Create Your Website

Your website is an important marketing tool for your virtual assistant business.

You only have one chance to make a great first impression.

You will need to create your website for your Virtual Assistant Business. Even though many of your virtual assistant jobs will be found offline, your website is still a major source of your marketing and the first impression potential clients will get of your business. You simply cannot be successful as a virtual assistant without a website.

If you are familiar with webdesign and knowledgeable enough to create your own website, remember to keep it clean, professional and easy to navigate. Potential clients want to be able to easily learn what your services are and how you can help them. Stay away from fancy backgrounds, animation and sound that can detract from the professional image you are trying to portray. Do you like websites with a distracting flash intro or sound you can't turn off?

If you have never created a website and know nothing about webdesign, hosting and html, you can still create a website with a professional look without hiring a web designer. Fortunately today there are many inexpensive ways to create a nice and functional website quickly and easily without any technical experience. If you want to hire a professional to design to design your website and can afford do so, that is fine. Just don't think you cannot create your own site if money is tight. You may want to start with some low cost options when starting out and think about an upgrade in the future when you are making money.

There are many low cost hosting companies today but stay away from the free hosting sites. These may be great for personal website but are not the best option for businesses. They often have annoying popups and banners, unreliabile of servers, limited web space and technical support.

There are a few hosting companies I have used personally that have good reputations. I have used HOST GATOR and their customer service is excellent! They are inexpensive and support Blogs, include a free website builder that you can use to easily create your website even with no experience!

Host Gator just added 4,500 templates you can use to customize your own site. This is great for those of you with web design experience and web design software. You can easily customize these templates and have a nice site up in no time.

Blue Host will include a free domain name and also has professional looking templates. You may want to take a look at both and see which you like better.

If this is your first website and you know absolutely nothing about domain names, web hosting and web design, you can have a website up and running in minutes with Microsoft® Office Live Small Business. Create your own professional Web site—for FREE! .

You register your domain name through them for free your first year and a small annual fee after that - currently $14.95 per year. You will create your website with their web builder and host your website with them. You can set up an email account and it is all free!

I like many things about this program and the templates are extremely easy to work with, but I will say the templates are not as nice looking as many other hosts web builders and the websites tend to all look alike. But this is a great way to get started if your budget is tight and you have no design skills. You can have a professional designer spruce up your website for a fee down the road when you are making money or switch to one of the other hosting companies, especially if you want to add a blog.

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