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It’s the new year and there are exciting, new marketing trends to watch out for. In the past, we watched the industry change incrementally, shaped by advances in technology and by financial and geopolitical influences. However, the year 2020 has changed the marketing landscape in leaps and bounds. We not only had a global pandemic […]
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What is email marketing used for? Email marketing is used for sending a commercial message to a group of people via email. Basically, all emails sent to potential customers can be considered email marketing. Email marketing includes sending promotional messages, advertisements, catalogues, special offers, and other business acquisition materials through email.
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Working From Home? One of the challenges of working from home is controlling clutter in our home office. This is why most of us opt to digitise the bulk of our paperwork. During this time when almost everything is digital, there is very little reason to see clutter on your desk. But every so often,
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Another year has past! At Virtual Elves we have been using this time in the lead up to the Christmas holidays to reflect on the year that was and plan for a fresh start in 2017. Part of this process included looking back on our most popular and ‘clicked through’ articles for 2016. We were
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We’ve been reflecting on the past year at Virtual Elves and part of that was looking back on our most popular and ‘clicked through’ articles for 2016. We were not so surprised to find that you all found our articles on productivity to be some of the most informative and popular pieces of content! Being
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Understand the Risks of using Copyrighted Images in your Business Visual media is a useful way to quickly grab your audience’s attention. A recent study has illustrated that image posts receive 120-180% more engagement than text based posts.[1] Whether you’re using a photograph on your blog or a graphic on social media, it’s well known
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It’s a common scenario, you’re building your business, burning candles at both ends, working from dusk to dawn and pulling crazy hours trying to manage a to-do list that keeps on growing! You’re tired, grumpy and fearful of losing control, you keep throwing more and more of your time into trying to manage everything but
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Google has one of the most recognizable and user-friendly interfaces of any online service provider. Their suite of apps have been created to help businesses in the online sphere, making them more visible, productive and profitable. Here are some of the smartest ways to use Google for your business: Google Apps allow you to advertise
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Being chained to your desk every day can definitely sap motivation. It’s nice to have the freedom to be able to take your work on the road, check emails when you’re in transit and keep abreast of things while enjoying a cup of joe at your local coffee shop. This is all part of that
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Do you often fall victim to those days where you’re scrambling around jumping from one task to the next without finishing any of them? Do you lose sleep over deadlines that have arrived ‘all of a sudden’? Do you waste time cruising through emails a hundred times a day, answering random queries from one client
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When I was first starting out building my own business I had this idea in my head that in order to operate on a shoestring budget I needed to do everything myself. Building a support team took time and money, and was really only something you could do once you’d hit the big time and
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If you’re regularly working into the night, missing deadlines and spending valuable time focused on business operations, rather than business strategy, then you’re probably overdue for some much needed assistance. Being able to delegate effectively in your business is vital to its on-going success. [Tweet “Delegation done right can save time, increase productivity & ultimately leads
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