Monday, August 27, 2012

Work at Home with Your Family! Be a Pinoy Virtual Assistant





Are you a working mom or dad, you want to earn for your family but missing a lot of time to be with them?
Are you an OFW and looking for alternative to earn and someday go home to be with your growing kids?
Are you aspiring to be an online entrepreneur but doesn't know where to start?

Here is your chance to Attend the Virtual Assistant Seminar to learn how you can work from home by a Filipino Internet Coach, Jomar Hilario.


Date/Time: September 15, 2012/9am to 5pm
Venue: Rosewood Pointe, Taguig City (How to go to Rosewood)

Click here to attend the Virtual Assistant Seminar


Still interested but not in Manila to attend? OFWs? You can download the VA Seminar. Click here to avail of the DOWNLOADABLE VA Seminar. Your downloadable version consists of the ff:

a. Access to the Video (not LIVE video)
b. Access to the Audio
c. Access to the Presentation materials and bonuses
d. Its not via webcam
e. It's not live (so you can watch/study at your free time)
f. It's self-paced training

Grab this chance reserve your seats or avail of the downloadable version!


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Sunday, August 26, 2012

Attend the Virtual Assistant Seminar on Sept 15, 2012 by Jomar Hilario

Working Mom while spending time with kids? Impossible? Nope...The internet has made the  world flat  and  many countries are outsourcing their activities outside of their own countries..Grab this opportunity to earn while taking care of your family.



Do you want to learn how to be a "hireable" Virtual Assistant (You "Work from Home" or Anywhere you want)? Here's your chance to learn from a Filipino Internet Marketing Mentor, Mr. Jomar Hilario.

Date/Time: September 15, 2012/9am to 5pm
Venue: Rosewood Pointe, Taguig City (How to go to Rosewood)

Click here to attend the Virtual Assistant Seminar


Still interested but not in Manila to attend? OFWs? You can download the VA Seminar. Click here to avail of the DOWNLOADABLE VA Seminar. Your downloadable version consists of the ff:

a. Access to the Video (not LIVE video)
b. Access to the Audio
c. Access to the Presentation materials and bonuses
d. Its not via webcam
e. It's not live (so you can watch/study at your free time)
f. It's self-paced training




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Saturday, August 25, 2012

How to Create Blog using Blogger


Here's how you can create blog for free using Blogger.  One of the basic knowledge that Virtual Assistants should know is blogging, it is one of the tools or platform being used by businessmen which they commonly outsource to VAs.
How to Create Your Blogger Blog

Friday, August 24, 2012

How to Use LinkWithin for Blogger

Linkwithin is a free blog widget that appears under each post, linking to related stories from your blog archive. This widget will show related topics that might interest the readers and helping them to easily navigate your blogpost. Linkwithin is also easy to install in your blog and there is no need to register. Install Linkwithin by following the step-by-step procedure below:

How to Use LinkWithin for Blogger


Want to learn other Virtual Assistant Tools and be a qualified Virtual Assistant? Attend Jomar Hilario's VA Seminar or Avail of the VA Downloadable Version and learn at your own pace.

Thursday, August 23, 2012

What is a Virtual Assistant?




The current flourishing of the use of the internet and the global economic status gave rise to the idea of outsourcing work outside of the country with much lower cost but still effective and dependable staffs working for you or your business.

Virtual Assistant as defined by Wikipedia is generally self-employed and provides professional, administrative, technical, or creative to clients from a home office. 

They are termed virtual because all of the dealings are done through the use of modern technology like internet, telephone and other form of communication without any actual contact like the regular employment which you have to report at the physical office. Thus, besides income consideration the advantage of being a VA is to work anywhere possible for you: if you are mother or father , you can work in your home where you could be with your family most of the time and if you are an adventurer , you could work anywhere in the world provided of course you would still have access to internet.



