Does Your Virtual Assistant Think Outside The Box?

There are so many ways to utilize social networking within your business(es) and in turn utilizing your virtual assistant to carry out such tasks.  But is she/he making the most of what’s available to entice, capture and keep new leads and prospective clients for you?

Blogs are one way to show the world that you are staying current within your business niche and what is happening within your industry.  Having your virtual assistant posting blogs at least twice a week is paramount to keeping new content flowing into your website and keeping the SEO Gods close at hand.

But this isn’t exactly thinking outside the box now is it?  One way that your virtual assistant can make an impact within your social networking and social media masses is by incorporating video blogs (also known as vlogging) into her routine.  This can be done very easily and with little to no expense.

Remember, your video must be compelling to the viewer - if you don’t grab their interest within the first 10 seconds of your video blog, then you’ve just wasted your time (and voice!).

Another thing to remember when creating your video blogs is to upload them to other social sites, including YouTube, Blip.tv, Archive.org, Facebook, Vimeo and Flickr.  I can attest to the known fact that by doing so your client’s websites will at least quadruple the traffic they would get if you were to just insert the video blog  into only their website.

Below is an example of one short video blog that was created to promote a real estate agent’s website MLS search capabilities.