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As the owner of a small or
home-based business, do you sometimes wish that you had a “home office” to turn
to for support when the day-to-day administrative tasks or the looming deadlines
or business surges are too much to handle on your own? Well, you do. We’re
Affordable Office and we’re here for you.
Affordable
Office Services
provides virtual
assistance services to entrepreneurs who need help growing their businesses, but
do not have the resources or space to hire an on-site assistant. We can be your
executive or personal assistant, admin department, steno pool, seasonal staff or
on-call backup on an as-needed or long-term basis.
Benefits of
Partnering with a VA
Your life will be greatly
enriched when you partner with us as your VA. Working with a VA can bring about
great rewards and benefits. Working with a VA you will:
Have more freedom:
You will have the freedom to focus on the things that you love to do, whether it
be concentrating on servicing the needs of your clients/customers or spending
more quality time with your family instead of working late in the office.
Generate a higher
income:
You will be able to delegate those tasks that are vital to the core of your
business but don’t generate any money for you. Passing these on to us will allow
you more time to focus on bringing in more clients to your business thus
generating more money for you.
Live a more
balanced life:
Have you ever felt as if you were a juggler, juggling your business, your family
and time for yourself? Being able to delegate things that you don’t have to
personally touch will allow you to balance your time between your business, your
family and yourself making you a better you.
Maintain your
privacy:
If you work from your home office you probably don’t want someone coming into
your home everyday. Working with us as your VA you don’t have to worry about
this. I work from my own office and use my own equipment.
Gain a partner:
No one really likes to think that they are alone. Working with us as your VA
will give you a partner with whom you can bounce ideas off of. We can act as a
sounding board to you when you get a great new idea for your business.
Do You Need
A Virtual Assistant?
Are you spending
too much time on administrative tasks and not enough time growing your business?
Do you often wish
you had more free time to spend with the people that matter most to you?
Do you spend a
lot of time out of the office and wish you could project a more professional
image by having someone to support your customers while you are out?
Are you
considering hiring a part-time or full-time employee, but you would rather not
share your space with someone else?
Top 7 Reasons to Hire a Virtual Assistant
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They are all business.
Your Virtual Assistant will support your needs, not the other way around.
Since they bill their hours for the work they accomplish – some in
increments as small as five minutes – you are not paying for personal phone
calls, late arrivals, childcare crises, or sick time. If you detest the
forced socialization of a corporate workplace, or listening to the humdrum
minutiae of your co-worker’s life story, a virtual staff solves that
problem.
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You’re in control. Your
working relationship is based upon a contractual agreement whereby you state
in no uncertain terms what you expect. They either do it or they don’t. If
you want a web designer who uses Dreamweaver instead of hand-coding HTML,
then you specify that. Or, you can entirely defer to your Virtual
Assistant’s expertise and focus your energy elsewhere.
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Professional rapport.
Your Virtual Assistant is in the entrepreneurial boat, too. They work at
home, market their services, prospect for clients, and provide a service
just like you do. It’s a great way to add to your network base, as they may
have found ways to solve problems you never even thought of. Often they have
their own network of resources that they utilize for printing, document
processing and promotion. Tapping into their resources doubles your own.
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Cost savings. You can
hire a VA from anywhere on Earth. It’s as competitive an industry as any
other, and you can expect a wide range of fees for various services offered.
If you like the fees for web design, but think a particular service is too
expensive for document editing or proofreading, you can hire multiple VA’s
to do different tasks to keep your own costs low. You are not under any
obligation whatsoever, except, of course, to pay your bill.
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Pride in their work. If
you are hiring a VA for tasks such as web design, you can easily preview
their work. Often the VA service will place testimonials on their site or
examples of web pages they have designed. Examine their portfolio pages to
determine the depth of their skills and experience.
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Virtual freedom. No
on-site employees means no liability, no worker’s comp insurance, and no
payroll taxes to calculate. Everyone is an independent contractor. You can
utilize a virtual assistant for either ongoing work or on a per-project
basis.
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No strangers in the house. If you have a home
office, hiring employees to work on-site could be intrusive. If you have
children at home, or a spouse who works odd hours, or you just don’t care to
open up your private space to others, a virtual assistant is ideal. Most
likely, your VA will never darken your doorstep.
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