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Dan Gooder Richard of Real Estate Rainmaker: Guide to Online Marketing gives us an overview of how virtual personal assistants can help you save time and money when you are in the crazy world of real estate business:

Prepare virtual tours with photos and data you provide. Maintain drip e-mail and follow-up campaigns. Update e-mail lists and send monthly online newsletter. Enhance online listings with additional photos. Website maintenance or work with web designer. Create electronic property flyers for e-mail. Submit your website to search engines. Create e-stationery for Outlook. Research Internet on assigned topics, such as e-marketing tools. Monitor website traffic, logs, reports, and more. Mail a monthly printed newsletter. Print and mail Just Listed/Just Sold postcards. Produce custom CMAs, seller, and buyer laptop presentations. Prepare presentation handouts, overheads, flipcharts, or Powerpoint slideshows. Send post-closing and referral thank-you gifts and notes. Develop relocation packages.

If you want to look into a more detailed perspective, here are the responsibilities that you can associate with a virtual personal assistant:

Administrative Support

This basically refers to the administrative tasks that would normally take up a huge chunk of your time. They are known to be routine but are very important to ensure that the business can run smoothly every day. Administrative jobs of virtual personal assistants can range in the following:

1. They can create as well as maintain database or directory. Organization is a very vital process, most especially when you're talking about your list of customers and suppliers. It becomes very convenient for you to reach out to your customers for follow-up, product updates, and news information. Your VPA can develop a database or directory for you, and eventually manage it. Some are highly skilled with the use of a spreadsheet, while those that have basic background in database programming or the Microsoft Access can customize this directory or database for you.

2. They can keep track of your schedule. You don't want to miss out a very important appointment, meeting, conference, workshops, or even the birthday of your son or daughter, or your wedding anniversary of your spouse. You can look for a VPA who can help you remember things clearly. You can hire them so you can have someone monitor your daily calendar schedule. They can take a note of important dates for you and remind you days or weeks before the actual event; so you will be able to prepare yourself, block off dates, or avoid coming up with conflicting schedules. Moreover, so it will be entirely no-hassle for you, search for a VPA who can do all these when it comes to calendar management.

3. They can function as your own personal customer service representative. Your customers will not only go for your products and services. More than anything else, they would like to deal with a company who can provide them with excellent customer service support. Your virtual personal assistant can become skilled in the customer service area. This means that you can reroute your call to them, so they will be the one to assist your customers when it comes to their inquiries, complaints, and feedbacks. Some of them have their own specialized areas. For instance, a virtual personal assistant who has been exposed greatly to information technology can be of great help if you are looking for someone who can do technical support. On the other hand, you may want to hire virtual personal assistants who are experts in talking out customers to staying in your company rather than look someplace else because they were initially not pleased with your services and products offered.

For example, CatchFriday.com has its own Customer Relations services. This means that you don't need to always deal with your clients for most of the time. For complaints, feedback, and inquiries, you can redirect the call or e-mail to them. What does this mean to you? It implies that you can have more time to focus on far more important aspects of your business, such as marketing and administration.

4. They can conduct an Internet research for you. Research can have numerous purposes attached to it, and the best-rounded virtual personal assistant can definitely take every research job imaginable. Nevertheless, some of them tend to specialize in a particular area. There are virtual personal assistants who are so good when it comes to market research. They can scour over the Internet for the latest upcoming trends in your industry. This way, you will be able to continuously offer something fresh and new to your customers. Meanwhile, some of the VPAs that you can find in the market are so adept in customer surveys. They can monitor the satisfaction level of your customers through customer feedback and survey, which will then allow you to make modifications in your business models so you can fully satisfy the needs and demands of your customers. There are also a great number of them who are skillful in analyzing the performance of your competitors. They can clearly identify the positions they have taken in your chosen field and explore their respective strengths and weaknesses. All these information and research materials are then submitted to you for you to evaluate.

