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10 Ways a Virtual Assistant (VA) Can REVOLUTIONIZE Your Business
By VAnetworking member Diana
Ennen
For those of you who are still in the dark, a Virtual
Assistant, or VA, is an executive level, administrative professional
who works from his/her own office to support clients using some of the
latest available technology. The Internet has brought many skilled professionals
out of the corporate environment and back into their homes, enabling
them to create a better work-life balance, while still performing in
the roles they love. The VA is one such professional. Working from their
home-based offices and making use of the Internet, telephone, fax and
email, VAs are able to offer small and medium-sized businesses a quality
of administrative support, previously only available to the corporate
giants, in a cost-effective manner.
A Virtual Assistant’s service offering may vary,
but you are guaranteed to find one out there who is able to perform
the exact functions your business needs. You will find that hiring a
VA will REVOLUTIONIZE your business.
1. A VA brings invaluable work experience and
training to the table. You may even find that they will teach you a
trick or two. Be it software, hardware or grammar, you can be sure that
your VA knows his/her stuff!
2. Because VAs run a business themselves, they
have a unique understanding of what your needs as a small business owner
are. They will be able to assist and advise you on matters pertaining
to Marketing, Branding, Web Design and e-Commerce. What avenues of advancement
have you not yet explored with your business? Are you sure that you
have all your bases covered? Your VA can help.
3. Get organized. If you attend conferences
and AGMs I’ll bet you have a ton of business cards cluttering
up your desk. Let your VA scan and enter them into a database for you.
Future mail campaigns will be a breeze with a ready-made contact list
all neatly stored on a CD.
4. Is there a special project boiling over
on the back-burner that you’ve been wanting to do? Your VA can
help with research, planning and coordination, leaving you free to continue
your focus on your core-business function.
5. If you’re too busy to remember important
dates, anniversaries and meetings, your VA, with a tailored reminder
service, can assist. From ordering flowers for your mother, to sending
a thank you note to a client and even arranging gift baskets for investor,
they aim to please.
6. Conceptualizing marketing items can be agonizing
if you don’t have the know-how, equipment or creative flair. Most
VAs have a wide range of software packages at their finger-tips, as
well as experience in creating flyers, brochures and business cards
for their own company’s. Put your ideas to your VA, they will
dazzle you with the results.
7. Planning a much-needed break with your family?
Let your VA take care of the details; flights, car hire, accommodation,
even a list of “must-see” places of interest. Your VA can
handle it all, down to the very last detail.
8. If you’re on the road a lot, chances
are your cell-phone is often out of signal range and there is no one
in your office to take a message should that all-important client call.
With the call answering service provided by many VAs, you can divert
your calls and rest assured that your client will receive the personal
touch rather than dealing with an annoying automated answering device.
Your messages will be passed on to you in order of importance and you
won’t need to sort through lengthy messages on voicemail.
9. Conferences and networking functions can
take a lot out of a small business owner. It is imperative that you
attend and make a dazzling show of it, but in order to do so, you have
to neglect existing clients. This will no longer be a problem with a
VA. They can handle all your conferencing arrangements; table-hire,
banner design and creation, even gift bags for client samples. It’s
that easy!
10. If you have a lot of correspondence, and
you’re a bit of a “keyboard klutz”, your VA can help.
Many VAs offer a fully digitized transcription service. Simply record
your memos/letters onto your computer and email them to your VA, s/he
will have it neatly typed and ready for mailing in no time! Other VAs
may provide dictated typing as a service, so that urgent e-mail is just
a phone-call away.
Now that you’ve heard all that a VA can do,
where can you find one? That’s easy. The Virtual Assistant Networking
Association at http://www.vanetworking.com is an invaluable resource
when looking to partner with a VA. With 6,500+ professional VA members
you are certain to find exactly the service you are looking for. According
to Tawnya Sutherland, founder of VAnetworking, and author of the Virtual Business
Startup System states, “Our forum is leading the way in revolutionizing
the VA industry by offering expert advice to VAs on how to be the best
VA they can be. That’s why partnering with one of our VAs can
help your business grow and operate on a more proficient level. Our
team of VAs are varied with different skill sets and different visions
for their business. That’s why teaming up with a VAnetworking Virtual
Assistant can give your business all the support it needs.”
So if you’re looking for a VA or want to start
a virtual assistant business, now is the time to stop by VAnetworking and see
everything they have to offer.
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