Friday, 14 June 2013

VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS OR TRADITIONAL PERSONAL ASSISTANT

With the world shrinking into a small a small global village, time has its ever-escalating value. To keep a pace with the time, humans devised many machines and technologies which are capable of doing work faster than manually. One such technology sustained with the advent of Industrial Revolution in 1990- the technology of Virtual Assistance. The pros assisting organizations virtually from a remote home-office space are known as Virtual Assistants. They are the latest upcoming trends for entrepreneurs. So who do you want- A traditional personal assistant who can only look after your personal works or an assistant who can assist you in all your jobs ranging from administrative to secretarial? The benefits of virtual assistants over traditional personal assistants are as under:
*A Virtual Assistant can abet us in our official as well as personal jobs without any extra peril of providing office space, internet services, provident fund, medical, communication systems unlike ones provided to personal Assistants.
*A virtual  personal assistant customarily does all your personal tasks like organising meetings, conferences, arranging parties, scheduling holidays and business tours, etc. In contrast to this, a virtual assistant not only nurses our personal tasks but also our professional chores like administrative jobs, data management, data entry, deciding marketing strategies etc. They act more like business partners to you rather than assistants.
*The major benefit of hiring a VA is that they always work with updated and newest technologies thus employing new marketing strategy and trends in the market place. Henceforth, Virtual Assistants provide us with dual benefits- initially, the entrepreneurs with new ideas and concepts; secondly, making the general mass aware of those strategies and plans.
 *The Assistants working virtually don't take leaves and work 24x7 for the benefit of your company whereas, personal assistants need leaves for various purposes and are ineffective when they are on leave.
After discussing the benefits of VAs over traditional personal assistants, it’s evident from the above facts and figures that hiring a Virtual Assistant rather than a Virtual  Personal Assistant is a wise decision for your business. We need not to pay attention to problems like data-theft, inefficient working pros etc. What is more than the time for vacation i.e. you can go for timely vacations with your family and friends? Now it’s your turn to take a step forward and decide the future of your organization.
About The Author
The essayist of this article tries to differentiate between the virtual Assistants and traditional personal assistants but finds out the benefits of Virtual Assistants over Virtual PersonalAssistants.

2 comments:

  1. The power of the internet is such that even those tasks that were previously thought to be impossible to complete from home can now be completed through the use of a computer. One such job is a virtual assistant. Whereas most people would like to have assistants for their businesses, not everyone can afford one. This is where virtual assistants come into play as they can be hired for almost half the money on a full time, on the job, assistants. Virtual assistants can earn up to $20 per hour and earn a substantial income if they have a liking for working at home.

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  2. The power of the internet is such that even those tasks that were previously thought to be impossible to complete from home can now be completed through the use of a computer. One such job is a virtual assistant. Whereas most people would like to have assistants for their businesses, not everyone can afford one. This is where virtual assistants come into play as they can be hired for almost half the money on a full time, on the job, assistants. Virtual assistants can earn up to $20 per hour and earn a substantial income if they have a liking for working at home.

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