What is a virtual assistant?

1. A virtual assistant is a self-employed administrative or personalassistant who works remotely (usually at home) for various clients. When most people hear "virtual assistant," they assume it's a secretary who works from home.

a virtual assistant usually works from home and not necessary to be present at the place of work

A Virtual Assistant is an assistant that is not in the same physical place as you are, thus the Virtual, if you were both in the same physical space then there will be no virtual in the position title.

There are a variety of virtual assistants and they all have different skills. Some may gear their work more toward scheduling and logistics, while others may focus on web-based services like manning email accounts, doing research or social media. Here are just a few things they can help you with.

Upload blogs or email newsletters

Respond to emails and set up email lists

Transcribe voice memos, conference calls and more

Run your calendar and plan your travel

Research

Compile data into organized spreadsheets

Handle forwarded phone calls when you're unavailable or out of town

Any time-consuming or repetitive tasks

Help you hire other employees by doing preliminary research on candidates

Write and distribute standard business communications

Prepare presentations

Manage your social media accounts

Coordinate with vendors

Place orders for new supplies

There are actually so many things a virtual assistant can do

With modern technology and everyone are going to the light-out operations or out-of-office support, virtual assistant is important as it acts as the person performing the functions.

Providing professional administrative or technical assistant over the remote from Home or office to client is known as Virtual assistant.

A Virtual Assistance (typically abbreviated to VA, also called a virtual office assistant) is generally self-employed and provides professional administrative, technical, or creative (social) assistance to clients remotely from a home office.

A virtual assistant is basically a program in a device that you can ask to do stuff for you like make calls and set alarms. Modern VAs are human-like, for example if you say hello it would reply like a human.

In a small companies, if you deal with numbers of clients and expect numbers of enquiry calls, emails and videos conference calls from different users, you can overcome all expense of making new office, furniture and communication devices for the purpose of receiving all these calls, emails, posts, soulation is to go for VA,

Virtual assistance, is  a person who can work for a company remotely to perform some tasks in behalf of other companies.

The connect between a company and a virtual assistance is an electronic contract that insure the rights of both (company and VS agent).

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VS agent can work for multiple companies at same time.