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3 Podcast Production Styles – Which is Right For You?

The Birth of Podcast Production Since this is my first guest blog post for VirtualAssist.net, I guess I should introduce myself and tell you a little bit about my company.  My name is Andy Robbins and I started my podcast production company, AudioFile Solutions, in 2002 after spending the previous 9 years in the audio [...]

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Virtual Assistant Training – VAClassroom Summer Skill Camp 2010

Virtual Assistant Training – VAClassroom Summer Skill Camp 2010

Summer is a great time to stretch your legs and get outside for some awesome fun in the sun. It’s also a great time to stretch your mind and enhance your business! So let’s do BOTH!! Summer is one of the best times for me to catch up on my learning, so this summer I’ve [...]

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Internet Marketing: Building Communities Around Your Business

Business terms come and go. In the 1990s, you couldn’t walk through an office building without hearing “paradigm” mentioned. In the early 2000s, it was all about “connectivity.” Now, we have moved on and have a new term, which is equally misused and misinterpreted: community. It is not difficult to see how community became the [...]

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The Uses and Benefits of Membership or Continuity Sites

Digital goods and virtual products have moved from an ultra-niche market to a mainstream, multi-billion dollar industry. From online role playing games to ultra-detailed advertising training websites, more companies are adopting a continuity billing model to provide customers with high quality membership content. Perfected by online marketers in the last two years, the recurring billing [...]

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Permission Marketing 101: Six Ways to Keep Subscribers Happy

One of the most valuable marketing skills is the ability to build relationships with prospective customers over days, weeks, months, and even years. From small purchases to big business relationships, the entire business world is built on connections and networking. In order to truly succeed online, you need to dedicate a large amount of your [...]

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Using Social Media for Product Launches

Using Social Media for Product Launches

Social media marketing is quickly becoming one of the hottest, most talked about, and most effective forms of marketing out there. While thousands of marketers battle for the best PPC advertising spots, conversion rates, and lowest bid prices, smart marketers are building communities, fostering organic support, and launching their products to ultra-cheap promotion through social [...]

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Using WordPress for Business – Let a Virtual Assistant Support You

Initially a platform exclusively used amongst bloggers, WordPress has picked up a lot of steam in the world of online business and corporate web design. Thanks to an incredibly scalable and effective platform, a wide range of designs, and great potential for business web designers, more and more businesses are electing to host their websites [...]

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Three Ways to Create a Community Around Your Blog

In 2004, the major virtue of blogging was that it established two-way conversation, a communications type that was, up until that point, relatively uncommon in publishing. The previous generation of publishers — newspapers, magazines, and online articles — were a one-way communications tool, and discussion was generally limited to off-site forums and other online communities. [...]

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