THE STORY OF NEED A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT AND HOW IT HAPPENED

For me as I head into a milestone birthday I look back on past milestones and think back how strong I am through all that is thrown at me I rise and will not bow down to challenges I am a fighter and always get back up no matter how many times knocked down. The following is not a boo hoo woo is me it just shows to me that I am learning life lessons.

On my 40^th year it was one of the toughest and one that you never get over it was when my son and his mate were killed in a car accident even when you think I am fine a song a place or a friend of my son will bring tears to my eyes when I remember how much I miss him, the whole in my heart remains to this day. In the same year I lost my dog and a close friend to car accidents.

But you know you just get on with life you have to and I went on to work with adolescent boys as housemother in a boarding school which made my heart sing and had me laughing and at  times crying with them as I got involved as like a surrogate mother in their lives.

This time was one of my happiest times I can remember. I rarely went out but I accepted an invite to a friend’s wedding where I was to meet my future husband and we lived at the school where he went to work on his bike and returned home in the evening.

Over this time I had managed to grow a portfolio of 4 homes and started a renovation company where my husband was able to help out with many of the tasks I even had my own tool belt and I was no stranger to a drill, hammer or screwdriver all was good.

We were only married 3 months when my husband was involved in a serious motorbike accident that I attended as it was right in front of the school where we lived. The accident degloved his foot and his leg broke fibia, tibia and femur. 6 months in hospital 12 operations and he could not work any longer.

I was left as the main bread earner at a time when the real estate bubble burst I had a husband at the hospital and creditors knocking at my door I can remember it that sinking feeling and what the stress was like back then the thought of how difficult it was and knowing the buck stopped with me with no support from a husband that needed to focus on getting better and the amount of physiotherapy that was needed to get him to walk again.

I knew nothing else other than to work hard, write to my creditors and to be honest with them in what was happening rather than have my head in the sand that gave me a little wriggle room to learn Internet marketing and try to forge ahead to earn extra income.

The struggle I had was not that I wasn’t ready to learn it was making stuff work and have funds coming in rather than going out. It was with a coach that things started to move forward it was 12 months before I started to earn a regular income, the more I earned the more I invested in myself in the way of mentors coaches and courses.

Today, I have built a company with the help of a business coach that is rock solid, I help businesses grow by supplying them with expert virtual assistants that are there to do the grunt work for them to free them up so that they can think of other creative ways to grow their business. They are no longer in the trenches and have really clawed back more time.

I am now in a place of gratitude thankful for the journey along the way that has given me knowledge to know what it feels like to have struggled but now its the time for me to select the people I want to work with in the way of different business partners, I have come to realise that the people that I am aligned with are the exact reflection of me in my outlook and the longing I have to keep helping people grow.

I look forward now to the next milestone birthday as life just keeps getting better no matter how many hiccups that I have along the way.

If I can help you or your business please reach out to me at info@needava.com or through my website http://needava.com love to meet up with you!

Source: Needava Local Seo Services

FUNNEL HACKING – WHERE YOU DO NOT HAVE TO RE-INVENT THE WHEEL

Firstly you do need to know who are your competitors and then model their layout.

Where people go wrong is that they think that they know more than their competitors who by the way spend millions of dollars in testing and having their ad-copy written so basically they have the recipe. This is particularly useful when you are starting a new business where you have not been in a line of business before.

These people who I say model from (not copy) means that you look what layout they have and make yours very similar. What you are doing is modelling things that are tested and proven to convert..Makes sense right? Rather than start from scratch which is why marketers fail as they have not spent thousands of dollars testing and put up a new website and it really is a hope and pray version that you hope will convert – chances are that it will not and you will be left scratching your head after your campaigned failed to convert the way that you hoped it would.

Click here  for a FREE trial of Funnel Hacking

Don’t get me wrong you are just modelling the process of a successful marketing you will be doing your own landing page, sales letter and thank you page.

What we do for modelling is that we purchase the product to see how their funnels work, what are they saying? What do the pages look like? What is their up-sell and down-sell? How are they bundling the products and of course their price points in the funnel.

