Virtual Assistant Forums [VAF] welcomes Craig Cannings of VAClassroom as he shares what it takes to successfully launch a product online and discusses how Virtual Assistants can add this new service to their own practice.
As businesses across all industries function more and more in an online environment, the demand for expert assistance at managing online product launches also increases. Because Virtual Assistants are skilled at servicing and supporting businesses, entrepreneurs, and startups via the internet, a VA is the perfect collaborative partner to help support online product launches.
Virtual Assistant Forums Hosts Free Event for Members: Your WordPress Website
Christina Nelson of Vital Office Solutions shares her expertise in WordPress in the Virtual Assistant Forums Chatroom. Nelson will show virtual assistants how to utilize the free WordPress platform to create a high-quality website.
As small business solopreneurs many Virtual Assistants seek to complement their business development by taking advantage of free marketing resources. However, free doesn't always equal 'quality', especially when it comes to websites. In order to be viewed as a professional service provider, a well-presented business website is crucial. WordPress, an extremely flexible blog and CMS software, gives Virtual...
Here's a sneak peak at the video we had produced for the new area here at VAF designed to help clients and potential clients learn more about how to hire and work with a Virtual Assistant
Virtual Assistant Forums Introduces Revolutionary New Way for Select Advertisers and Virtual Assistants to Connect
Virtual Assistant Forums launches a unique new advertising initiative: the B2B Partners program; giving select advertisers of the highest quality the opportunity to connect directly with community members. The B2B Partners program aims to make it easier for Virtual Assistants to get straight information on the products and services they need to develop and maintain their professional practices.
Because the Virtual Assistance industry is fairly new and growing rapidly it's also an industry plagued by scams and low-quality products churned out in an attempt to pocket the precious dollars of hopeful...
Cincinnati Virtual Assistant Pioneers New Industry Movement
One Cincinnati man seeks to unite male service providers in the generally female-dominated Virtual Assistance industry with a new social group at Virtual Assistant Forums: Men of the VA Industry.
Virtual Assistance is thought by many to be a career field generally preferred by women. One man in Cincinnati, Ohio is pioneering a movement to change this stereotypical view of the industry.
Winston Stewart, owner of Cincinnati-based S-M Office Solutions, has become a proactive voice for male Virtual Assistants everywhere.
“When I decided to become a Virtual Assistant about nine years ago, I couldn't believe how few men...
Virtual Assistant Forums Hosts Free Event for Members: Online Video Marketing on a Budget
Darlene Victoria Gonzalez, of D. Victoria Virtual Assistance, brings her expertise in all things multimedia to the Virtual Assistant Forums Chatroom. Gonzalez will discuss how to utilize low-cost tools to create high-quality, online videos.
Did you know that more than 158 million viewers watched an average of 135 videos online during the month of July? In fact, Google Sites surpassed its all time high with 121 million unique viewers during the month, averaging 74.1 videos per viewer, according to comScore.com. With this increase in online video viewership comes a fantastic opportunity for virtual assistants to increase...
Internet Leaders Featured in New Interview Series at Virtual Assistant Forums
Virtual Assistant Forums introduces new interview series 'The Virtual Leading Edge'; giving voice to the internet's best and brightest.
Mary H. Ruth, owner of Virtual Writing and Communications and long-standing member of Virtual Assistant Forums, recently stepped down as coordinator of the popular Virtual Assistant Interviews series in order to take on a new direction at the community: the Virtual Leading Edge interview series.
Designed to educate and enlighten fellow Virtual Assistants, Ruth's candid interviews with virtual assistance and internet thought leaders will be published monthly to the Virtual Assistant...
Hosted by Darlene Victoria of D. Victoria Virtual Assistance. Through services like YouTube, Vimeo, and Yahoo! Video, you can post videos that highlight your business, a product, a service or simply a video in which you offer expert advice. With online video, you have the ability to create your own unique marketing message that not only showcases your brand, but is tailored towards your target market, or more specifically, your ideal client. Online video creation does not have to be difficult, nor does it have to be expensive - if the message is strong and the video is placed just right, the effects can be golden. Click to read.
