By Clarin
When individuals or businesses are unhappy with the services provided by their virtual assistant (VA), it is usually for one of two reasons; they either chose the wrong virtual assistant (or VA service) or they gave vague and unclear directions to their virtual assistant for the tasks they wanted accomplished.
Let’s start with choosing the right virtual assistant for you. There are two types of VAs to choose from; independent entrepreneurs who work from home and virtual assistants who work for a VA service company.
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December 15th, 2008
By Andy
It seems that recently each day brings more gloomy news about the global economy. Every week thousands of workers are being laid off in the United States and businesses around the globe are desperately searching for ways to reduce operating expenses. Where will this economic turmoil leave the virtual assistant industry in 2009?
There are several recent studies and surveys that are predicting the state of the virtual assistant industry and business process outsourcing (BPO) in 2009. The forecast seems promising. At the top of the list are the highly respected Everest Research Institute’s 2009 predictions for key outsourcing and offshoring markets.
Predictions by the Everest Research Institute include:
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December 10th, 2008
By Sallie
Guest Speaker Mikelann Valterra, Director of the Womans Earning Institute, addresses the topic: How NOT to Undersell Yourself in a Down Economy.
The Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce is hosting a complimentary teleseminar featuring Mikelann Valterra, Director of the Woman’s Earning Institute. She will address self-employed service professionals who are struggling in these tough economic times. The teleseminar is being held Thursday, November 20, 2008 at 8pm EST. This event will last for 1 hour and the cost is free. Register online at: http://www.virtualassistantnetworking.com/teleseminar.htm
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November 19th, 2008
By Chuck
Getting The Results You Want From Your Online Business Investment?
If the answer is no, you need some help marketing and optimizing your website. Many online business owners have great products or services to offer, but lack the understanding of how to increase the visibility of their website, i.e. attract more visitors.
Putting up a website is easy. Making it highly visible in a major search engine like Google or Yahoo 
requires a certain degree of skill and expertise. Online entrepreneurs often find a major draw back to operating a web-based business is getting lost in the “online shuffle” of competing businesses. Exposure is the key to solving this problem.
Enter the Virtual Assistant.
Achieving high search engine positioning for your targeted search term(s) is a science that requires precise knowledge of search engine optimization (SEO) and a fair amount of time. Outsourcing this task to a highly skilled virtual assistant will bring increased traffic (visitors) to your website in the most cost effective way possible.
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October 31st, 2008
By Craig
Executives whose companies have been impacted by the current global financial crisis are urgently searching for ways to find greater efficiencies to lower operating costs. Many of these executives are beginning to look at outsourcing finance and accounting (F & A) as a way of cutting costs.
As events of the current financial crisis have shown,
a poorly-managed accounting department can cause irreparable harm to an organization. By utilizing outsourced accounting services, a business can save a large amount of money on labor resources, have more accountability and transparency and better manage their overall manpower resources. Thanks to advances in technology and accounting software, accounting tasks are one of the easiest business processes for a company to outsource.
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October 10th, 2008
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