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How to become a: Virtual assistant

Getting started as a virtual assistant (VA) in general administrative tasks is an excellent way to work remotely and provide valuable support to businesses or individuals. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to get started: Assess your skills: Identify the administrative skills you possess, such as scheduling, email management, data entry, research, customer support, or social media management. Assessing your skills will help you determine the services you can offer as a virtual assistant. Define your target market: Determine the type of clients or industries you want to work with. It could be entrepreneurs, small businesses, or specific industries like real estate or e-commerce. Identifying your target market will allow you to tailor your services and marketing efforts accordingly. Set up your home office: Create a designated workspace at home with a reliable internet connection, computer, and necessary software or tools for administrative tasks. Having an organized and productive

LinkedIn For Business: Suit Up For This Social Media Site

By Juliet Johnson Of all the popular social media sites right now, LinkedIn is the one most purely focused on business. It was first set up as a way to billboard your resume; it remains the best way for professionals to find jobs and employers to find their next employees. So, when you come to LinkedIn imagine you have put on your best business suit and act accordingly. LinkedIn is best used for · Finding clients · New contracts and Jobs · Giving and Finding Focused Information · Showcasing your testimonials, awards and special skills · Demonstrating your expertise in your chosen field When you first sign up you will want to get your name registered in your profile URL and then you should use as many of your target keywords as possible in your experience listings and in your special skills section. Recommendations Go looking for coworkers in past jobs and ask for recommendations from each of them. It is often easier to write one for them first and then ask for something in return. T

LinkedIn for Business: Direct Sellers

By Maria Duron The recent years have brought about the huge growth and popularity of social and business networking sites. Though people were skeptical in the beginning that these sites would really work, nowadays, most people and businesses have realized that these networking channels have opened up opportunities that had not been available in the past. LinkedIn is the largest business networking site online, with over 120 million users and still growing. As a direct seller, you may have set up a profile with LinkedIn, and you may occasionally visit the site to keep updated with what's happening, but are you really using this site to the best of your advantage? Have you realized the various ways you can use LinkedIn for building your business? Though you may think that LinkedIn is great for increasing your sales, the real power of this business networking site is that it's a powerful tool for building and maintaining relationships. Successful companies and entrepreneurs know t

NEW: "Facebook: The Inside Story"

By Steven Levy The definitive history, packed with untold stories, of one of America’s most controversial and powerful companies: Facebook As a college sophomore, Mark Zuckerberg created a simple website to serve as a campus social network.   Today, Facebook is nearly unrecognizable from its first, modest iteration. In light of recent controversies surrounding election-influencing “fake news” accounts, the handling of its users’ personal data, and growing discontent with the actions of its founder and CEO—who has enormous power over what the world sees and says—never has a company been more central to the national conversation.   Millions of words have been written about Facebook, but no one has told the complete story, documenting its ascendancy and missteps. There is no denying the power and omnipresence of Facebook in American daily life, or the imperative of this book to document the unchecked power and shocking techniques of the company, from growing at all costs to outmaneuvering

Rethink Money for Children and Teens

This is the best book you could ever buy for your children - the gift of Financial Freedom! Rethink Money for Children and Teens by Paul O'Mahony “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education” – Mark Twain If ever this quotation had a relevance, now is truly the time. Almost half of the world’s population earn less than $5.50 a day... and even in first world countries, many adults are heavily burdened with the shackles of debt. Clearly, what we study in school, does not provide us with the tools needed to manage and master money as adults. Our best hope is to EMPOWER our YOUTH long before they leave home and enter the “real” world.  ==>> READ MORE...