More and more businesses are building a larger Internet presence than ever before. There seems to be never ending roster of things to do online, that companies and individuals need to be a part of to keep up with their competition: social media, blogging, content creation, content syndication, videos, email campaign and ecommerce – these are just a few of the daily tasks required for a business to run effectively online. With so many things to keep track of and implement, how can one find enough good help?

People are turning to any resource they can that promises solutions: outsourcing, elance.com, odesk.com, interns, in-house employees and virtual assistants. Out of this large pool of labor, the virtual assistant stands far above the rest in terms of SEO knowledge and expertise. With most outsourcing help, even the inexpensive help on elance, you'll save money, but your final results won't be as good as it could be.

Just writing stuff and posting it to the web will not get you the kind of traffic you would expect. Things like keyword optimization and proper conversion are important to an online task. Outsourcing can be very unreliable for optimized web work. They are great for other things: transcription, call center management, scheduling and administrative tasks. But the right virtual assistant can manage very complex campaigns for a number of large businesses where dollars count and tasks are measured for success.

Have you thought of being a virtual assistant? It's growing career that's very high in demand. More and more jobs will filter from in-house employees to ones that work from home (telecommuting) as the years progress. At IMTC we teach all of the necessary skill sets that companies are looking for. An IMTC trained VA will be able to conduct the highest level of Internet tasks with the best results possible. Is this the job for you? Take a tour and find out…

Hard work is always rewarded. Lately however, it seems that people are trying to find the Magic Bullet: some product or system that makes money without doing any work. There are online ads that proclaim fast riches for just sitting around on your butt. Images of cruise ships and bikini clad women surrounding this lucky young man who is making money while on vacation. Are scenes like this really true? Or are shady companies just trying to get you to sign up for something that doesn't work? Well, yes and no.

You can make money while you're on vacation. That's just the nature of the Internet. While you have to man a cash register to make money with a physical store (and be open at a set time during business hours), you can make money on the Internet at all hours of the day and night, seven days a week. You can set up your products to be processed, fulfilled and delivered on automatic, so that you don't have to actually be there live to make the sale. That all sounds pretty wonderful, right? The missing link however, the one that ads don't tell you about, is the amount of education, work and dedication it takes to get all of this started. Just like any other business, if you want to be successful, it takes a good work ethic.

A good work ethic means doing whatever it takes to know the ropes. It means not taking fruitless shortcuts and only processing work and ideas half-way. Taking your Internet business seriously is the only way to make money. I know of no get-rich-quick scenarios that have actually worked. 99% of people who sign up for ‘make money at home' schemes fail miserably. The difference between someone who is successful and the others is how they view the business: real work equals real money. The Internet is not a place to take miraculous leaps of faith.

A real business takes a real education. Would you open up a clothing store at the mall without some retail management training? How would you keep track of inventory and balance your books without going out of business? As fast as the Internet changes, you need to stay on top of the workings of the web more than ever. With the ease of putting up websites and the promises of quick riches, the Internet is flooded with people trying to make money. It's not like the mall. That means that there is more competition and more obstacles to being noticed than ever before. The good news is that a majority of these Internet businesses don't really know what they're doing. Most websites don't make money. Just because they're online doesn't mean they're successful. “Build it and they will come” doesn't work on the Internet. There is so much more to it than that.

There are proven ways to make money with an online business – ones that have been tried and tested over and over again. The big players know how it works. They take it seriously. IMTC has the proven system of education that not only sets you apart from the others, but focuses on dedicated work ethics that will help you succeed in ANY business, not just online. Look around at all of the ads and sign up for whatever you want to. But when you decide to take making real money online seriously, we'll be here for you.

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