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I work personally with each of my clients to provide innovative and cost-effective solutions for all their online business needs.

My fees:  I only work with clients on a monthly retainer basis. My fee is $780 per month for a 12-hour retainer, or $420/month for a 6 hour retainer. Any hours in excess of that retainer are billed at $65/hour (12 hour retainer) or $70/hour (6 hour retainer), and any expenses I incur on your behalf, like postage, printing, office supplies, phone calls, etc. are billed back to you as the client.

Some things I do for my clients include:

  • Research: I'm incredibly resourceful at knowing where to find info and actually locating it both online and offline.

  • Computer Consulting/Troubleshooting: If your computer is misbehaving or you can't figure out how to tame the inner gremlin of your new software program, give me a call. I'll probably be able to walk you through the process and teach you what you need to know to make everything work as it should.

  • Marketing: I've created all types of collateral materials for my clients, including brochures, flyers, business cards, media kits, and media releases.

  • Writing: Writing is one of my favorite activities, and I've ghost-written articles for email or print media, edited articles or other materials, created sales/cold call letters as well as descriptions and titles for seminars/teleclasses. I'm also a great editor and proof-reader and can help make your articles, letters, special reports, or website copy shine!

  • Online Business Solutions: Do you run screaming from the room at the thought of shopping carts, autoresponders, email newsletters, merchant accounts, and affiliate programs? I can recommend and maintain your shopping cart system, set up affiliate programs, autoresponders and ad trackers. While I'm not a web designer (nor do I play one on TV <g>), I can take care of your basic website updates and editing needs.

  • Financial: I can help you set up systems to automatically process payments from clients, process monthly client charges, and issues refunds on products and services as necessary.

  • Teleclasses: I've created systems to handle class registrations, class recordings, class notes distribution, as well as arrange for telebridge line rental or audio recording or audio podium services.

  • Organize and Prioritize: Frankly, most of my clients are completely overwhelmed and have too many balls in the air. Others have many more ideas than they'll ever be able to implement. I can help you prioritize your idea list and design a strategy to get you from where you are to where you want to be.

The primary gift I bring into the relationship I have with my clients is my ability to brainstorm and generate ideas, or come up with creative solutions to a marketing challenge. Many of my clients pay me simply to brainstorm with them, or to have someone to bounce ideas off of. I feel as though I live online sometimes <g>, which means that I'm current with what's new and happening in the online world that will make my client's life easier or make the business more profitable.

Here's a more comprehensive listing of the online business services I routinely provide to my clients:

Online Research

  • Finding your target market online (discussion lists and forums, online social networking groups, professional associations, trade publications)

  • Evaluation of online marketing of your competition

  • Keyword research

Shopping Cart

  • Setting up products and follow-up autoresponders

Online Marketing

  • Online surveys

  • Article submission

  • Autoresponders

  • Ezines/broadcasts

  • Teleclass listings

  • Online press releases

  • Blogs

  • Links exchange

  • Podcasts

Website Maintenance

  • Uploading audio content

  • Text updating of website

  • Purchase, masking, forwarding of domain names

  • Creation of email forwards, email aliases, private content areas, etc.

  • Link popularity

  • Creation of one page sales websites

Online Business Management

  • Online backup

  • Remote access and file sharing

  • Faxing setup

  • Voicemail setup

  • Spam blocking

  • Printing

  • Setting appointments

  • Creating reminders

  • Sending ecards

  • Paying bills

  • Processing credit card transactions

  • Maintaining contact management system

  • Hardware and software troubleshooting

Business automation services/software I use regularly include:

Shopping Cart

  • Kickstart Cart (and all privately labeled versions of 1ShoppingCart that include shopping cart, email broadcast, and autoresponder features)

  • Paypal

Online Marketing

  • Survey Monkey (online surveys)

  • Submit Your Article (article submission service)

  • Smart Autoresponder (autoresponder service)

  • aWeber (broadcast and autoresponder service)

  • Ezine Director and Constant Contact (ezine broadcast service)

  • Teleclass.com, TeleclassInternational.com, SeminarAnnouncer.com, and PlanetTeleclass.com (teleclass submission services

  • Audio Acrobat, Audio Generator (Audio/video broadcast service)

  • Type Pad and Blogger, (blogging software)

  • Links Manager, Links Partner (links exchange service)

  • Wordtracker, Google Keywords (keywords research)

Website Maintenance

  • Site CMS, Website Tonight (online website content management system)

  • Ultranet Domains, GoDaddy, Network Solutions (purchasing, forwarding, masking domain names)

  • CPanel Server (backend website hosting administration)

  • Membergate (membership site software)

Online Business Management

  • Carbonite (online backup)

  • Central Desktop (collaboration service)

  • MyDocsOnline and SendThisFile (file retrieval services)

  • MaxEmail and Efax (fax service)

  • GotVMail (voicemail system)

  • SpamArrest (spam blocking service)

  • GotoMyPC (remote PC access service)

  • Vista Print, IPrint, Kinko's Fed-Ex, Mimeo (online printing services for business cards, postcards, booklets, etc.)

  • Authorize Net Virtual Terminal (to process credit card charges)

  • Coaches Console (online contact management system for coaches)

With these innovative and cost-effective solutions, what's not to like about Virtual Assistance?

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