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SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to Drive Revenue

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This video breaks down the step-by-step processes that CEOs have used in order to win — which is why this MyOutDesk’s podcast exists, for helping you grow and scale your business!

Applying his expertise for the general audience, Matthew takes this important topic of building an SEO foundation to help scale your business. And, he’s breaking it down step-by-step — giving you a realistic time frame, tools, everything you need to do lay out a sound SEO foundation.

Daniel Ramsey, CEO & Founder of MyOutDesk CEO, calls Matthew Laurin ‘the mad scientist of SEO,’ or search engine optimization!

Matthew Laurin, President of Esq.marketing, has been working with SEO and the Marketing vertical for over 10 years now. His SEO firm serves attorneys and law firms, driving up their digital marketing strategy to attract more clientele. Their parent organization is Rankings.io.

 

Three FOCUSED components to ramp up marketing:

  • SEO
  • PPC
  • Web design

To use content, Google, and blog posts for basically driving revenue through an SEO strategy, which for a lot of us, is a black box. So we’re really excited for this episode, tune in!

 

 

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SEO is like one of those black boxes, nobody really understands it, or not a lot of business owners do so.

 

SEO: Where do I start?

Here’s a scenario: I’m generating a million dollars in revenue. I’ve tapped out my existing referral sources database. And, I realized there’s this whole universe of SEO so I want to start competing online. What’s step one to kind of drive to that success?

 

Before you begin laying out a plan for your SEO, consider this.

SEO is probably a little bit different than what you would you would think. Some people might say it’s keyword research, finding out what keywords people are searching, for figuring out your content. Those are all really important initial steps, BUT the very first thing is just to realize if SEO is for you or not and it isn’t for everybody.

Part of the thing that happens when people don’t understand SEO and they think they need it, but they don’t really know that.

So, your audience may not be on Google searching for you. And that’s true for a lot of industries, a lot of B2B industries. Like for example, there is an attorney who deals with real estate law in New York city for huge corporations, and they are not on Google, because their clientele comes from word-of-mouth.

The same goes for other large-scale businesses that are dealing with other businesses like if you’re a steel company and you’re selling to an auto manufacturer.

You know, I mean, yeah, I mean, there may be some things to help make it, so you look halfway presentable in search, but an ongoing SEO campaign is probably not the best place to spend your money.

 

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Step 1: Building an SEO plan for your business

 

“So step one is: figure out if your audience purchases through search engine”

The first step is figuring out what fits for you. If you’re a B2C, there’s a good chance that SEO is going to be helpful because consumers go to search constantly.

More than 70% of people go to a search engine to find what they’re looking for online. And so if you’re a B2C business, there’s a good chance that SEO is something you need to be strongly considering.

If you’re a B2B, you’ll need to study your audience and figure out how your audience is finding you. Is it on search? Is it on social? Is it through a referral network?

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Step 2: Guide to SEO keyword research

 

“Step 2: Research your keywords. Make sure there’s volume.”

Part of keyword research is figuring out if there’s search volume for keyword phrases. An important type of focus is called searcher intent, where you have to figure out what keyword phrases people are using to find your product or service and whether those phrases have search intent.

 

Example:

“We’re in the legal vertical. Ranking for the term ‘lawyer’ is probably not going to get you the kind of leads you want but ranking for the term ‘car accident lawyer’ if you’re a PI (personal injury) attorney is probably going to get you more relevant traffic. If you’re in the Houston area ranking for car accident lawyer Houston. It’s probably going to get you know the exact type of cases that you want.”

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Free tools to research ‘Searcher Intent’ for SEO planning

In finding, you know if your audience is searching for you really just go into like a free tool like Google Trends, Google AdWords, or Google Ads will have a free keyword research tool to see if there’s search volume for whatever keyword phrases you think that people might be using to find you.

If you’re interested in in gaining prominence in search engines, and there isn’t a lot of search volume for your particular service or product, focusing on your brand name is a good use of time because people will see you on social media SEO, on TV, on radio, or any other channel, and then they’ll go to search and look for you. You will definitely want to show up for your brand name, especially if you have something in common with someone else who is out-ranking you for your brand name.

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Step 3: Structure & Tools for Search Engine Optimization

 

“There’s a lot of different things that impact where your site ranks in search. A lot of it has to do with how your site is built and a lot of it has to do with the links pointing at your website.”

After you find that there’s keyword phrases you can use based on searcher intent, the next step is to make sure that your website is structured in a way that that will help it rank well in search.

How? You can do that with Google. It has a lot of free tools, such as Google Search Console. There’s even some free, yet limited, versions of specialized software for you. Tools like SEO Moz or Moses SEO has a free version. Paid software like SEMrush is another good one that you can use to learn about some of the common things to look for. Their reports can tell you the things that are related to your site that you have control over and that you need to change. A lot of it has to do with content organization and making sure that each page is targeting a specific keyword phrase & making sure that you have robust content for that particular topic.

