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!

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 is precise reason for mentoring - to bring together an individual with success. Your first task is to determine exactly what individual hopes to accomplish. As a one-person training staff, you will need to know everything about potential home business as well as get to know 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 on 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 through process of establishing sales leads, getting funding you need, and most likely provide you with names of others who are specialized in their respective fields.

Why go it alone, making same mistakes that have already been made by others? Let a mentor help you on road to success by giving you benefit of their experience.

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