To find all of this out it may only cost you $100 BUT this saves you thousands of dollars of blood, sweat and tears of running with something that does not work.

Which funnel does this work for?

– supplement funnel
– coaching funnel
– e-commerce funnels
– information funnels
– funnels for real businesses
– Works for ALL businesses!

Click here for a FREE trial of Funnel Hacking – Where You Do Not Have To Re-Invent The Wheel

I am truly excited on what you will actually learn and be able to master in moments.

Source: Funnel Hacking

WANT ME TO WRITE YOUR COPY?

Big statement isn’t it? Anyone that is new to online marketing is practically clueless on how to write ad copy let alone GREAT copy but there are some that will be game enough to look at a blank screen hours on end and try and get inspired and then put together something that is so lame that does not excite people enough to click on their ad therefore giving you no chance to grow your list or sell your product or service.

Also, you need to follow them up with pre-written email series. I have seen courses say to the group “just copy and paste the emails I have written” but you see this has been done many times before you and people are not stupid. What you are trying to do with email marketing is build rapport with them – they are buying from YOU so emails need to be personalised.

Does that sound familiar to you?

Like a any trade there are MUST haves in your toolbox and you either make a choice to either get the tools you need and learn how to use them or you need to get someone like us Need a VA to outsource the task for you these are your only 2 choices really.

Imagine having a carpenter turn up to a work site with only a blow torch and no idea how to use it and no real use for a blow torch. He would have the exact tools that he needs on site to do the work the day….this is exactly what YOU need to have, so here I am saving you from pulling anymore hair out

3 TOOLS YOUR MARKETING TOOL BOX NEEDS:

FREE book that gives you step by step

* Dot Com Secrets is a FREE book that gives you diagrams and layouts for any funnel this is a must read for anyone that is a step 1 for sure everything will make sense after reading through this simple to follow book. With this FREE book by Russell Brunson you will have everything just “click” and make sense.

You need this to do your ad copy:

* Funnel Scripts this is totally amazing it uses a wizard that will populate for you ad copy for squeeze pages also called landing pages, sales pages, thank you pages and email follow up series that you can set up to go our automatically to your new customer.

You need this for your sales funnel:

* Click Funnels what is this I can hear you say! Every business needs a sales funnel, this is so simple to use its virtually drag and drop and has changed the way that many people do business. You can build your own squeeze page, sales page, thank you page up sell, down sell in minutes. Get your FREE TRIAL HERE.

Honestly, these 3 things are all that is needed. If you roll your eyes and say Jenny – time poor to do my business now I haven’t time to do more learning…the answer to you is easy outsource your admin and other tasks to Need a VA.

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OUTSOURCING IN THE PHILIPPINES – WHAT TO PAY A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT?

When it comes to hiring your virtual assistant don’t try to beat them down until you are paying virtually nothing, pay them what they are worth then you ask “well what Jenny do I pay them?” 

A virtual assistant cost per hour can vary from $350 USD per month to between $1200 – $1500 per month for a web designer, who will do coding.

To make it easier I have a table at the bottom of the page that shows of the different rates that other countries charges to have the same or similar services check this out now here

What general virtual assistants can do and not do.

General VA’s are the busy bees that do all of the monotonous, repetitive and boring tasks that you do not want to be doing such as:

• Clearing out emails and placing them in folders
• Data mining
• Excel sheets updating information
• Video editing
• Posting on social media
• Making appointments and keeping your diary updated
• Liking and making comments on social media
• Headers for social media
• Update themes
• SEO

They do not do:

• Web design
• Coding
• Article writing
• Transciption
• Graphics
• Funnels
• Copywriting
• Campaign management for FB, Adwordsetc
• Local Business SEO

When you make an appointment to talk to us about your requirements then we can best advise you what sort of virtual assistant team that will best suit your needs. It may be a combination of the 2 areas or you may start with the specialized VA for web based work you have and then to maintain the website it will be the general virtual assistant who will look after all of your day to day tasks that you have.
Q and A

Q: Can the hours that I pre-purchased and still have hours left can this be rolled over to the following month?