5. They can act as your own marketing partners. Your virtual personal assistant can also function as your own PR department. They can create a variety of marketing materials for you, such as press releases, information articles for article directories, magazine-type documents, newsletters, and e-mails for your customers. They can also devise their own schedules for their launches and releases to ensure that your targeted audiences are constantly reminded of your existence.

6. They can pay your bills. You should not take bill payments for granted. Normally, if you're going to miss out even just one payment, you're in danger of placing your credit rating in jeopardy. It will then boomerang to your mortgage and loan applications. When you have a bad credit score, it will be very difficult for you to apply for a credit line with low interest rate or longer payment term. Just so you don't miss out with your payments, you can get your own virtual personal assistant to do the payment himself/herself. Usually, a number of the companies you're indebted to can accept online payment processing, so all they need to do is to input all payment information. It's also part of their job to keep documents and other payment references just in case there will be disputes and issues related to your bill payments. Furthermore, they can already plot out the next payment schedules and even monitor the amount of cash that you can use for payment. This way, whenever the need arises, you can look for possible solutions on how to come up with the money and avoid being the one on default.

7. They can arrange travel for you. Do you constantly need to visit one region to another? Definitely, dealing with different airlines and even travel agencies can be quite a headache for you (which would then make you cringe on the thought of traveling). Well, a virtual personal assistant can relieve you with this burden. They will not only look for the best airlines and travel agencies to deal with, but they can also strike with the most lucrative travel offers at the least possible price, allowing you to save hundreds or even thousands of dollars every year in your travel expenses. Their responsibilities also include hotel reservations and airport transfers.

8. They can monitor your collections. Your business cannot survive with just accounts receivables alone. You need to have them collected; otherwise, you're only giving your services or products pro bono. But then again, monitoring the collection schedules will take a lot of your time, jeopardizing other important aspects of your business such as marketing. Your virtual personal assistant can save you a great deal of money and time by doing the collection schedule themselves. They will be the ones to remind your clients of their bills and eventually collect the money from them. They can take care of credit card processing.

9. They can post payroll of your employees. Most of the time, you cannot even keep track on how much you owe the government in terms of employment taxes (just in case you have a number of employees working in your office). The sad thing is ignorance or even negligence can cost you the ire of the IRS. So you will always be on the safe side, and so employees will always receive their salaries on time, you can pass on the payroll posting to your virtual personal assistant. Every payroll schedule, they will be the ones to coordinate with your human resources personnel or even to your employees in relation to attendance and overtimes, which could affect the amount of their salary. They can then calculate for the amount of taxes to be paid to the government as well as performance bonuses of your employees, if there are any.

10. They can produce financial reports. The backbone of your business will eventually be your financial position. Thus, you need to always have your financial reports generated. Through these documents, you will know if your company is earning or not, if marketing efforts are working very well for you, which areas in your business are not performing as expected, how much money goes in and out of your business, if you are definitely financially stable, or if you have been making wise investments with your cash. Yet even when you're an accounting graduate, you will lose the time needed just to come up with these reports. There are a number of virtual personal assistants who can create accounting reports at your desired fiscal period. All you need to do is to give them all the information they need, and they will be the ones to organize them into different categories and assess which of the materials given will have significant weight to the financial reports.
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Every day, hundreds of projects are posted on Elance to build websites, write books, create custom programming applications... in fact, we showed the diversity of projects that can be outsourced in our article 100 Projects You Can Outsource. Projects are also posted every day by small business owners and individuals who need smaller, more everyday tasks taken care of.

We've compiled a list of 25 projects where a Virtual Assistant (VA) could help you get your work done faster. We will show you the broad range of skills available to help you get work done - letting you focus on what you do best.

• Research
• Data Entry / Word Processing
• Event / Trip Planning
• Social Networking
• General Administrative Assistant

Research

1. Sales Leads
Without sales, you don't have business. But if you're spending time meeting prospective clients and servicing existing customers, it's hard to find new leads. A VA can find and research individuals, companies, and technologies, via blogs, websites and forums.  They can prepare reports and briefs to help you determine who to contact next. With the right information in hand you can focus on developing new business relationships instead of having to spend time researching.

