A lot of people think social media is the only thing they need to do to grow their business.
Social media is an important tool needed to grow, but it's not the only one that's needed.
One thing you do with social media is build trust with your market, but it's not the only way you should do it.
Another way to build trust is to use article marketing.
Article marketing gives you the ability to show others you're an expert in your field through words.
Having an article published online is no different than having it published on paper.
People read them and feel an expert wrote it as long as it's good quality and the information is correct.
One of the most important things to remember when it comes to article marketing is that your article won't do you any good if you don't submit it to article directories so others can read them.
Allowing your articles to collect cyber dust is like throwing money down the drain.
It's just not good, but if you don't have time to make the submissions, that's what you may find, is happening with your articles.
Instead of allowing the cyber dust to collect, consider hiring a Virtual Assistant to take over and handle your article marketing tasks.
When you do this, you'll still have all the control, but you won't have to worry about losing business because it's not getting done.
Another daunting task that will lose you money is to not have your blog in front of your market.
People will come and go in your market, but if you don't have your blog out there for them to see, they'll never know you exist and that you're there to help them with their needs.
As hard as you may try, this is not something you can do on your own.
This is why it's important to submit your blog to the blog directories.
When you do this you'll have added exposure and the new people to your market will see it.
This is another one of those tasks that many don't do because it doesn't directly make you money, but if you think about it for just a minute, you'll see it does make you money.
When you put your blog in front of your market they're going to click through to see what you offer.
If they're interested they'll go to your site, and it's a chain reaction from there.
While your site is ultimately the winner when it comes to the traffic, without your market seeing your blog, they may never get to your site and if that happens, your site is not the winner.
This is why it's important to submit your blog to the blog directories.
You only have to do this once as most of them require your RSS feed so it continually shows the most recent post.
This is another one of those tasks your Virtual Assistant can handle for you.
She can go to all of the blog directories and submit your blog for you if she's given the right information.
The best thing to do is go to one or two sites to see what they'll need and then create a document with this information.
This will save her time and you'll be able to have your blog on the directories quicker.
Your Virtual Assistant can help you with so many different things, but two of the most important tasks would be article marketing and blog directory submissions.
These two tasks are very important in the growth of your business.