Indiana Team Virtual
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What is a Virtual Assistant and how does one benefit a business owner?
· Virtual Assistants (typically abbreviated to Vas) are entrepreneurs who provide professional administrative, technical, or creative (social) assistance to clients from a home office.
· They usually work for other small businesses and consultancy groups.
· It is estimated that there are as few as 5,000 – 8,000 or as many as 35,000 Virtual Assistants worldwide; the profession is growing.
· Common modes of communication and data delivery include the Internet, e-mail and telephone conferences, online work spaces, and fax machines.
· Professionals in this business work on a contractual basis and a long-lasting cooperation is standard.
· A virtual assistant is an independently contracted business owner, not an employee.
· They work out of their own offices, manage the work from their clients and how it is carried out, set their own rates, as well as operating standards and policies, and pay their own self-employment taxes.
· Virtual assistants are cost effective to businesses because we only get paid when we work.
· Since we are independent contractors, we are tax deductible to the company.
· It is estimated that by 2011, mobile workers will make up 73% of the workforce.
The most common reasons businesses and corporations choose to outsource their bookkeeping and administrative processes are to reduce operating costs, improve company focus, and improve quality.
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