Learning Website Design and Promotional Marketing

Hi lovelies,

Just a quick update.  As a Virtual Assistant wanting to increase my capacity to offer clients a greater range of services, I've been very busy learning Website Design, some HTML, Promotional Marketing and quite a few other things this last week.  Finding all the excellent resources and having a great company teaching it all has been a fantastic upgrade in my skill set.  One of the niche markets I have worked on and produced just for growth purposes is a site based on Uterine Fibroids.

Currently working on backlinks and SEO with a great internet marketing company that excels in disclosing all those tips, tricks and secrets that others tend to use as their campaign to get you in.  These guys don't even mention the word "secret".  Everything they use to market, they share, teach via video modules, provide all their inhouse tools and yes, I know what you are thinking.  Every internet marketer promises you that - right?

Yes, I know.  Trust me, I have spent enough money on them finding that out for myself.

Having been down THAT road so many times, as impressed as I was with what they presented, reluctantly I navigated away and instead of offering me the usual discount if I stay on the page, they offered me a course of theirs to do.  So of course I accepted it, opened it up... and started on it.

I couldn't believe what I was seeing and hearing.  All that terminology that no one else would explain or teach was right there.  Keywords, backlinks, SEO, Page Ranks, CPA, Network Marketing, and much much more.  That was all I talked about to my husband all week.  Why?

Because as I spent the next week signing up for the freebies from all the others and checking them all out, I'll give you one guess who's I kept going back to as I built the Uterine Fibroids site.

But I had already made THIS site right here.... yes, I had.

But there is something a little different that I want to offer as a Virtual Assistant aswell, this site here is a personal product, a personal service I am providing myself in assisting other businesses and UF is a promotional site (more of a test really) with all the keyword rich content, backlinks, social bookmarking etc etc.,  the one that I'm monitoring and learning with.  Gotta start somewhere right?

As a Virtual Assistant I want to offer clients diversity and a strong Internet Marketing background.... starting to get the picture?

The other one I just started on which I'm making a hub site - basically it will be bigger, much more diverse in what it has to offer people and a great place to come to just catch up on the latest more personal benefits that women will love... here it is Coffee Time Girls

I haven't done much on that one just yet.  But it will be growing as I grow and fast forward a year and that site will be burning hot.

Anyway, that's it for now lovelies.  I hope this stirred, motivated, drives you further and keep watching this space, its going to heat up!

Remember always SMILE - it's free AND it's healthy!

Fantastic Business Links for Virtual Assistants

Ive been extremely busy this week setting up some other sites, obtaining my own domain name and organising an "official website".  Basically I will be transferring everything I have posted so far to my new domain in the next couple of weeks and will redirect my readers to that site.

In my extremely busy week this week, (which is why my blogs have dropped a little) I have been doing a lot of training on internet marketing, but on my new website, I will be specialising in assisting business' to grow and expand their web presence for increases in sales.

This will take a fair bit of work on my part in refining the whole process, as right now, I'm spending a LOT of time researching the absolute BEST directories, forums, article marketing websites, keyword research tools and SEO tools to ensure a top quality service for my clients.

If this goes where I think its going to go, it could be a new trend in online business for offline niche business'.

I will also be eventually producing an e-book on the setup of the whole procedure so that others may reproduce what I have done and make a business out of it.  I have found, literally stumbled across an AWESOME Internet Marketing Company that just immediately opened the internet world up to me from the first sight of one of three free gifts they offered to me as I navigated away from their site.

I just couldn't believe it when I opened it up, how well organised, VERY well presented, and in step by step videos how easy it was to follow.  What amazed me more than anything else though was that if they were offering me all this detailed technical knowledge in such a professionally presented and detailed account for free.... what on earth is their paid instruction going to show me?

Well, that's what I'm about to find out.  Make no mistake folks, I want to build something spectacularly unique and THIS, what you are reading right now is where it all began.

Follow me on Twitter to keep track in brief of where I'm at with everything and how its going.

I will have email newsletters going out soon if you would like updates in your inbox.

And...... SMILE : )  Its Free !

Setting up Business and Administration Systems for a Perth Cafe

Well, I have just spent a wonderful week travelling to a Cafe in Perth and spending the week there setting up some, not all, systems and procedures in order to facilitate process that was needed.  Lightening the workload for any business owner is imperative as they always, not usually, but always have a LOT to do.

Streamlining processes is a specialty of mine.  I have successfully streamlined for mining companies, government agencies, small business and even a charity.  Once we know what kind of result or outcome we want or need, then we design the process to achieve it.  Some take the long way around and a few can develop a procedure with the minimum amount of time and cost.

I am one of those few.

I was advised recently to consider providing a phone consultation service to business owners, especially small business owners to provide formatting techniques and constructive practical recommendations to empower the business owner, reduce their overload, increase their down time and reduce their overall cost by either introducing new processes into their business by obtaining the information, formatting the plan, creating the process and implementing the whole system, OR, by streamlining an existing process or several processes into one.

One such system as a focus point for you to imagine for a moment is highly beneficial for any restaurant or cafe where the case in point is simply stock.  Identifying stock needed in a timely manner by one person or many, regardless, its a headache if there is nothing on paper, and even if there is, the question begs to be asked.... is it a systematic (literally automatic) process that can be done in 5 minutes or is it a verbal "let me know if you're running low on anything" situation that often sees food business' in an embarrassing, "sorry we've run out of......." situation?

Imagine for a moment that with a bit of data and a format in place, 5 mins of an employees  time followed by 15 mins of your time to update the Master Stock Inventory and then call your suppliers, would you consider that a time saver?

"Absolutely".

And I agree.

This is what I do.  Find a stronger, faster, more efficient process to ease the load on EVERYONE's shoulders, not just yours.

I will be putting my contact details up soon on my new website with all this information and more.  Check back here soon for more.

Having said that, its great to be back home and back to my family - AND computer!

And remember - SMILE - ITS FREE : )

Testing Posting from IPhone

Hello lovelies

I'm testing the ability to post from my mobile for when I am on long trips.

Yet another fantastic advantage from technology!

Sent from my iPhone

Business for Business

It just goes to show you know.....

For those of you following my Liquor Licence Application man story... WATCH THIS SPACE!

Remember I mentioned yesterday that I took on a pro bono Liquor Licence Application and trust me, we are talking about a document that you don't see the end of for weeks of work, no, this document is not just a "type it up and return it", not at all.  Regional Statistical Data, Forecasted Populations for the targetted area, links to supporting documentation and council strata plans etc etc etc.

Well, this morning, it all happened, as quick as that.  I'm off to Perth tomorrow night for a week to set up a business' administrative procedures from top to bottom.

Sowing.

Reaping.

There it is and this is ONLY the start.

WATCH THIS SPACE.

If you really, honestly, truly want badly enough to have a flourishing business, this is the principle of sowing.

Invest your time, energy and resources into one business that actually needs you.

A worthy business.

Watch what happens.

You see its really busyness for business.  There is no trade off.  Its just you.  Giving.

Try it.  You will be working the principles of sowing that I have seen happen in my life many times.  That's why I believe it.

So keep WATCHING THIS SPACE & checking on my Current Projects over the coming weeks.

I dare you.

You know what to do - SMILE - ITS FREE!!

Tonia : )