!
May 8, 2017 | Virtual Services
By now you probably know what a virtual assistant is. (If not….click here!)That’s because they help so many small business owners grow their businesses and be extremely successful. And let them relax a little!
Here are 8 reasons YOU need a Virtual Assistant!(And that’s just to start with!)
- Your workload is overwhelming. You have no time to do what you LOVE to do. The things that actually MAKE you money. We will take your tasks, organize them and make your business run smoothly!
- You want to be MORE productive and LESS stressed out! That’s where a Virtual Assistant comes in!
- Your email inbox is freaking OUT of control! You have hundreds maybe thousands of emails in your inbox and ONE missed email can cost you hundreds or thousands of dollars!
- You hate paying overtime and benefits when you really don’t need a full-time employee. We are contracted. No payroll taxes or retirement!
- You HATE social media! (This is a big one! What a time-consuming task!) We can schedule your content out and keep you in the public’s eye!
- You don’t have time to train someone. Either we already know how, or we will learn on our own time. This benefits not only you, but other clients as well, so why should you pay?!
- Customer service is not getting the attention it needs! With the internet, you do NOT want an upset customer or client! We will take care of it.
- You are tired of paying for coffee breaks and downtime. We work flexible days and hours so that you only pay for what you need.
I could go on for days with more reasons you need a Virtual Assistant. Let me just give you an abbreviated version of the tasks we can take off your plate:
- General Administrative Tasks: Client care, website management, transcription.
- Online Marketing & E-Newsletters
- Social Media Management
- Project management
- Telesummit management
- And so much more! Check out my service page for a more in-depth list.
Please contact me and see what my team and I can do for YOU! We are here to help you. We are here to be your sounding board. We are here to make life so much easier for you! All you have to do is ask!
