The Elements Of An Impressive VA Blog Webinar

Yesterday, I finished the required number of tutorials as part of the assignment of the live VA Seminar I attended last June. I have also created this blog to be able to write about the tutorials I have done.

So, today I decided to watch the webinar, “The Elements Of An Impressive VA Blog,” again which I first saw last June 23, 2012. It was also given by Jomar Hilario. I wanted to refresh myself and check if I was able to apply the pointers Jomar taught that would make VA blogs standout.

During the webinar, Jomar showed several VA blogs and asked the attendees what they thought of  the blogs. He taught the attendees what were missing or lacking in the blogs as well as what were right or correct about them.

In the end, he gave a list of  pointers that would help in creating an impressive VA Blog which follows.

1. Remove the “Just Another WordPress Blog” shown at the beginning of any newly created WordPress blog. This is to erase the impression that one  is a beginner in the world of blogging.

2. VA blogs should have tutorials. This is to showcase the skills the particular virtual assistant has and also to impress to the client that the VA is a power user of several tools.

3. The tutorials included in the blog should be visible and clear.

4. The design of the blog should be selected with care such that it is clean and professional looking.

5. When one is in doubt as to what  design to choose from the thousands available in WordPress, Jomar suggested to compare the design to Apple’s, Flickr’s and Tumblr’s  website. These three have beautiful and professional looking websites.

6. It is important to think of the kind of impression one is giving his audience.

7. Use 2-3 colors maximum.

8. Use 2-3 fonts maximum.

9. Take care and make sure that there is white space so that the blog is easy on the eyes of the reader.

10. No cluttering.

11. Make sure that it has the email catcher gadget.

12. Your image should be smiling.

I will now review the blogs I have done and improve them since I discovered a few things I did not do after watching the webinar again. I hope that when my assignment is checked the feedback would be, you did it right!

PayPal – Creating Buttons Tutorial

PayPal is a service that enables you to pay, send money, and accept payments without revealing your financial information. It acts as a digital wallet where you can securely store all your payment options, such as your bank account and credit card. When you want to make a payment, you don’t have to pull out your credit card or type your billing info every time.

Selling online with PayPal is also easy. It only takes a few clicks to request or accept a secure payment. Your customers don’t even need a PayPal account. Setup is easy, no programming skills are required and there are no setup or monthly charges.

The tutorial below will show you how easy it is to create Buy Now buttons that you can start selling online after only a few minutes! Click on the presentation to learn how.

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Shortstack – Create a Facebook Contest Tutorial

Shortstack is a content management system for Facebook Pages. With Shortstack, you can add custom content to a Facebook Page, run promotions,  gather data, and much, much more.  Shortstack enables you to design better Facebook Pages.

Creating a Facebook Contest is one of the best features of Shortstack. Facebook Contests increase visibility and “likes” for your Facebook Page. Shortstack has made this task of creating Facebook Contests easy, especially for the beginner.

Let me show you a step-by step guide on how to create a Facebook Contest using Shortstack in a presentation below. Just click on below and you’re on your way to making one yourself! It was fun and easy for me who is a beginner like you ; ).

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Google Forms Tutorial

Do you want to know what the most popular ice cream flavor is? Are you planning to give a quiz? Maybe you are organizing a family reunion and want to know how many people are coming? Or, you are curious and you want to find out what books people are reading?

Google Forms will help you create, share, send and edit surveys, quizzes, team rosters, collect RSVPs and collect other information in an easy, streamlined way. Also, all Google Forms you have created are automatically connected to and neatly organized in a Google Spreadsheet such that you can sit back, relax and watch the responses of your recipients come in. This makes sorting and analyzing data a snap.

What’s more is all your form data are automatically saved in Google Spreadsheets and stored inGoogle Drive. Access them wherever you go, from any device.

Find out how to use this tool to help you by clicking on below.

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Google Drive – Create and Share Files Tutorial

Google Drive, according to Wikipedia, is a file storage and sync service by Google that was released on April 24, 2012. Google Drive is now the home of Google Docs, a suite of productivity apps, that offer collaborative editing on documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more.

In Google Drive, you are able to store the first 5 GB of your files for free and additional storage space is available starting at $ 2.49 a month.

Google Drive also lets you access your files anywhere. You can change your files on the web, on your computer or on your mobile device and it updates on every device where you have installed Google Drive.

This tutorial is a step-by-step guide on how to install Google Drive, create and share docs and spreadsheets in Google Drive. Click below to learn more.

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Make Facebook Earn For You Large Webinar

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

– Jim Rohn

I joined Jomar Hilario’s Mastery Group facebook page a few months ago because I wanted to explore the opportunity of becoming a virtual assistant. Working from home is something totally new to me but I was very interested to learn a lot about it  because of the obvious benefits.  Jomar Hilario is an online marketer and virtual assistant trainor.

