What Is A Virtual Assistant & What Do They Do?

A Virtual Assistant is an independent contractor /operations and more. Virtual Assistants can assist
business owner & professional officeyou in doing a lot of things to help you maintain or
administrator, who provides professional businessget your business going & help you with
support services & outsourcing services forpersonal projects.
your business or projects. They don't come intoHOW CAN I FIND A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT
your office or home, {hence the name Virtual& HOW MUCH DO THEY COST ?
Assistants or VA 's} they provide services in aFinding one is easy . A lot of them can be found
virtual / online capacity by using the internet,on the internet, Virtual Assistant organizations/
phone, email, fax, various courier services, postalassociations/ forums, just type Virtual Assistant
mail & instant messaging services, just likeinto a search engine, also check out their blogs or
most outsourcing companies. Some specialize in apress releases. You can also talk to people who
huge variety of areas such as business support,have used their services. You don't have to have
office management, business management, reala business or employees to use their services. If
estate, marketing, construction, secretarialyou have the need to treat someone like an
services, business development etc... The list isemployee, or you have to have someone in the
endless.office with you, then a Virtual Assistant is not for
WHAT DO THEY DO & WHAT TYPES OFyou. They are providing you help & they run
SERVICES DO THEY PROVIDE?a business just like you are, so they are not your
They provide a variety of business support/employees. They can provide assistance along
business related services, secretarial serviceswith your current employees or help you find
& outsourcing services in many areas. Virtualemployees. If you just need one for a one time
Assistants provide some of the following services:project most of them can accommodate you and
Business Consultingalso provide full-time permanent support.
OutsourcingThere are well over 5,000 of them worldwide and
Creative Design Services ( writing, art, design,growing everyday. Most of them charge between
advertising, film etc..)$ 10 --$ 75 per hour. Some of them have a flat
Business Coachfee for some projects. Well, you may say that's
Computer Specialista lot. In actuality it's not, when you compare what
Research & Analysisyou are already paying a current full-time
Web Analyticsemployee to the price of a Virtual Assistant. You
Office Management/ Supportpay a regular in-house employee rate of pay /
Business Managementsalary, sometimes double or triple their hourly/
Email Servicessalary wage. It is more expensive to pay an
Personal Assistantin-house employee than a Virtual Assistant.
Real Estate ServicesThey don't come with all the issues/ problems
Data Entry/ Typingthat a regular employee would like federal/ state/
Marketingcity regulations, being late to work, wasting time
Purchasing/ Procurement Serviceson the job, cost of buying equipment/ office
And More!space/ training, other business expenses. A Virtual
Some people use Virtual Assistants to handleAssistant is 100% focused on your work, they
personal emails, update their websites, send outonly bill you for the work that they complete
press releases, they help people to start-up their& they pay their own business expenses. As
business, copy writing services, resume services,companies & entrepreneurs move more of
thesis/dissertation / manuscript services, theytheir business operations to the internet Virtual
help you in finding employees, set appointments,Assistants become more of the obvious solution
book travel plans, keep personal or familyfor staffing or business problems. So contact one
schedules, client maintenance, they can help youtoday, to help with your business or project
with your ezines/ newsletters, taxes, databaseneeds!
management, help you to improve your business