Do Plan on Attending Summer Camp in July at VAClassroom.com?

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This year’s Summer Skill Camp 2011 has a great lineup of eight 90-minute clinics including: – Success Strategies for Creating a Social Media Monitoring System – Creating and Promoting a Compelling Facebook Contest – Tips and Tactics for Building an Effective Social Media Measurement System – Discovering the Fine Art of Setting Rates and Building [...]

Access the Virtual Events Specialist and Camtasia Training Program Together!

It is evident that Virtual Events Support and Management will be one of the hottest niches in 2010. The stats are revealing of how many businesses are shifting their focus to delivering all types of Virtual Events to their different audiences. The problem is that the bulk of these businesses lack the skills, knowledge and [...]

Typical Objections To Social Media By Local Businesses

No one in my town and specifically in my target audience are actually using Social Media! This is a huge misconception! Assuming that your target audience is not out there in the Twitterverse tweeting, or Facebooking, becoming Fan’s of your competitor’s Fan Pages,  checking in on Foursquare leaving to do’s or tips, or leaving reviews [...]

VA’s – Time To Say Yes To Great Paying Tech Jobs

Are your clients increasingly asking for technical services? Requests like… “Can you pre-populate the sign up form with customer details from the shopping cart?” or “Can you put this video on Amazon S3 for me?” Let’s get real. These requests aren’t going away. If anything else, as business online mature, they are just going to [...]

Social Media Specialists will go mainstream in 2010!

I received this email from Craig Cannings Co-Founder of VAClassroom.com: “I was recently reading a 2010 Predictions post from one of my favorite blogs, Social Media Today and they were forecasting what trends would take shape in the coming year. Interestingly enough, the 2nd prediction on this blogger’s list was that “The Social Media Specialist position will [...]

Your New BFF = Facebook Fan PageFacebook

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Fan pages are one of the hottest pieces of Real Estate online today. Facebook has over 300 million users, did you know over ten million of those users become fans of Facebook pages each day?  Here are five reasons why Facebook Fan pages are such a powerful channel to increase your visibility and raise brand [...]

Social Media is not for Small Businesses

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This couldn’t be a bigger “Fallacy” the truth is small businesses that participate in social media marketing can cultivate loyalty and create the viral effect that comes with word of mouth marketing.  Along with this truth ” small and large business owners are becoming more and more conscious of social media.”  They are faced with [...]

Virtual Event Specialists

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It is always exciting to uncover hot and profitable new niches to tap into for your Virtual Business. Well, Internet Marketing, Ecommerce Support and Social Media Marketing continue to be very in-demand” services niches and will continue to be for quite some time, I am particularly excited about this new niche emerging in the Virtual Event Industry.

Outsourcing Your Online Presence?

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I was super thrilled to see the July 7th article in the popular online magazine, Entrepreneur, which highlighted the value and power of outsourcing Social Media Services to a talented Virtual Professional.

Check out this quote from the beginning of the article..

Do you have ground rules in place for Social Networking?

Having “Ground Rules” in place for Social Networking is a must. With these Ground Rules in place they help you to remember why you are social networking, with so many options it is easy to get sidetracked.

Here are a few questions to think about: Are you actively engaging your network? Are you a community builder, someone relationship oriented? Are you avoiding aggressive marketing tactics? Is you profile memorable? Have you established a regular schedule for participating? Are you presenting your self in a professional and personable way? Are you a “Social Leper” (a taker, all about you) or a Social Magnet (sharing your expertise, adding great content, and writing recommendations)? Are you spreading yourself to thin, trying to participate in every social network there is?