Visions Virtual Assistance Blog

Sending email to people who did not ask for it is Spam. If you met someone at a mixer and they gave you their business card, you still cannot send them anything related to your business without their permission. So what’s the point of gathering business cards and contact information if you can’t send them [...]

It’s really funny how there’s so much information on the internet, but when you’re looking for something and you don’t type in the right keywords, you can’t find it. I was recently looking for an autoresponder when I should have been looking for a sequential autoresponder. Apparently they are two different things. An autoresponder sends [...]

Truth #1: Not every person that comes to your site will need your services but many will. If they leave without you knowing who they are, you have lost these leads, possibly forever. Truth #2: People who visit your website must leave you their contact information in order for you to capture the lead. First-time [...]

One of my favorite books is a collection of articles by Amy Dacyczyn (pronounced Decision) called The Tightwad Gazette. Amy was a pioneer. She started back in the early ‘90s writing articles on ways to live within or below your means back when living on credit cards way above your means was the norm. Amy [...]

I was in an excellent seminar recently that explained RSS. Here’s my interpretation of her explanation using TV analogies because that’s what the speaker used: There are two parts to RSS, subscribing and syndicating. You syndicate so your readers can subscribe. Syndicate is setting up the RSS feed on your site. I’m sure you’ve heard of TV shows being [...]

This morning I took a peek at some of the blogs I’ve installed and the websites I’ve worked on. I wanted to see what people have done with them. Something that really surprised me was that even though some of the sites have been up a long time, they didn’t rank very well in Google. [...]

by Donna Gunter, The Online Biz Resource Queen (TM) If I were starting my business today and was evaluating my website options, I would pick a blogsite over a stand-alone blog or a traditional website.  What’s a blogsite?  I like to think of this as a blog/website hybrid.  It has all the features of a [...]

and why I like them. You can type in the name into Google to find out more information about each plug-in. The first five have to do with blog maintenance. The last three help with the social aspect of blogging. • Askimet – this is an antispam. It uses a formula to decide which comments are [...]