Friday, March 25, 2011

INTRODUCTION TO VIRTUAL ASSISTANT

Businessmen/women often wish they could multi-task and be in several places at once. Well, now they have a choice, they can now get Virtual Assistants to help them every day. If you try and enumerate a businessman’s itinerary, combine his minute tasks such as scheduling appointments and meetings, organizing presentations, and basic online research, then you will see that these activities take up bulk of his working day. All of those tasks can now be executed by someone else - a virtual assistant.

To break it down further, virtual assistants understand how busy a businessman’s world can be because they are entrepreneurs themselves. They offer professional, secretarial, technical services (all of which are tasks that can be done online) to clients all over the world. They can even outsource virtual assistance work through offshore service providers.

Virtual Assistants work from their homes or under outsourcing service providers, there won’t be a need to expand your current office and provide additional office supplies because all of that is taken care of. If you need to communicate with your virtual assistant for important and detailed discussions, you can use call, e-mail, facebook etc which are free applications that allow you to call and chat with your virtual employees.

Another thing is you have the privilege of indicating how you want to be charged. For example, you only want to be charged per project, or number of hours rendered by the virtual assistant. This shows how cost-efficient this business concept is. Once you have hired a VA, you can now focus on more important things and maximize your time in nurturing your business.

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