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VAClassroom is offering its new Summer Skill Camp beginning in early July, 2010.  Enrollees attend 10 90-minute webinars over ten weeks, focusing on new and in-demand skills. Topics include Facebook pages, social media services, developing high-conversion sales pages and more.   An Early Bird Registration special is available until June 30.  Enroll now and receive

All professionals, from dentists to accountants, need to keep their skills current, but if you are a Virtual Assistant or Online Professional, you need to be an “incurable learner” in order to be successful in this fast-moving Internet Landscape. It is way too easy to get left behind in an online industry that moves at lightning speed. Here are some of the things savvy Virtual Assistants must pay attention to so that they can develop a thriving business in 2010:

In keeping with this week’s theme of “Continual Learning,” we wanted to touch on Email List Building, an important Internet Marketing skill that requires Virtual Assistants and Online Professionals to keep up to date and informed of the latest trends and skills.

Do you ever watch those home renovation shows on TV, the ones where someone is having trouble selling their home and needs some help? Often there’s nothing wrong with the house itself, just an important design element missing. A team of experts is called in and, voila, the house gets noticed and sells! The home owners are amazed and anxious to learn the skills those experts used to make such a difference. In your work, do you wish you could optimize your website or blog so that it attracts more attention?

Have you included Affiliate Marketing in the overall strategy for your business or your clients? If so, you are leveraging one powerful channel for widening your exposure and generating sales. However, this strategy is destined to fail without a great Affiliate Manager at the helm.

They say that timing is everything, and often success comes from recognizing the right opportunity at the right time. This is especially true in the ever changing Internet landscape. A recent Industry Report released by Michael A. Stelzner, founder of SocialMediaExaminer.com, reveals some untapped potential that bodes well for those with Social Media Marketing skills.

VA Classroom has announced details of its new 2010 Internet Marketing Specialist Training Program, scheduled to begin April 26. The five-week program will feature live sessions, multimedia instruction and resource lists for a variety of Internet Marketing areas, including marketing planning, affiliate marketing, search marketing, social media and more.

With the advent of smartphones and iPods, we too can download and transmit important information at the touch of a button. Although as a Virtual Assistant you may not be on a mission to save a whole planet from annihilation at the hands of Darth Vader, you might still be looking for new channels to communicate important information to the world about your clients’ businesses. One effective option is podcasting. Check out this great video, “Podcasting in Plain English,” explaining the convenience and power of this new communication tool: [...]

For the past few years, Social Networking has become increasingly important for businesses. So many valuable connections can be made online that would be more difficult to forge in the real world, making these social networks a great place to collaborate and share ideas and feedback between clients, customers and colleagues.

VA Classroom, an acclaimed training site for internet marketing and social media VAs, is opening registration for their much anticipated Social Media Marketing Specialist Training Program.  This program is self-directed and focused entirely on using social media networks, LinkedIn, Facebook…

Craig Cannings of VA Classroom is hosting a free webinar about social media trends – and how VAs can position their businesses to capitalize on the exploding demand for related services. The webinar will…

Despite my news-junkie status, I always learn about something new at VA Classroom. This week, the VA Classroom Blog features a great resource for anyone who has wondered how to “live-blog” an event.  CoverItLive.com answers that need by making it easy to post immediate, play-by-play updates of any event – super-useful for sporting events, tradeshows…