What Virtual Assistants Do: What Makes Us “Virtual”?
Assistants come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, so what is it that virtual assistants do that makes them virtual?
After all, virtual assistants don’t merely exist as a function of the imagination. While we may not be sitting at a desk right outside of the executive’s door, we can still provide many of those same services from a distance. While those of us who offer creative or marketing services aren’t going to be found shuffled off into a particular office area, there’s nothing to say that we cannot design logos, brochures or advertisments just as well as someone who can have an eye kept on them.
What virtual assistants do that makes them virtual can best be explained by saying that virtual assistants do all of the same things that a traditional assistant would do, however, because they also are business owners in their own right, they don’t need that same chronic supervision.
When a business professional works with a virtual assistant, he or she will find that not only is the work being done well, but there’s also no need to train an assistant, less time spent worrying about whether or not priorities will be established: they simply know that the work will be done.
After all, what virtual assistants do are based on skills that they have developed over time; it’s not what we do that’s different, it’s just about how we do it.