Davinci Virtual

As you know by now, Virtual Assistants and Virtual Offices are the hallmarks of the new entrepreneur. But what other characteristics define Entrepreneurs 2.0?

In addition to a strong desire for a better work/life balance, new business owners want to have more control over their production and processes. Many want to find deeper meaning in their life. By choosing a service or product that fits with their sense of the world, entrepreneurs have the ability to create deeper meaning.

Individuals who are thinking of starting a business are now closely examining their lives and looking for ways to monetize “who” they are. With the explosion of blogging and other social media, there has never been a better time to be a lifestyle entrepreneur than now. Particularly if you are sending a positive message, something that helps people feel hopeful in a challenging time.

And with consumer response to small business and niche industries, the timing is great to be a one or two product business. Identifying your passions and looking for ways to build a niche business around them is a great place to start. The fact that your effort carries layers of meaning will only make it more appealing to the community.

Consider that today’s entrepreneurs really do want it all, a well-rounded life full of work and play. Use your life as a foundation for your business…the end result will be fulfilling and financially rewarding.

Almost any business owner would tell you that often times business is cyclical.  At times your business is booming, while other times it’s hard to anticipate business expectations for your company. A virtual assistant can help many companies through transitionary situations.
If you’re just beginning to expand but can’t yet afford a full office staff, consider hiring a virtual assistant. Here are some benefits to hiring a virtual assistant for your small business:
Unlike the traditional temporary employee from an agency, a virtual assistant can be committed to the client on an ongoing basis, allowing a collaborative working relationship to develop.
Without adding office equipment or space, and without all the issues associated with hiring employees, small businesses, home-based entrepreneurs, and working professionals can now have expert business help through virtual assistants.
Preserving client confidentiality is less of a problem from a technical standpoint, given the advances in Internet security and encryption software.
A traditional office or personal assistant can cost at least two times their salary or hourly rate. With a virtual assistant, companies get the benefits of an experienced, qualified professional without the burden and worry of employee benefits, payroll taxes, office space, rent, equipment, and human resource issues.
Virtual Assistant Tip: The way business is conducted today has changed tremendously with the advances in technology, resulting in greater productivity for small business owners who have a virtual assistant to aid them in company business.

Your new receptionist will do the administrative tasks, conference or meeting planning, event planning, travel arrangements, you name it. She just can’t get you your coffee. Why? Because she’s a virtual receptionist, taking care of your office administration remotely.
Countless companies in dozens of industries are choosing virtual receptionists for their offices. They’re finding that the virtual employees offer great benefits, including maintaining the company’s professional image and enhancing business productivity through smooth business communication flow.
Companies love that, instead of getting an answering machine, voicemail, or a rushed business owner, their clients will speak with a live person. Other benefits are the potential for establishing a presence in multiple markets and enjoying a local phone number for each. There are so many benefits to having a virtual receptionist.v
How does it work? Through a virtual receptionist you can have all your company’s calls professionally answered and the messages sent to you as a text and email. You can choose to send calls to your virtual receptionist as often or as seldom as needed. Your virtual receptionist will take a message for you, and then forward the message to you by either email, or text message right to your phone.
Virtual Receptionist Tip: Companies enjoy having a single, reliable, and competent point of access for customers through the use of a virtual receptionist.

A virtual receptionist can make a good impression for your business at a fraction of the cost of employing a “live” receptionist to sit in your office to answer phone calls. The professional image and consistency is one reason Davinci Virtual is growing with everyone from small businesses to large businesses. You’ll be surprised at how many lawyers, doctor’s offices, and even online businesses use our services—and might start to wonder if a virtual receptionist would be right for you, too.
Let’s look at the benefits of a virtual receptionist.  Instead of getting an answering machine, voicemail, or a harried business owner, your client will speak with a live person. You can also establish a presence in multiple markets and have a local telephone number for each. There really are countless benefits for businesses having a virtual receptionist.
Consider this:  each time someone interacts with your business it leaves an impression. Your prices might be lower or your product top notch, but if you appear disorganized or unprofessional it can hurt your business.  A virtual receptionist maintains and presents a consistent professional image for you.
Virtual Receptionist Tip:  The little details of a well-run office image through a virtual receptionist add up to offer a customer experience that can leave a good impression on your customers, partners, and clients.

The vast majority of small business owners seem to have heard misinformation and objections about the world of virtual assistants. We’d like to dispel some of the more common errors here today.
My business can’t afford to hire virtual assistants.
The truth is that hiring virtual assistants can actually save your company a good deal of money. This is because your company does not have to provide office space or equipment for the help. In addition, virtual assistants are available to work on an as-needed basis; in other words, if you have 10 hours of work a week that needs to be done, you are only paying for 10 hours a week’s worth of a virtual assistant’s time.
My business isn’t big enough to hire a virtual assistant.
Many times, a small business owner ends up spending a huge amount of time working on administrative tasks for the business, such as billing, appointment-making, calendar maintenance, bookkeeping, travel arrangements, or tracking expenses (to name a few). With a virtual assistant on-board, the small business owner’s time is freed up. Time that can instead be spent generating new business, working on a client’s project, on research, or other high-level business tasks.
Virtual Assistants Tip: Small businesses looking to grow would find a virtual assistant to be instrumental.