Find new leads - and key decision-makers
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2. Fact Checking
Blogs, podcasts, videos, and other media continue to make it easy for us to communicate. Every day, more and more people use those tools to reach out to customers, clients, and friends. To be persuasive, you need facts on your side; nothing ruins your credibility quicker than inaccurate information. A VA can double-check facts, provide statistics and backup information, and verify data to make sure you always put an accurate foot forward.

Get accurate and up-to-date information
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3. Products or Services to Buy
Not sure which car meets your needs? Looking for a home theater system but can't make sense of all the different models and specifications? A VA can take into account your budget and preferences, sift through the options, check out reviews and recommendations, and create a short list of the prime contenders for purchase. Plus, a VA can comparison shop, find the best deals possible, and even arrange the purchase if you prefer.

Make great purchase decisions
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4. Products or Services to Sell
Say you're interested in starting a business - any business - but with all the competition, you're not sure where to start. A VA can perform a lot of basic research: Products already marketed that can be privately labeled, products you can buy wholesale and sell at retail, products you can license so you have the right to sell them... the possibilities are endless. If you're already in business and are considering adding a new product or product line, let a VA handle basic research while you focus on your core business.

Find new products or services to sell
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5. Speechwriting
Say you've been chosen as the best man at your friend's wedding - congratulations! But what will you say when it comes time to give the toast? Don't spend hours struggling to find the right words. A skilled writer can turn your thoughts and ideas into a touching and humorous toast that everyone will remember - and you'll enjoy giving. But don't stop there - any time you need to make a speech or give a presentation, imagine how confident you'll be knowing you've got the perfect script to follow.

Deliver a memorable speech
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Data Entry / Word Processing

1. Turn Business Cards into Outlook Entries
Networking is critical in most businesses. Putting information from business cards into your Outlook address book helps you stay organized and automatically organizes your phone or PDA. Who really has the time to do this? You can fax/scan the business cards you receive, or send Excel or Word contact listings to a VA who can transfer the information for you. You'll always have the information you need at your fingertips.

Organize your contacts
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2. Website Registration
Many websites require you to register to access certain articles and information, sign up for newsletters, or post your contact information for other visitors to see. Registering can be a tedious process - so outsource it! Compose a list of websites you wish to register with, along with your contact information, and allow a VA to take care of the rest. You can also ask the VA to research other relevant sites you haven't listed, and to sign you up there, too.

Register on industry or professional websites
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3. Collect Contact Information
Need specific information about current or prospective clients? With a little research performed by a VA you can collect all the data you need, including phone numbers, email addresses, social media links, etc. They can then enter the collected data into spreadsheets, documents, address books... whatever is most useful to you.

Get specific and detailed contact information
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4. Article Submission
Posting articles in article directories, press release directories, and other websites, can be a great way to build an audience and generate links to your website or blog. Hundreds of directories exist. Make the process easy by hiring a VA: Simply provide your articles along with a list of directories you wish to submit to (or ask the VA to create a list for you), and your words can be seen by thousands of readers worldwide.

Post your articles on directories and websites
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5. Craigslist (or another classified listing site) Posting
If you sell a product and want the maximum exposure possible, posting to online classifieds can be a great way to get the word out. But posting ads on a regular basis to a number of sites and cities can be exceptionally time-consuming. Give a VA an ad template, a list of cities, and the rest of your requirements, and your ads will appear on schedule. You can spend more time fulfilling orders instead of endlessly prospecting for new clients.

Post to online classified listing sites
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Event / Trip Planning

1. Meetings
A well-planned and executed lunch meeting with one important client could be as important to your business as a meeting with 20 or more participants. Every meeting has the potential to make or break your company - make sure they are planned flawlessly! A VA can research venues, make reservations, schedule the appointment with participants, and even follow up a few days ahead of time to make sure your plans are all set. Let a VA take care of the details so you can focus on accomplishing your goals at your meetings.

