Here’s a video post showing my office. Erin Blaskie of BSETC recently put up a video of her office and requested that others do the same. The video was taken with a Flip video camera, which I also discovered through Erin’s blog. Warning: It’s my first attempt at both using the Flip and posting a YouTube video.
My good friend and colleague, Erin Blaskie of BSETC (www.bsetc.ca), is hosting an Internet Business Makeover contest and the contest is open for entries today! The deadline is May 15, 2008 and entries can be submitted in written format or in video format (best chance to win is by submitting videos – Erin features them on her blog and gets people to vote and comment to create buzz around them!)
The contest is an amazing opportunity for entrepreneurs who are just starting out because it contains everything you need to get your Internet business off the ground. You can also use this contest to win a true makeover of your current business.
Here’s what you get should you be the lucky winner of this contest:
As you can see – this contest is everything you might need to help grow and launch your Internet-based business.
You can enter the contest by visiting www.internetbusinessmakeover.com. There is a video there that explains the contest and there are three easy ways to enter. You can fill out a PDF application, you can nominate someone else or you can submit a video.
There are already entries posted to Erin’s blog so check those out too at www.bsetc.ca.
Good luck!
Virtually yours,
David Burch
"Your GO-TO Guy"
The following is a guest post by Angela Wills, an Internet Marketing Virtual Assistant who I’ve worked with on several occasions.
Your business is growing monthly and so are the tasks you need to do to keep up. Right about now you’re thinking “it’s time to get a virtual assistant to help me with this workload!”
But, are you really ready for a virtual assistant?
As a virtual assistant for a year and a half now I see a common theme with clients who eventually stop working with me. It’s not because I don’t do a great job (and not to be self-serving but I do a great job!) and about 99% of the time it’s not do to any personality conflicts (but those do eventually happen).
In most cases the client has failed to plan goals for what they expect from a virtual assistant.
Yes, setting goals is work, but what business task isn’t? Setting solid goals is so important to a profitable relationship with a virtual assistant that it should be something you do well before you even interview your first VA.
It’s not enough just to set goals and be done with it, either. I know, more work, but you really need to be tracking, testing and calculating a return on investment. You want hiring a virtual assistant to help you make more money, not cost you money in the long term.
Let’s put it into an example: Let’s say you’re paying a virtual assistant to submit your articles to various article directories. You need to know why you’re doing this. What’s your goal? What return will you get? How will you track that return? Don’t just submit articles because it’s the thing to do, make sure the time, effort and investment brings you a return that makes it worth continuing to do.
When you hire a virtual assistant you have to be responsible for making sure it’s profitable. The VA you hire doesn’t know your business well enough at the start to set your goals for you. A good VA will always be open to helping you get set up to properly test and track the tasks they are working on because they know it not only helps the client but also gives them a happy client who continues to need their services.
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