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We bet you would like to know more about what a Virtual Assistant does, right?  Well, we are going to help you with that.  Feel free to visit all the areas of our site to learn all about who we are, what we do and how we can HELP YOU RECAPTURE YOUR SANITY!   

But first, how about a couple of definitions:

 From Wikipedia: A Virtual Assistant (typically abbreviated to VA, also called a virtual office assistant) is an entrepreneur who provides professional administrative, technical, or creative (social) assistance to clients from a home office.  Va’s usually work for a variety of small businesses, brokers and consultancy groups. 

It is estimated that there are as few as 5,000-8,000 or as many as 35,000 Virtual Assistants worldwide; Common modes of communication and data delivery include the Internet, e-mail and phonecall conferences, online work spaces, and fax machine. Professionals in this business work on a contractual basis and a long-lasting cooperation is standard.

Typically 5 years of administrative experience in an office is expected at such positions as bookkeeper, executive assistant, office manager/supervisor, secretary, legal assistant, paralegal, legal secretary, real estate assistant and the like. 

From the Internation Association of Virtual Assistants:  “A Virtual Assistant (VA) is an independent entrepreneur providing administrative, creative and/or technical services. Utilizing advanced technological modes of communication and data delivery, a professional VA assists clients in his/her area of expertise from his/her own office on a contractual basis.”

From The Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce:  A Virtual Assistant (or VA) is a solopreneur who specializes in providing ongoing, one-on-one, collaborative-style administrative support.

Like other professional service providers, Virtual Assistants operate remotely from their own places of business and utilize today’s technology to deliver their services and communicate with clients.

Virtual Assistants are first and foremost administrative experts. Virtual Assistants sometimes offer additional, separate specialties that fall under creative and/or technical services.

Virtual Assistants come from a variety of business backgrounds, but the single-most important qualification the industry expects of its peers is at least five (5) years administrative experience earned in the real (non-virtual) business world working in upper-level capacities such as administrative assistant, executive assistant, secretary, legal assistant, paralegal, legal secretary, real estate assistant, office manager/supervisor, etc.

From this level of experience, a Virtual Assistant is expected to possess the skill sets, training and business knowledge which are the hallmark of a truly qualified Virtual Assistant.

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