WAHM Announce

Work at home moms (WAHMs) often find that as outside temperatures heat up, their revenues cool down. It’s been called summer slowdown or summer slump, but knowing the phenomenon is so common it even has a name doesn’t make it any easier to watch your profits virtually vanish for two months of the year.

Denise Willms, a work-at-home-mom who publishes articles and tips written by moms for moms at her website WAHM-Articles.com, offers seven tips for work at home moms who want to keep their summer sales sizzling, even in the current economy.

1. Write and distribute articles on a regular basis. Any business owner can write articles that build their credibility and maintain visibility, then have those articles published where their target markets will find them.

2. Give your website a good once-over. Are you losing sales because your website visitors can’t figure out what to do next, or how to contact you? A website review can be as easy as asking your grandmother or a non-Internet savvy friend to do a specific task on your website then watching which obstacles they run into.

3. Create and sell your own information product. Cost-conscious shoppers are looking for ways to save money by doing things themselves. You can benefit by packaging your own expertise into a product that helps them, and then selling it.

4. Review your paid advertising. Advertising online and off is an important component of branding your business and staying visible to your audience. However, even in an age of cost-cutting, cheap advertising is not always better. Make sure your paid ad space is where your potential customers will find it.

5. Add another revenue stream to your business. Having multiple streams of income, whether you’re selling your own product or someone else’s as a direct sales consultant, will help ensure your revenue never dries up.

6. Add Virtual Assistant services to your current business. Many businesses are laying off employees and turning to Virtual Assistants, administrative professionals who provide a myriad of support services from their own home offices on a contractual basis, for help with their business needs.

7. Consider hiring a business coach for one or two coaching sessions this summer. The right business coach can help keep your business on track through the summer months by holding you accountable for your results and offering a different perspective on what you’re currently doing.

To help stop summer slowdown now for your work-at-home-mom business, visit http://www.WAHM-Articles.com and click on the link to enter the Saving Summer Giveaway. When you enter, you’ll be eligible to win prizes to help you stop summer slowdown. You’ll find more business tips and advice by reading the articles published at http://www.WAHM-Articles.com . Or sign up for your free author’s account and discover how writing and submitting articles can help you get more customers and clients for your WAHM business.

On Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. EST, Tom Ziglar will present ” Success 2.0″
Topic Description: The Ziglar Philosophy, social media networking, and losing 80 pounds!

As CEO of Ziglar, Inc., Tom Ziglar not only shares a last name with his father,  Zig Ziglar, but he also carries on his philosophy, which is simply, “You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.”

Prior to being named CEO, Tom initially began his career in retail and direct sales. He joined the Zig Ziglar Corporation in 1987, learning every aspect of the business as he climbed from working in the warehouse, to sales, to seminar promotion, to sales management and then on to leadership.

With the last name Ziglar, Tom has had a lot to live up to. But rather than try to fill his father’s shoes, Tom has created a whole new pair of his own! He is boldly taking Ziglar, Inc., into the world of social communities, Twitter, blogs, and webinars to present the tried and true message of hope, integrity and positive thinking to a whole new audience.

While the content has remained consistent, the method is ever-changing; as Ziglar’s leader, Tom is positioned to do just that – lead.

Please join us at VAnetworking.com on Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. (EST) to revive the Ziglar Philosophy and Success 2.0.

VAnetworking is the largest business network for aspiring and successful Virtual Assistants and Virtual Achievers to share, learn, and succeed! At VAnetworking, industry experts and Virtual Assistant newbies mix it up to uncover all things new and exciting in the world of Virtual Assistance, while supporting one another and striving to promote the Virtual Assistant industry.

So join the fun and stop by the VAnetworking Forum today at http://www.vanetworking.com or just go ahead and upgrade to this exciting new VAinsider membership at http://www.vanetworking.com/vainsider/index.htm. You’ll see just how much better your business can become and also have a great time doing it.  And for those looking for a VA, you won’t be able to beat the professionals you’ll find here.

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Tawnya Sutherland, founder of VAnetworking (http://www.vanetworking.com) and author of the Virtual Business Startup System (VBSS), is a Certified Internet Marketing Specialist sharing her expertise to help aspiring and successful VAs turn website clicks into cash for them.