Flawlessly coordinate your meeting details
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2. Prepare Participant Bios
You've probably seen movies or television shows where a politician or leader has names and personal information whispered into his or her ear just before he greets another person. While a VA can't attend the meeting with you, they can provide the next best thing: If you provide the names of people who will attend your event, or any other event for that matter, a VA can give you background information, recent news, and other tidbits that will help you make a great impression on everyone you meet. Then, instead of saying, "Nice to meet you," imagine yourself saying, "Nice to meet you... congratulations on starting your new product line. How is that going?"

Get participant bios and make great impressions
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3. Travel Research
Planning a trip, but aren't sure how much to budget? A VA can provide detailed research and a breakdown of potential costs including flights, accommodations, local transportation, and daily expenses (like food and entertainment, etc). If you have multiple destinations or departure dates in mind, costs can be broken down by location or season to help you make the right decisions for your business trip or vacation.

Get help researching great vacation or business trip choices
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4. Slideshows
Creating a compelling and interesting slideshow is tough. So is having the right tools and techniques to zoom, pan, and fade individual slides to keep your audience engaged and your images looking their best - while making the maximum impact possible. Whether you're showing personal photos at an engagement party or wedding, or you're a contractor showing off past building and construction projects, make sure your slideshow looks great and functions perfectly.

Create a compelling slideshow
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5. Wedding Planning
Many brides-to-be (not to mention their parents) say that planning a wedding feels like a daunting task. Sourcing vendors, screening proposals, and checking references and credentials can be overwhelming and incredibly time-consuming. Don't let the planning process outweigh the excitement of your wedding. Give a VA some general guidelines like cost, number of guests, and your basic preferences, and they'll create a short-list of venues and vendors... or even make the arrangements for you.

Have all your wedding choices outlined for you
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Social Networking

1. Blog Posting
First a caveat: If you have a distinctive writing "voice," only talented writers will be able to mimic it and create blog posts that "sound" like you. But don't let that stop you from hiring a VA to help with your blog posts. Virtual Assistants can collect news, keep up with trends, do research... even write rough drafts of posts that you can then shape into your "own" distinctive style. And to keep the conversation among your readers going, a VA can respond to comments left on your blog, alerting you when a comment requires your expertise to answer.

Many bloggers generate a mixture of posts. Some are simple news recaps and updates while others are more like opinion pieces. Let a VA help you make your blog more robust... while also making it easier to maintain and keep fresh.

Streamline your blog posting process
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2. Commenting and Linking
Leaving comments on blogs and social media sites is a great way to make new connections and leave backlinks to your own sites and blogs. A VA can take care of the process for you. Create a list of sites (or have the VA create it), give guidelines on comments you'd like to leave, and off you go! You can also have the VA send you links to new articles or sites that you should check out personally.

While you're at it, a VA can respond to comments and questions left on your sites and blogs, too.

Extend your social networking presence
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3. Profiles and Accounts
Want to benefit from social networking but don't have the know-how or the time to start? Hire a VA to create your accounts and profiles on LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, and/or other social networking sites. Once you're all set, you can focus on creating and developing relationships.

Create social networking accounts and profiles
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4. Social Media
Social Media sites like Facebook are great ways to network and create social connections - but managing your accounts can take time away from other productive work. A VA can keep up with your friend requests, respond to messages, and keep you informed about your account activity. You can take it a step farther and hire an application developer to apply current solutions or develop a new tool to keep you on the cutting edge of social networking.

Manage your Facebook and other social media accounts
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5. Online Dating Profile Management
Online dating continues to grow in popularity, and believe it or not you can outsource the online dating process. Tim Ferris, author of the bestselling book, The 4-Hour Workweek, did just that. A VA did all the legwork - sifting through responses, and short-listing the people who seemed like a great match.

Streamline the online dating process
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General Administrative Assistant

1. Voicemail Management
Do you receive a lot of voicemails? Do you spend a lot of time in meetings and dread having to check your messages? A VA can check your voicemail on the schedule you set, prioritize your messages, and even email summaries to you in case you're not in a position to receive calls. A VA can also return routine and emergency calls, saving the important or sensitive calls for you to make when you have the chance.

