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SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
ISSN 1947-105X | Vol. 3, No. 37
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TECHNOLOGY ISSUE
In This Issue:
A Note from Danielle...
Holding teleseminars is a wonderful way to create a community, offer
value to your target audience and expand your marketing presence. This
week, Nicole Paull offers her insights on a fabulous all-in-one teleseminar
tool you have just got to know more about.
Yours in goodness and success!
 Danielle
Keister
Founder & Virtual Assistant Expert
Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce
This
week I'm grateful for...
 Gloria
Luzier of Superior VA Solutions LLC for being such
a wonderful critical thinker and having great brainstorming input and
ideas. I know you're a HUGE help to your clients!
We Love Hearing From You!
If you like this ezine, if you find it helpful and relevant,
please do let us know. We all need to hear some attaboys and attagirls
now and then. And if there's something you'd like to see or learn more
about, tell us that as well. (Plus, it would give me the chance to promote
your name and website link.) Just reply back to this email and tell me
what you think. Thanks! ~Danielle
How did YOU like this issue or a past teleseminar?
Was it insightful, helpful or informative? Have topic ideas you'd like
to see covered in the future? Let us know!
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FEATURE ARTICLE -
A Tool To Grow Your Business Using Telesminars
These days, it's more important than ever to build relationships
with your target market. One way to position yourself as an expert in
your field, reach out to potential customers, and even create information
products that you can use to create a passive income stream is by hosting
teleseminars. However, the service you use will reflect on you in the
eyes of your customers, so it behooves you to look for the following in
a provider:
- A reliable conference line.
- The ability to give your audience the choice between attending
via telephone or via webcast (over the Web).
- Replays made available quickly to attendees (as well as
to those who, for one reason or another, were unable to attend the live
event).
- Powerful, yet simple, moderator tools.
- Excellent customer service.
- An organization that is forward-thinking and committed
to ongoing product improvement.
Having worked with Instant
Teleseminar on behalf of clients for nearly a year, I'm able
to give it a wholehearted recommendation on all of the above criteria.
Recently, Instant Teleseminar released a new "Pro"
service level. To help you decide between the Basic and Pro services,
here's a rundown of the two.
Instant Teleseminar's Basic service provides you with:
- A rich array of attractive templates you can use as a backdrop
for your webcast (or simulcast, if the event will be available by both
telephone and the Web).
- For those who are very conscious about keeping their branding
consistent, it is also possible to have a custom template created and
uploaded for your use.
- 200-person telephone bridge.
- 2,000-person webcast bridge.
- A replay is automatically available within about 5 minutes
of the event ending.
- An easy-to-use moderator console where the host can start
and stop the recording, test the webcast ahead of time, and see questions
and answers submitted via webcast attendees.
Instant Teleseminar's Pro service integrates with NConnects
to give you all of the above in addition to:
- A backup telephone line in a different geographical area
of the country from your primary call-in line. Both the primary and
back-up lines are displayed on the event webpage, which is automatically
created while you're setting up your event.
- The ability to call out, in case your co-host or guest
hasn't shown up on time.
- A robust and very simple-to-use control panel where
you can, with the click of a mouse:
- See who is on the call (it will actually pull up attendees' caller-ID
information);
- See whether you're in lecture, interactive, or Q&A mode and switch
between them quickly and easily (no guesswork!);
- Choose your recording format (.WAV or .MP3);
- Choose settings, such as whether or not you want to hear a beep whenever
someone joins and/or leaves the call;
- Adjust the volume of individual callers, so that you can keep the
overall recording volume consistent in case one guest is either quiet
or loud, compared with the rest of the callers;
- See muted guests who have raised their hands, so that you can unmute
them and interact.
Besides having developed a solid, feature-rich service, what really makes
Instant Teleseminar stand out is that they have created an all-in-one
teleseminar solution that is incredibly easy to use right out of the gate,
even if technology isn’t your strong suit.
RESOURCE: Instant
Teleseminar offers a 21-day trial for $1, so you can
try the service out with no risk.
 About
the Author: Nicole Paull owns and operates Mainspring Enterprises,
and has 20 years experience as an administrative professional. She provides
across-the-board administrative support with a special emphasis on working
with clients who have copywriting needs. Nicole is also the associate
editor of a bi-monthly infoletter entitled Good Health is Real Wealth.
You can learn more about Nicole at http://www.mainspringva.com.
© Copyright 2009, The
Portable Business™. All U.S. and International rights
reserved. You may print this article for personal use or republish it
online only if it is left unaltered and used in its entirety, including
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the author for any other permission.
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NO-COST TELESEMINAR -
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you wish you made more money in your Virtual Assistant practice? Are you
having trouble getting the kind of clients you'd prefer to work with?
Is your current process failing to convert prospects into clients? These
are just a few of the issues we'll explore at the next VACOC Guest
Expert Teleseminar on Thursday, September 17. Bring your questions
and your curiosity. I'll share with you some of the reasons you want to
have a consultation process in your practice, how long a consultation
should be and the three primary goals for your consultation to achieve.
If you want to increase your success in converting prospects into clients,
you won't want to miss this teleseminar!
RESERVE
YOUR SPOT >>
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VACOC NEWS -
Take the 2009 Annual Virtual Assistant Industry Survey
Hey, VAs! It's that time of year again!
UPDATE 9/14/09: 208 participants so far. If you are
a VA, be sure and take the survey and keep those promotions going! If
you are a client, please forward this email to your Virtual Assistant.
:)
Each year, the VACOC conducts an industry-wide survey with the purpose
of taking a representative, group snap-shot of those who are in the business
of providing ongoing administrative support. Virtual Assistants
who participate get the survey results report absolutely free!
Our goal this year is 1,000 participants. Judging from past years' surveys,
the report will be about 75-100 pages chockful of useful, fascinating,
eye-opening data. So don't delay!
Take
the survey >>
- VACOC NEWS -
Join the VACOC Virtual Assistant Ethics Pledge
 Did
you know the VACOC offers Virtual Assistants the most highly used and
respected ethics pledge in the industry? Lots of VAs use our Virtual Assistant
Ethics Pledge on their websites to demonstrate to clients their commitment
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reading this ezine, you can, too!
It doesn't cost a dime--just your promise to honor and abide by these
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Click
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- VACOC NEWS -
New Service for Clients: Quickie Gigs™
 The
VACOC has a new service for clients we call Quickie Gigs™.
Here's the idea:
The core business of a Virtual Assistant is providing one-on-one, ongoing
administrative support to clients they work with in long-term, continuous
relationship. We always encourage clients to go that route because it's
where you are going to reap the most rewards in terms of value, continuity
and cost-effectiveness. However, if you have not yet found your right
Virtual Assistant or you are between Virtual Assistants, but still have
occasional tasks and projects you'd like completed, we can help you out!
Quickie Gigs™ is for simple, straightforward administrative
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so (24 to 48 hours) with no fuss, no muss. All you do is fill out our
online form with the project specs and once the preliminary account set-up
is completed, we'll get to work right away. Simple as that! For
more information, be sure and check
out our Quickie Gigs™ page.
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