Hooray! Our Small Business Podcast Directory  is #1 in Google for “small business podcasts”! What a great accomplishment. That’s a highly sought after search term and a very tough spot to get to.

How did we get here? Patience and Persistance. Yep, the good ol’ double P.

Calling all Podcasters and Bloggers - we would love it if you submitted your business podcast or blog to our podcast directory. Whether it’s a podcast or blog directed toward businesses, or it’s a podcast or blog created by a business - We Welcome You!

Any podcasts submitted automatically get added to our Network Feed. What does that mean? You become part of the Small Business Podcast Directory RSS Feed — a feed that has already been established on iTunes and other podcast directories. Double your exposure, my friend…double your exposure. Gotta luv RSS syndication!

This also provides our advertisers with a high rate of exposure, so if you’re looking for a place to “hang your hat” in banner ad placement, be sure to check us out.

Some of our banner ad rates are as follows:

• Header ads 190 x 150 - animated gifs allowed (only 2 spots) - as low as $50 a month
• Sidebar ads 130 x 150 - animated gifs allowed (non-rotating) - as low as $25 a month

Check out our #1 spot in Google below!

If you have any questions, please contact me directly at support[at]virtualassist[dot]net

Andrea

Andrea Kalli Virtual Trainer and Assistant, LLC

www.virtualassist.net

Facebook! LinkedIn! Social Bookmarking! Blogs! Podcasting! AAARRRGGG!

Are you feeling the pressure of not being able to fit social marketing into your schedule? We’ve built a program just for you!

This course has been specifically designed for those that are already stretched on time, but still want to use social marketing sites and strategies to build and market their business. Sound like anyone you
know??

With this email-delivered program, you can create a complete social marketing strategy with limited amounts of time to devote to its growth. Juggling everything may seem daunting, but with a regular
schedule, you’ll be able to maximize your efforts with less time than you think.

Who this program is perfect for:
• -those that believe they are too busy to fit social marketing into their schedule.
• -those that are overwhelmed by all they read that they SHOULD be doing.
• -those that can commit to spending 15 to 30 minutes a day to tend to their social marketing structure.

Why this program is different from other social marketing courses:
• -It won’t cover absolutely everything available in the social marketing arena, which is likely to overwhelm you.
• -It will focus on the most effective strategies.
• -It provides a companion website for course material and ongoing news, tips, and ideas in the social marketing world – this is located in the E-Learning Center.
• -We’ll be helping you to participate in your social marketing strategy in manageable chunks.

-Program plan:
• -Setup – Your first 6 emails will be once a week and are focused on laying the groundwork for your success. These are spaced so you’ll have plenty of time in between each one to get everything done.
• -The Grunt Work — After the groundwork is done, you’ll receive daily emails for the next 21 days walking you through how to effectively market your business using the social networking sites and other strategies.
• -Follow-up — After the daily emails, we’ll follow up with reminders, tips & tricks once a week for 4 weeks, then twice a month for 2 months
• -Companion Website to keep you current. Fresh and new content is added regularly! All the material that is received via email is also posted here. Perfect for those that want to speed up or slow down the course. I’ve already posted an additional 14 bonus content items, with more to come.

The cost is only $85 for both the email-delivered program PLUS 6 months access to the companion website and all the bonus content. To sign up, go to: www.virtualassist.net/amember and log in. If you’re not already registered, you’ll be asked to register first.

Here’s to your social marketing success!

Andrea

Andrea Kalli Virtual Trainer and Assistant, LLC

www.virtualassist.net

Sherman Hu has a great post about using the functionality of the Roles Manager Wordpress plugin to control not only who on your virtual assistant team can make contributions to your company blog, but to control the individual capabilities assigned to them outside of the context of a role. Very cool! 

I can see how this function would work great for virtual assistant companies that have changing teams of people working for them at any given time. They don’t have to give a relative newcomer to the team full access to the blog, but still allow them to make informative contributions to its content. Great!

Check out his post through the link below:

http://www.shermanlive.com/2008/05/09/how-to-add-a-writer-to-your-blog/

Thanks for sharing this, Sherman.

Andrea

TRAINING ANNOUNCEMENT: New FREE Blogging with Wordpress 2.5 video course.

Now available through my E-Learning Center at www.virtualassist.net/elearning

You’ll find these in the Free Training Material category.

These are full-blown video tutorials - over 20 in all!

Topics:
1. Installing Wordpress
2. The WordPress Dashboard
3. Updating Your Profile
4. Managing Users
5. Creating Content: Pages and Posts
6. Writing a Post - Basic
7. Managing and Editing Posts
8. Writing a Page
9. Managing and Editing a Pages
10. Manage Categories
11. Manage Media Library
12. Manage Import and Export
13. Managing Comments
14. Blogroll: Links and Categories
15. Manage: Tags
16. WordPress Options: General
17. WordPress Options: Writing
18. WordPress Options: Reading
19. WordPress Options: Discussion
20. WordPress Options: Miscellaneous
21. Installing and Activating WordPress Themes
22. Working with WordPress Widgets
23. WordPress Plugins

Registration on the site is required, but it’s free to register.

Andrea

www.virtualassist.net

Still not sure if having a business blog is all it’s cracked up to be? Think again. It is an effective way to market your business, services, and products. Just don’t use it as a hard-sell strategy. You have to be willing to give a little (information) to get a little (or a lot of sales).

I thought I would share this real-life event with you.

This morning I posted a new article on my blog/podcast site, “Top 20 Ways To Use SharePoint Effectively”.  

A special thanks to Karen Reddick of The Red Pen Editor for helping me to re-write this article.   I didn’t want to post duplicate content from a similar article that I did on the same subject in a different location. BTW, she’s great to help you repurpose your material.

Anyway, I did an audio podcast on the topic and included it with the blog post, and in the audio I mentioned a special coupon for my SharePoint training video course but they would need to come to the blog site to get it. This is especially crucial for those that subscribe to the podcast, but don’t get around to visiting the website that it’s posted on. About 90% of my podcast listeners come from iTunes.

The blog post was picked up by Google within a few hours of being posted.  I’ve received several sales from it so far today.

Check it out…

#1 and #4 on Google for the term “ways to use sharepoint”

#6 spot on Google for the term “what are the ways I can use sharepoint”

Andrea Kalli

akalli@virtualassist.net

Outlook/Exchange and SharePoint Training and Support

Podcast and Audio Production and Support

Visit my Website and Podcast sites for How-To videos and more

Check out my E-Learning Center for on-demand Outlook and SharePoint training

Over 10 hours of SharePoint training for $24.95 - WOW!

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