It is so important to take time to build a long lasting relationship with your clients. Creating lifetime clients will make you more money, but also you will not have to seek out so many one time clients.

Creating quality service is definitely your first step in developing your client relationship. If your service is anything less than great, your clients will not see a reason to come back for service again. However, if you give them something beyond their expectations, they will want to try out more of what you offer.

The next step in relationship building is providing good customer service. When a client contacts you, especially if it is with a problem, it is important to respond back in a timely manner. If your client contacts you, they are not thinking about all the other people who are requesting your attention. They are only thinking about the reason that they contacted you, and they want you to give them your full attention.

Staying in regular contact with your clients will ensure that they remember you and the service you provide. People get busy and have a lot of things on their plate. They may have intended to hire you for additional services, but it just slipped their mind. You may want to send out a monthly newsletter to keep them updated on new services or any specials you are offering.

Creating life long customers does not happen overnight. It is something that you will need to work on. As long as you show your clients appreciation and respect, you are well on your way to creating life long relationships with your clients.

Working from home can be a very stressful situation.  There are times when I feel like I can never get away from work.  When I think is this craziness every going to end?  I take my business very serious.  And here lately I have wondered if I take it too serious.  I don’t laugh anymore will I am working.  I am too busy stressing if I am going to make deadlines, worrying about if I am going to have clients next month, making sure my business is running the way I want to.

But I need to enjoy my business and working from home.  I need to take time to laugh have fun and think about how wonderful it is to one, be working from home, own my own business and three I have clients.  Those are three great things thta come with owning my own business.

So this week I am going to lighten up, enjoy my job, business, and work.  I am going to laugh more, smile more and stress less.

Today I am 1 year old. I have learn much, forgotten some, and moved way beyond where I ever thought I would be.

I can’t believe a year ago today I opened my VA doors.  I am done and learned so much I thought I would share with you some of the things I learned.

• Wordpress ~ a year ago I did not really know what Wordpress was much less how to work it.  Today I can do about anything you ask me to do in wordpress.  I can even tweak a theme, install Wordpress and work with css and php codes.  I know I never thought I would be able to say that
• 1Shopping Cart ~ I had no idea what this was or why someone would even want to do anything with it.  But today I can say I am just about an expert at 1shopping cart and if I can not figure it out I know where to go to get the information
•  Article Submission ~ Huh what is that.  LOL no that was me last year.  Now I can honestly say I can submit an article with my eyes closed and in a matter of minutes
• Content Manager ~ I had not idea what this even meant but now I am building my business around this and looking to do more of this and less of the little stuff I have been doing
• Publicity Co0rdinator ~ WHAT!!! I never thought I would be able to say that I helped someone land a spot on TV.  But I did that last year in 2009 as one of my clients Publicity Coordinator.
• And the list goes on.  Last year I was green super green but I had a few good clients that gave me a chance and look at me now.

I have done so much reflecting on my business the last two weeks of the year and have made some great changes for my business.

I just want to thank all my clients for sticking with me this first year of my business.

Ebooks are super each and they don’t take near as long to create and set-up. Let say you have a few articles you have created on a certain subject, you could put all these articles together to create a Ebook. But if you are not a writer you could your that rebrandable Ebook you have just laying around in a file. If you need a rebrandable Ebook just go to a search engine and search. Once you do this you are going to get tons of results so just take your pick. You could always offer one of these reports to anyone that subscribes to your newsletter. And if this Ebook has great information that people feel they need to share, they will pas it on. And pretty soon you will begin to see the benefits of it.

Creating an Ebook also helps you reach a larger audiance. Although you may be limited to enthusiasm and or participants. So it is super important that you make sure and grab the persons attention and share something important or humorous. You have to remember that people love to have information that the rest of the world wants or needs. Those people will share that information with other people to make them seem like the know it all.

Ebooks are also a way you can sell other products besides the original target. An example of that is: Let say you are selling Recipe books, Customers would probley also be interested in Ebooks about cooking, cooking products, and kitchen accessories.

Ebooks are also very effective when you are building a reputation. It builds you way up if you offer an amazing Ebook filled with valuable information that people will highly recommend to their friends.

Do you have an idea for an Ebook? Or do you have an ebook that needs to be rebranded? How about an Ebook that just needs to be made pretty? Contact me so we can hash out the details and get your ebook on the market.

There are many journalist searching the world wide web looking for the next awesome story. These Press Release sites make it easy for journalist to find an interesting story. Those journalist are not only looking for a story to publish, they are also looking for stories to put in their local paper, T.V. station or in their magazine.

The greatest benefit that any online business can get from submitting a press release is getting contacted by a television station or a newspaper to be interviewed plus it is free exposer.  But if you submit a press release online and offline, your reward as a internet business may increase.

You will not only grab the attention of someone looking for a story, you will also be reaching out to new customers that read news online. You will also get great links backs that could boost the ranking of your site with search engines.

