9 More Ways Virtual Assistant Can Help Market Your Business

January 7, 2009 by yelena
Filed under Working with Virtual Assistant, blog

Virtual assistants can help with more than just administrative tasks. More and more virtual assistants offer internet marketing support services for their clients, including

1. Affiliate Management support – a virtual assistant specializing in this area can help you set up your affiliate program, build relationships with new and existing affiliates, and manage all the materials, including banners, e-mailes, etc.
2. Social Media support - this goes beyond simply setting up profiles on social networking sites; a virtual assistant can help you build relationships with your network; create and distribute content, from tweets to blog posts; and start and maintain engaging conversations in blogs, forums, and other social media sites.
3. Traffic & List Building Specialist - if you are trying to build a database of potential clients, a virtual assistant can help you create a sign-up form for your website, complete with a free downloadable product that your subscribers will get in exchange for adding themselves to your list and a series of follow-up e-mails.

Virtual assistant can also help you boost traffic to your site by using inexpensive and highly efficient marketing channels such as article marketing, press releases, joint ventures, and social media.

4. Publishing Support Specialist - do you know that you can create information products and turn them into another source of income? Yes, after years of experience helping clients, you have a wealth of specialized knowledge. Currently it works for you during the business hours which puts a cap on your income. But an online information product, such as an e-book, can make you money literally while you are asleep. Of course, simply writing an e-book and putting it on your site is not going to help you much. You have to actively promote it as well. Sounds like another great task to outsource to a virtual assistant.

5. Blog Support Specialist - if you are actively blogging, you know how time-consuming it can get. A virtual assistant can help set up a blog; write and edit content; search for and optimize images for your posts; tag posts with relevant keywords; respond to comments; and help you promote your blog and attract more readers.

6. SEO & Google Adwords Specialist – keywords research, onpage and offpage optimization, and pay-per-click can get very time consuming. A creative virtual assistant with a good understanding of internet marketing and a knack for analyzing data can take care many of your SEO and AdWords needs.

7. Membership Specialist – if you are thinking about creating a membership site or already have one, a virtual assistant can help you with both technical support and member relations. She can set up and update the site as well as respond to member inquiries, send out newsletters and other messages, and post new materials to your membership site.

8. Content writing - you might already use a professional writer to create your marketing content. Or you might be writing your own content. If so, your writer’s and your own time is a lot more costly than your VA’s. Virtual assistants can help save you time and money by either writing certain types of content (such as sales pages, autoresponders, blog posts, articles) or optimizing, formatting and distributing existing content. They can also help you track the results – how many people read and acted on your content.

9. Newsletter Specialist – many business owners don’t have time to publish even a monthly newsletter. Yet it is an essential and highly effective internet marketing channel. A virtual assistant can help you set up custom-designed newsletters, research and write content, distribute it to the subscribers and track the results.

In each of these categories, you can find internet marketing virtual assistants that can help you not just carry out the plan, but to develop a strategy or integrate a new piece into your existing marketing strategy. You can also find virtual assistants that are proficient in more than one of these services.

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