Scenario Four: The VA as an Offshore Office (an international Executive Presence from address to acc

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) April 7, 2004 -- Virtual Assistants are helping businesses of every size manage change/growth.

CHANGING WORKPLACE = CHANGING NEEDS





It's a fact no business person can ignore - the face of the workplace is changing quite rapidly - downsizing, automation, teleworkers, virtual offices, increased small business startups. Virtual assistants (VAs) -- self-employed, off-site administrative and similar professionals -- are assisting businesses of every size in meeting the challenges and needs that accompany these changes.

Following are a few scenarios to help give you a better idea of how VAs work and why they are fast becoming the ideal support and growth partners of businesses worldwide.



Scenario One: The VA and the NeoSOHO (overcoming the "Entrepreneurial Impasse")



Scenario Two: The VA and The Teleworker (life just got a whole lot easier for HR Managers!)



Scenario Three: The VA and the Downsizing Company (making downsized "right-sized")



Scenario Four: The VA as an Offshore Office (an international Executive Presence from address to accent!)





Scenario One: The VA and the NeoSOHO (overcoming the Entrepreneurial Impasse)

For some time now the small office/home office business has been referred to as a "SOHO." At Staffcentrix we've seen changes in this large entrepreneurial pool and have coined a new term, NeoSOHO, to better describe the new breed of net-savvy small office/home office that is emerging with the advances in technology.

Increasing numbers of entrepreneurs are abandoning the problems and politics of traditional corporate life and launching their own home-based businesses. Armed with a great idea and a healthy dose of intestinal fortitude, they dive in with gusto - marketing their service or product online and off-. They grow their business... and their success brings mounting stacks of paper, phone traffic, heavier correspondence, marketing pieces, more time paying bills and tracking expenses and communications and appointments - a torrent of non-core chores. At this point, they've succeeded in reaching...



The Entrepreneurial Impasse: The NeoSOHO has become its own administrative assistant!

Before now, the NeoSOHO businessperson would have had limited choices: hire an expensive "temp" for a transient solution, take on expense and responsibility with a "permanent" employee, or, worst of all, turn away the work. The emerging Virtual Assisting industry, however, has begun to offer a better solution to the NeoSOHO's dilemma. A VA is an independent contractor, usually working from home, who provides non-core staffing services to small businesses via the Internet.



The VA works quite closely with the SME or NeoSOHO despite the distance, and the relationship is usually long-term. Because the VA is a contractor, the NeoSOHO avoids having to deal with time-consuming and expensive tax, legal and insurance issues.

Work assignments are communicated through e-mail, phone, fax, mail, diskette transfer, and real-time online messaging. The services offered by VAs vary from one individual to the next, based on their area of expertise. In addition to administrative support, many VAs offer other, more-specialized skills, running the gamut from Web site maintenance to