A Virtual Assistant or VA, is an individual entrepreneur who works from their home office providing a wide range of skills for hire to various businesses.
Virtual Assistants are self-employed individuals, meaning that they are not an employee and are not employed by an agency to do work; they are independent contractors who work on a 'work for hire' basis.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF A VA?
There are so many benefits of using a VA in comparison to employing a secretary, PA or Office Assistant onsite;
- First of all, a VA has no need for training, office equipment or office space.
- VA's cover their own sick pay, holiday pay and tax.
- They are available to you on an 'as needed' basis, clients have the flexibility to use a VA for a few hours a week, every other week or as and when the work is required.
- VA's can be available to clients out of office hours, to help with completion of last minute work, or work required for a deadline.
- You only pay a VA for the work that they do, as work is charged on an hourly rate, this means not having to pay an employee for the time they are sat without work, or down time, thus saving you money.
- VA's poses a wide range of skills, both administrative and creative, and deliver a professional standard of work.
- A VA has a genuine interest in helping you to develop your business, they do not simply want to clock in and clock out.
- The cost of a VA is fully tax deductable, as are other business expenses.
- Over time a VA can develop a good business relationship and become a good board for business and marketing ideas.
- Finally using a VA can, and will, free you more time and save your business much more money than employing a temp, who may have less experience, fewer skills, have a lesser amount of interest in you and your growing business and require large amounts of your precious time in training and interviews.
A VA has all the skills of a Secretary, a PA and an Office assistant combined, with additional creative skills and all the benefits listed above.
Using a VA really can help you to free more time and save your business money in addition to providing a professional quality of work from their home.
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