Why Home-Based Business Virtual Assistant Services?
Posted October 12th, 2008
People ask me “How & Why Did You Start Your Home-Based Business Virtual Assistant Services?” What qualifications or education did you have to offer “virtual assistance” to your clients?
I answer years of experience, dedication to helping clients, self-motivation, vision & action… These all come in to play in any business that you undertake.
Years ago they didn’t have a great name like Virtual Assistant… Virtual Secretary didn’t quite describe what I did, because the virtual assistant services I offer go beyond being a virtual secretary.
Entrepreneurial Spirit is the beginning…
Bringing me back to thinking how it all started… Being an entrepreneur and working from home has always been in my blood. I remember in 1975 doing Tupperware home parties and working as a home typist on an IBM Selectric transcribing deposition transcripts… which led me into being a Legal Secretary on & off for 20+ years, working for accountants for 5 years, bookkeeping from home, installing and training people on accounting software and learning my first computer at Lockheed where I did data entry for the L-1011 Electrical Wiring System.
I always liked the flexibility of working at home and in 1999 I started on eBay selling products, learned how to design my own website and for the next 6 years I owned retail businesses on the internet and helped design friends’ websites and taught them about PPC on Google & Yahoo.
Enjoying the creativity of designing and always having the technical gene, loving to learn new programs, my client base started to grow and I sold my online retail business in 2006 and continued with my Virtual Assistant Service Business.
The qualifications and education have been lifelong and they are still going on as I’ve seen the internet change and what used to work does not work anymore. You have to do more with Blogging, Social Networking, Social Bookmarking, YouTube Videos, Article Submission, Forums…
You have to standout among your industry!
In the Virtual Assistant industry caring about your client and what they do is important. Many of my clients are authors, spiritual entrepreneurs and personal development coaches. Through our virtual assistant services we can teach you or assist you in the following VA services:
- Blog Creation & Design (We create the blog and can teach you how to post or post articles for you)
- Web Design
- Social Networking (Create accounts on Facebook, MySpace, Squidoo, Twitter)
- Social Bookmarking (Bookmarking Article Posts)
- Posting a YouTube Video
- How To Submit An Article to the Ezines
- Present Webinars & TeleClasses/Workshops
- Shopping Carts, AutoResponders & Newletters (IContact, Aweber, 1Shopping/KickStart Cart)
- Audio & Video (YouTube, AudioAcrobat)
For our Blog creation software we use WordPress and the search engines love it. We include many of the best plugins when we put your blog together!
Working with Bob Yeager, Personal Development Coach has helped me take my Virtual Assistant business to a new level this past year and his services are available for those that really are serious in creating a marketing strategy and having a campaign developed. Bob & I work together on building sales pages, opt-in pages, upsell pages along with marketing campaigns.
To be in business for yourself takes some risk, dedication and not giving up if something does not go right! Focus & Action and the ability to shift gears and see the bigger picture, taking one step at a time. Knowing what your soul purpose is and going for it!
To Your Success!
CoraLyn
Soul Purpose Marketing
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