Different Terms for a Virtual PA

A virtual PA is someone a business can employ to provide the business solutions you need without the costs involved with hiring an employee. This means you can have someone doing the admin and answering the phone so the actual running of the business is left to you. This is a great option for smaller businesses as it allows them to present a professional frontline without that much additional cost. A virtual PA could be referred to by different terms such as:

• Crowdsourcing
• Virtual assistance
• Virtual volunteering
• Virtual office
• Administrative services
• Virtual secretary

Top Sale Tips from Richard Branson

The Guardian newspaper recently had an interview with Virgin Group founder Richard Branson about starting a business, how to improve sales and tips for motivating. Over the next few weeks we’ll be taking a look at different aspects of the interview and how you could apply them to your business. Today, here are some top sales tips.

Stories on Storify

Have you seen the new website Storify?

The site allows you to collect information from across the web and social media sites into one place so that you can place information all together in one place. Have a look at this virtual personal assistants story which uses articles and Tweets to present its information.

Pretty cool hey?

Top Users of Virtual Office Services: 10-1

Following on from last week’s post, here are the top 10 business types that use virtual office services such as phone answering andvirtual PA services.

Top Users of Virtual Office Services: 20-11

Since I talk a lot about the different services that a virtual office could have to your business I thought for a change I’d take a look at the types of businesses that use these kind of services. Here’s the start of the countdown of top 20, starting with positions 20-11 and the top 10 following next week.

What Could You Do With More Time?

If you have trouble fitting all the tasks you need to do into the working day then you might benefit from having a virtual PA. Having a virtual PA could free up your time so you don’t have to worry about phone calls and admin work but what could you do if you did have this extra time?