Connecting with business associates and clients by hopping on a plane is being faded out as more and more companies start using teleseminars, webinars and online conferences for “face-to-face” interactions. For just a fraction of the cost, meetings and trainings can now be held from the comfort of your own office with people from all around the world. Learning to use these tools within your business can save time and money that only a few years ago would have been wasted on travel costs. You can even have your Virtual Assistant manage, set-up and host your next online training or conference.
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Just because your Virtual Assistant isn’t seated outside your office doesn’t mean you can’t utilize your Virtual Assistant as a “traditional secretary”.
Today’s modern technology allows you to use the computer rather than an intercom but the results are still the same and, in some cases, even better! Your Virtual Assistant can set and confirm appointments for you, manage your calendar and book meetings for you. The only difference is you can’t actually peek around the corner of your office and see the Virtual Assistant in action.
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Aww, what an exciting time!! You have been hired as a virtual assistant and assigned your very first client. Whether you are being assigned your very first client or you are a seasoned virtual assistant just being assigned a new client can be a cause for the butterflies of nervousness to creep in. The cause of the nervousness….not knowing what to expect.
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Great communication makes us; bad communication breaks us. This doesn’t mean we all need to be constantly in contact with one another—although that’s quite tempting, given modern technology—it means that when we are in contact with one another, that we need to make that contact count.
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Communication is key. We have heard this same phrase repeated over and over, regardless of where we are - home, school, or business. By the daily give and take we learn to communicate by speaking, reading, writing, even in our non-verbal expressions. What we do not learn is how to Effectively Communicate and that is the true key to success.
When it comes to being a virtual assistant or a client using one, the tools of effective communication are especially needed. It is one of the many parts of business and relationships that we take pride in. Here are the four most important elements of communication: Listening, Calculating, Responding, and Doing.
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“I don’t need a Virtual Assistant. I have nothing for them to do.”
Have you ever told yourself this? You may be concerned that your business wouldn’t profit from hiring a Virtual Assistant, or that you don’t have any projects they can do for you. You may be right. If you enjoy spending your days working on keeping up with Twitter, fixing that pesky recurring problem with your blog, uploading those photos to your website, researching keywords for your new blog post, booking the hotel reservations for your next business trip, sorting through your Facebook posts, reading through your ever growing list of emails, responding to meeting requests, typing letters, entering the sales data from your last mailer…wait a minute, who’s growing your business while you’re handling all these tasks?
Are you still convinced that you don’t need a Virtual Assistant?
Here’s a small list of tasks that you can hire a Virtual Assistant to handle for you today, so you can get back to growing your business.
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