Who is a Basic Virtual Assistant?

A company or an individual who is mainly self-employed and provides creative, professional or technical assistance to clients remotely from a home office is known as a Basic Virtual Assistant. Virtual assistants are independent contractors and not employees and clients are not responsible for employee related taxes or insurance and benefits but indirect expenses are included in the Virtual assistant’s fees. They receive a 100% payment for their productive work and can even work with clients individually or in multi virtual assistant’s firms to meet their exact needs. Virtual assistant’s usually work for other small businesses but at the same time can also support busy executives. The profession of virtual assistant’s is growing in centralised economies. The common modes of interaction include the phone call conferences, internet, online work spaces, fax machine and e-mail. Nowadays, skype and google voice has been increasingly utilized by virtual assistants. Professional Virtual assistants usually work on a predetermined contractual basis and a long-lasting collaboration. With the help of skype, it has been possible to have a virtual assistant who can answer your phone remotely without the knowledge of the end-user. This allows many businesses to have some virtual assistant to even play the role of a receptionist without having to hire and pay an additional cost to a receptionist. Virtual assistants consists of individuals as well as companies who work remotely as an independently professional, providing a wide range of products, both to consumers and businesses.