Archive for November, 2008

Taking Outsourcing to a New Level

November 9, 2008 at 9:10 pm · Filed under barjd communications ·Tagged , , ,

Jamie Lee Mann of Mann Made Time wrote a timely post for  Partner with a Virtual Assistant VAnetworking.com/blog about more aspects of outsourcing your office and business tasks to a virtual assistant. 

To move past the beginning or entry level tasks for a virtual assistant that I wrote about in the previous post concerning  Trial Size Tasks, now you know that you need some specific and skilled help for something such as a shopping cart or a profile at a social networking site or a blog installation.  There are VAs who are exceptionally good at that.  You can post a Request for Proposal (RFP) at Vanetworking.com and find someone there who can install and provide maintenance and/or consulting for this specific project and keep the rest of your tasks in office or where ever you need them. You can find a different Virtual professional for each project if you want.  Or, if you already have a virtual professional whom you communicate well with, you could encourage additional learning and training to get your project on track.

Today’s business world is no place to be neglecting things that you just cannot get around to doing.  Outsource them to a professional who will get them on track for you, do maintenance if you need it or move on if you are able to keep the maintenance going.

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Trial Size Task to Pump Up a Client/VA Relationship

November 5, 2008 at 2:53 pm · Filed under networking ·Tagged , , ,

mistysorghumoilwelllite-1039   Are you as a business person trying to think of how to pump rich balance and success for your business?  Thinking about Outsourcing?

Or are you, dear reader, a virtual professional, thinking about ways you can pump energy into the businesses of your clients.  Thinking of things that would make sense for entry level clients who aren’t sure how outsourcing to you would benefit them?

Jamie Lee Mann, of MannMadeTime.com has written a great blog post over at Partner with a Virtual Assistant, (www.vanetworking.com/blog) suggesting that EMAIL management may be a great place to begin.  Jamie doesn’t stress this, but it occurs to me that a small project could simply be setting up the email with files to sort the special topics into.  The Virtual Assistant could do this task for the client; upon completion, daily email can now be, in almost very email service, dragged & dropped into a keeper file that will let it be found and considered later.  In some email services or software such as Outlook, RULES can be set up to force most incoming email right into the proper file.   VAs, think about offering a one time project that would preserve a potential client’s sanity and permit you both to begin to develop a relationship.  Email management can include watching over various incoming accounts AND preparing, then sending group or mass messages.   There is potential for ongoing benefit both for the client and the VA to begin with a trial of email.  

Client, you can experience having your business closer to working for you, while outsourcing tasks to a professional who doesn’t plan to be on your fulltime payroll.

Virtual professional, you can see your services grow and expand as new clients become familiar with the benefits of outsourcing to professionals who get the job done. 

Virtual professionals make their services larger than life by networking with other virtual professionals (mostly virtually) at professional organizations such as VAnetworking.com

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