Sunday, July 4, 2010

Calling all Road Warriors

Are you a ‘Road Warrior’ constantly stuck behind a wheel travelling from one client to the next appointment?

There will always be a demand for people to provide face to face contact until we arrive at the point where every household has live real time visual contact much more advanced than the great webcam and Skype.

A Virtual Assistant can be such a valuable asset if you’re out on the road. Not all reps, consultants, sales people, private health practitioners have the automatic knowledge and skill to work fancy appointment setting gadgets from their iPhone or Blackberry and don’t want the hassle of dragging a laptop around which can be easily mislaid or lost.

Having a Virtual PA on hand to phone with updates and changes to their daily appointments is an essential part of their tool kit.

One good example is a business owner who runs a very busy private physiotherapist company visiting children in schools and family homes. With an already busy family life she requires the essential tool kit of a Virtual PA to act as her safety net to keep her day to day activities running smoothly without any hiccups.

After completing her visit into school to see the patient she’s able to get back into her car and phone her Virtual PA and verbally provide the detail to make up the report/summary from the visit. The Virtual PA types as she talks creating the report which is then emailed over to the Case Manager.
Job done!

This frees up the time for the business owner to go home and spend quality time with her young family instead of frantically writing up reports from her daily visits which are sent to the Case Manager at a much later date.
Certainly makes the business owner look highly efficient!

It’s all about time management and creating that perfect work life balance in business without it costing the earth.