by Alison Cooper | Nov 5, 2013 | Business Support, Facebook, Internet Marketing, Social media, Twitter, Virtual Assistant
We’ve recently seen the long-awaited IPO filing for Twitter, following on the heels of cousin Facebook. The brand is finally emerging as a viable marketing tool for small business owners and there’s every reason to sit up and take notice. There are now...
by Alison Cooper | May 30, 2013 | Business Support, Virtual Assistant
What’s the difference between a tele-seminar and a webinar? Essentially the former involves interacting with a group of other people via telephone, while the latter uses an Internet connection and allows you to interact visually as well as audibly. There are...
by Alison Cooper | May 1, 2013 | Business Support, LinkedIn, Social media, Virtual Assistant
Do you have a specific strategy in place when it comes to dealing with LinkedIn? It may be true to say that a lot of small business owners bypass this social platform altogether, but this is increasingly a mistake due to the amount of work that the network itself has...
by Alison Cooper | Apr 24, 2013 | Business Support, Facebook, LinkedIn, Social media, Twitter, Virtual Assistant
LinkedIn can be a fabulous promotional tool for any business, so long as you understand what it’s all about and pay as much attention here as you would to the other “heavyweights”, like Facebook and Twitter. Perhaps it is because the other...
by Alison Cooper | Mar 11, 2013 | Business Support, Internet Marketing, Pinterest, Social media, Virtual Assistant
Interest in Pinterest has allegedly grown by more than 4000% in the last half year. The site is one of the most popular in social media circles and has great marketing capacity for any small business owner. It’s a simple concept – a virtual pin board as it...
by Alison Cooper | Sep 19, 2012 | Business Support, Virtual Assistant
Much has been written in recent times about the benefits associated with outsourcing to a virtual assistant, individual or team. If you happen to be the “head cook and bottle washer” then you are not being as efficient as you could be, to put it mildly, if...