Business Marketing Made Simple with a Virtual Marketing Assistant (VMA)

Every company must do marketing if they want their customers to know who they are and what they offer. Every business plan includes a marketing plan that describes how the business will do this marketing. The challenge is that most entrepreneurs are so busy doing business that they don’t have time to do marketing.

Wouldn’t it be a great idea to have someone who could do the marketing for you and not charge you through the nose to do it? This is where your Virtual Marketing Assistant (VMA) can come in.

A VMA is a person who works with you to advance your business and present yourself to clients the way you want. This is someone who works from their own office and communicates with you via email and/or phone. They are there to be your marketing guru to carry out your plan without you having to.

Running your own business can be time consuming and it can be difficult to balance all the pieces you need to make to make it run smoothly. Marketing is always the place that falls short because you only have so much time in the day and marketing doesn’t seem to be as important as managing payroll.

Instead of stressing yourself out, you can hire a VMA to do those things according to your needs. Usually, a VMA will work on the internet to get your name out there and get your business moving on the social network. Here are some things a VMA can do for you:

• Help with blogs: they can make your blog for you so you have a presence without doing the work. There are many people who specialize only in writing blog posts.
• Get your name out there in the social media environment: There are thousands of places for your information to go in the social media environment. A good VMA can help you identify those that are most important to your business and create your presence in each one.
• Article Writing – Your VMA can not only write the articles for you, but also list them in directories so people know you as an expert in your field of business. This is one way to launch your brand.
• Website Updates – They can perform regular updates to your website so you don’t have to worry about that task either.
• Podcasts and videos: They can help you create podcasts and videos and then publish them to the web. A good VMA knows exactly where to place them for the best results.

Most VMAs charge based on the project and can range from $15-$1500 depending on the project, how long it will take, and the VMA experience in the category you are seeking. The cost will be less than having an internal marketing program and you will have more peace of mind.