Moving Ahead April Top VA Tasks

[Moving Ahead] Top VA Tasks for April 2008 (See what other internet marketers are doing!)

Top VA Tasks for April

Back again with an update for you of what are among the most popular tasks for our VA team here. Drum roll….

1) Blog blurbs with text links, tagging and adding to the social networking scene with SocialMarker.com (instead of OnlyWire) is growing in popularity.

2) Article marketing via article directories and blog networks with resource boxes and content as allowed tagging keywords with specific web pages deep within sites.

3) Online classifieds ads tagged as in #2

4) Blog and Website set up and maintenance with article marketing regularly; Squidoo & Hubpage building and growth work similarly

5) Ghostwritten PLR creation and packaging of keyword article packs, reports, autoresponder series, ebooks, print books and as files on CDs.

6) Freelance style articles for print media & press releases with distribution services, online and off with follow up.

7) eBay auctions – converting electronic downloads to physical products (to keep up with the latest trends), revising sales copy for auctions and running auctions.

8) Craigslist ads – having ads posted that remain long –term and are not ghosted, all done manually with no software help, per CL rules and regs.

9) Grant research and proposal work; Tele-sales with list building work

10) Print postcards, email marketing and tele-sales follow up.

11) Converting Old Marketing materials to electronic format and revising them

12) Public Domain work - making derivative works, packaging products from content

Those are top services for now, brought to you by Moving Ahead Communications at: http://www.movingaheadcommunications.com .

Stay tuned for the next update….

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DATABASE AND CLIENT MANAGEMENT
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* sending introductory, sales, referral, follow up and other business
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ONLINE SERVICES
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base / list
* completing Internet research
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PERSONNEL SERVICES
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PRESENTATIONS
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* working after presentations with follow up materials
* summarizing results in a report

PRODUCT CREATION & MARKETING SERVICES (ONLINE & OFF)
* creating of private label rights (PLR) materials; i.e. ghostwritten
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* marketing for your products, services and events keeping in your
budget range for promotions online and off
* placing follow up faxes, emails, sales calls
* creating and mailing feedback and other surveys and questionnaires
* gathering testimonials, tracking the responses
* blogging, forum posting, using eBay, Craigslist, Social Networking,
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PRINTING AND PUBLISHING
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researching stats and quotes, laying out, printing and mailing
newsletters / ezines (online & off)
* designing, printing and mailing out awards, certificates, handouts,
CDs and more for workshop & seminar attendees

RESEARCH
* researching travel plans, destinations, hotels, car rentals and more
* researching affiliate programs, joint ventures and partners to team up
with for your projects and then following up and reaching out to them to
hook up.
* finding info for catering, presentations, speeches, apparel, and more
* fact finding for your reports, quotes, stats, articles, ebooks,
presentations, speeches, videos, audios, podcasts and more...
* learning about decorating, entertainment, party / host gift ideas
* gathering clips of published articles (online and off)
* performing library research

TELEPHONE AND FAX SERVICES
* receiving phone calls & faxes to allow you more time to do other
things
* forwarding important messages via email, text messaging or other means
* retrieving voice messages and replying and / or coordinating responses
with your team so that you know that things are taken care of while you
are busy elsewhere with other things

TRANSCRIPTION / WORD PROCESSING SERVICES
* using word processing to key in / type letters, articles, ebooks,
memos, etc. from recordings or other note formats
* typing of reports, video and audio scripts, workshop / seminar notes
and more from recordings or other note formats
* extra services like editing, proofing, spell and grammar check,
conversion of documents (to Adobe PDFs, PowerPoint slides, Microsoft
Word, for example.

* Just ask! Customization is our specialty.

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at: http://www.movingaheadcommunications.com . Stay tuned for upcoming task updates…

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