Why You Need a Virtual Assistant

Via Tess at the VAF comes this article about Virtual Assistants and small business.

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.

I’ve worked as an Executive Assistant in a few small businesses, and the benefits of going virtual would have had a huge impact on the quality and efficiency of the work I did in all of those situations. The flexibility of a virtual assistant is indescribable for smaller companies that need a vast array of ever-changing tasks completed.

…(VAs) disseminate her weekly two-minute audio tips, improve her site’s shopping cart and search engine optimization, and write pitches. The Internet marketing work she never seems to have time for is finally getting done. And, though a Web developer might also have been able to improve her SEO and shopping cart, working with a VA has a different quality, she notes. “A Web developer wouldn’t do some of the stuff my assistant does,” she says. “Plus a Web developer might not always be available or have the same mentality about getting things done that a virtual assistant does.”

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