About Your Online Business Manager - Internet Marketing Services Provider, Lisa Wells

I established my virtual assistant practice, Coast2Coast Business Support Solutions, after 15 years of working with people, helping them use computers to be more productive in their day-to-day work.

Most virtual assistant businesses are born in the home office, out of a computer, knowledge of a particular market, and a burning desire to help that market while working from home. People are sometimes surprised to hear that I really enjoyed my career as an information technology specialist, and my children were very happy going to their daycare center for stories, arts and crafts and playtime. I had no intention of leaving my job to work at home.

No, instead something happened that happens to most military families; in July 2005, we got orders to move. I am originally from Southern California, where I had lived my entire life, when my husband received orders to North Carolina. My research quickly revealed that even though I had 20 years of office experience, a Microsoft certification, there simply were no well-suited jobs for me.

That summer, the movie "Robots" came out; a cute family movie about Rodney Copperbottom, an idealistic robot inventor. To foil the plans of an evil inventor, Rodney applies the philosophy of "find a need and fill a need," and succeeds in bringing his robot friends together to save Robot City.

More than being one of the basic principles of business, this phrase goes right to the heart of what a virtual assistant does and how I came to be one. Before my career as an information technology specialist, I was a secretary and a word processor. While most of my colleagues lived and breathed computers, my passion and expertise for paperwork, data entry, and report formatting brought in excellent money and rewards. Rather than doing what everyone else did, I carved out a specialty and filled that need.

I partner with small and home-based business owners, coaches, consultants and internet entrepreneurs, providing internet marketing services such as: email marketing; website design, development, and maintenance; and autoresponder/shopping cart maintenance; newsletter / ezine management, to name a few.

I volunteer as a Key Volunteer with the USMC and am an active member of the International Virtual Assistants Association, most recently volunteering in the education department. I have a bachelor of science degree in business management, am a Certified eMarketing Associate, and am one of the few virtual assistants to hold all three designations offered by IVAA: Certified Virtual Assistant, Certified Real Estate Support Specialist, and EthicsCheck.

When you can drag me away from my computer, you can find me at home in Jacksonville, North Carolina, with my wonderful and supportive husband Richard, sons Eddie and Brett, and my two pugs, ET and Soochow.

Outside of building and developing Coast2Coast, I enjoy spending time with my family, traveling, reading Stephen King novels, and am always up for trying something new (I learned how to snowboard when I was 38!). I also enjoy watching Ghost Hunters, Lost, and The Office.

I want to help you achieve success in your business, contact me today.

Testimonials