How Hiring An Internet Marketing Virtual Assistant Can Increase Profits For Your Business?
July 4, 2009 by Lisa Santos · 1 Comment
If you are a business owner or entrepreneur, you’ve come to realize that marketing your business online has massive potential for huge profits. But if you’ve done your research on internet marketing, you’ve probably also realized that there are so many different ways to market online and many of it takes time and effort.
This is where an Internet Marketing Virtual Assistant can be your answer. So what exactly can an Internet Marketing Virtual Assistant do and how will he/she increase profits for your business?
Here’s a brief list of the different internet marketing tasks a virtual assistant can perform for your business:
Maintain Your Blog or Website Maintenance
If you have a blog or website, you can hire a virtual assistant to load your blog posts and schedule them to post on different days. A virtual assistant with search engine optimization expertise can make sure the right keywords are used on your blog or website. He/She can also update your content regularly on your blog or website when changes are needed. With your website consistently maintained and optimized for the web will help bring you a steady flow of traffic.
Write and Submit Articles
It is well known that writing articles and submitting them to article directories is a sure way to drive a flow of traffic to your website and generate quality leads. Your virtual assistant can write and submit 1 to 3 articles a week on your niche. This technique will definitely bring you continuous traffic to your site while building backlinks.
Write and Submit Press Releases
Press Releases are another fantastic way to generate traffic to your website. Each time your company has a new announcement to share, your virtual assistant can write a press release about it. Also, Press Releases like articles create backlinks to your site.
Email Marketing
In order to do email marketing, you need an autoresponder system. A Virtual Assistant who specializes in internet marketing will most likely know how to set up an autorepsonder service for your website. This includes creating the opt-in form for your site and loading all the messages. With this assistance, you’ll be able to concentrate on building a list instead of trying to maintain it.
Post Classified Ads
With so many classified ad sites available on the internet, your internet marketing virtual assistant can post several ads a day on the top visited sites.
Social Media Marketing
Social Media Marketing is a form of internet marketing which uses sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube to achieve branding awareness of a company’s products and services to the masses. If you have an account with any of these social networks, then an internet marketing virtual assistant can maintain these social networks on behalf of your business helping you stay in touch with your audience.
As stated earlier, this is just a brief list of the many different internet marketing techniques that an internet marketing virtual assistant can do for your business to increase profits for your business. The more traffic you receive the more sales you make! When you are searching for a virtual assistant, be sure to ask the right questions concerning their experience and expertise in this area before hiring. But once you find that qualified assistant, you’ll be seeing amazing results in your business in no time.
Virtual Assistant Cost Comparison
March 2, 2009 by Lisa Santos · Leave a Comment
Here you are the entrepreneur with a business that is nicely taking off with the grace of an eagle…Your dream is now a reality! Your agenda is now overflowing with meetings, you are working 50 hours per week, and your paperwork is piling up.
Congratulations, you are now the sole owner of a full time administrative position that will not only keep you up at night, but also prevent you from playing golf with the boys next weekend.
So, what are your options? Well, you can hire full time help, outsource your work to a Virtual Assistant, or do the administrative work yourself!
Making the decision of hiring full time help is the traditional way, but does it mean that this is your best choice? Do you really know what you are paying for?
Based on surveys done by Salary .com and America Online the average base salary for an administrative assistant in the United States is $39,795.00 per year, or $19.13 calculated on an 8 hour per workday.
Again, from these surveys, workers admit to wasting and average of 1.15 hours per workday, which adds up to $5,720 per year, per worker in wasted salary dollars!
In other words, if you hire an assistant at $39,795.00 per year, you can expect to lose $5,720 per year on wasted time!
Your second option is outsourcing your administrative work to a Virtual Assistant.
Now, what is a Virtual assistant, and how can she or he help you?
First, a virtual assistant is not an employee, but rather a self-employed professional that offers administrative support services from her or his own home office.
A virtual assistant is a full time partner that has a vested interest in the growth of your business and will work in collaboration with you towards the success of your company!
When you outsource to a virtual assistant you only pay for the work contracted out and not for idle time frittered away at your expense! How much will that cost you? Rates usually vary between $20.00 and $45.00 per hour, depending on the expertise required and the project at hand.
In addition, because you are outsourcing your work, you are saving on the following: payments made to Medicare, workers comp, administrative costs, recruitment, base salary, benefits, office space and furnishings, equipment, etc.
On the other hand, if you still rather do the administrative work yourself, let us examine if your rate of return is really worth it.
You contract your services at a price of $150.00 per hour, and, in this past week, you have spent 5 hours of your precious time doing routine work at the office.
In other words, you just lost $750.00 doing the work by yourself.
Now, if you would outsource your work to a Virtual assistant lets say at a medium price of $35.00 per hour, your cost would be $175.00 and you would realize a saving of $575.00.
All and all the decision seems simple to me. Which would you rather do? Hire full time help, and pay for wasted time and equipment? Keep on doing the work yourself and loose money and marketing time for your business, or maybe take the proven and affordable route of outsourcing your work and hiring a Virtual Assistant.
Remember a Virtual Assistant is a professional that will work with you… A Virtual Assistant is a collaborative partner, and their success is measured by your success!
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