One day, when I was going through my facebook account, I saw Jomar’s post about a webinar he is conducting. The webinar’s title was, “Make Facebook Earn For You Large.” It was held last April 25, 2012.

The title immediately caught my attention. I never thought that I can earn money while using facebook. I only use facebook  to connect with my friends and relatives, looking at what’s going on in their lives.

Since I love to learn and attending this webinar would teach me how to apply everything in it to be able to create at least two different sources of income, I decided to sign up. It was the very first webinar I attended and it was time well spent.

The following are what I learned from the webinar:

1. I played my very first Facebook contest. I never played any contest before in Facebook since I was wary of doing so. I did not trust any of the contests posted in it. In my mind, there are always the questions, “Are these contests for real? Are they really going to give the prizes they promised?”

Anyway, it was fun playing the Facebook contest Jomar selected for the attendees to play.

2. I learned what makes a Facebook contest legal. Surprisingly, not all facebook contests are legal. Facebook contests are legal only when they have an APP.

3. I learned how to make a legal Facebook contest. Jomar showed us how to make one by using Shortstack. He made it easy by introducing Orange. “Orange is your friend,” he said.

Admittedly,  I was not able to immediately create a Facebook contest the first time that I tried it on my own. But, I saw several of the attendees posting the contests they have made on Jomar’s page so, I was inspired to try and try until I succeed. I thought, if they can do it, so can I. And succeed I did. You can actually see the tutorial I made on how to make Facebook contests using Shortstack in this blog under Tutorials.

Now, how do I apply my learnings to create two new sources of income?

1. Email 100 companies who are running Facebook contests without an APP and offer my services for a fee to create  legal contests for them. They need to run legal contests because if Facebook finds out that they are running contests without APPS,  their page will be deleted and their companies will be banned.

2. Include creating Facebook contests as a skill in my online resume as virtual assistant.

Indeed, searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. Applying what I learned from the webinar will start the miracle process of me earning more and of a greater possibility of  landing a good paying  job online.

VLC – The Ultimate Media Player Tutorial

VLC is an acronym for VideoLan Client. It is a free video player which is versatile and well-known for playing various audio and video formats (MPEG, DivX/Xid, Ogg, and many more) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

I have prepared a simple step-by-step tutorial on how to use VLC Media Player.  The tutorial covers how to install VLC Media Player in your PC, how to play an audio file, how to play DVDs or CDs using VLC Media Player and also how to install radio in your VLC Media Player and listen to its live streaming.

Click on below presentation to learn about how to use this ultimate media player.

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Hootsuite – Manage Your Social Media Networks Tutorial

Hootsuite is a tool created in 2008 by Ryan Holmes. He had a specific need at that time to effectively manage  his multiple social media marketing networks.  He searched for a tool with features that would answer all his needs but, having found none, he decided to develop one with his team.

You can bring together all your social media accounts, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, in Hootsuite and social media marketing becomes a breeze for you. You are able to save precious time by getting away from logging in and out of your social media sites all day. Through Hootsuite,  you can see all your social media accounts in one screen. You can send , receive and schedule messages on one or multiple social streams.

The tutorial below shows you how to schedule tweets using Hootsuite.  Click on the presentation and off you go.

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Dropbox – Store, Access and Share Your Files Tutorial

Dropbox is a file hosting service founded by Drew Houston.  Drew thought of the idea of Dropbox when he kept on forgetting his USB flash drive when he was still a student.

From Soluto, Dropbox is like a regular folder on your computer where you can keep stuff, but has a magical twist – every file that you put in your Dropbox is automatically backed up to the cloud to keep it completely safe and secure.

Putting files in Dropbox has the following benefits:

1. Your files will be backed up and kept safe.

2. You’ll be able to access them from any computer or smartphone.

3. You can easily share stuff with other people.

Dropbox has a simple design and easy to use. Click on below tutorial to learn how to use this brilliant idea which was conceived because of a constant irritant in someone’s life, always forgetting his flashdrive.

 

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Jing – Adding Visuals To Your Conversations Tutorial

What is Jing?  Jing is a free sotfware  from the makers of Snagit and Camtasia Studio, Techsmith. It is simple to use  and the coolest thing about it is it allows you to add visuals to your online conversations. Instead of typing at people, show them what you are talking about!

This is a very helpful tool for marketers, educators, students and everybody who believe visuals speak more than words. It actually becomes an indispensable tool when one gets the hang of using it.

In the tutorial that I have prepared, you will learn how to install Jing, capture a screenshot,  and share the screenshot through screencast.com.

Imagine a scenario where you are having an online conversation with your friend. You are meeting for lunch and your friend asks about the address of the restaurant.  If you have Jing installed in your computer, you can quickly capture a screenshot of the address of  the restaurant or  capture a screenshot of the restaurant’s map and paste this to your actual conversation. To learn more about this, please click on the tutorial below.

A 5 minute video is also possible to prepare with Jing but this is not covered in this tutorial.

 

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