How to become a Virtual Assistant while catering to Small Business

Written by Anna Mattingly


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One paragraph on your website alertingrepparttar 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 ALLrepparttar 116447 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 onrepparttar 116448 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 targetingrepparttar 116449 places small business people visit. Mainly these are comprised of small business forums, discussion lists and newsgroups. Take part inrepparttar 116450 discussions and include a signature similar torepparttar 116451 one we added atrepparttar 116452 end of this article (Never blatantly advertise in newsgroups, forums or a discussion list). Here arerepparttar 116453 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 tellrepparttar 116454 world how you are helpingrepparttar 116455 small businessman viarepparttar 116456 internet. This will help you a great deal with that and suppliment allrepparttar 116457 information above as well: http://www.techweb.com/smallbiz http://prweb.com

Why wait another day,repparttar 116458 opportunity has presented itself. It's a wide open arena and a great need. You could be one ofrepparttar 116459 first to create this new income generating line of work onrepparttar 116460 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 torepparttar 116461 online small business world. Food for thought. Seizerepparttar 116462 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


A Home Business Mentor Can Help You Earn Big Bucks

Written by Ian Canaway


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To successfully become a mentor, you must think in terms of a trainer, a financial expert, and a technical advisor if you want to help someone start their home business. After all, that isrepparttar precise reason for mentoring - to bring together an individual with success. Your first task is to determine exactly whatrepparttar 116446 individual hopes to accomplish. As a one-person training staff, you will need to know everything aboutrepparttar 116447 potential home business as well as get to knowrepparttar 116448 personal hopes and dreams of your protégé. In effect, you are providing your expertise and/or time to help another person achieve their goals for success.

Having a mentor to help you successfully start up your home business is a stroke of luck if you are onrepparttar 116449 receiving end. You explain your wants or needs to your mentor and he/she will provide you with suggestions based on their past experiences. You will be wise to listen to these suggestions, as they are mostly methods that have already been tried, tested and proven to work. Your home business mentor can help you with advice on start-up costs, technical advice, and guide you throughrepparttar 116450 process of establishing sales leads, gettingrepparttar 116451 funding you need, and most likely provide you withrepparttar 116452 names of others who are specialized in their respective fields.

Why go it alone, makingrepparttar 116453 same mistakes that have already been made by others? Let a mentor help you onrepparttar 116454 road to success by giving yourepparttar 116455 benefit of their experience.

(Feel free to use this article online and in your email newsletters as long as you leave it intact and do not alter it in anyway. The by-line and resource box must remain inrepparttar 116456 article.)

Resource Box:

Ian Canaway is the owner of http://www.asuccesfullhomebusiness4u.com and you are invited to come and have a look round his new home business blog at http://ahomebusinessblog4u.blogspot.com; For home business tips, advice and product reviews.


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