Tuesday 5 November 2013

A Value Bundle You Can’t Refuse

It is necessary to hire an assistant once you are in a position to pay for his services. Running a business single handedly won’t last long. Taking the extra pressure on a regular basis would affect your health negatively and you would be experiencing it also. When you have taken the decision to hire an assistant for your online business there are some options worth considering. You can either hire an assistant in the office or you can hire a virtual office assistant. In either case you will have an assistant who would be helping you in your daily tasks. 

With the assistant to help in the office you have to pay the salary according to the state laws followed by the bonuses and other benefits. And if you plan to run a virtual chat for your customers on the website, it is better if you make it available round the clock. In case a person wants to ask a question at night when he is surfing the net, dropping an email and waiting for the answer till next day can be painful. Make sure that there is a person to handle it right away. But this means that you will have to run your office for 24 hours a day. Imagine the cost that would incur in such a manner. 

Now consider the option of hunting an assistant online. You have the world open as an option. Take advantage of the time zones so that your client handling remains active throughout the day. When you outsource your work to the professionals, you don’t have to pay more than their fees. It is their responsibility to manage the client chat round the clock and you can rely on them for quality service. Most of the businessmen have made use of this service by outsourcing their work to companies based in Asia. This gives them an advantage of the time zone which ensures that when the western world has the sun up, the Asian peninsula has night and vice versa. Working day and night, the companies provide round the clock services to their clients. 

Your virtual office assistant would not only be handling the chat, he will be doing all the tasks that you have outsourced to them. Get your site optimized by the SEO department of the company you are working with and keep your website updated with their web developers. You get the services of a team at the price of a single in-house employee. Considering the advantage of outsourcing, it would be sensible to skip an assistant in the office and go for an online team. 

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