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One paragraph on your website alerting business person to all he needs to do while running an cyber business and how you can solve that problem. An example of this is advertising, website maintenance, newsletter pre-preparation, etc
------Elaborate on ALL skills you have. (entrepreneurs never sleep and are really desperate for someone like you) For example: Office support, correspondence, internet research, typing or writing their newsletter, database maintenance of customers and leads, web design, sales literature design, etc.
------Give them your background and education. (Mention too how much energy you have and how fast you type and advertise also.)
------Provide a way for them to contact you. This is as simple as ending your webpage advertisement with your name, an email link, your address and your telephone number.
5. Advertise yourself in every way imaginable on internet.
There are actual listings for virtual assistants where you can add your business and get support such as:
http://www.abcsvcs.com/typists.htm http://www.staffcentrix.com/ http://www.assistu.com/
You can buy materials from these sites to help you to develop your business and these places may even help you with setting up a website and advertising. Do a search at alta vista search engine to find more databases like these.
When you are advertising on your own we suggest targeting places small business people visit. Mainly these are comprised of small business forums, discussion lists and newsgroups. Take part in discussions and include a signature similar to one we added at end of this article (Never blatantly advertise in newsgroups, forums or a discussion list). Here are places you can look for "marketing discussions":
for discussion lists: http://list-universe.com/ for newsgroups: http://www.dejanews.com for forums: http://www.entrepreneur-web.com/index_1.shtml
When your business is developed you can research press releases and tell world how you are helping small businessman via internet. This will help you a great deal with that and suppliment all information above as well: http://www.techweb.com/smallbiz http://prweb.com
Why wait another day, opportunity has presented itself. It's a wide open arena and a great need. You could be one of first to create this new income generating line of work on internet and be up and running in no time. Many large staffing services may not even realize this door of opportunity exists, get in now. As business owners realize you are available more and more will come to you for help. You could be creating a new family owned business at home beginning right now. There is even plenty of opportunity for an online "VA temporary agency" or two which will cater to online small business world. Food for thought. Seize moment!
Anna Mattingly is a published writer and poet. She is the owner of a website called Morina's Millennium Profits. I personally have achieved more in my career by utilizing the services I found there. Visit us: http://lazyliving.com, or write: anna@vci.net