After seven years as the benefits manager for a large international software company, I began to search for a way to achieve more balance in my life. Juggling the demands of a management position within a large corporation and those of a wife and mother of three young children had grown very difficult. Virtual assistance is a relatively new profession that can best be described as the art of long-term partnering with a client in order to provide the highest quality support services without needing to be physically present in the client's office. Virtual assistance works because of the immediacy and effectiveness of today's technology. E-mail, the Internet, realtime online messaging, fax, phone and overnight delivery help to make it all possible.
Clients only pay for the services they use, so there's no down time.
Most clients work directly from their home offices, so partnering with a virtual assistant means they do not have to share their work space or provide equipment, training, furniture, benefits, or any of the other associated costs that come with hiring an employee. Rosenthal was one of Dougherty's first clients. A virtual assistant might just be the solution you are looking for. Azriela Jaffe specializes in business and workplace issues. Reprinted with permission.