Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Economic Viability of a Virtual Assistant

As a business man you don't want to get embroiled in the administrative tasks rather than concentrating on your core competencies of running your business. Building up on your business potential is your major thrust rather than concentrating and focusing on minor tasks that can be outsourced. This is when a business man will think of outsourcing the work to a Virtual Helper.

Hence, a virtual assistant need not be present in your premises but be available to do your work via the internet and telephone. Although they are not physically there they do your work in the virtual world for you. Virtual helper are good at work such as administrative, secretarial and support functions. The V A work via the internet and on collaborative workstations hence this makes them opt for local or global clientele.

Therefore, what the role of a virtual helper is just like that of a temporary worker. However, here the virtual assistant is like an entrepreneur running his/her own business by helping others deal with the minor hassles of running theirs. A virtual assistant bill the client either on an hourly basis or per piece/work basis. The virtual helper is self-employed and looks for opportunities by way of referrals from previous clients. Therefore, if your business is growing, and you don't want to be worried about the nitty-gritty then get yourself a virtual assistant pronto.

Businesses prefer a virtual assistant when in comparison to a full time employee as they have lots of benefits attached to them. A virtual helper gets with them the benefits of outsourcing in the form of no employee tax, and other benefits that a full time employee is liable for. Therefore, in the long run they work out to be more cost effective for the business. Without the headache of paying more and having union trouble you still get your work done to the best of one's ability along with a lot of loyalty and dependability thrown in. A virtual helper will not want to jeopardize their careers by not having a satisfied client on hand.

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