 

Tip:  Google the keyword phrase you want to rank on and see what the top-ranking pages are there. Look at their content, and then try to make your content better than those pages.

 

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“Because what I’d spent probably the first seven, eight years of my career. We didn’t have an effective website content structure in place, so we didn’t know which one was winning for us in terms of generating traffic.”

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What is Link Building for SEO?

How much SEO content do I have to put out, and then, what’s the time frame for waiting to start seeing good results realistically?

The answer to this question is that there are two parts. You have to have the content, but then you also have to promote it. The way to promote in SEO is Link Building.

When you build links and produce the best content better than your competitors, you’ll have a shot to rank. That’s ranking on the first page, but you also have to consistently build links to that content and to your site and then links internally to that content and to other important pages on your site in order to get it to rank.

If you have a consistent link building strategy and you’re also developing really good content, then results from zero to getting a decent amount of traffic could be anywhere from five months to eight months with a consistent link building strategy and then continuously improving that content.

 

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Now with coronavirus, you can’t go into offices and there’s no retail. If you don’t have a digital strategy around content and SEO, you’re basically going to plateau and or decline over the next three to five years.

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This is over 30 minutes of knowledge on building a real SEO operation for your business. Tune in!

 

 

 

ENVISIONING OF A NEW REALITY FOR YOUR BUSINESS

Simply put, MyOutDesk equips entrepreneurs & business owners with tools, strategies, and virtual employees – and when combined, businesses have a competitive edge and find growth while efficient systems and processes are put in place.

MyOutDesk proudly provides additional free business growth guides, books, and strategy calls.

See what we are about, and schedule a free consultation with us. We’ll take the time to learn more about your business and offer solutions to foster top talent and lower operational costs for your company.

 

Experience The Difference
MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment cost
Claim a free business strategy consultation & ‘Grow Virtual’ Guide

 

Did You Know?  MyOutDesk’s origin story is set during the last global financial crisis of 2008. Yes, that’s right — our business started by scaling businesses with virtual assistants during a recession! Pioneers of virtual assistant services, our first client in 2008 went from five to seventeen VAs with a completely revamped organizational model in short order, and he told MyOutDesk, “Our virtual professionals have shaved $250,000 off our monthly overhead.”

 

Marketing Virtual Assistants
There are many things a virtual marketing virtual assistant can do for you to supercharge your company’s scalability. Focus your talented marketing professionals on the above sales tools and also on ideal client targets. If you know who buys from you and why your marketing virtual professional can really help drive your message out to the marketplace.

  • Online marketing, listings & social media
  • Webinars & speaking events
  • Marketing automation
  • Brand work
  • Design coordination
  • Collateral development
  • Repurposing content
  • Audio, video & multimedia
  • PR & paid advertising
  • Keyword research

Marketing Virtual Assistants
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Marketing Virtual Assistants for Your SEO: Link

Explained: What is a virtual assistant? Link

 

Strategic eCommerce – Email Campaigns with Virtual Assistance

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Learn the strategies top marketing experts use to grow their businesses. This article walks you through everything that goes into e-commerce marketing — from inbound marketing to paid advertising to conversions. Tune into this special episode of the e-Commerce Marketing Podcast.

Podcast link: Virtual Assistance and Email Marketing – with Daniel Ramsey

Marketing Strategies Revealed in this Episode:

  • How to select the best VA’s to assist with marketing activities such as email marketing
  • How to incorporate VA’s into your email marketing process flow
  • What prior experience should a VA have in order to be effective in assisting you with email marketing and other marketing tasks
  • How to determine the correct compensation for VA’s so that you attract the right person for your tasks

Daniel Ramsey is the founder & CEO of MyOutDesk, the highest-rated Virtual Assistant company in the marketplace with over 500 5-star reviews, and over 13 years of experience serving more than 6000 clients.

Daniel founded MyOutDesk during the last global financial crisis of 2008 to help businesses leverage the remote workplace and scale businesses with virtual assistants.

What e-Commerce Virtual Assistants do for eCommerce Businesses

  • Dropshpping & supplier coordination
  • Amazon seller services
  • Amazon & eBay advertising
  • Amazon & eBay brand protection
  • Amazon & eBay listing placement coordination
  • Product research for Amazon
  • seller growth analytics
  • inventory placement
  • seller compliance
  • fba revenue calculations
  • liaison to dropshipping suppliers
  • handling inquiries from resolution center
  • managing seller hub
  • Shopify administration
  • Google shopping coordination

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Here’s how e-commerce virtual assistants support e-commerce merchants:

  1. Listing Coordination & Documentation: product and inventory support, reports, and billing
  2. CRM Management: Updating records, verification, claim submissions, billing and much more.
  3. Email & Phone Answering: Answering administrative phone calls, customer support, answering emails, managing your calendar.
  4. Research & Administrative Support: Any type of research on the web, maintain spreadsheets & any other information or secretarial tasks, coordinating with other staff or getting any other work done or organized at your workplace.
  5. Marketing Management: Coordinating your social media pages with updates, CPC & PPC coordination, news or article sharing, setting-up email campaigns, creating marketing materials (flyers, brochures etc).

