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What You Should know About Google My Business.

In a business world where smart work often trumps hard work, as a business owner, have you ever wondered about the possibility of adequately engaging a tool that best helps you manage how Google displays your business, in order to enjoy better visibility and increase in sales? If you answered yes, then we’ve got a guide to a tool that meets your needs. What's more, it's completely free, and it's none other than Google My Business. That said, before you get excited about the zero cost attached to this invention, you should know that it requires you to have some level of physical presence besides an online presence. Here's what we mean. As a business owner, besides putting In the effort to be visible online, you also need to have your boots on the ground, and have a face to face interaction with your current and intending customers. Having said that, let's take a look at what Google my business is about, and what steps you should take to best engage it.  Purpose Of G

HOW A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT CAN HELP YOU GROW YOUR BUSINESS

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                                      In various ways, business development represents another kind of startup phase, but this time with different goals, objectives and risks. An entrepreneur will not have the financial capacity to take on big risks at this stage and must therefore be more strategic and purposeful in his or her approach. The best option? Integrate virtual assistants into the plan to provide several advantages. 1. Realign your budget. The number one reason people hire virtual assistants is to reduce their cost of business. Compared to a regular or full-time employee, a virtual assistant costs less because the business owner does not pay benefits. Also, a virtual assistant, as a sole proprietor of his or own business, covers those expenses. Thus, you don't have to allocate funds for additional Internet bandwidth, power and rent. It's estimated that hiring virtual assistants can save you as much as 40 percent in business expenses. These savings can t

HOW TO RUN AN EFFECTIVE GIVEAWAY THIS SEASON.

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HOW TO RUN AN EFFECTIVE GIVEAWAY THIS SEASON! This is NOVEMBER and it's few days to CHRISTMAS. I can say we are in the season already. How fast time flies... And it is a period of gifts, gifts and more gifts... So today I will quickly share with you how you can run a successful Giveaway... Social Media Giveaways continue to be popular as long as festive period approaches and as the World Wide Web keeps evolving on daily basis their would be traffic during this period. Everyone loves getting something for free, people even love some 'brands' because of their freebies or discounts. So people do these giveaways in order to: -Build Links to their websites /Pages -Increase Traffic -Create social Engagement So all these can lead to brand awareness and get more social engagement. Let me list out a few steps to an attractive giveaway: 👆 Determine the purpose of the giveaway: Is your purpose to increase social engagement on your social pages, to create brand

LINKEDIN IS NOT A DATING SITE!!!

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Yes, I know we can find Love anywhere and everywhere but please LinkedIn is not a Dating Site. For once let's get serious, do away with pleasure and make some money. There are so many Dating Sites available for you to play and chat away. I and many others came on this site because it is recorded that LINKEDIN is 277% more effective for lead generation. People on LinkedIn are In a business Mindset. They use LinkedIn to look for service provider to connect with. I for one am. LinkedIn users have a much higher average income than those of other platforms and have money to invest in other people's services. It is where Young Minds like mine, come to be educated, mentored, counseled, get a job or be employed, find our career path and also offer our skills and services to those who are in need of them and in turn get paid for it. Do you know how annoying it is to start a business conversation and therein when you least expect, you are asked by the client or your connec

CONTENT WRITING AND YOUR SEO

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CONTENT WRITING AND YOUR SEO You have probably always heard the mantra “Content is King” a hundred and one time. It is not a cliché statement and its importance cannot be over emphasized Content means many things to different people. Content are information which is engaging, relevant, shareable, reliable, interesting, entertaining, educating or enlightening be it in form of text, image, video or audio. Content is also very important for your SEO, it is one of the top determining factors of your SEO. So, if content is that important what are you doing to optimize your content? SEO stands for “Search Engine Optimization”, which is the process of attempting to increase the quality and quantity of traffic to your website through organic search engine results. By engaging in SEO, you are trying to make Google know that your website is worthy of being ranked higher when people search for things related to your industry or business. The higher the SEO, the more people will fl

WHO IS A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT?

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          WHO IS A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT? A Virtual Assistant abbreviated to as a VA , is also called a Freelancer or virtual office assistant . They are self-employed individuals who provide professional administrative, creative or technical services to clients remotely. A virtual assistant typically operates from a home office, but they are able to plan documents and share their expertise remotely. In 1981, during this period the concept of secretaries working from home was the exception instead of norm. Working from home was frowned at during that period, however, due to determination, hard work and consistency, the industry began to thrive and grow. They created positive and innovative thinking groups who stood to spread the message of how the business can benefit everyone. VA’s can work as part of a team, subcontract their services or work on their own with their own clients. Virtual assistants have diverse job backgrounds and they are highly intelligent people. They come