ProVirtual Solutions – Mary Motz
Blogsite Customization & Coaching
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If you’re thinking of kicking off 2010 with a new website look for your business – congrats! There’s nothing like the New Year to inspire a web makeover. Planning a web project can be a lot of fun and there are great possibilities to increase your visibility with blogsites and social media too. With that [...]
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I work with a lot of virtual professionals (VPs) on a variety of different web projects. Most of my VP clients have their own team of other VAs/VPs that provide a range of services for their clients. The multiplicity of similar working environments provides a lot of experience to draw from when sizing up the effectiveness of the VA team scenario when providing client services.
Inevitably, this produces a lot of water-cooler chat. One of the themes that often comes up is how to efficiently provide services to clients when the client is either brand new to working with VAs, or frankly, just not that good at it. In all the chatter one conclusion emerges: clients could save significantly on virtual services costs if they just were more effective at accurately communicating their needs.
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Over the past year, I’ve had the opportunity to sample a more than a few of the thousands of WordPress plugins available that expand the functionality of a WordPress blogsite. In case you’re wondering, plugins are simple WordPress add-ons that are easily installed and add additional features – typically a utility (such as backups) or a bell/whistle of some sort.
Depending on the WP theme you are using, some plugins are absolutely necessary and add features that, frankly, should already be part of WP (or probably will be in the near future). Some fulfill a specific requirement (such as social media or analytics needs). This list isn’t intended to be comprehensive – it’s just my default go-to list that I use when building a new site in WP.
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"Mary is a true delight to work with. She is extremely reliable, efficient, friendly and very creative. I just love sending her emails with requests and seeing what she will come up with. I am grateful for her everyday. She helps me immensly with my online web world and with graphics and she makes everything so much easier. Most importantly I feel she is on my side, supporting my goals and wanting the best for each outcome. Give yourself the gift of hiring Mary she will bring incredible professionalism, expertise and charm to your work!"
It’s NEVER going to be “perfect” or “done”, so just get it online already!
by Mary on February 2, 2010
On the web, the more you add and edit and test and experiment, the better it is for you – the more you learn, the more traffic you get. Change doesn’t make you look shifty, it makes you engaged in your message and encourages you to pay closer attention to your online presentation (which is where new prospects are going to go FIRST to know more about you, like it or not).
I bring this up because I see many getting caught up in the “wait till I write that 31st page before we go live” thing quite a bit. However, that truth is that no one will ever notice that that 31st page isn’t there. Don’t wait for that last page to be written. Get your basic stuff online and add to it as you go. Your new site can’t do a thing for you unless it’s online.
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