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Benefit: Increase exposure to individual posts and website through Social Media and to your newsletter list automatically.
Problem: Lack of knowledge of what tools to accomplish this and assuring that they are working properly.
Blog Better with a Virtual Assistant: Tip #4
How a Virtual Assistant can help:
Various tools exist to automatically push your blog posts to Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn – a Virtual Assistant can install those tools and periodically check to assure they are working properly.
Some of the Tools for Facebook:
- Using Networked Blogs
- Importing your blog to your wall using Notes
- For FanPages: adding in a “Blog Box”
Some of the Tools for Twitter:
- Twitter Tools
- Su.pr
- PingPressFM
- Tweetmeme
For LinkedIn, your blog can be connected to your LinkedIn profile with applications such as WordPress or Blog Link.
Many newsletter services, such as Aweber, allow you to deliver your RSS feed to subscribers on a pre-scheduled basis automatically. (Note: you must have a sign-up form to capture names and email addresses though for this to work)
Specific SEO Tips for Social Media
- SEO tip utilizing LinkedIn: When linking your blog to your profile chose “Other” and then anchor text your blog and website links.
- SEO tip utilizing Facebook Fan Pages: Using the Static FBML app add a box to profile with your desired anchor text.
- SEO tip utilizing Google Profiles: Anchor text your site and blog within your profile.
If your Virtual Assistant has large networks of her own on social media sites she may be willing to share your posts with her audiences.
Why: You are on social networking sites and want your networks to visit your blog yet want to update those social networks automatically.
What tasks would you add to this list?
Michelle Mangen is owner of Your Virtual
Assistant in Venice, Florida, providing virtual assistance
to small business owners who realize their time is better spent on
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Michelle, this series is working out really well. Let’s meet at the end of it, and revamp/revise the whole thing, then re-run it!
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Dave,
Thanks again! :-)
Sounds like a plan to me, by the end there will be new, funky tools available too and we’ve had some great notes in comments that will further define the series.
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maybe that’s a great idea if you are a busy people and if there are too much task to be done,.but I prefer to do things all by myself coz it makes me feel better :)
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Jerome:
Outsourcing may not be for everyone and you shouldn’t outsource what you truly love and what doesn’t feel like work.
The tasks that feel like work or the ones that you “never” do because you hate to do them are the ones that are best outsourced.
As for the automation of social media – I strongly advise against full automation because one will never benefit from the relationships that are crucial for our businesses to survive.
The steps in this post are presented so that we can automate what we can thereby increasing efficiency, which allows us more time to build the relationships.
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Michelle, I can usually tell when something is on full auto, because there’s nobody “there.” It’s the social media equivalent of “lights are on but nobody’s home.”
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Dave – that’s a great analogy. :-)
Some virtual assistant s specialize in certain skills, (bookkeeping, data entry, website maintenance). Others specialize in certain fields (legal, real estate). Many are generalists. Some virtual assistant ‘s offer expertise in marketing and advertising. The virtual assistant can also help you implement an advertising campaign.
Your right Michelle.. Outsourcing is not for everyone.. But when you do outsourcing especially on small businesses it requires an excellent communication that can build a good relationship to you customer.
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Aiza:
Communication is paramount in a outsourcing/virtual assistant partnership.
Granted it is important everywhere as many of us know from personal, first hand experience.
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That’s really a great Idea for every people who are busy with many works and have no time to do all the works by themselves. one that case a virtual assistant can really help you out to do all the task complete. Great post…