Thursday, 26 February 2009

Virtual Secretary - World Cup 2010 South Africa







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England line up against Ukraine on April Fools Day and look to get another win and a step closer to South Africa next year.


Whilst in the offices of Core Business Virtual PA, a conversation took place between a Personal Assistant and a caller asking whether her company will be offering organised trips in South Africa for the World Cup. The call was dealt with very professionally and the caller would never know that Toni, who took the call, did not in fact work for the company in question.


Details of the interested party were taken and forwarded on to the tour operator which will be dealt with once they are ready. The client is delighted with this service; being able to be open seven days a week on the off chance that one call may come in. Under the pay as you go contract, the client just paid for this one call to be dealt with. Hugely cheaper than opening an office, paying electricity, telephone and rent even before the cost of a full time secretary.




Gary Edgar

Thursday, 5 February 2009

How to get your own virtual PA






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Who Needs a Virtual PA?

You, if you’re a start up, from day one, you get credibility, a bit of company and space to think whilst you launch and push for the first flush of business.

You, if you’re a one man band, suddenly you’re not on your own, you have a consistent named PA to add to your team, make you look bigger and of course give valuable help.

You, if you’re part of an established team, because you’re not quite ready to employ someone else, or you need overflow at busy times, or holiday cover or whatever, so you don’t lose calls and can comfortably get on with your job knowing all is in hand.

You, if your business is seasonal and you know you can manage the majority of the time, but it’s handy to have the same well-briefed PA that you’ve come to know every season.

You, if you’re an employee in a corporate organisation, with a project or initiative that needs additional headcount, but no need or no budget to recruit a new team member, now you can have the best of both worlds, the same temp that can be available for you time after time, to pick up where she left off.

Each PA of course, with the benefit of a small, well trained back up team to ensure that standards of service are met during busier times.

And its easy to get started, just call 0845 226 8496 or email g.edgar@corebusinessvirtualpa.com

Tuesday, 3 February 2009

Secretarial support; introducing virtual PA services








Your Virtual PA will take some of the pressure from you allowing you to concentrate on the more important and business critical aspects of your role. Typically she can:

  • Deal with all VIP clients
  • Handle all new memberships to a loyalty scheme
  • Receive calls from retail stores and administrate the retail incentive schemes
  • Book places on to training courses for an in-house training department
  • Book all management medicals for numerous corporate clients
  • Take the phones for meeting or holiday cover, it’s easy to divert calls

Our virtual PAs have also been known to sort concert tickets, arrange flowers and gifts, send cards, and be happy recipients of the odd in-tray to sort through, file, and courier back to the office. They can also proof-read, type, receive dictation, and respond to generic enquiries and written correspondence. Oh and you can also have posted mail directed to our office here, so the first you see of it is when it’s all done, dusted and dealt with and it arrives at your office in a box ready for sending to archives, or if you like, on a disc ready for filing.

The benefits are obvious, and working remotely is easy once you get used to it.

Your virtual PA is paid to take initiative and is flexible, professional, personal, friendly and will do a great job.

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