Monday 3 February 2014

Online Personal Assistant – Professional and Economical

There are many activities in a business that does not require the complete attention of the business owner and can be easily done by an assistant. These are normally the administrative tasks such as record entry (data entry) and some of the other similar tasks. Now there is no need to hire a costly assistant to do these tasks for you and you can easily delegate these tasks to an online personal assistant. The benefits of outsourcing these routine and laborious tasks are vast and topping the list is the cost factor which is a huge benefit to the business.

When you do not need the tasks to e done under your supervision, it can be done by anyone and anywhere. All you need to make sure is that you get them done within time and in the exact pattern you have asked for. A virtual assistant is a person who works remotely, he can be anywhere on this planet or any other planet but he is useful as long as he is connected to the internet and we can have access to him virtually. Today finding a VA is not a difficult task at all, one can easily connect to thousands of virtual assistants either individuals (freelancers) or even organized groups (service providers). By searching for them on the internet search engines one can easily get links to them or the websites from where you can establish a communication channel.

Normally there are two types of virtual assistants as mentioned above. Both are effective and good for business but it depends upon the workload mainly to choose the type of assistant you would like to hire. If you have a small workload to be handled then you don’t need a team and rather a single assistant would be able to perform it for you. So it would be better to go for a freelancer as it would be enough and also economical. But the quality of work would obviously not be as great as that handled by a team because we all know that when a team performs the work, there is a process and it gets better.

If you have enough work to keep multiple virtual assistants busy then you obviously need to go for a team. This way you would get the work done in a better way and it would be more organized and economical to hand the tasks to a team rather than a bunch of VA’s. Handing out to different VA’s would not reduce you work but it will increase because you will have to run after each and every one of them to get the tasks completed. You will have to keep track of every one of them, establish communication with each of the online personal assistant. But when working with a team, you are relieved of these tensions and just communicate with the team lead and get all the tasks handled professionally and economically.

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