Stephanie Watson's Virtual Assistance Team

If you want to seriously boost your productivity find a Virtual Assistant who works with an entire team, then all you have to do is work with one person. That person manages all your projects, gets them done, makes sure they are done correctly.

When you outsource to several people you will spend more money and time talking to each person separately, because contractors charge for their time. If you only have to explain to one person, the Project Manager, and then the project manager makes sure your job is done to your specifications. You should not have to spend a lot of time sending multiple emails, having multiple phone calls, and all that goes with micro managing.

Learn to allow the professional that you hired do their job.  Yes, you have to organize it, and plan it out. You have to choose how you want things to look, what promotions to do, what sales to have, but your Project Manager then will be in charge of making sure it happens by the dates you set.

At most, a weekly 30 minute conference with your Project Manager should be sufficient to work out expectations. Other than that you have to find a way to let go of the minutia of daily tasks. Planning is a good thing, setting goals are good things, but action is what is going to push you forward to completion on any project.

Micro managing will ultimately lead to issues with contractors in terms of stifling the creativity of your team, taking up a lot of time, costing you a lot of money, aggravation and frustration.

If you are ready to stop micro managing, if you are ready to get your projects done, if you are ready to concentrate on the plans in your business that earn you money, it’s time to hire a project manager.

You can do this in a couple of ways. You can come to a place like here, and hire Stephanie and her team, or you can hire your own team and then hire someone, like Stephanie, to manage them. The least expensive method is likely the first, but some people are uncomfortable with that and this is completely understandable.

Either way, find a way to let go of micro-managing and move toward an outcome focus. If you hire good people, set goals, hold people accountable, provide your team what they need to succeed, and focus only on outcomes not each little process minutia then you will find yourself feeling a lot happier and more free about your business.

You will also start seeing a larger return on your investment.

Having good relevant content generates leads for your business. It generates leads because of the way Search Engines work. Search engines “crawl” a website looking for words, if it sees an image without a tag it jumps off. It is very important that you understand how to set up a blog or website for maximum traffic generating results.

There are two things you can do today to generate more traffic:

1) Put original relevant content on your blog as often as possible, daily if you can. The posts do not have to be long. 200 to 350 words is plenty for a blog. Make each blog post laser targeted about one thing.

Example: A Candy Site – Post separate blog posts various kinds of candy.  Be very minute in your posts. Writing a post about only butterscotch candy may seem ridiculous, but it works, especially if you link to the butterscotch candy that you are selling.

2) Write articles specifically to use on article marketing sites. These articles should be very general in nature and should not actively sell anything or be branded with your brand. They should be general articles. If you have a Direct Selling Business and you want to attract people to sign up for your business write articles about Direct Selling in General.

Example: Signs that a Direct Selling Company is honest, or 10 surefire ways to get leads, these are articles that are general but targeted, and the readers find you by reading your bio, which contains a link back to your site.

These are just a few things you can do right now to up your website’s ranking and generate more sales or sign ups.

If you need someone to assist with content creation contact me today for a proposal.

If you’re an Internet Marketer, and if you have a website that you want people to see, you are essentially an Internet Marketer, then you need a lot of content. Why do you need content?

Your Blog – You need content for your blog. You should update your blog at least weekly, if not more often. Blog posts are very informal, should not be more than 300 to 400 words long, and laser targeted on one point.

Website Copy – You will need copy to make your website speak to your visitors. Every page should have some sort of call to action otherwise no one will know what to do when they visit your site. Website copy should be easily scanned with plenty of white space and should think benefits over features.

Website Articles – It is useful to have a nice article directory that is targeted toward what your visitors will be interested in reading. For instance if you have a site about Hats, you should have a lot of articles about Hats. For instance: “Hats worn in movies” “Hats worn by bikers” “Hats to die for” and so forth.

Article Marketing - You should have articles out at least weekly that are NOT on your website distributed to various article marketing sites and e-zines. These should be very general in nature, should not sell anything, but your authors bio should be yours and should link back to your website.

In addition if you are a bricks and mortar business you will have a need for copy for offline marketing efforts such as brochures, business cards, fliers, advertisements, and press releases.

You might have to hire more than one content producer to obtain all these different types of copy one that is proficient in offline marketing and one that is proficient in online marketing.

But, the point is, you can outsource this task with relative ease. As a Virtual Assistant who specializes in Content Producing for Websites and Internet Marketing I can help you with many of these needs.

Contact me today if you need content and I can tell you about the packages that I offer.