VA Land

Def­i­n­i­tion of a Vir­tual Assis­tant (VA):

There are prob­a­bly as many def­i­n­i­tions of vir­tual assis­tance as there are VAs, but here’s mine. A Vir­tual Assis­tant, or VA, is a highly trained admin­is­tra­tive pro­fes­sional who works off-site to sup­port her clients using the lat­est tech­nol­ogy. The train­ing includes edu­ca­tion (col­lege), work expe­ri­ence, and spe­cific vir­tual assis­tance course­work. Using her vast range of skills, a sup­port­ive vir­tual assis­tant com­mu­nity, and long term expe­ri­ence, VAs assist clients pro­fes­sion­ally via email, instant mes­sag­ing, phone, and fax. The VA oper­ates her busi­ness in her own office and hand selects a few clients with whom to form a long-term col­lab­o­ra­tive partnership.

Why work with a VA?

Your busi­ness is start­ing to grow faster than you real­ized, or you are plan­ning for growth. You’re spend­ing time on activ­i­ties that you know some­one else could be doing. You could take the time to set up your ezine (newslet­ter), shop­ping cart, or new web page, but you’d much rather be doing your core busi­ness activ­i­ties. You’re tired of work­ing nights and week­ends doing the admin­is­tra­tive work when you’d rather be doing some­thing else. These are some of the rea­sons why peo­ple think about work­ing with a VA.

What a VA can do for you:

When clients sign up to work with me, they feel an imme­di­ate relief because now they have some­one on their team. Here’s what a VA can do:

• Free up your time.
• Per­form tasks that you don’t enjoy, or for which you don’t have time.
• Be your right hand per­son when you need that extra help.
• Col­lab­o­rate with you using the lat­est technology.
• Be a sound­ing board for you to bounce ideas off of.

Doesn’t this sound like some­thing that will help cat­a­pult your busi­ness forward?