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UK Virtual Assistant Operates on a “Pay-as-you-go” Basis
Cheshire, UK – November 2007 –

For a growing segment of professionals who are building a small to medium sized business, work means never having to set foot in an office or utter a single face-to-face hello to their colleagues.

From a home in Stalybridge, Cheshire, and from other homes throughout the UK, hundreds of people, including Helen Byrne, are helping businesses throughout the world as a virtual assistant, also known as VA.

Virtual assistants are professional office assistants who provide office services and support without being physically present at clients’ premises by using the Internet, fax, and telephone. Since much of their work is done online, they can work locally or globally.
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The virtual assistant industry is a booming one. However, if you are just starting out, you might be experiencing some concerns. Perhaps you are having a hard time getting new clients or maybe the long hours were not something you bargained for. Has the start-up process been slower than you thought it might be? There are many concerns that anyone new to the virtual assistant industry might have.

Making your business a success must involve some really hard work on your part. Below are my top ten tips to making your virtual assistant business a success.
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If you’re just starting out in business, you’ve probably already been told by a number of people that Networking is an essential activity to get involved in. It’s a great piece of advice and, even though it might fill you with absolute dread, it will provide a huge number of business contacts. Whilst not all of these will be directly relevant to you and your own business, referrals to third parties happen all the time and this really is the whole point to getting involved in Networking.
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