Good Virtual Assistant Websites Can Lead to More Calls From Potential Clients, Says GetYourAssistant.com Founder

GetYourAssistant.com teaches virtual assistants how to build more effective websites for their businesses with a new free digital guide. An effective website for a virtual assistant(VA) is a marketing tool that can lead to more potential clients contacting the VA. And for virtual admins to be financially successful in this still relatively new and growing home business opportunity, they must have an adequate number of good clients.

Bloomingdale, GA (PRWEB) November 5, 2006 -- Virtual assistant directory GetYourAssistant.com (http://www.GetYourAssistant.com) just released the "Guide to Creating an Effective Website for a Virtual Assistant". This 17-page digital guide is free to anyone but directed toward aspiring, new and established virtual assistants. It teaches virtual assistants key elements to include in their business websites to help influence potential clients browsing their site to contact them.

"Because virtual assistants work virtually, many potential clients expect VAs to have a website presence," says Karen Fritscher-Porter, GetYourAssistant.com publisher and founder and author of the guide.

In fact, that's becoming true for almost every business, whether they operate online only or with a bricks and mortar location. Potential clients and customers are getting more inclined to check businesses out by way of their website before ever contacting them.

"But the quality and content of a virtual assistant's business website can have an effect on whether or not a potential client visiting there continues forward to call the virtual assistant for a job quote," says Fritscher-Porter. "A virtual assistant's website is a marketing tool and virtual assistants who don't use it as such and don't do so wisely are very likely losing business and don't even know it. A VA with a bad website presence could even be chasing away potential client callers."

Yet read any virtual assistant industry forum or browse inquiries by VAs or aspiring VAs posted on the web, and one of the topics that arises continuously is how to get clients. However, in the end the response is always the same (just like it is for any business): Marketing.

And while the topic of marketing can cover many areas from advertising to referrals to publicity, a major and growing marketing tool for virtual assistants is their website presence. Virtual assistants need to do more than just upload any website so they can say they have one. VAs must master this marketing tool, especially if they want to attract clients such as the new breed of Internet marketers that need someone savvy about the Web to assist them with tasks.

With the growing popularity of the virtual assistant as a home-business opportunity, it's not enough for a VA to just hang out a shingle and exist. Successful virtual assistants will be the ones who will still be around in five years operating their businesses and earning a full-time income doing so. But to get on top and stay on top with their businesses, they will do more than exist as a virtual assistant with top-notch skills. That's expected. These virtual assistants will continue to market their businesses, including marketing through a good website presence, and never stop doing so.

Any virtual assistant (aspiring, new or established) or media representative can instantly download the complimentary "Guide to Creating an Effective Website for a Virtual Assistant" by completing the registration form at
http://www.getyourassistant.com/GetTheGuide.htm

About GetYourAssistant.com and the Author of This Guide:
GetYourAssistant.com (http://www.GetYourAssistant.com) is a global directory of virtual assistants for hire to small business owners and home based business owners. It was founded this year by Karen Fritscher-Porter, who also operates TheEffectiveAdmin.com, an established website and newsletter for administrative professionals that are employed and work on-site at companies. Additionally, GetYourAssistant.com offers more help to any virtual assistant who wants to boost her income, not her hours through a marketing tips newsletter and marketing assistance packages available at the site.

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