More and more these days, when customers call a doctor’s office, accountant, or other professional office, they are greeted – unbeknownst to them – by a virtual receptionist. The caller has no idea that this receptionist is not sitting at a desk in the front room of the doctor’s office.
Yet the virtual receptionist who has answered the customer’s call is fielding any and all issues or questions, perhaps even making appointments or taking messages, and give every appearance and assurance to the customer that it’s all part of the office.  Hiring a virtual receptionist for your business or company isn’t outsourcing to overseas, like you often hear about (or even experience yourself) with many customer service call centers. This is smart business today. Companies that need a professional, courteous, and knowledgeable phone presence get exactly that with a virtual receptionist, but without having to provide office space or even health benefits for that employee. A virtual receptionist can work for most any company you could think of, one that takes up numerous floors in a skyscraper office building or one that has two employees that work out of their homes.

More and more small businesses are turning to virtual assistants as a way to save on staffing costs. It’s a very cost-beneficial approach to finding qualified and competent help. How, you might wonder, is this different from calling up a temporary employment agency? Let’s take a closer look.
Virtual assistants can be hired on an as-needed basis. For example, if your company only has a need for six hours of a marketing assistant per week, that is all you would hire a virtual assistant for.
Virtual assistants can be anywhere. If your company’s clientele tends to come from the East Coast while you and your company are firmly located on the West Coast, you might run into trouble if you’re unavailable at 9 a.m. their time. However, you could enlist a virtual assistant on the East Coast who could field customer calls and requests for you. Conversely, a virtual assistant in a different time zone from you could cover customer calls on later, or extended, office hours.
Virtual assistants don’t require you to provide them with office space or equipment. That’s a huge cost savings alone.
Virtual Assistants Tip: For many small businesses with no or few employees, having a virtual assistant take over administrative tasks allows the business owner to concentrate on more important business.

Perhaps you’ve scheduled an important discussion or teleconference with a business associate at twelve-thirty exactly, but when you dial the office number, it goes directly into voicemail, with no discernable way to reach your business associate. Why did this happen? Because your business associate’s receptionist went to lunch and no one was left to cover the phones.
With a virtual receptionist, this simply doesn’t happen. A virtual receptionist is there to answer your customer’s calls during business hours – from breakfast meetings to business lunches right on through to a business dinner. No matter the time of the business day, the virtual receptionist is there to answer calls and properly direct them.
Aside from never taking a long lunch or calling in sick for three days straight, a virtual receptionist also benefits your business’ budget. How could that be? Most of the time, the cost of a virtual receptionist is a portion of the cost of hiring, training, and keeping a receptionist in benefits. You’re also not paying for a receptionist’s office space or business equipment.  These are all business expenditures that you might think are required, but the new reality is that, through the use of a virtual receptionist, these expenditures are far from necessary.

Virtual Receptionist Tip: A good, professional virtual receptionist will answer your calls in your company name, answer questions about your company, and transfer callers to you or take a message.

As with “real-world” assistants, virtual assistants come in all shapes, forms, and can have a huge range of business skills. There are a growing number of virtual assistants available for businessowners today, and it’s not surprising that they’re so busy: there are so many benefits!
It’s incredible to think how there are so many, such wide-ranging business tasks that a virtual assistant can undertake for you. It’s not unusual for a virtual assistant to take your calls, prepare documents, manage databases, handle sales and Internet marketing projects, manage your mail flow, book your travel arrangements, and maintain your schedule or calendar. Virtual assistants can also assist with creative or technical skills, like writing copy, creating PowerPoint presentations, and even updating or maintaining your company website. There is a downside, however. A virtual assistant can’t do your filing or get your coffee.  Once you’ve freed your time up by utilizing a virtual assistant, you’ll truly wonder how you ever did it all on your own in the past.
Virtual Assistant Tip: You might have thought in the past that you didn’t have enough of a workload to justify hiring an assistant, but the beauty of a virtual assistant is that it’s possible to hire a virtual assistant just for the work you do have, even if it’s just a handful of hours a week.

Each time someone interacts with your business it leaves an impression. Your prices might be lower or your product top notch, but if you appear disorganized or unprofessional it can hurt your business. On the other hand, the small details of a well-run office can offer a customer experience that can leave a good impression on your customers, partners, and clients.
A virtual receptionist can make a good impression for your business at a fraction of the cost of employing a receptionist. The professional image and consistency is one reason Davinci Virtual is growing with everyone from small businesses to large businesses. You’ll be surprised at how many lawyers, doctor’s offices, and even online businesses use our services.
Instead of getting an answering machine, voicemail, or a rushed business owner, your client will speak with a live person. You can also establish a presence in multiple markets and have a local phone number for each. There are so many benefits to having a virtual receptionist.