First of all, remember that almost anybody can afford to get remote help: real estate agents, business owners, bloggers, e-Commerce people, non-profits, retirees, among others. One of the many benefits of hiring one is that you can use their services as needed, since they have different areas of expertise. So, let’s take a look at the 7 most common duties:

1. Personal tasks: A virtual assistant can help you find a company to clean your couch, finding a cleaning lady, make a vet appointment for your pets, and make reservations for restaurants, just to mention a few. A VA can take phone messages for you, send emails, make and confirm appointments with your clients and suppliers, take care of data bases, and check your emails, among others.

2. Online Marketing: Social media management is a big pond of opportunities for your business and for your VA’s success as well, they can help you with online marketing for your company, Google AdWords, yahoo AdWords, social networks, setting up squeeze pages, etc.

3. Blog, website or forum maintenance: Since virtual assistants have different areas of expertise, some of them have experience as copy writers. You can completely trust on yours to write posts for your blog or website. Just make sure that the virtual assistant that you decide to hire has experience in this type of tasks, and also make sure you give you assistant a style manual.

4. Translations: Most VAs speak more than one language. They can help you to translate letters, documents, manuals, and other material that you need to translate.

5. Answering services: Don’t you hate answering the phone all day long? Nowadays, you can hire a virtual assistant to answer your phone line and take messages for you.

6. Logistics coordination: If you own a company that transports merchandise and you need to have control of the drivers, arrival and departure times, you don’t need to do it yourself, you can have someone else perfectly take care of that for you. Basically, all you’ll need to do is to grant access to the system that you use in your company to keep track of the merchandise, and a telephone line.

7. Customer care: A VA can perfectly take care of customer care in your company. You can assign a phone line to your him/her and he or she will be able to take care of your customer’s needs, questions or complaints. Just make sure that your virtual assistant has all the information and tools needed to take care of that.

These are only ten of the most common duties that a virtual assistant can take care of, but basically it will depend on your needs. Make a list of tasks that you will like to delegate to someone else and start to search for a virtual assistant that matches your needs. Take the chance, after all, there is nothing to lose.

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Abbey Business Centres, provider of serviced office space, meeting rooms and virtual offices from their base on the Bath Road close to Heathrow Airport, are pleased to announce the winners of their annual Best of the Best awards.

Incorporating six different categories, the Best of the Best awards give both clients and employees across the whole Abbey network (spanning 13 different UK locations) the chance to reward those centre staff who have gone the extra mile to meet customer needs in the past year.

In all around 200 votes were cast by staff and clients alike and two of the winners chosen were from the Bath Road business centre – Rhian Somner was named Best Customer Service Co-Ordinator (CSC) whilst Daniela Gianfriglia picked up the prize for Best Newcomer.

Both Rhian and Daniela were presented with a certificate and a bottle of champagne by Sally O’Brien, General Manager for London.

Rhian was obviously delighted upon accepting her award “Whilst I personally feel a great sense of pride in being crowned best CSC, credit must also go to the rest of the team at Heathrow who try their hardest to deliver excellent customer service to our clients every day.”

Managing Director Julie Calder was elated with the feedback received during the nomination process “I could not be more thrilled with the performance of our team at Heathrow Airport. Their dedication and professionalism supports my belief that Abbey offer the best customer service in the serviced office industry and we want to continue the push for further excellence.”

Visit Abbey’s Heathrow Airport centre today and sample the exceptional customer service for yourself. Call today on 0208 757 8757 or visit the Abbey Business Centres website to discuss how their range of serviced offices, virtual offices and meeting rooms can be of benefit to your business.

June10, 2009

Professional web design assistants are a need of the hour for new and old companies worldwide. New companies need new websites, while old companies look for enhancements to the functionality and a fresh look to add stickiness and attract more customers.

According to CEO, Vineet Narang, we were traditionally quite strong in UI design and our teams have always used web as a strong channel for marketing communication. Many of our customers who were outsourcing telesales or software development or web research had web design and web marketing as a pain area. We have now filled that gap for our existing and new customers. Our web design assistants are capable of handling all web design and web programming work for our customers.”

The company has created a strong team of web design assistants who are visual communication experts with degrees in fine arts. The team has the capability to create an online brand by using the right mix of creativity and technology. XceedAgents can help create logos, web site layouts, simple HTML websites and complex product web sites with strong brand and marketing communication.

Our key focus for this team is visual communication, says Sabina Kamal, COO, XceedAgents. We believe that key to online sales / marketing success is customer stickiness. We have expertise in creating web site layouts and structure that helps your customer not only get attracted but stick to the site. Our site navigation expertise helps create site structures that make it very easy for the user to find information. Using visual communication techniques we control the customer movement on our site and hence result in much higher conversion rates.”

The company has had a very good response to the new service and is now servicing 23 clients in this space. They plan to add 2 more teams and then service many more customers in the coming months.

Contact: Deepika Laxmi
Email: [email protected]
Number: 800-784-5406
Website: http://www.xceedagents.com

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XceedAgents provides experts on demand. XceedAgents is an offshore partner to small & medium businesses around the world and provides assistants in the area of sales, marketing, Internet research, web designing, web development and day to day essential operations management.