Using a VA to do your social media posts is ok if you do it right

Whether you know it or not, social media is important when you own a business. It doesn’t matter if you have been in business for a few weeks or a few years, you should use social media. It also doesn’t matter if you are in a business such as direct sales or you own a website that offers helpful tips and advertising, you should use social media. Whatever your business is you need what social media offers.

Social media sites like Facebook and Twitter are two of the major sites out there that you need to be on and using. They will help you grow your business if you use them properly. These two sites can be used separately and together and they should be used this way.

Together you can use ping.fm and make posts that will go to both sites. Ping.fm is a site that allows you to create posts and publish them on multiple sites. Two of which are Facebook and Twitter. Another great thing about ping.fm is you can email posts to these social media sites that you have set up in your account. You can use your regular email, your Blackberry, or your Peek to make these posts.

TweetDeck is another way you can make a post and publish it on Facebook and Twitter. You can make posts that are posted only to Twitter, you can make posts that only go to Facebook, and you can make posts that go to both.

Making separate posts to Facebook and Twitter is important as well. You also need to make posts to your friends on Facebook and your followers on Twitter. This is the best way to stay in contact with people, show you care by answering their questions and helping them out when you can, and building trust by making these posts.

Finding time to make these posts can be a problem when you run your own business. It is very difficult to get everything done in a day by yourself. You have all the tasks that go with your home and your family plus you have all the tasks that go with your business.

When this happens, you should consider hiring a Virtual Assistant to make posts for you. Now this doesn’t mean you will never have to get on sites like Facebook and Twitter. All is means is you will spend less time on those sites, but you will still have the presence of being there.

Now there are a couple of ways to do this. You can give your VA general topics to post about or you can give her specific posts to make. While your VA is on your account she should also make posts towards others. For example, if one of your followers on Twitter makes a post like good morning, your VA could say good morning back. If one of your followers makes a post that is good and something that your followers would be interested in, she can retweet it and your followers will see it as well.

Another option is to have your VA post on TweetLater. TweetLater gives you the ability to make posts throughout the day when you can’t be on it. You can send topics or actual posts to your VA and she can schedule them throughout the day.

Social media is very important for all business owners, but it maybe hard to work it into your busy day. When you have your Virtual Assistant make posts for you, you will get the valuable exposure you need while spending time working your business and growing it to a level you need and want.

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Corrie Petersen runs a successful Virtual Assistant business. She enjoys helping others reach their goals and dreams. Check out her website at www.virtualfreedom4you.com.

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