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Start A Virtual Assistant Home Business

Virtual Assistants (also known as VAs) are home-based entrepreneurs who take pride in providing fellow small business professionals with a wide range of office tasks, from administrative support to web design & maintenance. VAs are able to provide professional, creative assistance without ever having to go into the client’s office.

Being small business owners themselves, VAs understand that success comes to entrepreneurs when they provide the best possible customer service. But, great customer service can sometimes be hard to upkeep when you are spending valuable time trying to stay on top of the non-core tasks that are a part of running a business.

A VA works WITH their clients to help alleviate some of these tasks, allowing them to free up some of their time to concentrate on generating revenue and building their businesses.

The Author, Janice Byer is a certified Master Virtual Assistant and owner of Docu-Type Administrative & Web Design Services (http://www.docutype.net). See this and other articles on her website.
jbyer@docutype.net

 

Responsibilities of a Virtual Assistant

  • Accounting
  • Appointment setting
  • Answering phone calls
  • Bookkeeping
  • Meeting arrangements
  • Document scanning
  • Human resources
  • Travel arrangements
  • Web design
  • Mailings
  • Sales
  • Word processing
  • Collections
  • Reports
  • Copyrighting
  • Event planning
  • Proof reading
  • Data processing
  • Marketing
  • Concierge services
  • Customer support
  • Letter preparation
  • Manuals
  • Data entry
  • Research
  • Newsletters
  • Flyers
  • Transcription
  • E-mail processing
  • Procedure documentation


The Best Resource on the Net for Starting a Virtual Assistant Business:

  • Virtual Assistant - The Series: Become a Highly Successful, Sought After VA - sets the stage for starting, operating, and growing a successful and PROFITABLE virtual assistant business. The book covers all the business nuts and bolts including business and financial planning, pricing your services, billing, and setting up your business. Plus, it offers information on creating your web site, daily operational procedures and most importantly, how and where to find clients.

 

Website, Freelance or Face-to-Face Business

So, after checking out the resources above you have decided to start a Virtual Assistant Business. Wonderful!! Now that you made this decision to start this home business you need to decide whether you will be running your business online via Website, doing Freelance Work or running your business with Face-to-Face customers. If you have decided to start a website and/or offer your services in a Freelance form then please choose one of the two links below to move on to the next step in the "Starting your Home Business Process".

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