When I surveyed readers of my ezine two weeks ago, 84 people responded, and many asked me to explain what a virtual assistant is and how to find one.<\/p>\n
I’ll explain that, and more,\u00a0during an hour-long teleseminar “How to Find a Virtual Assistant to Help with Your Publicity Campaign” at\u00a01 PM Eastern Time on Thursday, May 17.<\/p>\n
A virtual assistant is a temporary worker who works for businesses over the Internet, performing all work remotely, usually for a certain number of hours each week.<\/p>\n
The assistant can live thousands of miles away from the client.\u00a0V.A.s are\u00a0independent contractors who usually bill by the hour. That means clients don’t have to worry about things like paying Social Security taxes or benefits.<\/p>\n
My virtual assistant, who has been working with me\u00a0for about a year, is a big help.\u00a0She completes administrative chores so\u00a0I can concentrate on more important projects.<\/p>\n
Why not hire a V.A. to help you?\u00a0Join us\u00a0on May 17. Registration is $39.95 which includes a recording of the call on CD that we’ll mail to you about 10 days later. This teleseminar is perfect for authors, speakers, coaches, experts, PR professionals, publicists or business owners who don’t want to have to do all of their own publicity, or anyone who wants to hire a virtual assistant for other tasks.<\/p>\n
My guests will be Cindy Greenway<\/a>, who has been working as a virtual assistant for several years, and Diana Ennen,<\/a> a virtual assistant who specializes in publicity. They will offer tips on where to find V.A.s, how to work with them, and questions to ask when you interview candidates.<\/p>\n After you’ve hired your V.A., or found a part-time assistant, join me for a one-week intensive training program in early June, via telephone conference calls.\u00a0This will be just like sending your V.A., part-time or full-time assistant, or summer intern to publicity school.\u00a0 I will teach them how to handle all the publicity grunt work—from researching media outlets to tracking down the most influential bloggers. They’ll even learn how to help you maintain your online media room.<\/p>\n Several guest experts will be joining me for the calls. If you’re a V.A. who completes the training, you’ll have an entirely new skill set that will probably allow you to raise your fees.\u00a0 I’ll share all the details with you in the next week or two.<\/p>\n Register for the May 17 call on how to find a V.A. here. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I surveyed readers of my ezine two weeks ago, 84 people responded, and many asked me to explain what a virtual assistant is and how to find one. I’ll explain that, and more,\u00a0during an hour-long teleseminar “How to Find a Virtual Assistant to Help with Your Publicity Campaign” at\u00a01 PM Eastern Time on Thursday,\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":0,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[610,637],"class_list":{"0":"post-25138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-publicist","8":"tag-social-media-productivity","9":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41099,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25138\/revisions\/41099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}