Comments on: From Secretaries to Virtual Assistants to … Social Media Assistants?

By: Virtual Assistant Become Highly Successful Sought After VA | The Work at Home Woman

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:23:56 +0000

[...] the Bureau of Labor Statistics is far behind the trend, this article written by Anita Campbell indicates that the Virtual Assistant field will continue to grow and [...]

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:10:17 +0000

Did someone say social network for virtual assistants? lol

We’ve created one over at http://www.findvirtual.com/ and it has really been growing fast. We encourage readers of this post to check us out when they have time.

-Kel

By: Articles about the Virtual Assistant Industry « The Virtual Rave

Articles about the Virtual Assistant Industry « The Virtual Rave — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:27:22 +0000

[...] http://www.theappgap.com/virtual-assistants-social-media.html [...]

By: imee fulgencio

imee fulgencio — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:27:53 +0000

In fairness, virtual assistants are in today. They are all capable in doing their work and can do multitasks. Need VA? http://www.epvirtualassistants.com will be a great help for you.

By: Ishani Mitra

Ishani Mitra — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:43:05 +0000

Virtual assistants are becoming an indispensabe part of our lives nowadays. An interesting article on virtual assistants at http://outsorcerer.com/blog/?p=22

By: Martin Lindeskog

Martin Lindeskog — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:48:20 +0000

It is interesting to see how carer fields and paths are developing when a paradigm shift has arrived. The technology progress is moving fast and my guess is that home based business will get a real important role in the economy in the near future.

I studied an advanced vocational education during 2002 – 2005 called international project coordinator. The education started out as a course for secretaries and assistants after the fact that many of these had to learn new stuff like management of administrative data, learning computerized systems, etc. The education has later on evolved into how you could take care of a whole project and coordinate tasks, milestones, and so on.

By: Anita Campbell

Anita Campbell — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:25:57 +0000

Brent,

What’s even more interesting is if you do a Google Trends query for the phrases “secretary” and “administrative assistant.” You see that the word “secretary” has a declining number of searches, while the phrase “administrative assistant” is roughly flat (except for a spike in April of each year when you have Administrative Professionals Week). Admittedly, Google Trends is indirect evidence at best, but it is still interesting to see.

– Anita

By: Brent Leary

Brent Leary — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:09:47 +0000

Anita you’re so right about the out of date stats. Tools like Google Trends really gives us a more current snapshot of what’s going on. Searches are not only for the term virtual assistants, but there’s a good number of “chatter” about virtual assistants taking place on Twitter, as I found out from using Summize.com.

It looks like “going virtual” may be the way a lot of people will be going to grow their small business.

By: Jenny Ambrozek

Jenny Ambrozek — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:26:46 +0000

Interesting numbers and especially your observation that virtual assistants tend to support small businesses. I don’t know how the role of small businesses in economies globally plays out but as I understand it small businesses fuel the US economy. So this sounds like a promising trend, no?

By: Anita Campbell

Anita Campbell — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:18:15 +0000

Hi Jenny, yes, I read Jon’s article and liked it.

The virtual assistant industry appears to be booming.

It seems largely an SMB (small and midsize business) phenomenon, since so many VAs serve small businesses. But some progressive larger companies are adopting the concept of a VA in their distributed workforces, too — probably as an employee “virtual assistant”– rather than an independent contractor as most small businesses use.

Anita