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IMPACT Virtual Services NewsletterSocial Media and Business News
June 2012
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Summer is finally here!  The team at IMPACT hopes you enjoy your plans for holidays, vacations, and personal days away...everyone needs a break once in awhile!

Hopefully in between the grill-outs and sun tanning you have time to enjoy our newsletter.  We aim to provide you the most relevant and informative newsletter on Social Media and business trends.  Have a suggestion or feedback? It is always welcome, and we want to hear from you! Connect with IMPACT! 

Missed past issues of the IMPACT newsletter? View social media tips, business news, and more in IMPACT's archived newsletters section!

 

In This Issue...
:: Use Referral Selling To Get New Clients Now!
:: Facebook's NYSE Debut
:: My Favorite WordPress Plug-Ins
:: Connect With Impact

Use Referral Selling To Get New Clients Now!
Start Using This Powerful Model Today

 

referral sellingGrowth is important for any business; more often than not growth is essential for the small business to remain competitive.

Spending hours prospecting on the phones or building a brand new website can be both time consuming and exhausting. How to get around this? Get others to find your clients for you by utilizing the referral-selling model.

 

Click here for a few tips to harness this power and put it to work for your business. 

 
Facebook's Debut on the New York Stock Exchange
Everything the World Expected?     

facebookstockThe morning of Friday, May 16th Facebook (FB) launched its Initial Public Offering (IPO) to eager traders on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).  

 While things seemed to take off to a great start, as with all things Facebook, unexpected change was inevitable. 


Click here to see what has happened so far with the public offering.    
My Favorite WordPress Plug-Ins
By Natalie Schloesser, IMPACT's Website Manager    

You've probably looked at a WordPress site today. In fact, IMPACT is built on WordPress! For those who don't know, WordPress is an Open Source CMS Platformwordpress that drives nearly 20% of all websites today.


In English please? 
Let's work backwards. All websites are built on a 'platform' - basically software that helps the site work. CMS stands for "Content Management System". If you can login to your website and change the content on a page, you have a CMS. Open Source  is a term that is used across the Internet; it's a community of developers that work together to constantly build and improve upon software that is available to the general public at no cost.

What else?  Not only does WordPress have a fantastic CMS platform and incredible support forums, but it is super customizable.  While this list could be much longer than it is, I thought I'd keep it to five. Here are my favorite WordPress Plugins, many of them on every site I build: 

 

 Click here for Natalie's Top 5 Plug-Ins!  
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Social Media Tricks, Small Business Tips, and More! 

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ConnectConnect with IMPACT...

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IMPACT Virtual Services offers a variety of services to meet your business' needs.  Our services are constantly evolving in order to better suit you and your business. 

Some of our core services include:

Virtual Assistants

Your success is a result of you being an expert in your core business, and now is the time for you to increase your profitability by leaving the things you don't excel at, the administrative tasks every business faces, to an assistant.  Read More >>
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Social Media: Strategy & Execution

90% of people search for businesses online. We integrate your social media marketing to improve your search engine optimization, making it easy for your customers to find you.  Read More >>

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Sincerely,

The IMPACT Team