Blogging is a great way to position yourself as an expert in your field and regularly keep in touch with your readers, whilst building an interactive relationship with them?

Have you considered blogging?

Blogs are less formal than web sites allowing you to inject your own personality into the content. The snippets of information that you post are generally shorter than articles allowing you to post regular short pieces and links to other information your readers may find useful.

And the best news? As the content is regularly updated and ‘fresh’, search engines LOVE blogs. If you want to be found in the top of the search engines, it’s the quickest, easiest and most cost effective way to get there.

At My Virtual Assistant, we provide a Blog Set Up and Management service that includes the full technical set up of your blog. We also design and brand the layout of your blog so that it is in line with your current company logo, colours and image. Once set up you can add your own content or pass that task over to us along with the management of reader comments and subscribers.

For detailed information about the latest pricing, services and packages available, please download our latest virtual assistant information pack here

At My Virtual Assistant, we often find that when we begin to work with a new client, they often don’t realise the full extent of the services we can provide. In this series we will look at some of the common tasks you can outsource to your Virtual Assistant that you may not have even considered.

Fact Checking

If you are writing articles, posting to blogs or making podcasts, videos, and other media to promote your business you need facts on your side; nothing ruins your credibility quicker than inaccurate information. At My Virtual Assistant we can double-check facts, provide statistics and backup information, and verify data to make sure you always put an accurate foot forward.

For more information about our services and how we can help you, don’t waste any more time, contact My Virtual Assistant today.

Most of us are aware of social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and the rest, but did you know that there are sites for online networking for businesses too? Are you active on sites such as LinkedIn and Ecademy?

When a potential client ‘Googles’ your name, often the results at the top of the page will return profiles from business and social networking web sites as the search engines love their continually updated ‘fresh’ content. So how is your online profile looking?

If you haven’t got around to setting up your profiles, or have done that but have not used the sites for networking or really showcasing your area of expertise, help is at hand.

At My Virtual Assistant, we provide a Business Social Networking service that includes the full set up of your profiles showcasing you and your area of expertise on all the major business networking platforms. We will also research which ‘groups’ on these platforms you should belong to and join them on your behalf. Once set up we can manage the accounts for you, set up your own groups, respond to links requests – and make them for you, answer email, etc.

For detailed information about the latest pricing, services and packages available, please download our virtual assistant information pack.

Do you ever forget birthdays or anniversaries or leave it far to late to purchase an appropriate gift? Ever miss the school play or sports day because you’ve double booked it with a work event you cant extricate yourself from so late in the day. Do you find yourself dashing from one end of town to the other to get to your next appointment, only to charge back to where you started from to get to the next one?

Do you think you might need to review how you handle your diary?

Do away with multiple calendars and dairies and use one diary for everything including business and personal appointments, birthdays, etc. An electronic diary works best because your virtual assistant can also update it so it is always current. You can access an electronic diary with any computer or if you are out and about using your mobile phone.

Why not give your virtual assistant instructions to alert you of any up coming birthdays or anniversaries so you have plenty of time to find an appropriate gift, or better still, let your virtual assistant research and purchase the perfect gift on your behalf and have it wrapped and delivered for you. Why not ask them to schedule your appointments for you so they can be effectively managed to save you time, stress and travel costs. While they are managing your diary, why not also ask you VA to arrange all the associated travel arrangements and hotel and restaurant bookings?

Now wouldn’t that make you feel a little less stressed and a lot more organised?

For more information about our services and how we can help you, don’t waste any more time, contact My Virtual Assistant today.

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Do you find that when you have a little ‘head space’ whilst driving or traveling on trains or planes you suddenly feel inspired? The idea for that article suddenly pops into your head or you feel stimulated enough to put together that email newsletter you’ve been meaning to send out?

Well there’s not much you can do to put pen to paper while you are driving or crammed into the 07:45 to Waterloo, so what can you do?

Most mobile phones these days have a recording facility so why not record what you want to say, just as you would have done years ago into a Dictaphone. You wont even feel like an idiot chatting away to yourself as people will just assume you are on a call on your mobile telephone.

