A Virtual Assistant is an independent contractor who works remotely in their home based business, usually from their home office. The job he performs varies. The job nature would include secretarial, administrative, and/or many other tasks. With the use of email, internet, faxes, phones and mail, a VA is able to offer valuable support to other businesses who can then get on with growing their own business, whilst outsourcing administrative tasks to VA’s. In short a virtual Assistant is small business owner who provide administrative and personnel support to a list of targeted clients with a long term collaborative relationship. There is no limit of work capabilities which a Virtual assistant can provide to his clients. Following are the list of work which a Virtual assistant can perform in his home
Book Keeping and Accounts maintenance
Designing Graphics
Desktop Publishing
Billing Support
Prepare spreadsheets, documents, letters, memos, Presentations
Developing a database and maintaining it
Marketing Support
Website Development.
A Scanner, a Fax, a computer along with high speed internet connection will be helpful. If you have a certification in Virtual Assistance you can earn more. Here is list of companies which hire Virtual assistants without charging any fee.
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Filcancommunications: Fil-Can Communications is a Canadian company with a Canadian management team. Their team of dedicated and energetic individuals interacts with their clients through phone, Instant messengers, on-line applications and e-mail. They replicate their clients environment with their staff across standard and custom applications. They specialize in all aspects of support including Call Center operations, Help desk support, Web-research, Desktop Publishing and Website Design. They provide for fast data entry with quick turnaround. Join Filcancommunications
InternetGirlFriday :
InternetgirlFriday is a group of virtual assistants (people working from home offices since 1999) who work for their clients at home (administrative, bookkeeping, personal) so you can have your free time back to do whatever you want with it. Their virtual assistants do everything a regular assistant can do for their clients and more. Days consist of creating blogs, wordpress installations, managing client's facebook profiles, sending press releases, bookkeeping, arranging travel, tracking business, updating websites, sending newsletters, giving remote computer support, managing email, placing calls, setting up appts/meetings, ordering gifts/groceries online, generating new leads, researching, ...etc to reduce the work load on the clients. Join InternetgirlfridayYour Virtual Office Assistant: The following are the works performed by the VA for this company Research assistance Data entry Word processing Resumes R Off-site phone reception Invoicing, AP/AR Mailing List management, Personel and travel arrangements, Event planning, Sales, promotional campaigns Contact them to check whether any opening is there. Join Your Virtual office Assistant
Virtualcas: In Virtual CAS the degree of services offered by a virtual assistant varies from one virtual assistant to another. It is very safe to say that no to virtual assistants are alike. A virtual assistant specializes in what he/she has experience with or likes doing. However, as far as real estate virtual support goes, there are definitely some niche services which are quite commonly offered among Real Estate Virtual Assistants (REVA's). They are as follows:
Transaction Management,
Lead Follow-up and tracking,
Contact database management,
Geo – Farming,
Listing Marketing,
Website Customization and design,
Desktop Publishing.
The industry standard that most established VA's will charge is between $40 and $55 per hour for non-technical work. Rates for services such as software coding, website design, animation, or even consulting may range anywhere from $75 to $150 per hour on average. Join VirtualCas
Simply – Virtual: Simply Virtual is an administrative outsourcing resource for businesses of any size. They have been providing quality virtual assistance, marketing & design and productivity consulting services to companies and individuals across the U.S. since 1997. They have worked with professional speakers, corporate & sales executives, business coaches, Realtors® and writers. They help you deliver better results to your customers by providing the back-end support you need, so that you can focus on the activities that generate income for your needs. Simply Virtual is one of few virtual assistant firms that hires and trains their own team of administrative and marketing professionals. Their Virtual Assistants perform the following tasks.
Business Correspondance,
Client follow up,
Contact management,
Customer Service,
e-mail management,
Event Planning,
Marketing Support,
Research,
Travel Arrangements,
Website maintenance.
Join Simply-Virtual
IVAA: The International Virtual Assistants Association (IVAA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the professional education and development of members of the Virtual Assistance profession, and to educating the public on the role and function of the Virtual Assistant. While certification is by no means requisite for IVAA members, IVAA holds the distinction of being the only organization offering the comprehensive IVAA Certified Virtual Assistant (CVA) exam, recognized internationally as the standard that Virtual Assistants strive to attain. Information is provided to the public so that a qualified virtual assistant can be found by the business firms. Join IVAA
VOAssitant: Keep Checking them regularly to see any opening is there. You must have a current business license and 5 years of administrative work experience. Only people dedicated to being professional virtual assistants will be considered. Join VOAssistant
Virtual Assistant Jobs: VAJ don’t charge you any fees and to join them you must be well versed in any of the following areas,
Word Processing and DataEntry/ Clerical,
BookKeeping Payroll and accounting,
Medical Billing and coding,
Transcription and typing,
Legal and medical Assisting,
General office work and office administration,
Customer Support,
Sales and Account Management,
Internet Research,
Web Administration and management,
Website Management,
Design and Desktop Publishing and many Other areas.
Consider our current Data Assistant Project $12 - $15/hr. Join Virtualassistancejobs
VA4U: VA4U.com is a web site dedicated to the free promotion of the VA profession. You can join VA4U as either a Virtual Assistant or a Client. Either way you will get a free webpage entry into a different registers. All members of VA4U get a free configurable webpage with the ability to upload your own pictures. Join VA4U
REVA: REVA Network is a unique community providing an online forum where Real Estate Professionals and Virtual Assistants who specialize or wish to specialize in real estate assistance can collaboratively support each other in the pursuit of maintaining high levels of ethics and professionalism while also increasing the capabilities and business opportunities for all its members. Finally, you have the opportunity to network in a community specially coordinated for the real estate specific VA! Are you a PREVA (Professional Real Estate VA) who want to learn more about working with and sharing ideas & concepts with REPs (Real Estate Professionals), as well as, with other PREVAs? Are you interested in mentoring Virtual Assistants who want to learn more about the Real Estate Industry? Then you are in the right place! Here you will be able to join a unique group of discussions at the REP/PREVA Yahoo Discussion Group. Answer questions or post comments about any topic related to the real estate industry. Build your list of services and skill sets by learning the needs of Real Estate Professionals from around the world and from other Professional Real Estate Virtual Assistants. Join Revanetwork
Virtualassistantsforums: A free to join forum where you can discuss number of information about virtual assistants. A separate section for jobs in VA is available. In order to fully utilize the abilities of this forum, the administrator will probably require that you register as a member. Registration is free. To register, you will need to specify a username and password, and a valid email address. Entering your email address will not leave you open to 'spam', as you can choose to hide your email address, and messages sent to you via email do not reveal your address to the sender in any case. The administrator may have configured the forum to send you the final part of the registration process by email, so ensure that the email address you provide is valid and working.If you are under the age of 13, the administrator may require that a parent or guardian provides consent before allowing you to complete the registration process. More information about this is available during the registration process. Join Virtualassistantforums
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VAnetworking: VAnetworking is a forum which includes free services and paid services. First, if you haven't already, join our FREE Virtual Assistant Networking Forum where you will find everything you need to know to start up a Virtual Assistant business through the advice of other successful, veteran Virtual Assistants. Also download our FREE VA Kickstart Package. Join VAnetworking
Workaholics4Hire: A free resource for VA’s. Join Wokaholics4hire
