VAnetworking.com – the website devoted to promoting Virtual Assistants and their businesses – is proud to announce Michelle Jamison, author of Virtual Assistants Guide to Marketing, as a new Premier Partner to the VANA forum.

As a Premier Partner, Michelle is offering members a 30% discount on the MJVA Strategic Marketing Package, which takes a customized approach in supporting VA’s with their marketing challenges.

If you are a new VA just starting your business or an established VA who struggles with the overwhelming details and “how to’s” of marketing, then this is a chance for you to get your questions answered in a one-on-one environment with Michelle Jamison. You will find that this is an opportunity, like no other. Attention and focus, solely on what matters most to you…the success of your business.

The MJVA Strategic Marketing Package is a unique offering that is customized to meet each individual’s needs. You design your sessions based on the marketing aspects that are most important to you and pinpoint where you are experiencing the greatest challenges in growing your business.

You may choose to cover four of the following topics in your strategic sessions and/or choose other marketing areas you need support with.

• Review of current marketing materials with feedback and suggestions on content and overall presentation.
• Suggestions for additional marketing materials.
• Best methods for distributing your marketing materials.
• Review of Company Identity (Company name, logo, tag line) with feedback and suggestions.
• Review of Company Website with feedback and suggestions.
• Support with Vision, Mission & Core Value statements.
• How to build relationships and deliver superior client service.
• Workshop topics and presentation support.
• Target Market Initiatives.

You also receive a free membership to the Canadian Virtual Assistant Network, consulting sessions, the Virtual Assistants Guide to Marketing and more.

VANA’s Premier Partners (http://www.vanetworking.com/premier.htm) are relevant to the Virtual Assistant industry and we recommend them so that our members’ businesses can succeed. Our members are interested in products and services that are helpful to small business owners, virtual assistance, work at home moms, networking, software and other computer-related areas. The message board is very active and is the largest in the VA world with over 3,900 members. It is an ideal website to advertise on if your product or service falls within this market of virtual assistants and small business entrepreneurs.

As the Virtual Assistant Networking Association (VANA) forum theme goes, “Hey, Hey, The VA Gang’s All Here,” and they are, supporting one another and striving to promote the Virtual Assistant Industry.

So join the fun and stop by the VANA Forum today at http://www.vanetworking.com. You’ll see just how much better your business can become and also have a great time doing it. And for those looking for a VA, you won’t be able to beat the professionals you’ll find here.

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Tawnya Sutherland, founder of Virtual Assistant Networking Association (VANA) http://www.vanetworking.com and author of the Virtual Assistant Startup System (VBSS), is a Certified Internet Marketing Specialist sharing her expertise to help aspiring and successful VAs turn website clicks into cash for them.

February 2007 Guest Expert TeleSeminar

DATE: Thursday, February 15, 2007
TIME: 5pm PST / 6pm MST / 7pm CST / 8pm EST
LENGTH: 60 minutes (please call in 10 min. early)
COST: FREE!

You know you need to employ PR (public relations) to promote your business, but it was not exactly your major in college, so to speak.

Besides, you are busy just handling the details of your business.

And then you have those snooty people in the media who make you feel like a pebble on the beach. You’re not even sure what to do first or how much time and money to spend to get it done. You’ve heard you can get publicity for free, but that assumes you know something about publicity, PR and the media. Where do you start?

Start with this one-hour teleseminar!

Pat Lynch started her own PR, advertising and marketing firm in Atlanta at the age of 25, and was the first women to do so in the South. Pat is going to share some:

• practical advice on getting started
• methods of ramping up to be the media expert, and
• taking advantage of on-the-ground radio as well as the new Web world–Web radio and blogs, too!

No matter what your level of media sophistication, you’ll get something from the fast-paced trip to help you use radio PR to promote your business.

About Pat Lynch, WomensRadio

During her 34 years in advertising, marketing and public relations, Pat was an innovator in the use of media. She began a media company for women in 1996. The first project was WomensRadio. In 2002, she launched WomensCalendar and WomensCalendar eNewsletter that reaches some half million women leaders each week.

In 2004, her company launched two new media services: Press Your Point, a powerful, yet inexpensive press release service; and AudioAcrobat, a unique and very easy-to-use audio recording and streaming service. In 2005, her company launched the all-new Women’s Radio with it’s “hub” of 30 minute-long programs.

Pat is a frequent speaker at women’s events, not only about the use of media, but more importantly, about her favorite subject “Speaking Up.”

Register Now!

What do you get when you take one Virtual Assistant who needs to kick-start their business or wants a new look, a team of expert Virtual Professionals that are at the top of their game, and a limited time offer to win this business opportunity of a lifetime? You get the Extreme VA Makeover!

VANA will be holding a spectacular new contest for all members of the VANetworking.com forum and you could be the Grand Prize Winner! The prizes totaling over $3,800 are amazing, the opportunity is out of this world, and it could all be for you. Do not miss the chance to skyrocket your business success by being taken under the wing of multiple experts that want to give you a business makeover.

Want a taste of the amazing prizes we’ve convinced our experts to provide? How about a brand new new logo and website so you can show the world you mean business? Memberships to paid professional Virtual Assistant organizations to get the support and mentorship that can get you through the tough times. Training classes held by the best teachers known to the VA industry. There are even e-books that can give you quick, insightful help and knowledge to guide you down the path to having the business of your dreams.

This raffle is for everyone. Everyone who wants to be a Virtual Assistant – current Virtual Assistants that are yearning for a change or a more professional look to show off to the world, even veteran Virtual Assistants – highly skilled professionals who provide administrative support and other specialized services to businesses, entrepreneurs and executives – here’s your opportunity to join this VA family for advice, mentoring, to share in the camaraderie and to gain access to this contest as well as future contests that are in the works.

As the Virtual Assistant Networking Association (VANA) forum theme goes, “Hey, Hey, The VA Gang’s All Here,” and they are, supporting one another and striving to promote the Virtual Assistant Industry. So join the fun and stop by the VANA Forum today at http://www.vanetworking.com. You’ll see just how much better your business can become and also have a great time doing it. In addition, for those looking for a VA, you won’t be able to beat the professionals you’ll find here.