Virtual Bankruptcy Assistant Evangelizes Niche Industry via New Social Group at Virtual Assistant Forums
Andrea Jackson of Action Jackson Virtual Assistant makes the most of member-run social groups feature at Virtual Assistant Forums to help educate other Virtual Bankruptcy Assistants and those curious about this growing niche industry.
When Andrea Jackson of Action Jackson Virtual Assistant discovered an increasing interest in Virtual Bankruptcy Assistance among her fellow members at the free online community for VAs, Virtual Assistant Forums, she did what comes naturally, she took action. Andrea, an established Virtual Assistant, began studying the Virtual Bankruptcy Assistance niche in order to be an...
Posted 08-14-2009 at 03:47 AM byVAF Admin Updated 08-14-2009 at 06:17 PM byVAF Admin
Thanks to Hamid at Codehead, LLP for his quick custom hack, it's easy now to embed YouTube videos in your forum posts; here's how:
Find the URL for the YouTube video you wish to embed. Find the ID of that video (whatever is after the v= in the URL. Let's say the ID is vr3x_RRJdd4 (which is the ID of a video for the Free Hugs Campaign)
Then you would enter the following into your post to embed the video:
PHP Code:
[youtube]vr3x_RRJdd4[/youtube]
and this is what you'll get:
Give it a try next time you want to reference a video from YouTube - it's a great way to enhance your post by including the video itself too!
Premier 'Events Coordinator' Position Created at Virtual Assistant Forums
Jo-Carole Carpenter, President of Shore Office Services, is pleased to announce her recent appointment as Events Coordinator at the Virtual Assistance Go-To Forum for aspiring and veteran VAs from all corners of the world: Virtual Assistant Forums.
After 22 years with one of the largest international companies in the world, Jo-Carole Carpenter left the corporate world behind to launch her own Virtual Assistance business: Shore Office Services, LLC. She now provides virtual business support to entrepreneurs and small businesses. Carpenter serves proudly as a "virtual partner", effectively helping her clients grow their businesses....
Hosted by Get Clients NOW! author C.J. Hayden. Discover the barriers that prevent talented VAs from building a thriving business and how to overcome these challenges and attract more clients with less effort by making a few simple changes. Also, how you may be sabotaging your own marketing efforts, the three most reliable ways to build your business, and how to build a system to make marketing effortless. Click to read.
Did you know that the VAF Chatroom is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for YOUR use? Well, it is!
Here's a quick and easy way to get your fellow member VAs in there with you for a quick social chat, right NOW (or whenever you feel like it):
Grab a link to the Chatroom and turn it into a Tweetable, TinyURL. Here, to make it super easy, we did it for you ---> http://tinyurl.com/c6a4bg [copy that]
Now log into your Twitter account and post an invite. Something like:
VAF members: join me in the Virtual Assistant Forums Chatroom for a quick social chat right now! http://tinyurl.com/c6a4bg
(feel free to copy and paste that for your own use, it's just under 140 characters...
Hosted by Craig Cannings of VAClassroom. Discussion on the following in-demand skills and services: Social Media Strategy and Action Planning, Social Networking Profile Set-up & Management, Twitter and Facebook Marketing, Online Video Marketing, Online Reputation Management, and Social Media Content Marketing. Click to read.
Hosted by Kimberly LeRiche of JK Virtual Office Solutions. Twitter basics - Twitter terminology explained. Plus, how to use Twitter to effectively market your services as a Virtual Assistant. Click to read.
Hosted by Angie Green. With the wealth of information and products out there for new and aspiring VAs it can be overwhelming trying to decide where to start and what to invest in. This discussion points out four areas to focus attention and energy for a strong startup phase and successful business launch. Click to read.
