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Virtual Assistants provide valuable support to your business.by Stefan Töpfer on May 08, 2006A Virtual Assistant can provide valuable assistance anywhere@anytime, in certain areas of your business activities where you can’t devote your time and energy. There are numerous problems faced by small business in expanding their products or services, the hiring, cost and training of extra staff is one of them. Having the presence of a Virtual Assistant is of advantage to your business as you get support and other services online. The major benefit of being associated with a Virtual Assistant is that you get professional and quality jobs, without having to employ a full time professional. To you it means savings on your HR expenditure, this helps to keep overheads low. A Virtual Assistant can assist you in the area of his/her specialization, such as market research, credit control, public relations, marketing, payment follow-ups, designing, secretarial services, telephone answering and more. This all comes back to my belief that small business does need a services infrastructure delivered over the internet, so that they can concentrate on developing the business, and do not have all their time taken up by admin tasks. Update (04/06): Kathie Thomas introduces Virtual Assistants.
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Said on May 11th, 2006 at 12:56 pm
[...] To cover the other areas you can employ Virtual Assistants (VAs) to work for you on an hourly basis or on a project basis. You would not believe the number of talented and professional VAs out there. You can have the same relationship with each of your VAs as with your accountant. Call answering, marketing, PR, web-design, you name it it is out there. [...]
Said on May 31st, 2006 at 6:50 pm
[...] It does not matter if you have an office or work from home, nor does it matter if you have your own staff or outsource. Because not only you can access your office from anywhere @ anytime, your staff or virtual assistants can too. This in turn allows you to grow your business, while controlling your overheads. Not to mention your accountant, who can give you real time, on-demand advice. [...]
Said on July 29th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
I have a small business with 2 telephone lines and dedicated fax line. I use subcontractors for all assignments, we are a service business, and I am the only person in the office and answer the phones, email, etc. I am looking for a reasonbly priced auto answering service that will only answer my calls with a company greeting and then transfer the call to one of 3 individuals. I do not need any other type of service. Can you direct me to various auto answering services? It seems that most of them have other features which I cannot use and/or one must use their telephone number for the sytem to work. I want to use my telephone numbers and don’t want to call forward them. Thanks in advance
Said on March 24th, 2009 at 7:40 am
I have hired some Virtual Assitance who are staying overseas, and they really have good talents, and make my budget stable. So it is quite interesting to see how these talents are emerging day by day..