SHARGO Chronicle

5 Reasons You Should Hire a Virtual Assistant in the New Year

shargo blog — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:19:11 +0000

The new year is here, and if you’re a business owner, you’re probably thinking of ways you can expand and grow your business in 2012. A great way to do this is by hiring a virtual assistant.

A few reasons to consider hiring one this year:

A virtual assistant frees up your time so you can focus on your business’s strategies and generating more profit.

It’s cost effective. The rate of bringing on a virtual assistant is considerably less than hiring a full-time employee: You don’t have to worry about overhead costs, sick days and other expenses.
Virtual assistants are available to handle your seasonal and/or one-time projects.
You only pay for the time spent on your project– there are no hidden costs.
Virtual assistants learn the details of your business so you get the specialized service you need.
You have more time to work on the aspects of your business that you love instead of focusing on the time-consuming administrative tasks. When your virtual assistant learns his/her responsibilities, you have the freedom and time to work on the things that will allow your business to thrive and succeed!

If you offer WordPress services

shargo blog — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:32:00 +0000

If you offer WordPress services or want to then you’ll like this email.

You might know that WordPress is used by 22% of all new websites and that the demand for people who know how to design sites in WordPress is growing every day (with no signs of slowing).

If you offer WordPress services you know the clients are out there.. but how do you get them to hire you?

You should have a few things in place:
1. Templates & Checklists to lead new clients through your process.
2. Confidence in the process you’ve created, that it will lead to great results.
3. Website copy to tell potential clients about your process.

That’s where the newest Marketers Toolkit comes in!

1. It’s loaded with templates and checklists for you to use and customize to YOUR business.
2. It will give you the confidence in your approach that customer’s can’t deny.
3. It will make it EASY for you to word your offers, simply reword your process.

The kits are selling fast and there are only 150 total available. Check out the newest kit here and grab it at our launch price of only $10: click here

Three Essential Programs to Have

shargo blog — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:22:44 +0000

With less than two months before the start of 2012, have you began to create your goals and set up procedures for the new year?

There are a few things I would like share with you:

Gmail

Most individuals have more than one email account for their business or for their personal emails. Do you know that you can have all of your email accounts forwarded to your gmail account, which will allow you to create filters color code your emails, have them labeled and sent to specific folders. You can also have different signatures for each email account. One login and one password. Makes life so much easier.

Constant Contact

Do you have the desire to send out a monthly newsletter. Constant contact grants you the ability to create email campaigns, set up auto-responders, opt-in forms for facebook and your website, several mailing list, survey and event tracking feature which can be linked to paypal. If you are not using constant contact, you need to try them out now. 60 days free. Sign up here.

Drop Box

Are you keeping all your files on the hard drive? Do you have an assistant that you have to keep sending files via email? Drop Box grants the opportunity to share files with several people and keeps the most current file in the drop box folder. You can sign up for their free version which gives you 2GB of space. Sign up here

These are three steps you can begin to implement which will assist you in automating certain things in your business before the start of the new year..

Earn a Living With WordPress (Free Webinar)

shargo blog — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:10:13 +0000

Serving people who need your help is a rewarding way to make a living.

That’s why so many people use the tools of the internet to provide great services. My area of expertise is in helping those who want to use WordPress to deliver those services in one way or another…be it by building a WordPress website that serves up products, servicing clients by updating their websites or by teaching others.

To support this mission, colleague Angela Wills has put together a free, live WordPress webinarwhere she’ll share with you three easy ways to make a great living with WordPress:

On this webinar you’ll learn that it doesn’t have to cost you a fortune or take months to see results with your WordPress. She’ll cover the
following:

1. Build It – Whether it’s for yourself or for your clients, building a website with WordPress is smart!
2. Update It – WordPress is used by 22% of all new websites… there’s an opportunity for work there (ya think?)
3. Teach It – Angela says she simply can’t corner this market all on her own! Millions of people are using WordPress and they need your help to learn how to use it.

This webinar is provided as a completely free service and a preview to the kind of material you’ll receive in November’s Website Design Mojo course.

Don’t let that stop you from signing up, though. Angela will provide more than enough content for you to take away and use, guaranteed. She also will provide you with a fantastic offer that’s not available anywhere else for those who want further learning via my group coaching. (hint… it’s something else you can make a living with)

The webinar happens on Wednesday, November 2nd at 8pm ET. Join us by filling in your name and email at the link below: Click Here.
Stacey Virgo

Why Do We Back Up?

shargo blog — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 16:36:16 +0000

Is it essential to back up? YES!!!!

From experience I have learnt the hard way. At the end of each day I use to say to myself, oh I need to back up but I would convince myself that I just purchased a new computer so I am ok for now? Oh how wrong I was. Within six months of purchasing my new laptop, my hard drive died. I was devastated. What was I going to do since all of my personal files and business files were on my computer? Luckily for me, I was able to plug in my external CD Rom and copy all the files. Lesson learnt.

Today with technology, there are so many programs and systems to make our lives much easier with backing up and it is also very essential as you can lose revenue just by losing your client files. Your business can be affected in such a way that it takes very long to recover or you may have lost so much that your business never recover. Is it worth it? No!!! There are three programs that are very easy to use that I would like to recommend.

1. Carbonite: Carbonite is an online back company that is very reasonable. For $50 a year, they will copy all your files from your computer to their server and then back up nightly. The initial file transfer may take a while depending on the size of your files. You can subscribe to carbonite by selecting one of their two packages.

2. Backup Creator – Backup Creator is fairly new but it is so easy to use. If you are currently using wordpress for your website then this plugin is the way to go to ensure that your website is backed up. Not only will the shell of your website be backed up, but all of your plugins, databases, widgets everything. Maybe you are a web designer who has client’s occasionally request to have their website moved to another hosting company. With backup creator you can go to the new wordpress site and upload the backup plugin for the old site and if you preview the site, you will have the exact layout design and widgets as your previous site. Here is the link for Backup creator .

3. Drop Box – Transferring files to drop is also another simple way to back up a few files depending on your subscription. Drop box allows you to transfer files from computer to your clients or to anyone without having to send them via email. The beauty about drop box is that once you update your files in your drop box folder on your computer, it automatically backups the file in your drop box account. Here is the link for drop box.

Having learnt the hard way, I now use the following to ensure that all my files are backed up and you can too.