MyOutDesk has been in the industry for over a decade, helping all types of businesses grow. We have providing e-commerce virtual assistant services for years, becoming one of the top virtual assistant providers available. After serving more than 5000 clients and employing over 4000 professionals, we have seen firsthand how this investment supports business growth. Because of this experience, MyOutDesk, currently caters to other industries as well such as professional services, mortgage and insurance to name a few.

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ENVISIONING OF A NEW REALITY FOR YOUR BUSINESS

Simply put, MyOutDesk equips entrepreneurs & business owners with tools, strategies, and virtual employees – and when combined, businesses have a competitive edge and find growth while efficient systems and processes are put in place.

MyOutDesk proudly provides additional free business growth guides, books, and strategy calls.

See what we are about, and schedule a free consultation with us. We’ll take the time to learn more about your business and offer solutions to foster top talent and lower operational costs for your company.

 

Experience The Difference
MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment cost
Claim a free business strategy consultation & ‘Grow Virtual’ Guide

 

Did You Know?  MyOutDesk’s origin story is set during the last global financial crisis of 2008. Yes, that’s right — our business started by scaling businesses with virtual assistants during a recession! Pioneers of virtual assistant services, our first client in 2008 went from five to seventeen VAs with a completely revamped organizational model in short order, and he told MyOutDesk, “Our virtual professionals have shaved $250,000 off our monthly overhead.”

Best Job Types for Low Overhead & High Profit Teams

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Job & Workforce Trends in 2020

In today’s high-tech economy, a remote workforce helps to maximize profits, grow clientele, improve business capacity, and often outperform competing companies that have fewer remote workers.

  • 50% of the US jobs and the workforce have gone remote in 2020.
  • 73% of teams will have remote staff in the 10 years.
  • Globalization and virtual workplaces will play an increasing role, causing more fluid shifts and flows of talent.

 

 

The Future is a Remote Workforce

This is what we learned from over a decade of experience with virtual assistant.  With a remote workforce and the right systems in place, it’s now affordable for business owners to to scale operations and talent.

  • Increase your touch points to the most influential clients.
  • Double down on branding and marketing — differentiate yourself.
  • Focus on adding value to your clients, suppliers, and vendors.
  • Double down on your prospecting and outreach programs.
  • Optimize the work of key talent and stay more connected to your people.

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Successful Businesses with Low Overhead & High Talent

  • Keep calm and thrive on. Now is the time to double down on the projects and ideas that will drive future growth and scale.

Did You Know? MyOutDesk’s origin story is set during the last global financial crisis of 2008. Yes, that’s right — our business started by scaling businesses with virtual assistants during a recession! Our first client in 2008 went from five to seventeen VPs with a completely revamped organizational model in short order, and he told MyOutDesk, “Our virtual professionals have shaved $250,000 off our monthly overhead.” 

  • Your Next 90 Days of Planning. One of the keys to thriving during a recession is to focus your time on finding out opportunities to thrive and survive during this uncertain time. Spend the next 90 days of quiet time for deeper planning and preparing.

There are a MILLION ways to leverage a Virtual Assistant

 

Best Job Types to Increase Your Talent & Capacity

 

Here’s the job types that MyOutDesk virtual assistant services can provide you — with the flexibility, scalability, and cost-savings to adapt quickly to today’s changing business & market conditions.

  1. Example Roles
  2. Best Job Types

 

In a recent survey, we asked our virtual professionals how they’ve grown with businesses. These are only SOME of the roles that our virtual assistants currently hold for their growing companies.

NOTE: Personnel through MyOutDesk are up to 70% less than costs of adding a traditional employee!

  1. Example Roles:

  • SDR – Sales Development Representative
  • Transaction Coordinator
  • Marketing Assistant
  • Client Care Manager
  • Utility Clerk
  • Researcher/Admin Assistant
  • Administrative Assistant
  • Solutions Assistant
  • Recruitment Specialist
  • Listing Assistant
  • Client Care Coordinator
  • Acquisitions Specialist
  • Support Coordinator
  • Operations Coordinator
  • Administrative Assistant
  • Loan Coordinator
  • Concierge
  • Executive Assistant
  • Client Concierge
  • Executive Assistant
  • Relationship Liaison
  • Internal Sales Assistant
  • Acquisition Assistant
  • Data Administrator
  • Listing Manager
  • Account Reconciliation Assistant
  • Realtor Partner
  • Client Care Assistant
  • Lead Manager
  • Business Admin Assistant
  • Real Estate Marketing Assistant
  • Transaction Coordinator
  • Compliance Assistant
  • Product Support Coordinator
  • Leasing Specialist
  • Client Services Coordinator
  • Admin Guy/Office Assistant
  • “Friend”

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Best Job Types

Here are lists of the four main job types that a virtual assistant can do to best uplift your business.

