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Virtual Assistant Services are all over the news as a good way for companies to save time and money. Please look below to watch and read what they are saying.
Entrepenuer.com
Virtual assistants are independent entrepreneurs who work remotely and use technology to deliver services to clients globally. Most work from their home offices and receive their project instructions by phone, fax, e-mail or even instant message. Although many virtual assistants offer secretarial services, as more people with diverse backgrounds and skills enter the ranks, virtual assistants who specialize in such areas as marketing, graphic and Web design, IT support or even translations are becoming more common.Clients are most likely to hire virtual assistants to save money-virtual assistants pay for their own equipment, taxes, training, healthcare and insurance-or because they need help with a temporary project. Industries most often hiring virtual assistants include the real estate, coaching, financial services, accounting and legal.
ABC News
In today’s technology-driven world, many business owners rely on virtual assistants to help with everyday tasks from accounting to scheduling. The services are provided through the Internet, and rates range from $35 to $100 per hour, depending on the task. “They may not need a full-time, or even a part-time employee, so they hire a virtual assistant, and they only pay for what they need and they get highly experienced professional help,” said Sue Kramer, marketing director for the International Virtual Assistants Association.
BBC News
The internet and other new technologies have changed the way many of us work and the titles of our jobs. So, instead of the secretary, meet the virtual assistant.”VA”s work from home, offering services for businesses which might not have enough work to justify employing their own full-time administrative staff.It is an attractive way of working for many people as jobs can be done at any time of day.
Business Journal
As a one-person business, Safford can’t do it all himself. He needs help marketing, sending promotional mailings, making travel reservations and maintaining bookkeeping records, to name a few.”I am too busy to do all that,” said Safford, owner of PS Associates Inc. on Vashon Island.That’s when he hired a virtual assistant who takes care of mass mailings, travel arrangements and other daily office operations.”She has made my life and job easier” and “more productive,” he said. “If I didn’t have her, I would have to do it all myself.”A virtual assistant is a self-employed administrative professional who works for businesses worldwide. She works for a dozen regular clients a month on average and charges by the hour or by the project.”The industry is definitely on a growth trend,” said Christine Durst of Woodstock, Conn., co-founder of Staffcentrix. “We’re seeing an increasing number of members coming on every day.”This new breed of virtual worker should not be confused with temporary workers or telecommuters. Virtual assistants are entrepreneurs in their own right who develop long-term relationships with their clients, said Terri Romine of Granada Hills, Calif., president of the International Virtual Assistants Association.”You get to have a very specialized person working for you and you don’t have to provide the employer-type benefits,” Romine said. “You have a person who is partnering with you who is truly interested in your success. If you’re not successful, the virtual assistant will not have a client.”
