Virtual Assistants, or VAs, are entrepreneurs who provide administrative support or specialized business services remotely from their own office via the internet, telephone, email, instant messenger, fax, postal mail or overnight service. VAs can assist virtually any size or type of business by alleviating the administrative aspects of running your business. Because VAs work out of their own office, they can assist anyone anywhere anytime and at a significant savings to your business. VAs can specialize in many different things, and not all VAs provide the same services.
What can a VA do for you and your business?
Tasks or projects may range from drafting a few letters, emails or memo’s, calendar management, internet research, and database management to designing and distributing fliers/newsletters, holiday and birthday mailings coming up with a list of ideas and approximate costs for giveaway or promotional gifts for clients, travel arrangements & much more!
A VA can be as involved in your business as you want them to be.
Full Time Employee vs. Virtual Assistant Cost Comparison
You can save yourself time and money by working with a Virtual Assistant. Annual savings could be $45,000 or more. A virtual assistant is paid only for the time spent on the task whereas an employee is paid for an eight hour day regardless of the task they are given. Virtual assistants do not get paid for breaks, computer downtime, vacation / sick time, or personal days off. An employee’s 40 hour week can easily be trimmed down into a Virtual assistants 15 or 20 hour week. Here is an example of the comparison of costs adapted from the book Consulting for Dummies:
You are saving $45,945.60 annually with a Virtual Assistant!
Feel free to visit http://www.salary.com for a comparison of costs related to hiring an employee.