  1. General Administration
  2. Marketing

General Administration
Having a virtual professional tackle operations and administrative outcomes for you can go far beyond what a traditional assistant does, like answering phones and keeping your calendar. There are many more ways a virtual professional can help you administratively. Here are some concrete examples of my favorite things administrative virtual professionals do for our clients.

  • Virtual receptionist
  • Client care & relationship building
  • Screen calls & emails
    Loan processing
  • Administrative support
  • Accounting & bookkeeping
  • Lead management
  • Lead reporting
  • Recruitment
  • Agile project management
  • Performance reporting
  • Customer support

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Marketing
There are many things a virtual marketing virtual assistant can do for you to supercharge your company’s scalability. Focus your talented marketing professionals on the above sales tools and also on ideal client targets. If you know who buys from you and why your marketing virtual professional can really help drive your message out to the marketplace. 

  • Online marketing, listings & social media
  • Virtual showings & open houses
  • Webinars & speaking events
  • Marketing automation
  • Brand work
  • Design coordination
  • Collateral development
  • Repurposing content
  • Audio, video & multimedia
  • PR & paid advertising

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Sales Development & Inside Sales
A sales development representative can take over your prospecting and expand your lead generation efforts. Our inside sales virtual assistants will help you generate more leads, qualify them and allow you to focus on selling and generating commissions. In addition to warm & cold calling, our virtual assistants can assist you with lead screening & pre-qualification, lead nurturing, prospect & client follow-up calls & more!

  • Telemarketing & inside sales
  • Smart plans
  • Appointments
  • Warm & cold calling
  • Prospect & client follow-up
  • Lead nurturing
  • Recruiting assistant
  • MLS

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Service & Support
MyOutDesk virtual assistants provide the leverage you need to meet your customer service & support demand at a fraction of the cost of hiring full-time staff. Customer service outsourcing lets you work smarter, not harder, and help you invest your time in dollar-productive activities that matter.

  • Manage trouble tickets
  • Manage escalation calls
  • Run reports
  • Manage calendars
  • Update CRM
  • Customer training & education
  • Issue resolution

… and the list goes on! With a business strategy in place that leverages virtual talent, there are a million ways that virtual professionals at MyOutDesk will transform your business.

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Niche Specialities to Grow your Business

Transaction Coordinator
A Transaction Coordinator Virtual Assistant manages all the paperwork and deadlines involved in a contract transaction. They’re trained in every step of the selling process and tasked with monitoring progress from the time the seller accepts an offer through the steps involved in the close of escrow.

Become more effective by using a virtual professional transaction coordinator to handle the repetitive tasks involved with closing a transaction – such as gathering documentation & signatures, calling clients, completing paperwork, following up on contract terms & requirements, and ultimately creating a broker file for the completed transaction.

  • Manage signatures & documentation
  • Manage paperwork processing & deadlines
  • Coordinate inspections
  • Respond to contract terms
  • Compliance coordination
  • Communications liaison

Loan Processor
MyOutDesk loan processor virtual assistants can to manage all the paperwork and deadlines involved in your mortgage & lending transactions – including every step of the process, from contract to close, and everything in between!

  • Gather documentation
  • Cloud e-agreements management
  • Lender follow-ups
  • Documentation review
  • Internal reporting
  • Manage mortgage or lending pipeline
  • Communications liaison

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Envisioning of a New Reality for Your Business

Simply put, MyOutDesk equips entrepreneurs with tools, strategies, and virtual employees – and when combined, businesses have a competitive edge and find growth while efficient systems and processes are put in place.

See what we are about, and schedule a free consultation with us. We’ll take the time to learn more about your business and offer solutions to find top talent and lower your operational costs.

MyOutDesk proudly provides free business growth business guides, books, and strategy calls. See what we are about, and schedule a free consultation with us. We’ll take the time to learn more about your business and offer solutions to foster top talent and lower operational costs for your company.

 

Keep Calm & Thrive On

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Best Editing Software & Equipment for Starting a Podcast? – Digital Marketing 101

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Broadly speaking, podcasts can be used for any kind of media files that you would like to share and distribute over the internet. Podcasts are usually audio files, and often videos. They can also be made of any digital media, including images and text.

Podcasts are generally organized into a series of episodes that may be released at a determined interval. Popular podcasts often have frequent releases and new listeners can easily catch up with older ones.