A: No all of the hours consumed must be used within the month

Q Will I need to talk to many VA’s to get the various tasks done?A: Majority of our clients love the idea of having their work project managed so that they do not need to worry about the task being done, of course you are free to talk to your VA if that is what you wish to do.

Q: Do you have a referral program as I have friends that I know need the VA services that you provide.A: We sure do please go to the bottom of the page of where you can join up and you get 10% commission off every month the referred person is active with Need a VA. There are some clients that have their VA services free as they have introduced a number of people.

We can help you get back your time and grow your business please contact us TODAY to discuss how we can make this happen for you.

Contact http://needava.com or email us at info@needava.com

Source: Internet Marketing

Hiring The Right Team To Build Your Website

Its so important when hiring the right team to build your website that you really begin with a check list of questions that you need answered before you even get to the point and start talking about your vision for your website. 

The questions would be:

• How much experience have you had building websites?
• Can I see the different types of websites that you have built?
• What length of time does it take you to build a website?

WordPress is one of the biggest and easiest platforms to work with and there are thousands of free themes but note with free themes are not updated after a period of time whereas a paid theme is updated regularly.

Once the platform and framework of the site is built, it is more difficult to add new features or alter the overall structure.

Other considerations is to determine the goal of your website.

• What do you hope to achieve with this website?
• Who is your target audience?
• How will you know when you have achieved these objectives?

With building your website you may want to consider to have a mock up of the layout of your website so you can envisage how the end product will look like. This is a great time to make adjustments before you even get started. As you move through the website creation process, you will see the website starting to take shape and have a good idea by now what the site will look like.

Although there will be many things that will change during the creation process – like specific design features, different applications, and your unique content – your core goals will remain constant.

Your Virtual Assistant Team

Need a VA have their own project managers who have a team of virtual assistants who will work with you to complete your project? The beauty of a project manager is he takes your dreams and suggestions and works closely with your virtual assistant team to ensure that your project progresses and is completed in a timely manner.

Of course you are going to make the global decisions and direct your managers to implement these into action. As the head of your business, you are going to have a lot of issues that you need to resolve therefore we will work closely with you at all times.

Within your Need a VA team there are 9 different areas we are experts in such as technical experience, web designers, developers, and programmers who will actually be building your site through the different stages.

The project manager will include critical information about goals, target audience, feature requests, and any other important information to develop your site.

Other blueprints

In website creation, blueprints are known as “wireframes,” and they include such things as diagrams of complex web applications, or workflows, and technical specifications that can guide your web development team.

Once these blueprint documents are completed, the project manager can then work with the technicians to begin building the first prototype of your website for your approval.

If you need affordable expert website design please contact us either by email info@needava.com or through our website here

Looking forward to working with you very soon ~ Jenny CEO Need a VA

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How to Develop a Lead Magnet Idea That Works?

As an internet marketer, or at least as someone who is familiar with the internet, you would come across the term “Lead Magnet” a lot. A lead magnet is essentially an incentive offered to a prospect in exchange for their contact information. An effective lead magnet idea is one that maximizes the number of targeted leads that you get for a particular offer.

Here are some of the Lead Magnet Ideas that you 
should know about… 

#1: A free software tool or download

#2: Free coupons

#3: A quiz or a test

#4: A free webinar or a recorded video recording

#5: A case study

#6: A toolkit

#7: Free consultation or sales material

#8:  A free eBook or a report

#9: A PDF checklist

Each of these lead magnet ideas are proven to work and are guaranteed to get the attention of your audience. But it is not as simple as you think. You will need to work hard and take effective action to develop lead magnets that get you the expected results.

Follow the step-by-step guide given here to develop lead magnet ideas that work, time and time again. 

Step #1: Choosing a lead magnet

We have listed some of the best lead magnets above. You can pick any one of these ideas, depending on the information you would like to share. For example, if you’re going to offer a free report, what is it going to be about? If you want to offer a quiz instead, have you properly considered the questions?

An effective lead magnet does the following for you…

#1: It is attractive and grabs attention.

