As a child were you told to stop showing off? Were you described as precocious or were you always introduced as the shy one?

Being proud of what you have achieved can be frowned upon, so anything that smacks of tooting your own trumpet is frowned upon. It doesn’t come easily to many of us; it just isn’t the British way.

Deep down the idea of putting a photograph of yourself on your website, Networking Sites and business card, can feel like your showing off, saying “Look at me aren’t I gorgeous” or thinking others are saying “ How Cheesy”. Truthfully most of us don’t think we look gorgeous, (when I look at my photo all I see is my enormous chin and my gummy smile). Doesn’t your potential customer deserve to see who they are hoping to do business with?  Your customers are going to buy from you, not just because you have a great service or product, but because they like you, warm to you and trust you.  Often the first point of contact for your business is your website, so how better to show that you are likeable, open and trustworthy, than …..You.

No matter how big or small your company is, doesn’t everyone want to feel they are getting one to one attention?

Thankfully I enlisted the help of Vee Smith www.mysuperva.co.uk to help me with this blogsite, otherwise who knows what I would have sent you!

I was delighted that Vee chose to bring her team to me for a photograph and in my new style blog I intend to feature my customers and celebrate their success. My Super VA, a specialist virtual internet marketing support service was founded by Vee in 2006. Originally set up to provide online secretarial services, with the huge technological advances in web and online marketing in the last few years, Vee found herself helping entrepreneurs and small business owners implement their internet marketing strategies, from email newsletter campaigns to auto responders and sign up boxes, selling information products, blogs, websites and shopping carts. Behind every successful business person is an even more successful PA!

Vee Smith, Carrie Byrne and Lucia Perdoni

“As part of improving the profile of My Super VA I wanted to include a team photo in my publicity material. My two team members, Carrie and Lucia were very apprehensive and reluctant to have their photos taken as they were convinced they never look good in photos and hate having their pictures taken. Contrary to their expectations, we all enjoyed the photo-session experience with you and we are all extremely pleased with the results. It was quite difficult to choose 1 picture from the contacts, as they were all very good conveying the impression of a professional and competent team, which is what I wanted. Thank you!”