Showing posts with label virtual assistant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label virtual assistant. Show all posts

Thursday, October 2, 2008

5 Reasons Why Industrial Business Need Copy Writing

Actually every business that need promotional techniques to develop the business, need copy writing. Which means that ALL kind of business need it. Today I write about industrial business, as it has been my career background for the last 15 years.

So, why does industrial business need copy writing? Most of them build the business from quite long time, engaging with most of the people in the same industry. In other words, they know the customers (most of them have the same ones), and sometimes competitors can become suppliers or even customers.

The main players of industrial business include :
  • Machine manufacturer
  • Tools and parts manufacturer
  • Distributors of machine and/or tools & parts
  • Engineering workshop
  • Machine user in many manufacturing industries

And when the competition is becoming tighter, promotions become more and more important, even for industries where most of the players know each others! Copy writing is a massive promotional techniques that can uniquely separate us from competitors. If you agree to at least 3 of these points, then it's time to put copy writing in your daily tasks as a business owner, business manager or sales person.

Point#1 - Do people outside your area know you ?
With the presence of internet, everybody can get everything he wants from every part of the world easily, just by surfing the internet. Location is no longer a limitation to a business. People can buy from you even if they live across the country. If you want your business to keep growing, you must expand it. The problem is, expansion is expensive! The solution? Let more people know you, come to you, and finally buy from you. How? By driving them to your website or blog through the SE.

Tips :
SE loves sites or blogs with frequently updated good quality contents. And when they love you, they will put you higher in their search results everytime people search for your products. To get fresh and good quality contents, hire a virtual assistant specializing in copy writing services.

Point#2 – Why do they buy from you instead of your competitors ?
If your prospective customer can find you in the internet, there's a big chance they might find your competitors too. So, how to make them turn to you on the first chance? By ensuring them that you are better than your competitors.

Tips :
Good quality and well written website or blog content will help you to attract your prospective customer and to get their respect and trust. Therefore, make sure you hire someone with good track records to write your sales copies.

Point#3 – Can you detect every new industry in your market ?
In this fast growing industry era, you must keep up-to-date of new industries that might be your prospective customers. Don't let your competitors find them first. But how can you detect every newcomers in the industry all the time? Relaxed ! You already have a reputable virtual assistant to manage your website or blog. Or...you haven't ? Then, hire one!

Tips :
Hire a VA with an expertise in copy writing to produce qualified and interesting contents for your website or blog to attract more new prospects to give you more businesses!

Point#4 – Does your targeted market knows about your product ?
So, you have attracted people (traffic) to your website/blog. That's good. But it will be no use for you if they just come and read your contents. You need their business!

Tips :
To persuade them to do a business with you, a persuasive sales copy will be needed. Not everyone has such talent, so make sure to outsource the sales copy writing to a good VA.

Point#5 – Do you have all the time needed to build relationship with your targeted market ?
Now that you have convinced yourself of the urge of high quality sales copy writing, next problem is when will you write it? Writing needs material, and to get material you'll need research. Oohh...seems so complicated!...

Tips :
Yes...you can guess it...hire a good VA to do the research and write the sales copies for you. As often as you wish!

Still wondering how you will get a VA that can do such things for you? Ehm...without much increasing your tight budget? Congratz...You have found us! Just write down your name, company and phone number. Send it by e-mail to fanda.vixiova@yahoo.com, and relax. We will do the rest!

P.S.
Need a sales copy in Bahasa Indonesia? Find the samples in one of our clients blog!

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Virtual Business Without Social Media Networking = Dead !

Whether you are an internet marketer, an affiliate business owner or a virtual assistant, social networking is a must! You might said ‘I have worked my social networking by joining my local business associations and participating in meetings and gatherings’. You have done it right, yes, and I’m pretty sure that you have got your clients from those events. But when you are internet/virtual business people, offline social networking activities are not enough. If you want to get more and more clients, you can rely on the social media networking, thank’s to the Web 2.0!

Yes, we are now the generation of Web 2.0, where blogs and social media become the most effective marketing tools for any products. You can start your virtual business by having a website. But if you just stop right there, who will visit your website, while there are millions of other websites out there that offer the same products that you sell? How will you get the audience that will get you your business? Social Media like Wordpress, Facebook, Myspace, Digg are the answer! Because when there are a lot of people with the same interest that related to your product, are connected in one media, you can automatically improve your brand or product awareness.

Compared to offline networking such as meetings and gatherings, social media networking is more simple, as you don’t need to travel or meet and speak with so many people you don’t quite know (for some people – just like me, it’s not comfortable). However, working on social media networking can be time consuming too. Just take look at some of these jobs you have to do :
  • Topic research for your blog
  • Write content for your blog
  • Submit your blog to many blogs search engines and news sites
  • Reading and leaving comments on other blogs
  • Write articles/press releases periodically
  • Article submission to social news sites
  • Join conversation in forums or news sites
  • While at the same time trying to promote your product in a natural way through your blog posts, comments or articles.

Whew....so many tasks, and you still have to think and develop the business itself! That’s where the presence of a Virtual Assistant is important for you. You can outsource your social media tasks to a VA that posses the related skill and experience. The VA will do all the daily tasks for you, and will provide a detailed report about it. That way, you can focused your time and mind to your business, while keep reaching your targeted audiences.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

What is Virtual Assistant ?

Virtual Assistant (VA) is a person or a group of persons who posses administrative and managerial skill, who work independently (usually at home) to provide administration and business assistance services for both business people or organizations, and personals. The demand of VA's services has been increasing lately along with the increasing numbers of small businesses, self-owned businesses, and... of course...internet businesses. The high salary level of secretary and the increasing amount of employee turn-over are only few points need to be concerned by many business owners nowadays. Not mentioning the higher cost of office building and office maintenance.

At that point, VA appears to be the best solution for business owners who want to have more time and energy for developing their business. By using VA services, business owners can delegate daily business operations, such as appointment making, telephone calls handling, reports, travel arrangements to exhibition handling into the hand of professional VA. That way, he can dedicate himself more to his business planning and concept.

What services provided by VA?

The range of services by each VA could be different, but the basic ones are including :
- letters or document typing
- reports
- presentation
- telephone calls and e-mail handling
- personal agenda (including reminder)
- brochure/flyers distribution
- appointment making
- etc

VA are usually professionals who had worked previously as secretary but decided to work on their own after marriage and child birth, or just want to be independent by building her own business. That's why VAs are competent to accomplish the duties given by their clients. Although when she had more than one client, she can manage her time to bring satisfaction to all the clients. Discipline and dedication are the most characters every VA should have.

How about confidentiality ?

As a secretary, VA has been familiar with confidentiality. In running the business, VA always commits to keep all her clients data and business in confidential manner.