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VAClassroom’s Great Fan Page Makeover Contest
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ANNOUNCING… THE GREAT FACEBOOK FAN PAGE MAKEOVER CONTEST!
Our colleagues at the training center VAClassroom.com recently launched their newest two-week mini-course, “Fantastic Facebook Fan Pages.” In conjunction with this program, they are running a contest called “The Great Facebook Fan Page Makeover Contest.” If you would like some practice applying the content learned in VAClassroom’s live Fan Page Course PLUS an opportunity to win a full makeover of your own Fan Page, here’s your chance! All you need to do is submit either a video or audio clip explaining “why a Fantastic Facebook Fan Page would impact your business.” The winner will receive a full makeover of his or her Fan Page, including custom landing page, page formatting, applications and… Continue reading the rest of this article...
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Social Marketing Ideas for Coaches
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#3 in a series of 8 blog posts dedicated to providing real-world social marketing tips and content ideas for some of the most common industries and small businesses.
Coaching businesses run the gamut from Life Coaching to Business Coaching to Physical Fitness Coaching and beyond. They all share key elements. Educate, Inspire, Encourage.
Fortunately for you, social networks are all about developing the same type of relationship you already have with your clients. They are the perfect extension of what you currently do.
Central to your business success is the ability to engage and excite people about what you have to offer. How? Whatever flavor of coach you are you can profit big time from the creative use of social networking tools like Facebook… Continue reading the rest of this article...
Tags and Categories: business, coach, facebook, facebook, facebook pages, life coach, social marketing, social marketing ideas, tips and ideas for social marketing, twitter, twitterRelated content
How to Create Your Own Custom Branded Facebook Fan Pages
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October 19 – 30, 2009 launches the newest mini-course from VAClassroom – “Fantastic Facebook Fan Pages“, which will be available as an ongoing, self-run training course for whenever you’re ready.
Are you currently running a Facebook Fan Page, but feel like you have not yet optimized this powerful social media tool?
Tags and Categories: business, business tools, customize, facebook, facebook, fan pages, free images, free templates, how to, landing page, pages, vaclassroom, Virtual Assistant Training, welcome
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Quality Content – Your Key to a Winning Website
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Building a successful business is hard work, and building a successful website to promote that business can be just as challenging. In fact designing and building a website should be an integral part of your business plan, no matter what industry you are in. Whether your company sells its products and services online or not, a quality website will help potential customers find and contact you.
Of course finding your website is only part of the challenge. In order to reach those potential customers and turn them into loyal clients you will need to convince them to stick around. In order to do that you will need to provide those new visitors with something of value – and good quality content can… Continue reading the rest of this article...
Tags and Categories: business, content, google, Marketing, promote, seo, website, website seoRelated content
Building A Business Blog? Understand These Key Issues First
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Far too often, people create a blog for their business only to abandon it because it wasn’t what they had envisioned it to be. One of the most common complaint is, a low return on investment, the blog taking up a lot more time than they had to give. If you have not created the blog and are wondering if it is a wise move, take a look at these issues, understand them so that you enter this venture with your eyes wide open.
You Should Always Use Your Own Domain
This should be rather obvious, yet many people start business blogs on a Blogspot.com or even Wordpress.com address. Bad move. Now, let’s get this straight. Blogger and WordPress.com are fabulous… Continue reading the rest of this article...
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Traditional Laptop vs. Lightweight Notebook – 8 Factors to Consider
Posted by: | CommentsThere are of course many models of laptop computer on the market, from tiny ultra-portable notebooks that weigh only a couple of pounds to large, sturdy (and very heavy) models equipped with 17″ screens, full size keyboards and more. With so many choices it can be hard to know what to look for and just as hard to find the notebook or laptop that truly represents good value for the money.
If you have been trying to decide between a full size laptop and one of those ultra-lightweight notebooks you are certainly not alone. Many computer users are struck by the incredible lightness of these new portable notebooks, and they may be wondering if these notebooks can really replace larger and bulkier machines. These ultra-lightweight notebooks are certainly much easier to… Continue reading the rest of this article...
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Recruiting Talent With Twitter
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Twitter is a communications tool and a social networking service which lets you stay in touch with your friends and colleagues. It can also be a useful tool for businesses trying to make connections and can even help you to expand your customer base.
While Twitter is primarily known as a vehicle for socialization, it also has some useful applications for businesses. It can be used to keep in touch with staff and customers in a quick, easy way – but you can also use Twitter to recruit new talent for your business.
It’s always challenging to recruit talented employees. It can be even tougher to communicate with freelancers performing contract work for you – Twitter helps to give you a better sense of… Continue reading the rest of this article...
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What Can Twitter Do For My Business?
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As soon as your first product or service is ready to hit the market, you have a very important task ahead of you. You’ll need to find your customers; marketing is key to success in almost any sort of business and Twitter can be a helpful marketing tool to make your business grow.
You’ve probably already developed a plan for marketing your business online or you are currently working on one. You may be marketing through social networks, using article marketing and other strategies. Twitter is something which is well worth adding to your marketing strategy.
Twitter can be used for more than simply tuning in to the minutiae of other user’s lives. While people definitely do use Twitter to find out what people… Continue reading the rest of this article...
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Creating Membership Sites – Acknowledging Your Customer’s Loyalty
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In the world of marketing, it’s a well known fact that having a solid customer base is akin to having a dedicated team of sales reps who are only too happy to promote one’s business without actually being aware that they’re doing it. Having a membership site offers you this type of relationship with your customers.
Admittedly, this form of marketing does not focus entirely on email marketing campaigns, a method which was extremely popular a decade ago. However, there are distinct advantages of using memberships rather than email based marketing. Additionally, it has a far higher success rate at turning first time customers into repeat customers, not to mention the fact that it’s a lot easier as… Continue reading the rest of this article...
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Contests: An Exciting Way to Attract Customers
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Anyone who has been online for more than a minute knows that they will eventually receive emails that they do not want. This knowledge is the prime reason that using mass email marketing is nearly impossible. The better marketing model is one that generates excitement in your existing customer base; you can do this through promotions they are interested in. You see, when they are expecting something from you in their email they are more inclined to add you to their favorites list. This way you have gone completely around the spam filters that have been trashing your marketing emails.
You have many options available to create the much-needed excitement in your customers. Perhaps one of the best is a… Continue reading the rest of this article...
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