1. A professionally designed website gives you an edge over your competitors.
2. To potential customers, your website is like a store and your business card.
3. Your website acts as an interface between your organization and the rest of the world, year round.
4. Critical points of building an online business presence is having an appealing, informative & interactive website.
5. Having a great website is an absolute first step in creating a marketing brand for your company.
6. Your website is a great way to communicate with potential customers.
7. Usability of your website can convert more people to purchase services from your business.
8. Well designed web sites work so that your company is well-presented in the business environment
9. Your website is a reflection of the way you do business.
10. Your website has the potential to give your business a larger customer base online.

For additional tips and to see how AI Virtual Solutions can help you get started on your website, do call or email us. Here are a few additional tips to consider as your website comes together:

1. Besides a having a great look, a website must be also be user friendly, easy to navigate, understand and find.
2. An attractive & professional looking website will give your business credibility & help strengthen your brand.
3. Visitors typically decide within seconds whether or not they are staying on a website aka buy from you!

Here are five simple ways that your website could be losing you business:

1. Slow Page Loads: People get really frustrated when pages take long to load. If you have this problem then check the size of your images and ensure that their sizes are optimized to load quicker while still maintaining the integrity of these images. Find ways to optimize your pages as well, also contact your web hosting company about this issue if everything you’ve tried hasn’t resolved the issue.
2. Dead/Broken Links: No one likes to click on a link and it goes to a “not found” page. Use a good broken links checker regularly to ensure that all your links are valid. A great tool to use for checking links is the W3C links checker.
3. Inactive Contact Forms: Imagine someone who is really interested in your products and/or services and then they’d taken the time to complete your contact form, click on the send button and NOTHING HAPPENS! Many people would immediately move on to the next person.
4. Poor Navigation: It’s important to give visitors to your website many ways to navigate through your web pages. It comes highly recommended from the usability point, to have more than one way to click through pages.
5. Visible Contact: Not every potential client wants to use your contact form. So create other options for they to contact you via. Some people like to send emails and some like to speak to a person. Adding an email address link and telephone number can make a difference.

Taking into consideration the mentioned above points can makes a huge difference in whether you gain more business or not.

Social bookmarking sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon, and Reddit, are simple; yet profitable when wanting to drive traffic to your website. These websites will aid you in establishing your brand and encourage traffic to your website. There has been an increased trend with internet based business owners; therefore, implementing a strong marketing platform will improve your website’s traffic and your client base.

Use Blogging. Blogging is another website in the form of social media. A blog combines commentary, images, and/or links to your website. A blog allows you the opportunity to keep an online “diary” of your thoughts, progress, events and articles that pertain to your website and business. Additionally, your blog encourages user participation and allows your readers to comment on the information posted in your blog. Furthermore, several social bookmarking sites will allow you to link your blog to your social bookmarking account; which will increase your targeted audience. READ MORE

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Making use of today’s technology, Virtual Assistants are providing innovative solutions to small businesses, home-based businesses and entrepreneurs worldwide. Virtual Assistance as a fairly new profession has seen a spectacular growth over the past few years. Virtual Assistants are the answer to businesses worldwide that are looking for administrative support but do not want or need in-house support.

AI Virtual Solutions offers a wide variety of professional and affordable administrative and design services. And by utilizing a Virtual Assistant, companies are able to focus on growing their businesses.

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Agnes Ikotun, owner/operator of AI Virtual Solutions, lives in Newington, Connecticut and specializes in providing support to coaches, speakers, authors and Realtors who live virtually anywhere. The distance, however, is never a problem since the growth of technology has paved the way for superior communication.