#2: It offers quality information that the client would want to have and would benefit them in some way or another.

#3: It is relevant to your products, business or service.

#4: It is simple enough for a potential client to understand, but hard enough so that they would want to have more information from you.

#5: It tells your clients what they need, is educational and descriptive about a problem and offers a simple solution. It tells them why they might find your product or service useful.

Step #2: Create great content

Now that you know which lead magnet would be the right one to offer, the next step is to create great content for it. Some lead magnets such as eBooks or reports need more content than others; each lead magnet idea would require quality material.

Here are a few tips on content creation for a lead magnet…

#1: Designing a landing page for the lead magnet – The landing page should have enough descriptive content that explains what the lead magnet is and what it has to offer. The landing page will also have a download button to access the lead magnet.

 #2: Designing a form page – On the form page, the customer fills up a form before downloading the lead magnet. Most internet marketers ask for the subscriber’s phone number, name, e-mail address, business or profession and website URL. Only the name and the e-mail address need to be mandatory, the other entries can be made optional, this way, the subscriber doesn’t feel like they are being asked for too much information. As soon as they fill up the form, send them an email with the download link for the lead magnet.

#3: Designing a “thank you” page – The subscriber should be led to the thank you page after downloading the lead magnet. This is where you thank them for downloading the lead magnet and explain where they can find the download link. The “thank you” page allows you to track the number of times the lead magnet has been downloaded. This way you will know how many leads you’ve had.

Step #3: Setting up the lead magnet on your website

You’ve done the hard work – created the landing page, form and the “thank you” page. You probably have the material for the lead magnet read as well. Now, it’s all about setting it up on your website. Add a web page called “resources” with links displayed right on top of your website. This should be unique and distinctive from the rest of the website and make it easy for people to opt-in, should they want to. Clicking on this link should take them to the landing page for the lead magnet.

Next, place effective calls-to-action for the lead magnet at various places on the website. This could be in the sidebar of your blog, below the web page or in other easily accessible places. The call-to-action should include attractive, clickable visuals for best effect.

Step #4: Optimizing the Conversions

The next step is to see if the lead magnet actually works. Track the number of downloads and find out how many of them have developed into leads. If you’re getting a fair share of downloads and a high conversion rate with your lead magnet, then you’ve done well. If not, find out why.

Why a lead magnet fails to convert…
 
Reason #1:  Perhaps it supplies irrelevant information, which is not related to your business, product or service.

Reason #2: It is hard to understand.

Reason #3: It doesn’t offer enough information; lacks descriptive content or material.

Reason #4: It’s designed very unattractively; is an eye sore.

Reason #5: The email link or the download button is not working.

Reason #6: The email with the download link ends up in the SPAM folder of your subscriber.

Conclusion

We have discussed the importance of lead magnets, given you examples of effective lead magnet ideas and explained how to develop them. If your lead magnet fails to give you the expected results, do read the tips given here once again, try out different ideas till you get one that works.


Source: Internet Marketing

Slack Is One Of The Best Essential Tools For Teams

What is Slack?
Slack is a messaging app that works as a very effective collaborative tool, and brings together all of your team communication in one place. Slack offers real-time messaging, search and archiving for teams. It integrates with a number of external services and applications and comes with built-in sharing options, so that you can share your files or emails with anyone, either internally – within a team, or externally.

Why Do You Need Slack?

While it has only been two years since it was first introduced, Slack has become very popular with business executives in many Fortune 500 companies. It is easy to see why. The problem is with the nature of email. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, most of the email one received – 70% to 80% – was from another person. So much of the email communication received was important enough to be viewed.

But now, only 8 to 10% of the emails one receives is really important, and comes from an actual person…while the rest of the 90% comes from machines, email marketing companies, Facebook comments, Twitter responses, monthly bills, bank statements and so on and so forth.

When you are working in a competitive corporate environment, picking out the emails from within the organization or from your team members from the rest becomes a real headache. That’s why Slack can be so useful.

What Does Slack Do?

