Why use a Virtual Assistant?
According to the 2008 survey from Salary.com, the average employee wastes up to 2 hours per day. Add that to two 15 minute breaks and an hour lunch and now you are paying for 8 hours but getting 4.5 hours of productive work. With a virtual assistant, you only pay for the time that is actually worked.
For instance, if you have a project that will take 8 hours to do. You only pay a virtual assistant 8 hours. Take that same project and give to an assistant in your office. That assistant is also handling phones, coworkers, emails, customers, and other priority work which could result in that same project taking 2-3 days to complete.
Still Unsure?
Consider this, do you pay the kid down the street to mow your yard? Maybe you have someone coming in once a week to clean your home. All of these you could do, but who has the time and face it, you really don’t want to do it anyway. Virtual Assistants love doing the work most business owners do not want to do. The benefit for us, we get to do it from our own home.
The hard part is over. You have weighed the pros and cons, made lists, read articles, and asked friends and colleagues their advice. You have finally decided that a Virtual Assistant is right for you. Now, which one to pick. There are hundreds to choose from. This is one industry that you will not see anyone putting down their competition. So, how do you choose? Since we are virtual, location is not even in the equation. One way to eliminate some of the choices is, as a rule, Virtual Assistants tend to focus their services in specialized areas. Instead of spreading oneself thin from trying to offer everything to everyone, we tend to lean more to what we excel at. The Typing Bug is no different.
The Typing Bug primarily focuses services for the small business owner. The owner that is starting to see some business growth and is overwhelmed with paperwork and does not know where to turn to next. Maybe you need a website, new forms designed, business cards created, a monthly newsletter, parts or services researched, or just data entry. I can do that.
Although I have the experience and ability to work for a larger client, I enjoy limiting my services to small businesses. I like the one on one environment that comes with dealing with one or two people at a business. When you use The Typing Bug, you work with me, not a group where you could be dealing with Jane on this project, Mary on the next and Sue on the next. The benefit of this is consistent work and complete understanding of your business. Less confusion, less mistakes, and more productivity.
I also offer my services to small non-profit organizations, civic clubs and neighborhood associations. These types of organizations are very similar to a small business so they fit in with my business ideals.
As much as I would like to say I can be your one stop for everything, that simply isn't true. However, I am a member of several professional associations that allows me the accessibility of Virtual Assistants all over the world that can offer the type of service that you need.
Your satisfaction is my number one priority.
