This year I want to focus on profiling clients I work with, so you can meet them too. I'm starting with some of the newer clients.

Over the past few months I've been assisting Karen Norris from Botanic Photos with her website and blog. Karen is building a stock photography site dedicated to photos of flowers for people to purchase for use. She has the most visually beautiful site to visit and her blog is worth subscribing to as well. Karen produces a newsletter and has a free ebook on how to improve your flower photography. She has two client bases - photographers who want to showcase their photos and purchasers who would like to use those photos.

If you know someone who enjoys photographing flowers, or perhaps you just simply like looking at flowers, why not pop over there to view her site?

Over the years I've heard from different people about how they'd love to have more control over their website but don't have any web design knowledge and wouldn't know where to start.

I can appreciate this frustration. Especially when information may be time sensitive.

For the past couple of years I've been encouraging clients to consider having a site created in Wordpress which is actually blog software. However, today it is being used more and more for CMS (Content Management System) sites and once the site is set up you can literally just log in online and update the data, add new data (pages or posts) and even upload images from your own computer. It is very easy to use.

Some clients still prefer to use my services for their updates, and that's fine (I appreciate and love this work) but for those who like to have a little more control and want the update at the time they think of it (like 11pm at night for example) they can literally log in and do it themselves.

The great thing about Wordpress is that you can use services like Feedburner.com to help build your subscriber list - every time you post a new article the list is notified via email or RSS. Or you can stick with a service like 1shoppingcart, aweber or similar and continue with broadcast emails and newsletters. I prefer a combination of both for my own sites.

Please note that in using Feedburner it only sends out the data, not your post in the template but if you use the other services a simple template can be put together in html along with your logo or banner and then sent out in their system. This newsletter is an example.

So if you're looking for a change and something that will give you more flexibility and access for this year, why not consider changing your site over to Wordpress? Quick and easy to install and a number of different templates can be uploaded for simple one-click changes further down the track. Why not contact me for more information?

Regards,

Kathie

Australian VA Conference

Time is ticking and the Australian VA Conference is only a few weeks away. We still welcome sponsors if you are interested. You'll be able to have something put into a showbag for the delegates and let others know about your business or perhaps you have a prize you'd like to offer for the delegates. Check out the website for all the details.

VA Coaching Club

Launched late last year, the VA Coaching Club is for those who feel they would like some mentoring and guidance along the way as they build their VA business. Regular teleclasses on a monthly basis, the opportunity to chat with other club members and member discounts and freebies available. Sign up at the VACoachingClub website.