When you tap on the Slack icon, it makes available only the emails and other communication received from the people at your company or your team members. Slack creates a wall between your internal communication with your team members and the rest of the stuff you deal with, generally. So you know what’s important and what’s not and focus on only what you need for work.

Slack has advanced search features, filters and sorting functionality and makes it easier for you to get the files that you need. Slack has powerful native apps for both Android and iOS and can be synchronized across several devices – mobile phones, tablets, laptop and desktop computer. So if you read an email on your laptop, the Slack app on your iPhone will know about it and will mark the email as “read”.

There’s no need for status reports and stand-up meetings as Slack makes sure that everyone in the team is in the loop. This simplifies a lot of things for you and your team. All team communications on Slack are public, so everyone can see what’s going on elsewhere in the organization.

The marketing department can get an idea of the challenges faced by the customer relationship managers, and engineers are always aware of what the designers are working on currently, and don’t have to ask.

Slack has a searchable history of the entire team’s communication, which allows you to stay updated with what’s going on. With Slack, you can go through every decision made by your team, every discussion, link, or file shared. You don’t have to waste time on the triaging of emails and status updates any more. This saves time and does a lot to boost productivity at the workplace.

Slack – Price and Plans 

Slack is available in four different plans.

• Free – no limits on time or users
• Standard – costs $6.67 per user/month.
• Plus – costs $12.50 per user/month
• Enterprise – costs $48 for the whole team/monthly

Conclusion
Slack is one of the best apps for online communication and collaboration out there. It works as a perfect private back-channel for members of a team within an organization. It provides for a seamless communication within the workplace, saves time and improves productivity.

Source: Internet Marketing

Need A VA – Explains Why You Need a Website

When you are a business or service you will need a branded website that promotes your business or service across all social media platforms so people instantly identify you.

What typically happens is that people will research you and you perhaps have done the same thing when you have researched for a holiday destination or something that you are thinking about purchasing you would do a few things:

– Google the company
– Search for reviews real clients that have been to that resort or used that service
– Social media to find out what they are saying online
– Go to the website

You may have yourself done a few or all of the above things to satisfy your thirst to know more before investing anything.

When it comes to your website you have around 6-9 seconds to gain a new customer or someone that wants to subscribe to your site so its really important that your website is:

– Has branding that represents your product or service
– Easy to navigate the things that the customer is looking for
– Able to educate giving product knowledge
– Mobile responsive

A website visitor will go to your website and start clicking links that they are interested in or scroll down the page until they see your “call to action” that means that the owner asks them to click on the button to buy the service, download a free video, report or ebook or perhaps the call to action is up the top of the page where you add your name and email address to subscribe to a newsletter for instance.

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViOTGuS4OJk&feature=youtu.be

So many people get it wrong – here is why:

My tale of woe is when I started online some 10 years ago and was keen to get a website up not knowing anything about the functionality of a website or how to have a converting website. The designer made it look pretty though – well I thought so at the time and kept on adding to my wish list of things that I wanted on the site and in the end I spent close to $9,000 which is way too much and the website was like a lame duck and did not convert at all. To this day its never been used for the purpose I had it built it for and was an expensive lesson that I learnt.

You see the web designer had the talent to build a site and to make it look nice but was not trained for how people and especially Google see the site when they both visit.

We are different at Need a VA and we get it RIGHT!

We have had our work displayed on Huffpost, BON BON Network (TV show in NY) and used by hundreds of various businesses and services each  design different and eye catching.

As we have a highly experienced website and graphic design team we ensure that we get it right from the start and we do a mock up of how the lay out of the site will look when completed.

Also….

– We look at a heat map of where people look once they are on the site
– Google analytics will be installed to show you how people are finding your site and what words that they are typing in Google to find your business.
– We use beautiful themes to give your site functionality that you need to keep the site updated
– The designers conceptualise and take on board your ideas and they produce beautiful graphics, logos and ebook covers to make your site stand out from your competitors
– Mobile responsive

If you are looking for a website that ticks all of the boxes and you want to talk to us more about your vision and goals for your site simply fill in the details on the short form below and lets have a discussion. Click the link here to fill out the form http://www.needava.com/website-project-intake-form/

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