What is a virtual assistant?
Virtual Assistants are entrepreneurs who are highly skilled in their professions. A virtual assistant is one who works virtually through the Internet, email, phone, fax, ftp and mail. Virtual assistants perform all the necessary duties of an administrative assistant including but not limited to typing documents, mailing invoices, organizing meetings, planning events, promoting products over the internet, make travel arrangements, etc. Virtual assistants work out their own offices or homes but are connected to their client's office via the Internet. Virtual Assistants provide support to their clients without having to ever step foot inside the client's office.
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What
does a Virtual Assistant do?
This is just a sample of what Virtual Assistants can do:
- Personalized Virtual Assistance: Includes typing, word processing, mailings, invoice preparation, e-mail, etc.
- Desktop Publishing - Brochures, Flyers, Newsletters, Business Forms, Business Cards
- Billing/Bookkeeping Services
- Event Planning: Assisting in conference planning, special events such
as
- Weddings
- Baptisms
- Birthday parties
- Graduation
- and Charity dinners
- Unique Adventure Planning and Travel Arrangements:
- Customized Invitations Printing: invitations and mailings
- Internet Consultation: Assist with a web site. From planning to designing to locating an ISP to host your web site.
- Internet Promotion: promote your web site on the World Wide Web.
- Internet Research Assistance: Desktop Publishing: Design brochures, letterheads, invitations, business cards, and business forms, Scanning Images
Who typically hires Virtual Assistants?
Small businesses or individuals that don't have the space for an assistant
but need the staff support for the daily administrative duties required
to run a business. Virtual assistants are a cost effective way to get
work done. Why hire a Virtual Assistant? Savings to companies by eliminating
overheard with no employee costs, including insurance savings, taxes
(no FICA, social security, federal or state taxes) no workman's comp.
No extra office space or equipment. You pay only for the time needed
for any particular project.
