Virtual assistants beneficial to business growth

Conducting a business or planning to engage into business is a very tedious undertaking, business entrepreneurs are first and foremost focusing on maximizing their profit but in a way cutting down expenses, how to promote the company and the services/products they offer, how to disseminate the work load so as to achieve fast and efficient deliveries, the number of people to employ as well as the building to conduct the business transactions. These are some of the many obstacles that a business entrepreneur must look into. But how will this be achieved (profit) when we are tied up with the old fashion way of conducting business? The answer is quite easy, and it’s hiring a virtual assistant from a reliable outsourcing agency.

What is a virtual assistant? A virtual assistant is a person that is self-employed and works remotely (home base). They provide creative, professional as well as administrative task to clients.

Having a virtual assistant cuts inevitable overhead expenses for they are independent contractors and not a regular employee of a company, which means the client is not responsible for paying taxes, sick/vacation leaves, overtime pay, fringe benefits etc… Having them work remotely is also an advantage for you don’t have to consider on buying or renting a space to conduct your business. The virtual assistant is the one responsible providing the phone, fax machine, internet connection and the personal computer to cater to your needs as a business entrepreneur.  In other words, the virtual assistant takes care of the ”dirty laundry”, as the old cliché goes and the client takes care of  the lighter work load by commanding the virtual hired helper on what to do and perform. To tap it all, virtual assistants are the key ingredients to business success in this competitive and vast world of the internet.

With virtual assistants running your company it eliminates the burden of conducting the monotonous old fashion business way. Thus, many entrepreneurs now- a- days are adapting and grabbing the opportunity and taking advantage of these virtual hired helpers from outsourcing agencies.

So if you are opting to engage into business or do have an existing business but having a hard time cutting down on operating expenses and incurring more unnecessary expenses as ever, it is just timely to look into the possibility of reconstructing the business structure and consider the possibility of hiring virtual assistants from an outsourcing agency.

19 Years of Boredom

My office is a 45 minute ride from my  domicile. Thus, I have to wake up early to elude the busy streets and the  traffic jams that  causes every employees nightmare  which is getting late. This scenario has  not change for the past 18 yrs.,  routinary and some what boring. It’s  Monday once again and the process continues, office reports must be submitted,  processing customer’s order’s, the ominous tone of the ringing of the phone and  eventually answering the other lines complaints and requests.

 How I wish It was still Sunday! No one can force me to get  up early, I could bask all day long on my bed or watch t.v. and even play the  game I loved playing which is loan tennis, go to malls  for window shopping, watch movies with friends, It’s really fun and  exciting.

Reality hurts and the truth is, it’s another week ahead of  performing the duties assigned and only a day(SUNDAY) of rest.

Often times I am compelled to tender my irrevocable  resignation for my mind is telling me to do so but hesitant to execute for there  are people who depends on me and I myself is pretty much dependent on my work  too. If only I have other means of getting income to sustain life and the   needs and wants of the people who depends on me.

As I write this article, it came to my mind to venture into a new endeavor which would remove the traffic jams that lingers in my mind and that is the boredom of being enclosed in the four walls of a land base office. I am planing to become a virtual assistant and work in my virtual office which is in my house. I have to opt this for I get to manage my time and be the person I wanted to be and at the same time have time for my growing kids who are missing me a lot. The problem is? where to start and how to start being a virtual assistant for my forte is blogging and being an office employee.

Please help me….. If you happen to drop by here on my blog by chance or by purpose and have read this article that I have written, It would be very beneficial to me if you give advice or direct me to a site that would conduct trainings and seminars for  virtual assistants. I am not just writing to share my daily rant but sharing with you a part of me.

A new endeavor “virtual assistant”

Blogging is my forte. I always love blogging, sharing things that interests me thru writing. It’s a passion that lingers in me for the past five years or so.

Recently, a friend of mine invited me to join a seminar at Marco Polo hotel to become a virtual assistant. I was hesitant at first but very much enthusiastic to join for I don’t know a thing or two of being a v.a. The seminar commenced and I was challenged to be part of the agency that conducted the seminar. There are certain applications that are pretty much different from the tools that I am using being a blogger. To site some of these are: hootsuite, pinterest, and having a twitter account. The first two applications are quite gibberish to me but having without a twitter account in this age makes me more prehistoric.

A few days pass and I was given a task to perform. I have to write two articles with not more than 500 words and each article must have the key words in the body appearing two to three times, and at the same time having a backlink to the company. Making an article was quite easy, but writting it on ms word is another story, I haven’t wrote my articles ever on the said application. I don’t know nothing about indentions and margins for I write directly on blogspot and upload the written articles with just a snap of my fingers.

As of now, I have my new twitter acount. a wordpress blog, linkedin etc….. and all are link to my hootsuite account for easy updating. I am learning fast and very much interested to become a v.a.