If you ever go to a marketing or business growth seminar, you’ll hear that you should be using email marketing. As a small business, you need to keep costs down, but contact points up; look after your existing customers and demonstrate to potential customers the...
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Boost your lead generation with virtual assistant support
Lead generation is essential to business success. Without interesting potential customers in the products or services you offer, you have no way of encouraging them to buy. You need to build awareness and interest that will lead to action. While it’s essential, it’s...
How to pre-qualify your prospects
There are few things more disheartening than focusing time, energy and thought on a particular sales pitch, only to have it end with a shake of the head and a firm "No thanks". You wonder where it went wrong: you thought this was a guaranteed sale, but did you...
How a business meeting planner can make you more productive
We all know that business meetings can be incredibly productive and useful. We also know that poorly-organised or planned meetings can be dull, unproductive and a waste of the valuable time we could be spending elsewhere. If you think your business meetings could work...
How virtual assistants can help doctors, consultants & GPs
Whether you’re running a busy medical practice, or managing private work alongside your other roles, it’s going to make for an easier life if you can offload your admin to someone you can rely on. You need to be able to focus on the work, which means that a safe pair...
How to write clear briefs for your business process outsourcing service
Having business processes for essential tasks in your business improves productivity, reduces time wasted and keeps things running smoothly even if the people managing the tasks change. They are particularly useful if you have decided to outsource some of the key...
How a meeting organiser can help you run truly efficient meetings
When meetings are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are a waste of everyone’s time and energy. That’s why it’s worth considering having a meeting organiser or planner who can help you make sure that both internal and external meetings add...
9 ways virtual assistant research services can support your business
When you think about it, much of the success of your business is down to the quality of research you do. From market research and customer surveys to event planning and technology support – research is a necessary part of your operation. It’s also time-consuming...
How to choose the best ecommerce platform for your small business
Increasingly, businesses are choosing to sell their products online. Some use online sales to support a bricks-and-mortar store; others sell via a dedicated website as well as other marketplaces, and some just want to drive sales through a single site. Whichever category you fall into, you’ll need an online shop to sell from. And deciding which system to use can be tricky – so here’s our guide to help you choose the best ecommerce platform for you.
Media marketing management tips: Finding the best curated content
If you really want to give your audience the content it wants, don’t feel you have to create all that content yourself. When you look at the really successful accounts you follow, you’ll see that in addition to their own content, they also share great content from...