What are the types of projects or work a VA do?
  • General Administrative Assistant or Personal VA - email filtering, data entry, transcription, preparing powerpoint presentations, research, customer service/answering email or phone calls(answering support request/live chats/twitter inquiries), events planning, travel arrangements, calendar management, monitoring of group accomplishments or status of other VAs(hiring other freelancers for the client/handle payments to freelancers/managing tasks accomplishments), blog management, social media management (twitter, linked in, facebook, squidoo).  Specific tasks could include VA to get contact details of blogger within the niche of the client, regularly market your services in craigslist, submit press release article to press release websites, submit affiliate programs to affiliate directories
  • SEO Specialist - keyword research, niche market analysis, link building, blog management, competitive analysis. Specific examples are setting up/optimizing your google adwords or facebook ads campaign, use of market samurai or google analytics for keyword search and of course identify SEO opportunities from keywords that drive traffic to your site,  
  • Article/Content Writing - write articles either for their blog contents, websites, e-books, or SEO requirements, marketing or advertising of products, directory submission, press release articles
  • Web Designer -  programming, create websites, set up and maintain wordpress blogs, software updates and plugins, design graphics/webpage layout
  • Graphic Designers - although this could be under web designers, there are a lot of new projects for graphic designers that does not fall under web designers like character illustrations for advertising collaterals, logo design, picture books (children's books)
  • Bookkeeping/Accounting - for Accounting graduates, invoicing, bookkeeping for business of clients

How to earn as a VA?
A Virtual Assistant can take as many clients as he/she can handle without of course letting his/her performance suffer and thus increasing the possible income any VA can get compared to standard employment. The rate will vary based on the tasks being handled by the VA. You can check from www.thevirtualonlineassistant.com how the VA rate was computed.


Where to apply as a VA?
Well, there are a lot of sites encouraging you to join them as part of the pool of VAs but so far here are the top VA hiring sites you can join to apply as a VA:

Odesk
Freelancer.com
Elance.com
onlinejobs.ph
guru.com
vworker.com


Where to get training as a VA?
There are a lot of free resource available in the internet about VAs but if you want to learn fast and be part of community of Filipino VAs you could join Jomar Hilario's Mastery Group in Facebook or attend or download his seminars specifically tackling how we could be a hireable and highly paid VAs.


What do they say about hiring Virtual Assistants?
Tim Ferriss - Tim is the author of the best-selling book "The 4-hour Workweek" which introduced the concept of hiring Virtual Assistants. He teaches entrepreneurs how to maximize their time by outsourcing . One of the use of VA for Tim is to manage his inbox and customer service communication to his clients by giving clear instructions and templates.

Pat Flynn - is the one behind the Smart Passive Income Blog, he discussed about VA in one of his post entitled "Hiring a Virtual Assistant - Everything You Need to Know" and hired his VA for his website creation, designing wordpress themes, article writing.


Brendon Burchard - teaching individuals and entrepreneurs his marketing secrets and branding strategies thru his The Experts Academy. He started his online business with just one VA, he believes that there are tasks that needs to be focused on and delegate the rest to your VA.


Wednesday, August 22, 2012

How to Use Shortstack to Create Facebook Contest

Many companies who are now using Facebook to market/advertise their products are finding innovative ways to keep their followers engaged and to increase their fanbase by creating Facebook Contests in exchange for a prize.

One thing to take note however in creating Facebook Contest is the Facebook's ruling that "promotions on facebook must be administered within Apps on Facebook.com, either on a canvass or an app on a Page Tab".  In short, facebook is requiring a third party app in creating contest and one of the free tools you could use is Shortstack , but they also offer paid services so you can avail of the other features like database storage for storing promotional entries and performance analytics.

Shortstack is a custom iframe tab designing tool that allows you to create custom Facebook tabs. It allows you to customize your facebook page with contests, sweepstakes, videos, custom forms and more.

Shortstack Tutorial How to Create Fb Contests

Click here for samples from Shortstack.