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Great Testimonials: 5 Easy Way To Get Heartfelt Feedback From Clients & Customers

When you offer a product or service online, testimonials are crucial to winning the trust of potential customers and clients.

You may wonder, how can I get some great testimonials for my website?

Obviousy, the first thing you need to do is provide excellent services that your clients/customers are happy with. You need to have been working with them long enough that they're qualified to speak about you and your work.

After that, it's pretty simple. Here are a few things you can do to get a great testimonial:

How To Delegate To Your Virtual Assistant, Part 2

Some people love to delegate, and it comes naturally to them. Other people have to learn this skill.

Last time we covered some ways to make delegating easier.

This time we'll answer some specific questions about how to delegate.

How do you determine what tasks you can delegate?

Thinking about delegating your routine tasks--these are things that you do every day or nearly every day (such as managing email, processing orders, interacting with customers, any online marketing that you do, etc).

Training someone to do routine tasks is an investment--it may take a few weeks to get someone up to speed, and during those weeks it may feel like you're putting in extra work, but it pays off in the end.

How To Delegate To Your Virtual Assistant, Part 1

Until recently my viewpoint on delegating was pretty straightforward, as I am used to being the one who is delegated to.

I'm used to being the "getter doner", the assistant, the right hand. Consequently I am the one who is usually preaching about the benefits of delegating and trying to explain how delegating can save a business owner more time, relieve stress, increase earnings, and improve customer satisfaction.

But recently something interesting happened. I finally had the chance to experience the flip side of the delegating coin, to be the person who was having stuff done for them. I must admit, I was surprised how challenging it was.

I found this really interesting, so I got to talking with several other virtual business owners and supervisors of traditional offices about why it is so hard to delegate.

These were the common "I'd rather not delegate" reasons I gleaned from my little survey: