Are You Ready for the New Year?

I am one of those people that have to “get ready for the New Year” – writing down lessons learned in the past year and goals for the new one. It used to be very easy to do a few years back when I used the Fortune Cookie method. I simply wrote all my wishes on little slips of paper and put them under my pillow. The first thing in the morning… Continue reading

Features are NOT Evil

This is a guest post by Tracy Needham of Compelling Communications, LLC

2 Reasons You MUST Include Features in Your Copy
 
I was reading Robert Plank’s Time Management on Crack 2.0 this past weekend and was thrilled to see a comment in the sales page section about remembering to include features in your bullet points.
 
Because features have apparently become the Chucky doll… Continue reading

10 Social Media Tasks You Can Outsource to Virtual Assistant

Some of the social media-related tasks that you don’t have time for and that can be outsourced to a virtual assistant or a social media specialist:

1. Article research, writing and distribution
2. Autoresponder set-up and writing
3. Blog post writing, formatting, optimizing, scheduling
4. Chat room, message board, forum moderation
5. Content writing, editing, formating
6. Content management, including re-use and repurposing
7. Newsletter writing, editing, formatting, scheduling