Friday 9 May 2008

Make More Money

The best decision you can make as an online business owner is to decide to make your own way and begin to delegate tasks that really need not waste your time and attention. An easy way to do that is by hiring a virtual assistant

A virtual assistant is a business owner, specializes in handling the administrative details about your business from the comfort of their home office. Now that virtual support have been around for a while, you will find virtual assistants, specialize in different types of administrative services: real estate, Internet marketing and event management, to name a few. You can even find that you could be more virtual assistants in your company, each with a different focus.

I can hear you now. They think: "There is no way anyone can do this, as well as I can."

Are you guilty of "I'll-do-it-myself-ITIS? If so, you have much in common with most other online business owners in the world. We believe that never give someone else a little time, attention, And devotion that we do. And you are right, to a certain degree. Nobody cares so much about your business as you. However, if you do not choose to delegate these things to prevent that you are in business development, Marketing and sales activities, you will not be in business very long.

Whether you are just starting, or have been in business for a while, the thought of a support team member can be daunting, and you ask: "How can I bring someone else if it only goes to my Cost? "

You have to make the shift to see these costs as an investment in your business, not as costs, and let the must do everything under control.

To help you assess what you delegate to an assistant, take a piece of paper and on the left side write "what I love to do" and on the right side write. "What I do not like to do".

Then, think about all the features you manage and roles in your company, such as planning and setting strategy, marketing, provision of service or a product in which you specialize in dealing with financial issues, speaking, writing, Networking, customer service, order processing system, etc. Most of my clients have three or four points on the "What I Love to do" - speaking, coaching / consulting, training and writing. The rest of the other functions and roles fall on the other side. The points on the right side, "What I do not like to do" list, as a major indicator of the types of things you need to delegate in your company.

Based on my past experience as virtual assistants and online business manager for a number of customers, here are 5 to delegate tasks to your virtual assistants immediately to help you begin to generate additional revenue in your company:

1st Ezine. An e-mail newsletter designed to help you with potential customers in your marketing funnel. Your VA format, the plain text and HTML versions of your e-mail newsletter. All you have to do is write your primary and filler articles each week and sends them to your VA format and send the finished product to your newsletter list.

2nd Media. Have your VA research, a media industry list. This value of this list is in the development of relations with these media contacts, so that the experts think it immediately when they're doing a story on your field.

3rd Article marketing. Write once and have this article work for you again and again. Have your VA submit articles you have written articles on-line databases to increase the number of links back to your site and to send more visitors to your site.

4th Strategic alliances. Once the fastest way to grow your business is through the creation of strategic alliances or joint-venture relationships. Have your VA research potential strategic alliance or joint-venture partners, provision of service to a similar target group or their customers could benefit from your product or service.

5th Product Development. Got recorded interviews sit around collecting dust on your hard drive? How about the information that you have created for presentations, you've never done something? Have your VA coordination of transcripts and audio processing of all recorded files, you may have and help you to polish into marketable products. Your VA can also help the format of printed material in an eBook, ecourse, Special Report, etc., and before you know that you, you will become an information marketer!

What operational aspects of your business, you can delegate to someone else? If you had more time, how could you increase the earnings on your company? Enter these questions of attention - and use of your Virtual Assistant to help you more profit with less of your time today.

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