Originally virtual assistant services provided secretarial services, but the internet soon changed all that, enabling many more home based business operators to offer their services as a VA.

Virtual assistant services allowed other skill sets to be offered to home based business operators. Graphic designers, bookkeepers, transcriptionists, court reporters etc. now make up the diverse virtual assistant services.  If work can be received and delivered online via a computer and the internet, then that work was able to be delivered by the virtual assistant services industry.

Virtual assistant services can be offered by anyone, anywhere in the world. There are many Asian countries now offering virtual assistant services via a series of agencies and pools of workers.  They are well priced to be attractive to the business community in western countries. However, it is difficult to assess the quality of work being produced. 

One of the differences between these offshore VA’s and local ones, is that the local VA will usually work harder to build a relationship with their clients and get to know their business.

When you want virtual assistant services and decide to engage the services of a local self-employed Virtual Assistant, you will find that the VA is likely to stay with you for as long you want. Once they know more about your businesses and you understand their capabilities, work usually progresses well. A VA business owner has a vested interest in your business, because they know that without you, they don’t have a business. 

Kathie Thomas of ‘A Clayton’s Secretary’ ran the first VA Network in Australia and looks after clients from around the world.

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