Valerie Alba (aka VLA – Super V.A.) is a Virtual Assistant and guest blogger.  Each Tuesday she will provide tools, tips, and tricks direct from her life-saving “utility belt”. 

Episode 7: Should you outsource your social presence?

Almost every client and potential client I have spoken with say the same thing, ”I just don’t have the time to keep up with my social media sites”.  The content is there, just not the time it takes to log on and post the updates when the actual business of running the company takes precedence daily.  Don’t underplay the importance or ignore the huge marketing potential of social media.  Consider outsourcing instead.  A virtual assistant can tackle this valuable but time-consuming task for you.

What can a social media virtual assistant do?  Many administrative professionals who provide support services such as document management and event planning via the Internet can also help with recommending the right social media platforms, setting up profiles, finding potential clients and networking groups and maintaining communication with them.

Outsource your social media tasks to a Social Media Virtual Assistant and simplify your life, so you can spend more time focusing on growing your business and increasing your profits.

http://www.entrepreneur.com/hiringcenter/article202500.html

http://marketing.about.com/od/internetmarketing/a/socialmediaourtsource.htm

http://drivingtraffic.com/should-you-outsource-your-social-media/

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Valerie Alba (aka VLA – Super V.A.) is a Virtual Assistant and guest blogger.  Each Tuesday she will provide tools, tips, and tricks direct from her life-saving “utility belt”.  Today’s episode is the Virtual Assistant Networking Toolbar courtesy of VAnetworking.com. 

Episode 5: Get a Life (Coach)

Looking for an edge in your career and in your life?  Answer the following questions: 

• What’s most important to you in life?
• What’s most important to you in your career?
• What’s most important to you in your relationships?
• What are you tolerating in your life?
• What do you want MORE of?
• What do you want LESS of?

Life coaches focus on enhancing the lives of clients by balancing or “integrating” one’s life by building a “life blueprint” and creating “action plans.”  Coaches are not therapists or consultants.  Life coaches specialize in areas like relationships, careers or personal growth.  They promise to motivate, offer support and professional and personal empowerment.  The focus is more on the present and future than the past, and more on goals and behaviors than emotions and emotional patterns.  Coaching often takes place over the course of several months, often in half-hour, weekly sessions.  Costs vary widely.

Make your good life great, contact a life coach today.

http://www.whatswithinu.com/

http://www.lifecoachmary.com

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Reviewed by new Snagit user Valerie Alba, Virtual Assistant (aka VLA – Super V.A.) www.vlasuperva.com

With Snagit, (by TechSmith) there are over 40 ways you can Capture images on your screen.  No more PrintScreen function key or copy/paste to a Text Box.  Simply log in to Snagit, find the desired screen shot or image from websites and software applications or pictures from a scanner or digital camera, or video, “capture” it and edit or send to the desired presentation format (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).  Snagit offers an extensive editing tool.  It’s flexible and easy to use. There are tools to draw, resize, recolor, and annotate the images, link an image to a URL, highlight, frame or add borders, apply shadow and edge effects, adjust color, crop, and cut.  Share your final product by sending it to a printer, save to your clipboard, save to a file, send via email, FTP to the web, or share via Skype.  You can then organize (tag, flag, index or export) your collection to use the captured images again and again.  The available tips and tricks and video tutorials make it fun to learn.  This product is totally user-friendly.  There’s free technical support if you get stuck or have questions not covered by the available help options.  The more you use Snagit, the more ways you will find how you can use it.

For more information, check out their website http://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.asp

Valerie Alba (aka VLA – Super V.A.) is a Virtual Assistant and guest blogger.  Each Tuesday she will provide tools, tips, and tricks direct from her life-saving “utility belt”.  Today’s episode is the Virtual Assistant Networking Toolbar courtesy of VAnetworking.com. 

Quietly and anonymously living among us, Super VA’s are everywhere.  Average citizens, average heroes, continuing to make the world a better place.  Some have a secret identity, some don’t.  All have a utility belt filled with life-saving tools, tips and gadgets.  The ultimate utility belt tool is the Virtual Assistant Networking Toolbar.  Chock full of useful time saving tools perfect for start-up and seasoned businesses alike, including accounting/time tracking, collaboration, forms, business plans, calendar sharing, computer protection, marketing, graphic design, PDF creation and file convertors, press releases, reference tools, remote access, shareware, shipping and postage, social networking, software tools.  There’s an email notifier, a chat room, top 10 RSS feeds, and the VA shop where you can find books, templates and more.  Access Skype, a group forum or handy gadgets such as a calculator, note pad and Travelocity.  Save time and access all the information you need every day all in one convenient place. 

http://www.vanetworking.com

Do you have a utility belt tool tip or crisis? Call VLA – Super V.A.  Help is just a click away! www.vlasuperva.com