Virtual assistant: A virtual assistant provides professional administrative, technical, marketing, ecommerce or creative assistance to clients remotely from a home office. The more your business grows, the more administrative tasks you have; the more time you spend on administrative tasks, the less time you have to generate new business. YOUR time is most valuable because it is your responsibility
to generate new revenue for your business. Doing small and often trivial administrative chores yourself does not really add value to your business and the sensible solution is to delegate those less profitable tasks by hiring someone more than capable of carrying them out, but whose hourly rate is somewhat less than your real financial worth. You may have a multitude of reasons that prevent you from hiring a full time personal assistant. You may not need a full time, or even part time employee but just require someone for occasional or limited secretarial services. Significant for some potential employers is also the loss of privacy and space - are you working from home or have limited office space? You may not want an employee working from your home or simply not have the room for an additional employee in your office or all the equipment they may need. Wouldn't it be perfect if you had a business assistant that was always ready to work for you, but only when you need them? Providing secretarial services from their own home or office, using their own equipment? Meet the Virtual Assistant (VA), an invaluable new work force that provides a practical solution for small businesses owners. A VA frees up your valuable time so you can concentrate on the important things that only you can do in your business. There is no need to share office space. Work can be communicated through email; telephone/Skype/facetime or post and web-based tools such as instant messengers and online calendars and planners. You can delegate, I can return telephone calls, answer e-mails, and draft letters for you, run your diary, run your marketing campaign, design your next presentation, book your doctors appointment, travel appointments and even remind you of those special birthdays! As more and more businesses move their marketing and communications to the Internet, VA's are becoming the obvious solution to staffing issues. For an hourly fee often less than the cost of temps or the real cost of employees, businesses can take advantage of professional assistance and a variety of skills at the click of a mouse. Then you've come to the right place :-)