You can then send the recorded file to your virtual assistant who can transcribe it into your article, newsletter or even your next training course or ebook. Imagine how much you could achieve on your next journey.

For more information about our services and how we can help you, don’t waste any more time, contact My Virtual Assistant today.

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“Hints and Tips provided by Justine Curtis of http://www.my-va.com”

When you are in the setting up stages of your business, don’t forget to set everything up as though you were a large company. For example, set up various email address for different uses and don’t have all email coming to one address. You can have ‘yourname’, ‘enquiries’, ‘customer service’, ‘quotations’, etc. In the short term you can collect them all by diverting the emails to one central address, but later on when you want to set up an auto responder for a particular query, or send the handling of certain enquiries to your VA or employee, you will have already segregated the emails.

For more information about our services and how we can help you, don’t waste any more time, contact My Virtual Assistant today.

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Have you thought about outsourcing your…

General Administrative Assistant – Thank You and Follow-Up

Many businesses send notes or make phone calls to recent purchasers. It’s a great way to say “thank you” and also to answer any questions and proactively resolve potential problems. We can send thank you cards or make post-purchase calls to new customers or clients, creating a memorable personal touch that can help drive repeat business and build long-term business relationships.

For more ideas, download the free guide “25 Things You Can Delegate Today” at My Virtual Assistant

Do you ever forget birthdays or anniversaries or leave it far to late to purchase an appropriate gift? Ever miss the school play or sports day because you’ve double booked it with a work event you cant extricate yourself from so late in the day. Do you find yourself dashing from one end of town to the other to get to your next appointment, only to charge back to where you started from to get to the next one?

Do you think you might need to review how you handle your diary?

Do away with multiple calendars and dairies and use one diary for everything including business and personal appointments, birthdays, etc. An electronic diary works best because your virtual assistant can also update it so it is always current. You can access an electronic diary with any computer or if you are out and about using your mobile phone.

Why not give your virtual assistant instructions to alert you of any up coming birthdays or anniversaries so you have plenty of time to find an appropriate gift, or better still, let your virtual assistant research and purchase the perfect gift on your behalf and have it wrapped and delivered for you. Why not ask them to schedule your appointments for you so they can be effectively managed to save you time, stress and travel costs. While they are managing your diary, why not also ask you VA to arrange all the associated travel arrangements and hotel and restaurant bookings?

Now wouldn’t that make you feel a little less stressed and a lot more organised?

For more information about our services and how we can help you, don’t waste any more time, contact My Virtual Assistant today.

If you would like to use this Hints and Tips item you are free to do so providing that the following credit is included at the bottom of the text:

“Hints and Tips provided by Justine Curtis of http://www.my-va.com”

Have you thought about outsourcing your…

General Administrative Assistant – Gifts and Cards

Whether they’re our friends or our customers and clients, all of us want to remember important people at special times. Provide spending guidelines and other basic information, and we can track down and send the perfect gifts, send online cards, or mail pre-signed greeting cards to everyone on your list.

For more ideas, download the free guide “25 Things You Can Delegate Today” at My Virtual Assistant

Are you one of those people who wakes in the middle of the night in a cold sweat because you have just remembered something you simply must not forget to do tomorrow? Then when you wake you’ve forgotten it again.

Do you have your best ideas and come up with your best solutions to niggling problems when you have a bit of head space while you are commuting on a train or out for a stroll in the fresh air?

Do you suddenly remember a call you need to make only to forget again the next time you are sat by the telephone?

Get a notebook and carry it everywhere. A small, pocket sized one is all you need. Then when the thought hits you, you can write it down and relax, happy that the moment of enlightenment will not be forgotten. You can then forget about it until you are back at home or in your office where you can add what ever it was to your to-do list.

For more information about our services and how we can help you, don’t waste any more time, contact My Virtual Assistant today.

If you would like to use this Hints and Tips item you are free to do so providing that the following credit is included at the bottom of the text:

“Hints and Tips provided by Justine Curtis of http://www.my-va.com”