Grow your email list to let clients know about you from day one.

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I am growing my email list…are you?

Today I wanted to share with you an achievement, that I have accomplished in a short period of time. This is growing my email list. Mind you, if you have been following my blog, you will eventually know that I had so many fears but yet I wanted to achieve my goals and let my ideal clients know more about me.

This cannot be done if I don’t start even if it’s baby steps. I will share more on growing my list. I know from awhile when I started my business that other persons were giving away their free guides, cheat sheet, something that grabbed my attention to join their list.

My fear in itself was what would I give away and secondly, will anyone sign up?

As a virtual assistant, I know that I had so much to share but didn’t know what method to use or how to come across sharing what I knew in the short time.

How to start growing your email list as well?

I was in numerous Facebook groups, so I decided to ask questions, each time when I ask questions, I would save these answers in a spreadsheet. From those answers, I was able to decide what I would share.

I went ahead and decided that because when I started out, I didn’t know that there were so many tools and systems that I could use in my business, and so this is where I decided to share these tools that I too discovered.

Knowing how I love Canva, I started to create my guide and sign up with MailChimp to use as my auto-responder to deliver this guide. My first goal was as always to add value to these groups that I was in and to see how these women who were my target would be receptive to my guide.

I shared and gave these women a preview of my guide and when I saw within a day of sharing that these women were interested in my guide, I started to promote on all social media platforms that I was on.

I didn’t limit my free guide to just being in Facebook groups, I invited others to know that I was offering an awesome guide and they too would benefit from their business with having the knowledge of using these tools.

Test your market to see what they want.

Now, you might be saying, what was I scared of all the time? I had two free guides, one where I had a short preview of my main guide that was the extended version to display on my website, because I did not have my website out as yet, my fear was would they gravitate to the extended version of the free guide that I had?

Can I tell you that, in these groups that I am in, on Facebook, these groups allowed me to promote on specific days, so I made it my point of duty to share my guide on these days, also in my marketing posts, I also shared how this guide would help these women in the 24 hours they have.

Now, I am no where, where I want to be in terms of my list, but I have since learnt that using these methods can be done when you want to grow your list organically. You do have the option of doing a paid advertising to target more specifically your target market to grow your list faster.

I will share more about that, when I have tried this option. I more importantly want to share with you that, growing your list organically can be done. Yes, it’s hard work but it can be done. I recommend you join groups or target your ideal clients by doing a market research.

When this is done you are better able to create a guide or tutorial base on these results so that your target market can easily sign up to what you are offering. You can also start small by creating your guide via which auto-responder that you prefer to deliver your free gift to your clients or prospective customers.

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Until then, happy hiring, and best wishes with your business.

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Use Hootsuite and increase your engagement on the go

10 / 19 / 17 4 / 18 / 18

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Today I am so excited to share with you one of my favourite scheduling tool that I have learned to use online.

It’s Hootsuite!

I was introduced by this platform from a previous client that I had worked with. The beauty of it was that I did not know how to use it and I taught myself and today I will be showing you how to as well.

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What is this Hootsuite all about?

Hootsuite is an amazing site that allows you to schedule your posts in advance for your social media sites. You can connect the minimum 3 social media sites on their basic plan.

First you want to visit the site when you do so you are required to sign up with your email address, then follow the instructions when signing up.

Glad you are in; once you are in, there is a dashboard that allows you to fill out your profile with your business information, your picture and if you have any team members you can add them to your organization.

If you are using the basic plan you will be seeing social networks where you can connect your preferred social site of your choice.

Hootsuite, allows you to add more sites on their pro plan if you wish to do so.

Let’s connect your social sites and start posting.

Now let’s go to the second icon, which is called streams. Steams allow you to use your social site to keep track of your scheduled post.

You will notice that when you do so a pop up is opened with the different social sites to choose from.

Once you choose these streams you will be able to see what’s going on your page from a glance. When you are finished adding your streams click on the minus button to add your stream tab to your right.

Are you as eager as me to make your first post from Hootsuite?

Now let’s visit our third icon to the left which is our publisher. The pop-up box on the page allows you to choose your social site. We will select Facebook. When you have selected Facebook, you can now compose your message. Hootsuite allows you to see your message count when you are composing your message.

You also will notice that you can attach a media (image, videos), schedule a time in the near future for your post as well as your location, set your target audience and base on your settings on Facebook this message will be set to either private or public unless you change this.