Many podcast programs are intended to be seen as analogous to radio broadcasts, and were produced much like traditional radio shows.

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History of Podcasting

Fun Fact: The word ‘podcast’ is a combination of “pod” from iPod and broadcast. The concept of podcasting was invented in the 1990s as an analog to broadcasting, with the intention of using computers to send pre-recorded shows via the Internet. They started trending in the early 2000s, but they weren’t widely used until iTunes came out with its podcasting feature in 2005.

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How does producing a podcast help my business?

A podcast is a digital recording, which can be listened to at any time and shared with others. It is not constrained by the same timing of radio or television shows. In fact, it could be delivered on an infinite schedule, depending on how much time people want to spend listening. 

Producing a business-to-business B2B podcast helps to establish your brand as a leading source of expert knowledge within your market, driving up your repertoire, brand awareness, credibility, and potentially your market share. It can be listened to in a variety of ways. You could download it and listen to it on your computer. You could subscribe to the podcast, so that you automatically get new episodes delivered whenever they are released.

Podcasting is also very popular on portable devices such as smartphones and tablets. Many people have a podcast app installed on their phone or tablet so that they can listen to podcasts whenever they are away from home.

For most busy people out there, being able to listen when you want to is hugely important. Radio and TV shows are constrained by a schedule, so you can’t usually watch or listen whenever it’s convenient for you. You can also consume a podcast on demand. For example, if you want to listen to the latest episode while driving in your car, you don’t have to wait for it to be aired at a particular time. You can also share podcasts with others. You could listen to the same podcast together, so that you have a common interest or topic.

Imagine all the ways your media can reach those who are seeking your content. Produce media for like-minded folks like you. The more interesting your topics, the more you attract traffic to your business.

Podcasting is very top of funnel. It’s brand awareness. Launch & scale your business today with a MyOutDesk Marketing Virtual Assistant.

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What Equipment & Software is Needed for Podcasting?


Here’s the professional equipment you need without breaking the bank:
  • Broadcast quality microphone & cables
  • Microphone stand & mount
  • Headphones
  • Audio interface / Preamp (To connect/control all the AV equipment in one place)

You can get yourself set up with this bundle:

Basic Production Software
  • Audacity (free) or Adobe Creative Suite (subscription)
Graphic Design (for podcast cover & episode thumbnails)
  • Canva (free) or Adobe Creative Suite (subscription)
Podcast Hosting
  • Souncloud, Podbean, Buzzsprout, Simplecast, Resonate

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How to save time & money when producing a podcast for your business

 

DON’T LIFT A FINGER, HAVE VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS LAUNCH YOUR NEW PODCAST EPISODES!

Content Marketing with a Virtual Assistant — every businessperson is adopting this!

The secret business strategy that sets social media moguls apart is … leveraging virtual assistants (in many cases, more than one). Virtual assistants work for you full-time at up to 70% less cost than a traditional employee. Here’s what it takes to out-compete competitors.

Even on a tight budget, you can engage in full-time digital media presence — and save time while producing high-quality content. It’s no secret that your competitors with media steam-engines are leveraging assistant labor, namely virtual assistants.

Virtual Assistants will work for you on a full-time basis without the headache of payroll, taxes, and benefits. Virtual Assistants are the powerhouse behind quality podcasts, webinars, Youtube videos, Tweets, Facebook posts, Instagram photos, and Linkedin articles!

If you want to launch a high-quality podcast, but need to protect your valued time … you can launch your podcast and upgrade your online presence with a MyOutDesk Virtual Assistant!

If you do the math, you can get UP TO 3 full-time virtual assistants for the price of one traditional assistant! Save time for more important things by hiring a MyOutDesk Virtual Assistant.

 

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ENVISIONING OF A NEW REALITY FOR YOUR BUSINESS

Simply put, MyOutDesk equips entrepreneurs & business owners with tools, strategies, and virtual employees – and when combined, businesses have a competitive edge and find growth while efficient systems and processes are put in place.

MyOutDesk proudly provides additional free business growth guides, books, and strategy calls.

See what we are about, and schedule a free consultation with us. We’ll take the time to learn more about your business and offer solutions to foster top talent and lower operational costs for your company.

 

Experience The Difference
MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment cost
Claim a free business strategy consultation & ‘Grow Virtual’ Guide

 

Did You Know?  MyOutDesk’s origin story is set during the last global financial crisis of 2008. Yes, that’s right — our business started by scaling businesses with virtual assistants during a recession! Pioneers of virtual assistant services, our first client in 2008 went from five to seventeen VAs with a completely revamped organizational model in short order, and he told MyOutDesk, “Our virtual professionals have shaved $250,000 off our monthly overhead.”