Posted 02-24-2009 at 01:33 PM byVAF Admin Updated 10-11-2009 at 04:24 PM byVAF Admin
We''re certain YOU have a great idea for a social group here at VAF and this blog post is your invitation to start one up. Here's how:
Click the GROUPS link in the main menu, then choose GROUPS (<--- or just click that link right there!) Once you reach the main page where all of our current social groups are listed, scroll down to the bottom and you'll see a link to Create a New Group. Click that link and fill in the fields on the next page - give your group a NAME (something nice and descriptive so people understand what it's all about!), fill in the description, make your group public or private, and click "Save" - your group is then ready to invite people to join!
Hosted by Diana Ennen, author of Virtual Assistant - The Series. Writing, distribution and valuable do's and don'ts of press releases. Discussion on how to make press release writing fun and effective, how the 'rules' have changed, as well as general formatting and submission guidelines. Click to read.
If there's a forum section you'd like to subscribe to, click into the main forum section of your choosing and select 'forum tools' at the top right, then select 'subscribe' and 'instant email notification' to rec'v notice in your inbox each time a new post is made in that section!
If you subscribe but don't rec'v the notifications - please check that our emails are not going into your junk folder and add virtualassistantforums.com to your whitelist
As always, you can still subscribe to individual threads - and we've updated that feature to include instant email notification as well (you can adjust your subscription settings in your profile).
Hosted by Lily Chambers, President of Virtual Office Goddess. Lily walks VAs through the basics of setting up a Virtual Assistance practice as an LLC [Limited Liability Corporation] and the reasoning behind doing so. Click to read.
Hosted by Hamid Alipour of Codehead, LLP. The idea of coding a website using HTML can be frustrating, intimidating, and seem difficult to learn - like another language. But it doesn't have to be. This series is designed to teach you to create, update, and maintain your own website, using current HTML and CSS standards in an easy to understand format.
The chatroom is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to help you to connect live and network in real time with fellow members. Feel free to log into the chatroom whenever you like, invite your friends via PM to join you there, or just post a thread in the Talk section letting other members know you'd like to get the conversation started!
And of course, we're also planning some great live topic chat events in 2009 - so stay tuned!
We just turned the marketing power of your forum profiles on - and then up another notch!
Now, inside your profiles here on VAF you'll notice a 'Customize Profile' link at the top right of your information tabs [About Me, Contact Info, etc.] - use the link to change the colors, font styles, background images and more of your profiles.
And, in order to give you as much marketing leverage as possible we opened up the thousands of member profile pages to the search engines - Google, Yahoo!, MSN, they're all indexing YOUR pages right now - so be sure to take advantage of the huge SEO-positive impact of VAF and fill in your details.
We'll continue adding even more fields for you to add more of your information...
We were looking at the site menu recently and it dawned on us that not only were there so FEW of the great features here on VAF appropriately linked up in the menu, but there wasn't a *single* pixel of space left for all the great new features and pages we have planned for 2009. So we did a little remodeling
Please take a moment to check out the new (and we hope, improved) VAF main menu - there are now drop downs to help you more easily find and use the many key features here at Virtual Assistant Forums.
Use the controls at the left to create your own VA blog right here on the site! Create your blog title, enter a description, and add categories in your Blog Control Panel. Then, click 'Post to your Blog' and get started! It's that easy!!
Announcing the Virtual Assistant Directory at Virtual Assistant Forums, Where Even the Listings Are Multitasking
Virtual Assistant Forums answers the need for a more comprehensive virtual assistance industry directory.
The Virtual Assistance Industry is booming, but the lack of a comprehensive industry directory of virtual service providers has left many potential clients scratching their heads over just how to locate a professional Virtual Assistant, and many VAs questioning the value of listing their sites in directories in the first place. In search of the perfect VA, these potential clients soldier on, patiently wading through a hodge podge of hit-or-miss keyword search results, poorly structured or...