In most cases you will not be composing a message one by one for each social site. Look to the left of the publishing tab, and you will notice the different features such as saving your message as a draft, those that are scheduled.

Before we continue, let’s finish composing our first post to be sent to our social site. You can easily attach a video from your YouTube channel or drag or upload your picture when you have done so you can choose to save, send or clear that message to start a new one. If you choose to send that message or save it, you have two options to see that publish post.

Learn more about Hootsuite on your dashboard.

Now a bit more on those icons to the left of the dashboard, analytics allows you to create reports from your social sites, and helps you keep track on what posts were engaging and how many followers you have gained, things along that line.

You can then export this as a PDF or CSV file or print it. You can also customize this report to include a custom template, image. This report can be done and submitted by email either weekly or monthly depending on your choice.

Lastly, your settings are normally done to your choosing. You can set up your profile to add your image. Set your preferences to be notified when a post is made, as well as customize your posts to specific times to be posted throughout the day.

Now that you have played around with the different features available to you, you have the option of continuing on the basic plan or going pro.

Hootsuite is a very powerful platform to use and take advantage of, especially if you are a busy entrepreneur who wants to reach your audience and keep track of sharing more about what you do through your services.

Hootsuite also allows you to track what is engaging, allow you to respond to your messages directly from this platform without signing in and out of your Facebook page.

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Until then, happy hiring, and best wishes with your business.

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Gain your first Facebook followers with these steps

10 / 1 / 17 12 / 23 / 17

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I literally created my Facebook business page on Sunday December 28, 2015.

I just wanted to put myself out there and make others know that my business page existed.

I was somewhat afraid because I was always seeing persons making offers on how to gain your first 100 followers and this included paid offers.

You do not always have to follow the crowd to be a success.

I was aware that Facebook allows you to do Facebook Ads, mind you, you can gain your followers organically as well, so when I created JuliVAGlobal Facebook business page, the first thing that I did was to grow my audience organically.

How I did this was inviting my friends from my profile to like my page.

I will share the back story of why I decided to invite my friends. When I was in numerous Facebook groups and I made connections with other entrepreneurs and bloggers, I kept sawing a trend that at the end of a conversation they all invited me to like their page or to follow up with updates.

At the time I had no website or Facebook page to ask them to do the same so all I did was liked their page and kept in touch when I had the availability.

Now when I did launch my Facebook page I created a post on my profile asking my friends to like my new business page.

I was not expecting one like, but when I got the opportunity to invite my friends. Most of them commented their links and invited me to like their page as well, but the likelihood was that in most instances that I had in fact liked their page already.

I also used the feature on my page to invite my friends to like my page. …within the hour I gained 53 likes.

I was totally blown away and so I continued to invite my friends, this overlapped into the following day it was 88 then within two days it was a total of 100.

By the end of about February I was close to 500 organic page likes.

If you are a LadyPreneur on a budget you can still grow your Facebook page.

Now why am I sharing this? You can invite your friends first which is considered organically.

I did this by inviting my friends from my Facebbook profile. Another way how I continued to grow my business page was in Facebook groups where they had threads to engage and tell others about your business.

I go more in depth on how I use Facebook to maximize my business. You can read the complete post by clicking the link here.

The thing is if you want to grow your audience to reach specific people or in the business world- your ideal clients to know more about your business and your services then I recommend FB Ads to promote let’s say a post about a free guide or maybe an event.

This will work in your favor because I know that these individuals will be the ones who you target and they will be more engaged as opposed to those friends who you have invited organically.

With the continuous changes of Facebook algorithms this will come into factor once you decide to use Facebook Ads for your business. As with my recommendations, I always suggest that you outsource such a task to a trained professional who will show you in depth results of their success with past clients.

While these two methods are useful in growing your Facebook business page (Organic & Paid likes) it will be vital to the start and the continuation of your business, it’s no excuse to not get your business out there.

Start off by inviting your friends to like your page, also join groups where you know you can add meaningful value and make great connections as well so that you can invite these persons as well to like your page organically.

As your business continue to grow, when it’s in your budget to do paid Ads to reach your ideal clients, this is another method of growing your audience and keeping them engage with your products and services.

I would like to know what method you used to grow your Facebook business page?

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Until then, happy hiring, and best wishes with your business.

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Disclaimer: Please note that this post is base on my experience with growing my business page and with anything that involves a business, seeking professional assistance to help is also vital. So, I cannot be held liable with these suggestions and experiences and the outcome and growth of your Facebook business page.