Outsourcing Your Online Presence

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The only problem with productive marketing for your personal brand or small business is that it’s time consuming and it distracts you from closing more sales. When you hire an experienced virtual assistant for all your marketing needs, you’re able to finally focus YOUR energy on closing more sales, and let the marketers bring in the traffic.

The importance of business visibility has greatly influenced whether the industry will be successful or not. Being physically present and visible in the real world is not enough. With the emergence of the internet as a major media for communication, a business also needs to be visible in the virtual world. This is why small, medium and large enterprise businesses participate in different social networks like Twitter, Linkedln, a company blog or Facebook.

These social networking platforms are very beneficial for the business. Having an account with these social networks has been proven to be helpful for improving the business visibility. By using these platforms, they let their business reach their target niche clientele in real time. This is also a very convenient technique in disseminating information regarding the nature of your company and what it can give to its clients and customers. The only downside is that maintaining your visibility in these social networking platforms takes a huge chunk of the owner’s time when he is supposed to be focusing on other business goals and aspects. This is where outsourcing comes in.

 

Hiring A Publicist for Your Social Media Accounts

If it’s taking you more than 5 minutes to respond to any online engagement on your social media accounts, then you’re losing business — and you’re losing a lot of it.

The key to gaining market share is to stay continually active on social media and be the FIRST to respond to (and to follow up with) all social media engagements — and virtual assistants guarantee the fastest lead response for your business! If you are not consistently following up with them, someone else is doing it. The fortune will always be in the follow-up! 

Our full-time Marketing & PR Virtual Assistants for inside sales & marketing are ready to take tasks off your plate and give you the leverage you need with:

  • Publicity management & Guest appearance prospecting
  • Customer Service & General Admin
  • Social Media Management
  • Lead nurturing, Calls, & Appointments
  • Lead Generation, Advertising & Promotion
  • And so much more …

 

Social Media Engagement Using Full-Time Virtual Assistants

Outsourcing your online presence can help maintain the company’s or personal brand’s social networking sites to keep your customers and clients informed about the latest business updates without sacrificing most of the owner’s time. Outsourcing this function can also help the business reduce the overall maintenance cost since they don’t need to hire and train a new employee to do the job.

Aside from outsourcing virtual assistant, the term commonly used to describe outsourced individual or group that take charge of maintaining different social networking platforms, most search engine optimization packages offer social media maintenance to improve the company’s visibility to search engine rankings.

Having this function outsourced will let in-house company staff to focus more on specific essential goals of the company. Outsourcing supplements the work you and your staff do. Think of it as a partnership with another individual so the business goals you set could be met.

You can add a full-time, experienced marketing professional onto your team even while cutting costs (up to 70% on employment costs). 

To start the process of getting your own marketing and/or administrative virtual assistant, click here to schedule a call now! 

 

MyOutDesk Virtual Assistants help you to scale business operations while lowering overhead. 

It’s no wonder CEOs & entrepreneurs trust us most — with 13 years of experience serving over 6,000 clients. Last year, we saved our clients $55 million as the highest-rated virtual assistant company with more than 500 verified 5-star business reviews.

 

Experience The Difference
MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment cost
Claim a free business strategy consultation & ‘Grow Virtual’ Guide

 

Did You Know?  MyOutDesk’s origin story is set during the last global financial crisis of 2008. Yes, that’s right — our business started by scaling businesses with virtual assistants during a recession! Our first client in 2008 went from five to seventeen VAs with a completely revamped organizational model in short order, and he told MyOutDesk, “Our virtual professionals have shaved $250,000 off our monthly overhead.”

[Scaling] How Doubled, Tripled & 10X Businesses Focus on Growth + Virtual Assistants do the rest!

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Educating through Experiences: Real Estate Podcast (A Mate with Hans)

 

Link to Podcast

Attention Agents! Hans Waisfield interviews Daniel Ramsey, CEO & Founder of MyOutDesk.

MyOutDesk has helped over 5000 business owners with virtual assistants worldwide to double, triple, and 10X their businesses by focusing on the important money making, income producing tasks and hiring virtual assistants help you with the rest!

The podcast episode covers the following subjects:

 

ENVISIONING OF A NEW REALITY FOR YOUR MARKETING BUSINESS

Simply put, MyOutDesk equips entrepreneurs & marketing agencies owners with tools, strategies, and virtual employees – and when combined, businesses have a competitive edge and find growth while efficient systems and processes are put in place.

MyOutDesk proudly provides additional free business growth guides, books, and strategy calls.

See what we are about, and schedule a free consultation with us. We’ll take the time to learn more about your business and offer solutions to foster top talent and lower operational costs for your company.

 

Experience The Difference
MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment cost
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Did You Know?  MyOutDesk’s origin story is set during the last global financial crisis of 2008. Yes, that’s right — our business started by scaling businesses with virtual assistants during a recession! Our first client in 2008 went from five to seventeen VAs with a completely revamped organizational model in short order, and he told MyOutDesk, “Our virtual professionals have shaved $250,000 off our monthly overhead.”

