Gray Woman Starts Recession-Inspired Business
Kathrine Farris thinks now is the best time to start her business.
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The Virtues of 'Virtual'
Kathrine Farris, founder of Office Solutions ME provides virtually every business related administrative service a firm could need, at a fraction of the cost and overhead of traditional full-time personnel.
As technology advances at warp speed, businesses struggle to keep up. Simultaniously, they must strive to achieve both fiscal and environmental efficiency in their operations. Additionally, there is continuing pressure to grow and develop new clients, products, and services to remain competitive. Farris believes that Office Solutions ME can offer a competitive edge to local businesses in a global economy.
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Virtual Assistant Definition
A Virtual Assistant (or VA) is a solopreneur who specializes in providing ongoing, one-on-one, collaborative-style administrative support.
Like other professional service providers, Virtual Assistants operate remotely from their own places of business and utilize today's technology to deliver their services and communicate with clients.
Virtual Assistants are first and foremost administrative experts. Virtual Assistants sometimes offer additional, separate specialties that fall under creative and/or technical services.
Virtual Assistants come from a variety of business backgrounds, but the single-most important qualification the industry expects of its peers is at least five (5) years administrative experience earned in the real (non-virtual) business world working in upper-level capacities such as administrative assistant, executive assistant, secretary, legal assistant, paralegal, legal secretary, real estate assistant, office manager/supervisor, etc.
From this level of experience, a Virtual Assistant is expected to possess the skill sets, training and business knowledge which are the hallmark of a truly qualified Virtual Assistant.
Virtual Assistant Definition from the Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce
Why would you need/want to hire a Virtual Assistant?
For small businesses that are drowning in paperwork or administrative tasks, the traditional choice has been to hire a part-time or full-time assistant, or else slog through unassisted. But in these work-from-home days of the Internet, there’s a third option: hiring a virtual assistant... Read Full Article From Inc.Technology.com
Virtual assistants offer business owners much-needed administrative and financial relief... Read Full Article From the Small Business Review
A few months ago, I started noticing that Michael Meicher, a career coach and frequent contributor to this blog, had added another name, Emily Morgan, at the end of some of his e-mails. Ms. Morgan is Mr. Melcher’s virtual assistant. The two have never met in person but he has her on a monthly retainer for about eight hours a week to handle... Read Full Article From The New York Times
Performs a variety of administrative functions. Schedules appointments, gives information to callers, and takes dictation. Composes memos, transcribes notes, and researches and creates presentations. Generates reports, handles multiple projects, and prepares and monitors invoices and expense reports... Read Full Article From Salary.com