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Smart Marketing
By Agnes Ikotun
As a small business owner, I’m constantly looking for ways to help my business grow and this involves a lot of marketing. Its so easy to get preoccupied with all the many other activities to get you up and running and basically shy away from marketing. But an important point to note, is that marketing plays a huge role in developing a financially successful business. You have to motivate and encourage yourself to step up to the plate and market since its the only way to sell a product or a service- there is absolutely no way to get around this, so its got to be done!
You have to ask yourself a number of critical questions:
Organizing Your Business
By Agnes Ikotun
Getting and staying organized in business and in our personal lives is extremely important. Where there is no order there is chaos, confusion and the inability to focus or grow. The inability to organize does not allow one to prioritize, thus not being able to set or meet and exceed ones goals.
Small business owners wear many hats and occupy many different roles within their businesses, so the need to be organized is top priority to prevent very important tasks from not being carried out effectively and efficiently.
Do you want your business to grow, do you want to stay motivated and also allow your creative juice to flow?
12 Tips to Managing Emails
By Agnes Ikotun
Email is a valuable communication medium both for business and personal use. It places high in the ranks of tools today but mixed with the explosion of the Internet, many people are pretty overwhelmed by it and do not to forget the dreaded Spam.
So how do we make email work for us and not us working for email?
Here are my tips on the dos and don’ts of email.
* Have separate email accounts: one for business related work, a personal account for family, friends and acquaintances, and a third which is a miscellaneous account for which you can use for online subscriptions or where you have concerns about spam.
* Check your emails two or three times during the day to prevent being distracted from priority oriented tasks. If you are in the habit of checking your emails immediately after you login…STOP, this can throw your day off balance.
6 Time Management Tips
By Agnes Ikotun
Sometimes I wonder what if, I was given more than 24 hours a day, say an addition 6 hours, would I still need more time to accomplish my daily tasks and have a good night’s rest/sleep? I do not forsee the miracle of a 30 hour day anytime soon, so I had better focus on making the most and best of the 24.
How do we go about managing our time effectively and what is time management all about?
Time management involves working efficiently and achieving more whilst spending less time at tasks. Working smarter and not harder to increase productivity should be ones goal.
Below are my keys to effective time management:
Working with a Virtual Assistant
By Agnes Ikotun
Contracting work to a Virtual Assistant or VA is a huge benefit to business owners as they spend a fairly large percentage of their time tackling non billable and administrative tasks. Solo professionals, entrepreneurs, small to larger sized business owners should take advantage of the many benefits that a virtual assistant would provide, especially giving the much needed time to invest in their business.
VAs do not only perform administrative tasks even though it is one of the many services we provide. Many seasoned professionals from diverse industries decide to become virtual assistants and they bring their expertise from the technology, design, legal, medical, aviation, financial, insurance, energy and many other sectors to the table.
A VA can be a fantastic asset to a business owner no matter what phase of the business development cycle they find themselves in. If a business owner is at the start-up phase, delegating tasks such as making business cards, postcards, brochures, business forms, training manuals and even website design can greatly benefit the business owner.
Our Brand New Website
By Agnes Ikotun
Wethersfield, CT — September 4, 2007 – AI Virtual Solutions, LLC announces the launch of their new website, www.aivirtualsolutions.com. AI Virtual Solutions, a virtual assisting service caters to entrepreneurs and small business owners by providing virtual administrative and web design services for many market niches.
Many small business owners ask if they should have a website, even if they are not planning to sell their product or service online. At AI Virtual Solutions, we say yes, you should. We believe that that a professional and efficiently crafted website is essential for any business.
In today’s market, your website is your business card. When people, who are getting more computer savvy by the second want to get information about a company, they go to the Internet. They want to be able to access this information at any time of the day or night. Your company also has the ability to share up-to-date information instantly and at the same time increase your market share as you are able to reach a wider and a more global audience.
Open for Business!
By Agnes Ikotun
Newington, CT July 23, 2007–Agnes Ikotun is announcing the launch of her company AI Virtual Solutions.
AI Virtual Solutions is a company providing Virtual Assistant (VA) services to work-at-home professionals throughout North America and the world.
Making use of today’s technology, Virtual Assistants are providing innovative solutions to small businesses, home-based businesses and entrepreneurs worldwide. Virtual Assistance as a fairly new profession has seen a spectacular growth over the past few years. Virtual Assistants are the answer to businesses worldwide that are looking for administrative support but do not want or need in-house support.
AI Virtual Solutions offers a wide variety of professional and affordable administrative and design services. And by utilizing a Virtual Assistant, companies are able to focus on growing their businesses.
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