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FAQs about Outsourcing
with Virtual Assistants
Organization is the number
one virtue any business must have to be able to succeed. Whether your business
is large or small, a virtual assistant may just be what you need to keep
organized. Here is a list of concerns about outsourcing virtual assistants for
your business.
1. A virtual assistant could be more efficient than a
secretary who comes to the office everyday.
You won't see your virtual assistant,
but you can coordinate your work schedule so that what you need to be done gets
done. No worries about coffee breaks, lateness, sick leaves, maternity leaves,
and so on. If a virtual assistant is committed to work for a period of time, it
is all work.
Virtual assistants are
usually hired on a contractual basis, either working per project or for a
specified number of months. You can choose them according to particular skills
that you might need and because they do not work for you for long terms, you
can hire different virtual assistants when your needs change. Or hire more than
one at the same time.
Virtual assistants have
other clients and are not dependent on you as their main source of income.
Therefore relieving one of their services to hire another is not as difficult
as firing your in-house assistant to look for a new one.
2. A virtual assistant may not be cheaper than a live
secretary but she / he can still save you a lot of money when it comes to
payroll time.
Virtual assistants are not
inexpensive, but you do not have to pay extra for office space, utilities, and
worker's compensation. Outsourcing virtual assistants means that you will pay
them by the hour for equivalent requested work.
Also, they come complete
with their own utilities, hardware and software: internet connection and email,
phones, fax machines, and basic software. If a virtual assistant lists down
Joomla! and Photoshop as skills, then they should have the programs already
installed in their computer. You need not buy the software, nor any other basic
utilities that they will need to do a good job.
3. A virtual assistant need not replace the secretary
who comes to the office everyday.
You can hire a virtual
assistant and still maintain your in-house assistant. Live secretaries can take
care of real time services, such as phone call management, dictation, and event
management, while a virtual assistant can do all online transactions, such as
client management and travel arrangements. Of course, a virtual assistant can do
all these, although they probably won't be able to make you a cup of coffee.
4. A virtual assistant does not need to be retrained
to do her job.
Virtual assistants advertise
their list of skills so that you can get one who can fulfill all your requirements.
Of course, when you start working with anybody, there will be specific ways of
doing things that you'd like to be followed. After that, a very efficient
virtual assistant should be able to pick up on those details right away and do
the rest of their work smoothly, without any trouble.
Whether you run a large
company looking to either replace or merely append to your work staff, or a
small business, outsourcing a virtual assistant more than justifies the minimal
additional cost, if any. In the long run, with increased productivity through
efficient organization of your work flow, virtual assistants would have been a
big factor in your business' success.
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