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Good Ol’ Fashioned Marketing is Still Good For Business!

Step It Up VA Coaching

Whether a small business owner is curious about hiring a Virtual Assistant, or a local unemployed professional is looking to start her own VA business, marketing yourself face to face is a highly effective way to promote your business, and the VA industry in your area, while adding new prospective clients to your mailing list.

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Are You Covering All Expense Bases?

Step It Up VA Coaching

Insurance: If you carry any sort of business insurance, or if you have extra homeowners or renters insurance to cover equipment losses, count it as an expense. You may also consider health insurance as an expense, especially if you had to buy your own after leaving your job to work for yourself.

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21 Tips for Job Hunting - A Comprehensive Strategy

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

She gave me her business card. I always have tons of stamps, thank you cards, blank cards, and stationary on hand along with pre-printed address labels. I also include my personal business card with my name, cell number, email address, and city, state, and USA printed on it since I do travel overseas sometimes.

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How To Manage Your Receipts

Brilliantly Better

Business Cards Are Nice Too Now, what do you do if you have some human powered work force, some OCR software to do the dirty job for you and a lot of audience (Shoeboxed is pretty popular, you know)? So, the next logical step was to give you a complimentary service, in the form of a business card transcribing service.

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How I Learned to Love Selling (and How You Can Too)

Success

Sadly, this is the conventional wisdom on networking: talk about yourself with as many people as you can for just long enough to hand out your business card in the hopes that some of these seeds will sprout, even without watering. then promote yourself with free talks, appear on podcasts, or try email marketing.

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How much money do you really need to start your micro business.

The Small Business Blog

People want flashy premises, business cards etc. They should focus on spending their limited budgets only on things that will generate them business. Once this business is being generated regularly only then should you look at the “luxuries&# Poker Promotions Said on May 24th, 2009 at 2:59 pm Your article is interesting.

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Small Business Bootstrapping Techniques | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

They understand that cash is king and should not be wasted on old style advertising and marketing – there are better and almost cost-free ways to promote your small business. Bootstrappers don’t waste time with long business plans they start their small business immediately. I started my business with £50.

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