Making Sense Of Virtual Assistants

So what exactly is a Virtual Assistant?

A virtual assistant (typically abbreviated to VA, also called a virtual office assistant) is generally self-employed and provides professional administrative, technical, or creative (social) assistance to clients remotely from a home office.

OK, So we have this part established but why would anyone want a virtual assistant versus a regular in office assistant?  Well, many reason come to mind.

It makes business sense to keep overhead costs down, and one of the biggest benefits of hiring a VA is cost savings as they are are paid only for the hours they work. Many outsource the tasks that they don't have the skills for and don't have the time to learn.

With the number of Virtual Assistants growing now days, it makes it easier for business's and organizations to find a specific one to meet their needs!  Business's can use a VA for everything from bookkeeping, making customer service calls, data entry, online research, web design, blogging, receiving and sending feedback emails, and even just sending thank you cards to prospective employers.  Virtual assistants are just like any of your other employees, they just happen to work remotely.  It is important that we establish great relationships with these VA's because they work just as hard as a regular in house employee, sometimes if not harder!

Follow ups on Clients and even potential clients are a big deal to any business owner or organization.  Just this simple task a VA can do for a lower price then hiring an individual to sit an office on the clock every day 40 hours a week with nothing else that needs to be done.  A VA can so this from home contacting and receiving messages, and entering anything new into a data system that needs to be entered.  Transporting paper information to a computer based program, keeping up with new, fast, and efficient ways of doing things to help the company grow.

Presentations are another big Virtual Assistant job. They could be working on anywhere from researching topics, statistical data, and transforming this into a power point or transferring notes to a word Document to help a business get ready for a big presentation. This could be a huge time saver to a company.

When it comes to sending thank you notes and holiday thank you cards, this can become very overwhelming and time consuming for someone that does not have the time.  These types of social task can be done at home through a VA!

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Sometimes booking airfares, scheduling hotel stays, scheduling appointments, keeping up with events on a calendar can just be to much. All of these tasks have tools available online! So why not let a virtual assistant take it over! Our social media pages, and keeping up with them , adding new information as needed, answering peoples questions or concerns about new products on the horizon. Can we say WOW I get overwhelmed writing about all of this! Little do we know there is someone that can take it over for you ONLINE!


So when we talk Virtual Assistant lets think about what they can bring to the table. How would it help our business save money, cut over head costs, and gaining more in profit? This could help a lot of businesses save on actually having an office, hey who would not want to work from home, or the beach, or even sitting outside on the patio in the fresh air working? This makes you think doesn't it? YES! That is what I wanted!!!

Hi, My name is Heather Gantt I am a new Virtual Assistant and blogger, look out for more blogs and visit my business page"Virtually Yours" if you are looking for a VA for information on what I can provide to your company!

 http://VirtuallyYoursVA.yolasite.com
Heather Gantt
heather.helms@ymail.com