Explained: What is a virtual assistant?

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Considering a virtual assistant for your business? — This page has everything you need to help you make an informed decision. Hiring a virtual assistant marks the beginning of a new and exciting time for you, your current employees, and the company. Employing a virtual assistant means that the company is making an investment in your team and looking to achieve the next level of excellence and performance.

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Hitting Double Productivity: Marketing agency organizational strategies

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Save over $90k per year. With any growing marketing agency, more clients means balancing more nuanced tasks and roles. When marketers take on too many assignments, their creativity can take a dip. Often, marketing agencies opt to use freelancers to complete minuscule tasks on the agency’s behalf on an ad-hoc basis.

From building psychographic campaigns, buyer personas, and building a deeper understanding of online consumer psychology, Travis Thom designs larger-than-life marketing campaigns that generate demand and sparked desire with over 15 years of international experience — as CEO of Elevated Real Estate Marketing. 

How to prevent burnout + double productivity in marketing agencies

 

Today, we interview Travis on how he’s managed to double his agency’s performance (even without a physical office space).

When your company is doing well, tasks keep growing as more clients come in. Then, the nuances can start burning your team out unless you pivot.

 

“You know, there’s other people who have much more well-rounded people with skill sets that we can hire for a fraction of the cost … and get more done, but also they’re going to do it a lot better.”

 

Travis is talking about virtual assistants. Even with the many tools and software for marketers, even the shiniest automation software needs a human factor — especially when it comes to graphic design, email campaigns, and drips.

Virtual assistants are best for making sure that you don’t miss out steps in your process.

As the owner and decision maker of a marketing agency — you need dedicated time to nurture deals and close sales yourself. To prevent burnout, Travis delegates each account to his talented MyOutDesk virtual assistants.

Most of the background details — such as requests from clients, email campaigns, nitty-gritty detailed items — are what you can delegate to virtual assistants.

 

Lowering operating costs for marketing agencies

Since 2004, Travis’ marketing agency has operated in remote teams (saving $40,000 each year in real estate costs) and delegated his marketing operations to full-time virtual assistants  — who work for a fraction of the cost of a traditional employee (saving $50,000 per year per individual).

Understanding who you want to hire first and make sure they have the right skill sets

They can shadow you — so they can see how you’re currently doing it and optimize the process WITH them in place

 

A marketing agency can have virtual assistants fulfill these roles:

  • marketing coordinator
  • graphics designer
  • traffic coordinator
  • digital campaign manager
  • content creator & coordinator

 

Remote Work: How productive marketing team in marketing agencies look

This marketing team has been operating remotely for over 16 years — Travis has learned that productive teams have multiple ways to communicate, meet on a variety of touchpoints, and emphasize accountability.

When emails, calls, and texts can get buried — a project management tool can make it easier for remote teams in marketing agencies to follow tasks and find exactly where progress lies are and what still needs to be done.

Don’t box yourself! Outsourcing opens up your world to talent that’s more affordable and probably more fit with your needed skill sets, saving you tens of thousands from additional office space, and other significant expenses related to in-house hires.

 

“Outsourcing makes the hustle better — because you’re not burdened with many/growing expenses that you’ll need to figure out how to cover and hit profit”

ENVISIONING OF A NEW REALITY FOR YOUR MARKETING BUSINESS

Simply put, MyOutDesk equips entrepreneurs & marketing agencies owners with tools, strategies, and virtual employees – and when combined, businesses have a competitive edge and find growth while efficient systems and processes are put in place.

MyOutDesk proudly provides additional free business growth guides, books, and strategy calls.

See what we are about, and schedule a free consultation with us. We’ll take the time to learn more about your business and offer solutions to foster top talent and lower operational costs for your company.

 

Experience The Difference
MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment cost
Claim a free business strategy consultation & ‘Grow Virtual’ Guide

 

Did You Know?  MyOutDesk’s origin story is set during the last global financial crisis of 2008. Yes, that’s right — our business started by scaling businesses with virtual assistants during a recession! Our first client in 2008 went from five to seventeen VPs with a completely revamped organizational model in short order, and he told MyOutDesk, “Our virtual professionals have shaved $250,000 off our monthly overhead.”

A big thank you to Travis Thom for this insightful interview!

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Is Your Email Marketing Failing? Here’s How To Fix It!

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Email marketing is one of the most powerful and cost efficient tools for generating & nurturing leads. Its non-obtrusive nature and immense flexibility gives you a lot of room to find creative ways to market to your clients. You shouldn’t underestimate the possibilities that can be created with a strong email marketing strategy.

