Sidney Borum Auction

As you start thinking about holiday shopping after the American Thanksgiving, please give some thought to shopping at the online auction to benefit the Sidney Borum, Jr. Health Center.

There are already a lot of good items (here's a bit of a preview), and we are thrilled to have partnered up in donating a 5-Hour Virtual Assistant package, valued at $250.00!

Wanna try out some services? Bid on the Scratchpad Secretaries package - you never know the deal you may get! And? It goes to a tremendous cause.

This guy? He's really doing some good things.

The auction runs from December 1, 6am to December 7, 8pm (Eastern).

Please tell your friends, and feel free to donate items if you would like, too.

Quick Tip Tuesdays

We took part in a webinar recently hosted by the good folks over at PRWeb, entitled "Creating a Killer Publicity Strategy with Online News Releases". Bill Stoller of Publicity Insider offered some insight into what makes news and how to create news, but the real scene-stealer (to me) was Janet M. Thaeler, author of "I Need a Killer Press Release - Now What?". She offered a couple of fantastic tips that I'm going to share with you over the next few weeks in the Quick Tip Tuesday posts. Thanks Janet!

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This could be a blog post all on it's own. Actually, it could be it's own series of posts. It's THAT good: Google Insights for Search. I'm still learning more about it, but the basic idea is to find the current search trends, check out the rising search trends, and use these terms in the title of your press release. Another tip? This is a great source for SEO... incorporate these terms into your website too!

See you next week for another Quick Tip Tuesday!

*If you have any quick tips, feel free to comment or email me for inclusion down the road!

Help! Again!

So what are you waiting for?

5 Signs It's Time to Hire an Assistant.

Help!

"I know I need help but I don't know exactly what I need help with. Does this make sense to you?"

Yes. Believe it or not, it totally makes sense to us. It's hard to even think straight when you're so overwhelmed, when you're drowning in paperwork, when you're stressed to the max and can hardly focus.

When we speak with new virtual assistant clients it's usually some of the basic administrative tasks that are eating up so much of their time. Calendar maintenance, correspondence/follow up, email management and social media profile & page updates. It can all add up. And we notice in talking with some of our marketing clients that it can be copywriting and research that's eating up their time or getting fresh content on their websites. Even getting together media contacts and writing press releases.

An idea to get your started would be to think about what you really don't like to do... those are the tasks we can take over immediately. Whatever isn't really your forté... that's what you can start delegate right away. And look at your to-do list. Send it to us, we'll put a dent in it in no time!

What are some tasks you'd like to get off your plate? Leave a comment, let us know!