What
is a Virtual Assistant?
Your Virtual
Office Assistant is that indispensable element of your office staff that
you just cannot do without.
Virtual Assistants are currently working as Executive Assistants, Secretaries,
Data Entry Personnel, Clerks, Tax Advisors, Accountants, Medical
Transcriptionist, Web Design and Promotion, as-well-as, a multitude of other
tasks.
Your VA is not an employee of your company. They are in fact small business
owners themselves. They are not someone you only want to type a single project.
VAs become an integral part of your business. VAs pride themselves on becoming
a part of your company interested in helping your small business succeed.
They get to know you personally, want to know your customers and assist you
in maintaining close contact with your customer base.
Communication between you and your VA is accomplished using phone, fax, email,
diskette transfer, cassette tape, overnight mail, and instant messaging.
VAs perform Information Processing, Internet Research, Bill Paying services,
Mail and Email services, Event Planning as well as assist in making travel
arrangements.
Education levels of Virtual Assistants (VAs) vary but as a general rule they
are normally well educated and have a multitude of hard skills and experience
in office management and computer systems and software.
They have worked as secretaries, clerks, executive assistants in the past
and have not only succeeded but moved to the very top of the field.
They are small business owners who, like any other business owner, define
their success by customer satisfaction.