Regular submission of your press release online makes total sense, specially for the incoming links that you will receive from them.  Press Releases are also an amazing way to let the world know what is new with your business.  You may be making a donation to a charity, maybe offering a great new product, or you want to announce a great holiday special you have coming out. You can intertwine your businesses news into a great press release.

Do you have a great press release that you need submitted?  Or do you need a press release written and submitted?  Contact me to day to set up your press release submission.

All the Important search engines use crawlers, and/or robots to find websites so that they can put them into their result pages. What they do is follow a link to a page they then read that page and then record that content into their database. Then when people start searching for certain listings this will pull up certain pages.

Another suggestion to making your website more easily indexed make sure you do not use frames on any of your pages. Frames seem to make search engine bots all mixed up which may just make the bots leave your site. Even worse frames make it very hard for visitors to bookmark those pages..

Never use flash movies and or images to give critical information. Bots seem to only be able to read text and will never find or see your information in you use flashes or images.

Always, always use tags on ever page and every post on your website. The Robots will know right away what a certain page is all about and if they need to index it. Using tags you making things easier for the search bot to index your sites more often.

You also need to not use html tags such as <font> on your pages. You should try and use CSS instead. CSS are much more effective and very efficient. Also when you use CSs you are making not only your site and your pages lighter and also they also load much faster.

Is your site search engine friendly? If you don’t know or if not sure if your site is search engine friendly please contact me and I can check your site, fix your site, or make your site search engine friendly.

With an Ezine you will send it out on a periodical basis to anyone that has subscribed to your Ezine.  The nice thing about that is you the choice to either sending it out automated or you can send it out manually.

Being a publisher of an ezine, you will very easily achieve all the great benefits of a hard-copy newsletter with out taking out half the rainforest doing it. You will be spreading not only what is going on in your business,but also be able to share your expertise with all your subscribers from the mind of an average everyday person.

So basically  you will not have to purchase everything that goes along with publishing a newsletter. No buying a building, no hiring staff members, and no printing supplies.  So you will be saving yourself money, time and effort.

Really there are only a couple things you even need to create an ezine.  You will need an auto-responder, which should include a broadcasting feature. This will make it possible for you to reach large amounts of subscribers, and you will in-turn be pulling them into your site and bringing you more traffic.

You are also not going to be shelling out the expense of mailing all those newsletters out, printing the labels and getting your subscribers to give you their mail addresses.

Well now that I have put my two cents in you can see why I believe and ezine is so much better then a hard-copy newsletter. With the direction the Online and Offline businesses are going, in the near future everything will become more automated and paperless.

Oh before I forget to tell you.  If you don’t have an ezine or are looking to create one I can create a template for you and help you manage your ezine. Contact me so we can work out the details.

Really there is no sure fire way to spot a scam on the internet,but there are some ways that you can spot many of them. Below I have listed just a few tips and hints I have learned along the way on how to spot a scam and keep you from falling into their traps.

You want to look for things that are suspicious:

Can not find anything about who owns the website – You should be able to find some sort of information about contacting either the person who owns the site or the person that may run the affiliate center. You will need that information in case you need to contact them of you have questions or a problem. If you do not find any contact information be careful.

Find Testimonials – Affiliate sites sell things, which means that there should be testimonials from past customers tellling how great the business, service, or product is.  If there are no testimonails that could be a bad sign.

Research, Research, Research – You need to find out more about the products, research them. You want a good product or afiliate program that you are comforatable offering to your friends, family or clients.  A quick research could reveal people who have been scammed by this company. Make sure and pay attention to these complaints if you find any.

Promises that are too good to be true – Now I know everyone of us wants to earn huge money, in the shortest time possible, and not using much effort in doing it. There are some programs that pound these promises into your head. These promises sound awesome right/ Well, you probley should not believe them. I can tell you from first and experiance that it takes alot of work and time to make money online, or in an affiliate program.  A little elbow grease will having you making way more money then these empty promise businesses could ever dream about.

I have only mentioned a couple things that you need to watch for. They may seem suspicious, but that does not always mean they are out to scam you. But if you make sure and research before you make that commitment you will be less likely of falling into an scammers traps.

A sitemap is really a map to your site. A sitemap will help a visitor browse through your site without getting lost. And if they do get lost they can just go back to your site map and pick up where they were last.

The site map pretty much conveys your sites theme. Visitors that stop by your sitemap will find out the gist of your whole site in just a few minutes. You are saving your vistors time by allowing them to see your sitemap and go straight to what they want to read.

Creating a sitemap means you are creating just one page that contains a link to every single page on your site. Just think what would happen if a search engine robot ran into that site. Those search engine bots will go to every page on your site and then will be indexed by that search engine. You also need to make sure that you have your sitemap needs to be placed somewhere on the front page of your site.

Once you have your sitemap completely up then you will get the bird’s eye view of your whole site. So when you go to add something new you will be able to look and decided yes it belongs right there.
This all results in you have a beautify organized site with everything in its place.

So after talking with the client we decided her website needed a sitemap. Do you have a sitemap on your site? If not I would be happy to set one up for you. Contact me.