I never imagined that providing freelance secretarial services could be such a busy endeavor! When I first started it was so incredibly difficult to obtain that first client. I spent hours each week churning out newsletters, post card mailings, and publicity material of all sorts.

Additional hours were spent fine tuning my sales pitch and presentation, practicing my elevator speech, reviewing my skills, and spreading word about my services and planned business. I was so incredibly motivated to get that first customer and get on road to wherever.

I was no longer under a corporate umbrella. It was just me now, and I had taken plunge. That first client did come along, and I still have account today. Then I gained my next client, and next. Word was spreading, and power of referral sales hit home. I had heard how high your closing percentage climbs when someone you work for refers you to a friend or associate. Wow, it was amazing to actually experience it in motion. Why do people have a problem getting referral sales? Because they do not ASK. Ask for referrals and ask often, you will be quite pleased with results. Now that that has been said, please do not neglect giving referrals in return. Ask your customers how you might best refer them, and what their ideal customer would be. Start this process today and never stop. It will certainly build business and good will with everyone you encounter. "Let's not lose conviction and drive we had when we were brand new."

What is a Virtual Assistant or Freelance Secretary?

More and more, experts are discovering developing importance of working with a team of people who are specialized in their fields. It is becoming a necessity to build a group of knowledgeable, capable team members for performing various services and procedures. To specialize means that each element of a business becomes both effective and efficient. This explains recognition that specialists are receiving by business community, and ways in which they are contributing to businesses bottom line, and why generalists are rapidly being replaced by these focused experts. It is simply accepted as logical choice for any company that seeks well-run efficacy.

Every business day becomes that much stronger, more efficient and rewarding when instead of having team members concentrate on elements of business in which they have no expertise, these issues are dealt with by a specialist who can complete project in a timely manner, and with inherent superiority.

A popular example of such specialization among business community is way in which a full-service, freelance secretarial administrative support service provider can improve upon a company’s current work structure. While non-expert members of a company may usually have to turn away from their areas of specialization in order to perform additional tasks that are challenging, time-consuming and altogether tedious, a freelance secretary can take on that company’s entire team’s worth of administrative support material, and can use his or her unique, proficient skills in order to handle that work and allow other team members to forget about them until they are completed.