Email marketing requires attention and consistency. Leverage a MyOutDesk Marketing Virtual Assistant to implement your strategies for email and all your marketing responsibilities. Schedule your ‘Grow Virtual’ Strategy Session to find out how.

 

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If your email marketing is not as effective as you might hope, there are a few factors that might be holding you back.

1. You aren’t doing it.– Surprisingly, there are a huge number of entrepreneurs who do not utilize email marketing in their business. Email is 40 times more effective at acquiring new customers than Facebook or Twitter. According to studies, email beats social media by 40 xs for customer acquisition.

2. You aren’t personalizing it. – Automated emails are convenient ad easy. There is nothing wrong with writing blanket type emails that may generally appeal to a large portion of your niche. You do not have to write an individual email to your contact list, however, little touches of “personalization” are important as well. For example, using their names is a great touch. “Hey Greg!” is still better than a non-descript greeting. Many email platforms allow you to customize greetings and can be programmed to pull names from a list. Aside from that, use words or terms that are related to your niche, this tells your leads that you really know what you are talking about and are here to help them.

3. You aren’t responding quickly enough. – Speed to leads applies to emails too. Over 88% of prospective customers expect a response within an hour, but this is rarely accomplished. You should respond to inquiries within the day of receiving them AT LEAST., the sooner the better.

4. You aren’t mobile friendly. – Mobile accounts for up to 77% of email opens! When creating your emails, make sure that they are mobile friendly as well. People are constantly on their phones and you want to be sure that your email has readability across different devices. Testing your emails before sending them out so you can make adjustments is a great way to ensure that you are.

5. Your content isn’t dynamic. – Nobody wants to hear the same things over and over again nor do they want to feel that all you are doing is selling to them. Mix-up your content by talking about different aspects of human life that relate to your services. Find different ways to touch on your audience’s personal interests and perspectives.

6. You aren’t testing your content. – A/B or split testing is a highly effective tool when you are trying to figure out your market. Testing the efficacy of different kinds of content can greatly help your marketing strategy. Every audience is different. You must test to know what works. A/B tests can improve conversion rates by 49%.

Email marketing can indeed be a powerful avenue you can use to grow your business, but sometimes it takes the kind of time and attention that you just do not have. A MyOutDesk Virtual assistant can be instrumental in ensuring that your marketing campaigns are effective.

Schedule a ‘Grow Virtual’ Strategy Session so we can help you make the most out of your email marketing!

 

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Achieve the Dream – Scaling as a Franchisee | With Brian Beers

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Brian Beers and his family currently own and operate 12 Midas® franchises in the Philadelphia area. He shares what talent means for his franchise businesses and his journey to getting the leverage that he needs.

 

“We used outsource companies in the past and have some varying experiences. I really like about [MyOutDesk] is all the work that you guys do upfront to find the right virtual assistant — ensuring that we’re getting a high-quality, well-vetted candidate because the biggest challenge or a roadblock is TRUST.”

 

How to scale profits with a franchise business

 

Brian’s family has been in business of owning franchises for a long time. With a virtual assistant, they doubled their business in the last 3-4 years, and the next couple years they’re looking to double again. His virtual assistant, Ann, handles tasks independently. Brian compliments her achievements in our interview.

 

The virtual assistant directly works with his managers to get things done. These tasks are now completely off his radar, and Brian shares his “great experience for his franchise locations!“

 

“We got to try to multiply our efforts, and that’s really where the virtual assistant comes into play. They take away the everyday tasks, so that I could focus on higher-value outcomes and continue to work towards these larger goals.”

 

 

Did You Know?  MyOutDesk’s origin story is set during the last global financial crisis of 2008. Yes, that’s right — our business started by scaling businesses with virtual assistants during a recession! Our first client in 2008 went from five to seventeen VAs with a completely revamped organizational model in short order, and he told MyOutDesk, “Our virtual professionals have shaved $250,000 off our monthly overhead.” 

 

ENVISIONING OF A NEW REALITY FOR YOUR FRANCHISE BUSINESS

Simply put, MyOutDesk equips entrepreneurs & franchise owners with tools, strategies, and virtual employees – and when combined, businesses have a competitive edge and find growth while efficient systems and processes are put in place.

MyOutDesk proudly provides additional free business growth guides, books, and strategy calls.

See what we are about, and schedule a free consultation with us. We’ll take the time to learn more about your business and offer solutions to foster top talent and lower operational costs for your company.

 

Experience The Difference
MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment cost
Claim a free business strategy consultation & ‘Grow Virtual’ Guide

 

 

Did You Know?  MyOutDesk’s origin story is set during the last global financial crisis of 2008. Yes, that’s right — our business started by scaling businesses with virtual assistants during a recession! Our first client in 2008 went from five to seventeen VPs with a completely revamped organizational model in short order, and he told MyOutDesk, “Our virtual professionals have shaved $250,000 off our monthly overhead.”

 

 

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