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15 Tips to Build Your Newsletter Subscriber List

Justine Curtis — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:53:42 +0000

We all need to fill our marketing funnel with the contact details of potential clients and referrers of our business services. The following series gives you some ideas about how to collect contact details, and in particular email addresses, so that you can begin to build relationships with your prospects.

Put an offer on the back of your business card to get people to sign up for your newsletter. For example, “Visit www.mywebsite.com/freereport to download 20 Top Tips for Outsourcing to a Virtual Assistant”. When they land on your page, ask for their email address in order to receive the free report.

Managing Your Virtual Assistant Workload – Tip 14

Justine Curtis — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:26:42 +0000

Keep on networking
This is often the first thing that gets dropped when you become busy with clients work. I know; I am guilty of it myself. But when you suddenly disappear from groups in you have been a regular, the assumption can be that you are no longer in business. Accept that networking is part of the ongoing development of your business, choose one or two groups in which you will remain a regular, and keep going. Even if you are not looking for more clients, you will still establish relationships from which you will benefit later on.

About the Author:

Justine Curtis is the director of her own successful virtual assistant business My Virtual Assistant Limited http://www.my-va.com which is now recruiting a team of virtual assistant licensees and founder of The UK Association of Virtual Assistants (UKAVA) which offers free resources and information to its subscribers. Justine is the author of Setting Yourself Up As A Virtual Assistant and is proud to be able to pass on the benefits of her vast experience of the VA role to aspiring and progressive virtual PAs as a co-founder of the VA Success Group. If you are thinking about starting a virtual assistant business, visit http://vasuccessgroup.co.uk

Managing Your Virtual Assistant Workload – Tip 13

Justine Curtis — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:24:46 +0000

Happy New Year!

A very apt tip for the New Year today. All about reviewing and setting your activites for the coming year.

Review your marketing activities
Set aside time each month to review your marketing activities. How many enquiries have you had in the previous month and from where have they come? Have a look at what is working for you and what could be improved.

Managing Your Virtual Assistant Workload – Tip 12

Justine Curtis — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:23:58 +0000

Social networking
If you have a profile on sites such as Ecademy and LinkedIn, it is easy to spend hours each day responding to requests to link. Set aside some time each week for social networking and respond to invitations then. Also, use this time to seek out new connections of your own, join and post to groups, etc.

Managing Your Virtual Assistant Workload – Tip 11

Justine Curtis — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:22:57 +0000

Writing your blog
The same advice applies when writing blogs. However, the advantage with blogs is that you can schedule your posts in advance. I am actually writing this on 30th October but you will be reading it weeks later!

Managing Your Virtual Assistant Workload – Tip 10

Justine Curtis — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 11:22:07 +0000

Writing your newsletter
If you write a newsletter, be it weekly, monthly or whatever, try to write in blocks. It can be hard to find a quiet time to sit and write, but, when you do, you often feel like you could write for hours. Do it whenever you feel inspired, and then split the content over several newsletters.

Managing Your Virtual Assistant Workload – Tip 9

Justine Curtis — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:20:57 +0000

Check and update your website
Check that your website is up-to-date and current. Set aside time, perhaps once a month, to check all the information is current, and add anything new that your clients and prospects might find useful.

Managing Your Virtual Assistant Workload – Tip 8

Justine Curtis — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 11:20:03 +0000

Create checklists
Have checklists for every process in your business. For example, when you take on a new client, have a checklist which prompts you to check that: you have received the signed contract, you have sent your Welcome Pack, you have set up an appropriate email address, and you have their stationery. This saves time and prevents things being forgotten.

Managing Your Virtual Assistant Workload – Tip 7

Justine Curtis — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:19:11 +0000

Do your filing
In addition to your client files, have files for everything related to running your business. Then, set aside time each week to file everything you have dealt with that week. I use the last half-hour on a Friday for this.

Managing Your Virtual Assistant Workload – Tip 6

Justine Curtis — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:18:23 +0000

Bookkeeping and invoicing
I would recommend allowing time, twice a month, about two weeks apart, to pay all your bills, input all your expenses, raise all your invoices and check that payments have been made.