Virtual Assistance: Your Key to Success
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Virtual Assistance: Your Key to Success
A home based business opportunity that is growing in popularity among new millennium entrepreneurs is working as a virtual assistant for businesses. A virtual assistant fulfills the duties of a secretary or administrative assistant from the comfort of his or her home. Duties may include answering the phone, sending faxes and emails, scheduling appointments and making travel plans for employers. Clients are usually other work-from-home entrepreneurs, but can also be small offices that do not need a full-time assistant.
Working from Home
The nature of virtual assistance means that it is not required to work in-house. All activities can be performed remotely. With a computer, phone, Internet connection and fax, a virtual assistant can work quite comfortably.
You don't have to live near the companies that hire you, since everything can be done from the home. Occasionally, the employer may want you to join in a conference call to be updated on company activities.
Some VAs prefer to freelance and apply for individual job postings. They may have one client or several. Another option is to work for a VA company that has several VAs, each with a specified set of clients to work with.
Training
The basic skills for a VA include at least 5 years experience working as an executive assistant, secretary, legal assistant, paralegal, legal secretary, real estate assistant, office manager or related position. You should also have great phone skills and in-depth computer knowledge, as well as general office skills.
There are a variety of online certification programs that can give you specific knowledge in order to be a great VA. In these programs, you'll learn how to run a business from home, how to market your VA business, and how to use technology effectively in your business.
Comments
8/11/2007 1:09:31 AMAlva Christine said:
Virtual Assistance is of course a service that can be done from both home or office. Working with a Virtual assistant indeed saves time for any concern it may be. You can rely on a Virtual Assistant when you find less time or in fact no time at all to concentrate on your core business activities Or
when you are looking for somebody to take care of your business activities Or
when you are hesitating to hand over your business to a stranger.
A Virtual Assistant provides administrative assistance services which include typing work, mailing service, organizing meetings, preparing invoice, planning events, etc. He can do any work for you.You only need to pay for the task that is outsourced.
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8/12/2007 11:26:25 PM
Alva Christine said:
Virtual Assistance is a service that can be started from home or office.
There is indeed a need for the service of a Virtual Assistant. Working with a Virtual assistant indeed saves time for any concern it may be. You can rely on a Virtual Assistant when you find less time or in fact no time at all to concentrate on your core business activities Or
when you are looking for somebody to take care of your business activities Or
when you are hesitating to hand over your business to a stranger.
You can gain advantage by working with a Virtual Assistance. A Virtual Assistant is at all times available at your service whenever desired. He can very well aid you with any business activity. So you need not hire a person and pay him high salary and other benefits. You need not hire extra staff to complete your project works. You only need to pay for the task that is outsourced.
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