September 4th, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
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.
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September 4th, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
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.
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September 2nd, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
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.
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September 2nd, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
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.
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September 1st, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
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.
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September 1st, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
More and more internet professionals and those who run their business from home are utilizing virtual assistants to help their business grow. Virtual assistants provide professional administrative support to small businesses or professionals like attorneys, chiropractors, and realtors.
Working with a virtual assistant can save you money and increase your productivity and professionalism. A virtual assistant can be a big help for a small business. With more people working virtually from different locations or even from home, our staff maintains a consistent, professional image. We take care of the details that small businesses often let suffer because they lack time or resources.
Virtual assistants offer many services of a larger company. They can provide services like creative, managerial, technical, business, office, and/or personal support services. The best part about virtual assistants is that they allow you to provide service to clients anywhere in the world.
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August 20th, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
In the world of virtual business, there are a lot of misconceptions virtual business services, and especially about virtual assistants. These misconceptions don’t help small businesses at all. However, understanding the true realities about virtual assistants will help help you decide whether or not virtual business services are right for you. You may think that your business can’t afford to hire virtual assistants. The truth is that hiring assistants virtually 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.
Or perhpas you assume that your 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.
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August 20th, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
Building the business and serving clientele is a vital part of running businesses today, and in today’s business world, we hear that more and more companies using receptionists virtually find that –- by utilizing virtual receptionists — they are freed from worrying about maintaining an office and managing staff.
A virtual receptionist can handle an enormous number of office tasks while not actually being located in your office. Fielding incoming phone calls, faxes, mail sorting, making business travel business arrangements, these are all tasks that can be handled by a virtual receptionist. Whether using virtual receptionist services once in a while or every day of the year, companies are finding an easy, professional, efficient, and wholly capable solution.
Having such a person to help run your business is particularly helpful when the company is based out of your home or even your car. A significant number of small businesses in the service industry today find that they need not lease office space in order to conduct business. A virtual receptionist can act as a professional business presence for your company without the added expense of office space.
Virtual Receptionist Tip: Businesses that utilize a virtual receptionist generally report that they are seeing major cost savings over hiring a traditional receptionist.
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August 19th, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
The virtual assistant industry has rapidly grown over the past few decades, largely due to the ever-increasing demand on busy professionals’ time, therefore necessitating assistance to get through the work day with help.
Many professionals are too busy with managing their businesses to give their attention to smaller, more mundane chores. It’s not that the professionals can’t do the work, but rather that they recognize that virtual assistants help relieve workloads (and related stress). By taking over some business tasks for these busy professionals, virtual receptionists are ensuring that business and personal obligations are met.
Studies have shown that over half the workforce polled feel that they don’t have enough time in a workday to get their work done. This is a dramatic increase over the same study that was conducted just 25 years earlier, when barely one-third of the workers felt that way. Virtual assistants who can pitch in on certain business tasks prove an efficient and professional solution to this common time-crunch complaint.
Virtual Assistants Tip: Companies utilizing virtual assistants are actually saving money by not having to maintain the phone system, office space, or other tools a receptionist or admin staff needs.
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August 19th, 2008 by Stacey Barrus
We hear this sort of issue so often…what if your company needs your own receptionist but doesn’t have the space or funds for a full-time receptionist? A great solution for your company is the virtual receptionist.
A virtual receptionist can handle an enormous number of office tasks while not actually being located in your office. Fielding incoming phone calls, faxes, mail sorting, making business travel business arrangements, these are all tasks that can be handled by a virtual receptionist.
Having such a person to help run your business is particularly helpful when the company is based out of your home or even your car. A significant number of small businesses in the service industry today find that they need not lease office space in order to conduct business. A virtual receptionist can act as a professional business presence for your company without the added expense of office space.
In general, businesses employing a virtual receptionist find that they are seeing major cost savings over hiring a traditional receptionist.
Virtual Receptionist Tip: 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
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