Virtual Assistant & Home Business Blog Carnival

If you are interested in starting your own virtual assistant business, or any home based business, check out the Virtual Assistant Blog Carnival for a variety of different blogs with topics ranging from starting your new business to running and marketing it once its established.  This  blog carnival is updated weekly, so make sure to get the RSS Feed so you receive updates. 

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Yvone M. Kon
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M.Y. Marketing & Design
Your Virtual Marketing Assistant, At Your Service!
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Marketing – it is not all about YOU!

I remember reading one of those typical glossy teen magazines as a shy, 15 year old girl, and seeing an article about how to get a boy interested in you.  Of course, back then, finding a boyfriend and getting him to ask me to “go with” him was one of the MOST IMPORTANT things in my life.  Well, that, and finding the brightest, most blinding, neon pink, cut-off sweatshirt, clear jelly shoes, and enough Aqua Net hairspray to make my hair bigger, stiffer and higher than ever before, for our school’s monthly dance in the stinkiest gym you can imagine.  I was an 80’s chick, what can I say?  But I digress.

Go Pens!

As a Pittsburgh girl through and through, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention -

Yvone M. Kon
Owner
M.Y. Marketing & Design
Your Virtual Marketing Assistant – At Your Service!
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Top ten things a virtual marketing assistant can do for you.

There was a great article on Elance recently, listing all the projects a business owner can outsource to a virtual assistant. It got me to thinking about all the things a virtual marketing assistant can do for a small business owner.

What makes your small business unique?

So, I was visiting Naomi Dunford’s blog over at IttyBiz and she had a great post a couple of weeks ago about how some of her readers had no idea what she actually did for a living.  Basically, she wrote that if people had no idea what she did for a living after reading her blog all this time, they probably didn’t know what they did for a living either.  I can’t tell you how many meetings I’ve had with new clients and when I asked what exactly they did and what made their business unique, my question was met with a blank stare.  The majority of small business owners I’ve met with have no idea what their UPS is (Unique Selling Proposition or Unique Selling Point).  Then they look at me and say “Isn’t that what you’re supposed to do, why we’re here?” 

Email Marketing – A Follow Up. The Experts Weigh In.

As I scanned through my Google Alerts today, I found not one but TWO blogs about email marketing.  According to Mike Alvero’s blog over at Internet Marketing Tips, email is not only the most effective marketing tool, but also the most efficient marketing tool for online businesses – when sent to a GOOD, TARGETED list of subscribers.    Robert Fleming at the eMarketing Association also posted an Email Marketing blog today about the potential benefits to a business when utilizing email marketing.