Leverage Your Highest Priced Billable Skills
One of the fastest ways to grow your revenue and profits is to leverage your highest billable skills. Most entrepreneurs—including virtual assistants—overlook this simple strategy. It will save you time and energy while increasing your profits.
I am often asked how to set your prices. This is a quick and rough way of doing it, but it can also be effective. First, follow yourself around for a few days or even a week. Keep diligent track of the…
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Added by Denise Griffitts on September 9, 2009 at 2:56pm —
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Assist Your Client in Building a Membership Site
Customers give their trust in the act of purchasing a product or service once they feel they know and like the person from whom they are buying. Your client will benefit from a membership program that provides low-risk, high-return information to “members only.” A membership program is an excellent way to capture information about prospects before they buy so you can better understand the products, services and offers that will compel the…
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Creating new profit streams for a client should be a part of every expert virtual assistant’s services. She should be aware of dozens of ways that her client can serve more people by leveraging his knowledge through technological distribution systems. One method of delivery that every VA should become familiar with is the teleseminar or webinar series.
When properly designed, marketed and delivered, a free teleseminar or webinar series can attract hundreds or thousands of new clients. Consider…
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Assist your client with the creation of an e-book, book, or downloadable report
As an expert
Virtual Assistant who focuses on more than a single niche, you will quickly learn your clients’ products and services, and may actually be instrumental in the creation and implementation of some of them. With this knowledge, you can help your clients create new profit streams by creating downloadable reports, white papers or e-bo…
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Added by Denise Griffitts on September 9, 2009 at 1:34pm —
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Documenting Your Business Processes and Systems
Even though we are Virtual Assistants, many business processes are still driven by paper-based information. Quite simply, our ability to generate information and processes for our clients has taken off, while our ability to manage it lags behind, swept under the necessity to take care of pressing client projects.
You must understand how your business works and this means understanding your business systems, procedures, policies and process…
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Added by Denise Griffitts on September 9, 2009 at 12:36am —
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We had such a great
“Ask Denise Griffitts Your Virtual Assistance Industry Questions” teleseminar on Tuesday that it inspired us to share 13 Virtual Assistant profit growth strategies, one each day, as we count down to the
Virtual Assistance University launch on September 15.
Today’s profit growth strategy tip is offered by Tony Bodoh.…
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Added by Denise Griffitts on September 8, 2009 at 11:56pm —
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Relationships can be compared to a garden in that they require attention and care in order to flourish. A garden requires sunshine, water, good soil, fertilizer, and a caring and knowledge…
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Added by Denise Griffitts on August 26, 2009 at 4:33pm —
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Your Partner In Success BlogTalkRadio Show
This week I am excited to welcome to the show business blogging expert, online marketing advisor and founder of The Blog Squad, Denise Wakeman. With more than two decades of business and online marketing experience, she helps authors, speakers, service professionals, and small business owners optimize and leverage great blogs as well as strategically use social media tools to gain visibility, build credibility and manage their online reputation.…
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Relationships can be compared to a garden in that they require attention and care in order to flourish. A garden requires sunshine, water, good soil, fertilizer,…
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Added by Denise Griffitts on July 29, 2009 at 11:47pm —
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Our BlogTalkRadio show this week will focus on just what is involved in creating a good business plan. If you are a newpreneur, this show will show you the 5 essential elements of an effectice and actionable business and marketing plan.
My guest is…
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Added by Denise Griffitts on July 15, 2009 at 2:55pm —
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Increasing online visibility is the goal of most online business owners. There are many strategies for building visibility online including article marketing, blogging, email newsletters/ezine, expert question sites, press releases, social networking and videos.
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Added by Denise Griffitts on June 17, 2009 at 11:42pm —
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Yesterday I interviewed Ben Cope, "
The Internet Genius" for the second time on my BlogTalkRadio show. The response was tremendous and as usual, we simply did not have enough time to cover even a fraction of the information that we wanted to impart to our audience about WordPress. If you didn't have an opportunity to listen to the interviews live you can hear and download them here:…
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Added by Denise Griffitts on May 16, 2009 at 11:17am —
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I am going on vacation.... well it is a mini-vacation but goodness knows I need some down time. Since we are leaving tomorrow morning and my workload is immense we have made the decision to schedule the weekly "
Ask Denise Griffitts" teleseminar for next week. If you are already on my mailing list you will receive automatic updates. If you are not, be sure to signup on any page on this blog!
Everybody have a great week and I will be thi…
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Added by Denise Griffitts on May 6, 2009 at 10:00am —
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One of the questions I am often asked is, "How can I get the word out about my business or services without breaking my budget or losing my mind?" I am not kidding, that is often how the question is phrased.
I can think of two things immediately that will help you launch yourself into the incredible world of social marketing.
Are you an expert on something? Cat nip toys, Library operations, power of persuasion? No matter what your area of expertise you can create a…
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Ben Cope, "The Internet Genius" is a DotComPreneur, Web Designer, and Internet Marketing Consultant specializing in high-end, custom websites, including WordPress blogs. Ben earned his sobriquet "The Internet Genius" because the people whose websites he helped build saw immediate changes in fortune.
Ben and I work together on many high-end projects and I can tell you from the heart that he is internet marketing savvy, well versed in cod…
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Added by Denise Griffitts on April 28, 2009 at 8:48am —
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Entrepreneurship comes with its own set of obstacles to overcome. While many of us dream of creating successful businesses from the comfort and warmth of our own home, it is all too easy to get caught up in the day-to-day issues of building and growing our businesses.
Whether you work in a small section of your dining room table, in the spare bedroom, a corner of your garage, or in your own private office, staying organized can pose one of your biggest challenges as an entrepreneur. Many of us…
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Added by Denise Griffitts on April 1, 2009 at 2:02pm —
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Please join me as I welcome back to the show
Tony Bodoh.
Tony Bodoh is one of those people who has such an incredible mind that every possible opportunity I have to chat with him, I find or make the…
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Added by Denise Griffitts on March 4, 2009 at 10:51am —
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So you’ve read all the books on getting organized. You’ve attended seminars, listened to tapes, set countless goals to get organized, and you are still looking at an overwhelming pile of clutter that you can’t seem to get anywhere with. You probably feel frustrated, overwhelmed, embar…
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Added by Denise Griffitts on January 27, 2009 at 11:00am —
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I really hope that you will join me tomorrow, Friday, January 23, 2009 as I interview one of the best minds that I know.
Tony Bodoh is an expert organizational alignment coach and in my considered opinion, a thought leader. He is one of those people that just absolutely makes you think at your best and highest level.
Tony discovered connections between leading-edge psychological and neurological research and the…
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Added by Denise Griffitts on January 22, 2009 at 9:50pm —
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