Stay on top of your voicemail
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2. Email Management
Even if you receive hundreds of emails each day, chances are a number of them are routine - and if they're routine, that means a VA can respond to those emails using guidance you provide. Then all you'll need to do is respond to unusual or out of the ordinary emails. You can take it a step further and have your VA forward emails only you can handle to a separate account; that way you'll never see or need to deal with the hundreds of emails your VA can handle for you. If you feel like you type the same response - to different people - more than once, a VA can handle the task.

Stay on top of your email
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3. Wake Up Calls
Don't want to miss an important meeting? Or just want to make sure you get up on time? You don't have to trust the hotel desk clerk or your alarm clock. A VA can serve as your personal "good morning" provider, and can remind you of important meetings, appointments, or other information to ensure your day gets off to a great start.

Never miss a meeting - or a breakfast
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4. Gifts and Cards
Whether they're our friends or our customers and clients, all of us want to remember important people at special times. Provide spending guidelines and other basic information, and your VA can track down and ship the perfect gifts, send online cards, or mail pre-signed greeting cards to everyone on your list.

Send timely greetings and gifts
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5. Thank You and Follow-Up
Many businesses send notes or make phone calls to recent purchasers. It's a great way to say "thank you" and also to answer any questions and proactively resolve potential problems. A VA can send thank you cards or make post-purchase calls to new customers or clients, creating a memorable personal touch that can help drive repeat business and build long-term business relationships.

Follow up with new customers
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Resource:Elance

Drowning in your to-do list, but can't afford the full-time help? Try a Virtual Assistant!

Consider hiring a virtual assistant. A virtual assistant (known as a VA) is a professional service provider who specializes in remote administrative office support (a VA doesn't even need to be in the same time zone as a client). He or she is an independent contractor who can offer you key support without ever needing to set foot inside your office. A VA's skills are varied and can include everything from administrative tasks to data management and customer support. In many cases, a VA can also provide additional specialty services such as human resources, accounting or marketing. A superior virtual assistant will come well equipped with a phone system, Blackberry, high-speed Internet access, fax, scanner, printer and whatever office systems and software are required for his or her specialty.

Some VAs operate independently in their own business; in other cases, VA firms act as a liaison between clients and VAs by coordinating payment and providing training and resources to VAs. VAs can be contracted at competitive rates ($30-$50 an hour) for short-term projects or for a fixed number of hours per week or month with a negotiated retainer. Typically, you will call or e-mail your VA first thing each morning and discuss a task schedule, which may be as complex as creating a new PowerPoint presentation or as simple as making lunch  reservations and sending a few e-mails out to prospects. During the course of a day your VA might be taking care of business travel arrangements, establishing a PR campaign for clients or developing your website or blog. You may also ask for a progress report from your VA so you can get a sense of where he is in his workload, and see if it needs to be adjusted accordingly (and to see if your VA is accomplishing tasks in your expected time frame). You should not expect your VA to be available for staff meetings, nor expect instant availability every time you call (parameters should be established at the outset regarding how frequently you expect phone calls and e-mails to be returned).

A good VA can free up a business owner's time, allowing the owner to focus on what really matters: growing the business, developing new product ideas or taking that much-needed vacation.

November 1, 2007
By: Lucinda Cross
Source: The New York Enterprise Report

Building a real estate business can turn into a exhausting treadmill if you aren't careful. The more business you do, the more administrative tasks you have; the more time you spend on administrative tasks, the less time you have to generate new revenue.
The only sensible solution to growth is to multiply your manpower. Yet, you may have a multitude of reasons that prevent you from hiring a personal assistant, even though it's obvious you need one. Wouldn't it be great if you had an assistant that was always ready to work for you, but only when you need him or her? Meet the virtual assistant, a creative new labor force that provides practical solutions for small businesses and job growth potential for outsourcers.

