What Is A Virtual Assistant & Why Do You Need One?

Written by Janice D. Byer, MVA


Virtual Assistants (also known as VAs) are home-based entrepreneurs who take pride in providing fellow small business professionals with a wide range of office tasks, from administrative support to web design & maintenance. VAs are able to provide professional, creative assistance without ever having to go intorepparttar client’s office.

Being small business owners themselves, VAs understand that success comes to entrepreneurs when they providerepparttar 106169 best possible customer service. But, great customer service can sometimes be hard to upkeep when you are spending valuable time trying to stay on top ofrepparttar 106170 non-core tasks that are a part of running a business.

A VA works WITH their clients to help alleviate some of these tasks, allowing them to free up some of their time to concentrate on generating revenue and building their businesses.

But, how do you know when you really needrepparttar 106171 services of a Virtual Assistant?

1.Your inbox pile just seems to be getting higher, and each day you fall farther behind. 2.Your day timer just doesn’t seem to be able to keep you organized. 3.The important tasks are getting lost in amongst everything else and, when you do locate them, you find yourself rushing to meet a deadline. 4.You don’t feel comfortable taking on an administrative task that requires a specific professional appearance. 5.You find you aren’t delivering to your clients as fast as you would like to as you have too many other ‘things’ onrepparttar 106172 go. 6.You have a project that you need to get done but you aren’t sure how to accomplish it.

Clarify Your Message With Clean Design Elements

Written by Linda Elizabeth Alexander


This article may be freely published in your print or online newsletter or on your website provided 1. You includerepparttar byline andrepparttar 106168 resource box; 2. You printrepparttar 106169 article in its entirety, unchanged; and 3. You notifyrepparttar 106170 author when and where it's printed with a courtesy copy or a link. Subject: Business, Writing, Marketing, Design Number of Words: 627 Website: http://www.write2thepointcom.com

Clarify Your Message Using Clean Design Elements -- (c)2002 By Linda Elizabeth Alexander

Increasingly, business people rely on desktop publishing. Gone arerepparttar 106171 days when a male manager would dictate words to a female typist and expect her to turn them into an eye- pleasing document. Also, once complicated documents like brochures and flyers are now easy to create in programs such as Microsoft Publisher, and even MS Word.

But most business people have NOT been trained in graphic design. While such high skills take years to develop, business people still need a basic sense of good design. A good design doesn't just look pretty; it also supports and even enhances your message. So userepparttar 106172 following tips to make your message clear and easy for your readers to grasp.

1. Use plenty of white space.

You don't want your manager to skip over your progress report because she doesn't want to wade through dense text to findrepparttar 106173 important information. Leave lots of white space for easy reading.

Balance betweenrepparttar 106174 amount of text andrepparttar 106175 white space around it is important. Do print enough content to be credible, however. Leaving too much white space, particularly in combination with a large font, can make your document look childish and makes you look amateur.

2. Rememberrepparttar 106176 Z-pattern.

Readers of languages that are read left to right read in a z-pattern. (Rreverserepparttar 106177 following information for languages that are read right to left.) Their eyes first focus onrepparttar 106178 upper left hand corner of a page, so capture their attention there (think about where headlines are placed in newspapers and advertisements).

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