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  The Benefits of Hiring a Virtual Assistant

"You, too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. "
— W. Clement Stone

Your Virtual Assistant is a multi-VA practice, meaning that we are a team of professional Virtual Assistants who provide your small or online business with a wide variety of virtual services.

Did you know that hiring a Virtual Assistant is a very savvy business decision? If you have, or have had employees you already know that the actual cost of an employee is roughly 2 to 2 ˝ times their actual salary.  It should be no real surprise to you that an assistant that is earning $12 per hour will actually cost you $27.60 per hour.

The cost of benefits for this employee (health insurance, life insurance, 401K, etc.) is a large chunk, approximately 35-40% of the hourly wage.

Then you factor in your overhead which will cost your business approximately an additional 50-60% of the employee's wage.

Let us not ignore the "inefficiency factor". This is time the employee spends visiting with other employees, surfing the internet, smoke breaks, personal phone calls, etc.

All of this brings the cost of that $12 per hour employee to more than double the wage paid to the employee. When you multiply the hourly rate by the standard number of hours in a work year, the grand total for the new employee comes to a eye popping $57,408.

Your Virtual Assistant is a contract employee meaning that you pay the agreed upon fee and we are responsible for our own taxes, office equipment and supplies. With a virtual assistant you will never have to pay for the following

• Employee Benefits Premiums

• Vacation, Sick or Holiday Time

• Taxes: Payroll, Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment

• Worker's Comp

Additionally you do not have to concern yourself with additional office space or equipment, training expenses, or agency fees. You will never have to pay for downtime, lunch breaks or personal issues.

Since your are paying your professional Virtual Assistant only for the time that you have contracted for, you will actually save more than $20,000 (for a $12 per hour employee) by employing a Virtual Assistant.

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10 Time Consuming Tasks You Can Outsource Today!

1. Business Correspondence
Dictate a letter from your mobile phone and we’ll have it waiting in your e-mail inbox for review when you arrive at the office!

2. Client Follow-up
Easily eliminate the hassle of telephone tag and scheduling conflicts. Let your Virtual Assistant follow-up after meetings and presentations to get feedback, schedule next appointments or send materials to your clients.

3. Contact Management
How many business cards do you collect in a day? Follow up with prospects and touch base with new faces with little effort! Send those cards to us and we’ll update your database and download to your palm!

4. Customer Service
It is very costly to acquire new customers. In fact it is 7 times more costly to find new customers or clients than it is to maintain existing ones. Your Virtual Assistant can help you confirm orders, administer satisfaction surveys or answer inquiries so you can do what you do best.

5. E-mail Management
Use your time wisely! Your Virtual Assistant can sort your emails and handle what we can, leaving you with only those that require a response directly from you.

6. Event Planning
Putting on a conference or seminar? Your Virtual Assistant can manage the attendees, confirm reservations, secure payment, and even prepare your presentation materials. All you have to do it arrive on time!

7. Marketing (Online & beyond!)
No matter what business you're in, you're really in the marketing business. Just as your market yourself for a new job with your resume, you must market your business skills daily. Your Virtual Assistant will design attractive brochures, flyers, newsletters and websites that brand and enhance your company image.

8. Research
Are you in the process of writing an article. e-book or creating a presentation? Your Virtual Assistant can locate background articles, statistics and information you need to make the right impression.

9. Travel Arrangements
Your Virtual Assistant can book and confirm airline, hotel and car reservations.

10. Webmaster on Call!
Your Virtual Assistant is able to build, maintain, rebuild, ore refresh your website  or blog as needed. We are experts in Web 2.0 and know that fresh and relevant  content is the key to repeat visitors. Your Virtual Assistant can ensure that your website or blog is updated frequently without disrupting your working schedule.

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