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 | 1 Comment

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