As the internet continues to expand, so do the opportunities for freelancers and independent contractors to savour a piece of the pie while they service the needs of businesses who conduct most of their transactions via the internet.
For example, when I first established my online virtual assistant business as Office Support 911 back in 2006, I had no idea that three years later, my online business would explode with opportunities.
When I first started out, I was a complete unknown on the internet. I created my virtual assistance business from the ground up. At that time, I hadn’t yet realized the opportunities that lay ahead in the virtual world.
Word-of-mouth and social networking have been my primary sources of marketing. Referrals continue to flow in as my main source of new business. “They tell two friends and they tell two friends.”
Virtual assistant services may include:
- Calendar management
- Customer relationship management (CRM)
- Transcription
- Proofreading
- Web design
- Graphic design
- Social marketing management
- Ghostwriting
- Marketing (cold calls)
- Website hosting
- And the list goes on…
It truly is a freelancers’ market these days, more so than it was in the old days when companies had no other choice but to hire someone full-time or part-time to perform most of their tasks in their brick-and-mortar office. The employers would then need to pay someone for eight hours regardless of what that person did for them during those eight hours.
Nowadays, even brick-and-mortar establishments are starting to come online and search on the internet for possible solutions for their need for assistance. They are also finding that they are being wowed by the quality of assistance they are receiving from these virtual assistants.
Yes, the world of virtual assistance is being expanded day by day.