                                         Hire an entrepreneur

The virtual assistant takes the role of the temp and elevates it to the status of entrepreneur. Because the virtual assistant is self-employed, bills only the hours work or by tasks completed, and is dependent on referrals and steady work flow from existing clients, s/he can be the perfect solution for a busy agent.
A virtual assistant offers several advantages over a paid employee. When you hire a virtual assistant you get all the benefits of outsourcing - no employee tax and benefits issues, coupled with the loyalty and steadiness of a company employee.
If you have found that traditional staffing solutions don't work for you there may be many reasons. Temps are a transient solution, and they can be expensive. If you need someone only a few hours a day or week, a temp can prove more costly in terms of training than s/he is worth. Most are also looking for full time employment, so as soon as you find someone you like, s/he has left the temp service for greener pastures.
Paid employees come also come with a host of issues. You not only must provide tech equipment and furniture for them, you also have state and federal obligations, and employer compliance and unemployment liabilities. Then there are the benefits packages - sick leave, vacation time. It is estimated that the true cost of an employee is over double and sometimes triple the cost of their annual salary in terms of benefits and liabilities. Significant for some is also the loss of privacy and personal issues - you are sharing your small space with others. Do they make good roomies?

                              How practical is a virtual assistant?

As more agents move their marketing and communications to the Internet, virtual assistants become more and more the obvious solution to staffing problems. For an hourly fee of $15 to $35, less than the cost of temps or employees, agents can take advantage of professional assistance and a variety of skills at the click of a mouse.

Virtual assistants are already computer trained, and can assist with your specific needs from traditional office support services to highly specialized areas including Web page design. Call upon your virtual assistant for basic word processing, phone answering, bill paying, appointment scheduling and calendar maintenance. You can train your virtual assistant to go beyond administrative support to client development and marketing support.

There is no need to share space or even for the agent and the virtual assistant to live in the same city. Work assignments are communicated through e-mail, phone, fax, "snail mail," or diskette. The agent can take advantage of Web-based tools such as instant messengers, like ICQ, and online calendars and planners are often used as a means of keeping in touch. Schedule changes, project reports, or customer-service alerts such as new listings for a client can be performed immediately. The virtual assistant can lend "size" to your company, which will impress potential clients.

"As cable Internet, wireless Internet, and other broadband solutions grow in the marketplace, the VA will be well-placed to leverage the additional communications tools and grow even closer to the small business or startup client," says Christine C. Durst, president and CEO of Staffcentrix, LLC.

                              How to find a virtual assistant

There are several effective ways to find a virtual assistant. Simply enter "virtual assistant" in your favorite search engine. Another solution is to search the directory at www.staffcentrix.com. Staffcentrix is a resource/support company for virtual assistants. You can search the pool of virtual assistants manually, or use the free referral service to search the database for those who most closely match your needs. In the directory, you can learn the virtual assistant's experience level, services provided, software and hardware capabilities, and his/her email, URL address, and other contact information. The International Virtual Assistants Association also has a comprehensive directory of virtual assistants.

Contact the virtual assistant who most closely match your needs via email. Most virtual assistants are used to proving themselves with small projects of an hour or two. Any more than that and they should be paid for their time. You can set up payment arrangements by time or task.
Article by Blanche Evans

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As we gear up for Memorial Day weekend, we hope everyone has a great time.  Stay safe, have fun, and enjoy your time with your family and friends.

 It's alright, go ahead, and break away from the computer for a few hours! All great hard working entrepreneurs deserve some well needed time off!!!  There is no better time then Memorial Day weekend to reflect upon your success, to rethink about where you want to go, and to appreciate the sacrifice of our armed forces which gives us the ability to enjoy life and our dreams today.

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   When you search "lyn gift shop lynbrook" on Google they now come up #3 in the Google search ranking!
   
   
   
2. Begin to network with other businsses
   
   
   Don't be shy, network helps everyone! Click "Add as Briz Bud" to connect to another business and help support each other!|
   
   
   
3. Begin to market to your consumers
   
   
   When you're ready, select "Marketing & Tools".  This will give you easy options to help get your marketing started in your store.

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