Virtual Assistants who have self-published books are invited to complete an internet marketing survey and enter to win a book marketing package from Virtual Assistant company Cassidar Ink.

Self-published authors who pour their hearts and wallets into publishing their books frequently turn to the internet and its promise of prosperity for marketing help. Some of these authors waste thousands of dollars and hours on internet marketing programs with no results, while others experience wild success. Article marketing expert Denise Willms of Cassidar Ink, a Virtual Assistant business that specializes in writing and publicity services, recently launched an author marketing survey to determine which types of free internet marketing authors are using, what their results have been, and where their strategies could be falling short.

“Many new self-published authors believe selling their books on the internet is an easy path to riches but they struggle to sell even a few copies online,” says Willms, “This survey was created to find out which internet marketing strategies are being used by self-published authors and what unique challenges authors encounter when they promote their books on the internet. By collecting this information, I’m hoping to educate self-published book authors on how to better utilize the internet to sell more of their books.”

The survey focuses specifically on free internet marketing techniques such as writing and distributing articles and press releases, which are popular with self-published authors because they’re easily accessible. It will also reveal what results authors typically gain from their internet marketing endeavors and common challenges faced by authors who market their books on the internet.

Authors who participate in the survey are eligible to win an author marketing package from Cassidar Ink worth nearly $600.

Denise Willms is a Virtual Assistant and article marketing expert who for the past five years has helped business owners and self-published authors gain publicity and build a following for their books and services by utilizing a combination of traditional media and internet marketing.

Self-published authors are invited to take the author marketing survey at http://CassidarInk.com before July 15, 2009 to be eligible to for the draw for the author marketing package. Visit http://CassidarInk.com for a free step-by-step guide to writing and distributing articles that sell products and services.

On Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. EST, Leesa Barnes will present How to Manage a Multi-Speaker, Multi-Series Virtual Event as a Virtual Assistant

Topic Description:

As companies cut back on travel, many are hosting virtual events so that employees and business owners can upgrade their skills from the comforts of home or office. Yet many of these companies have no clue how to plan, organize and launch a virtual event, let alone one that features a multitude of speakers, exhibitors and sponsors. They end up making many mistakes that cost them time, money and their reputation.

As a virtual assistant, you’re in a strategic position to use what you already know to help companies be successful hosting their own multi-speaker, multi-series virtual event. Join Leesa Barnes as she shares with you the critical tasks that virtual assistants must know to help businesses host profitable virtual events.

What You’ll Learn
- Why managing a multi-speaker, multi-day virtual event is much more than just booking a bridge line or sending out emails
- The 3 things you must manage when setting up a virtual event (and what you should not)
- The checklist every virtual assistant must have to keep the virtual event host from tearing her hair out
- The difference between a multi-speaker, multi-series virtual event and a webinar or teleclass (and why this distinction really matters)
- How to start offering virtual event management to companies

About Leesa: Award winning author, Leesa Barnes, is an online marketing specialist and virtual event marketing expert. She is President of Marketing Fit Inc., a training and development company that teaches businesses how to get active and be profitable on the Internet using online tools and virtual events.

Please join us at VAnetworking.com on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 at 6:00 p.m. (EST) to learn How to Manage a Multi-Speaker, Multi-Series Virtual Event as a Virtual Assistant

VAnetworking is the largest business network for aspiring and successful Virtual Assistants and Virtual Achievers to share, learn, and succeed! At VAnetworking, industry experts and Virtual Assistant newbies mix it up to uncover all things new and exciting in the world of Virtual Assistance, while supporting one another and striving to promote the Virtual Assistant industry.

So join the fun and stop by the VAnetworking Forum today at http://www.vanetworking.com or just go ahead and upgrade to this exciting new VAinsider membership at http://www.vanetworking.com/vainsider/index.htm. You’ll see just how much better your business can become and also have a great time doing it.  And for those looking for a VA, you won’t be able to beat the professionals you’ll find here.

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Tawnya Sutherland, founder of VAnetworking (http://www.vanetworking.com) and author of the Virtual Business Startup System (VBSS), is a Certified Internet Marketing Specialist sharing her expertise to help aspiring and successful VAs turn website clicks into cash for them.