A business may have a variety of needs. The business owner has needs that may go unmet because he or she is always busy with work issues. For a virtual assistant looking for a niche, this type of client needs the multitasking expertise of a concierge professional.

Organization is hard to manage for some businesses. It is enough to work on creating products for clients or managing the services that they provide. In the grand scheme of things, other important stuff gets missed. Someone needs to pay attention to detail so that events and product unveilings go off without a hitch.

The Market

A business has many areas of operation. Take for instance a catering service that is preparing for an event. Besides the food, there is the equipment, hiring workers, uniforms and a million other details . Forgetting even one thing can hinder the event and cost the business a client .

An organization wants to set up a national meeting for its members. After the date is set and the invitations go out, the real work begins. There are hotels to reserve, entertainment, caterers and other arrangements to make. They need help managing the particulars.

The unsung hero of major events is the one who handles all of the things that go along with the grand ideas that someone else thinks up. With a small business , that unsung hero is the business owner who already has their hands full with other projects. Only a well organized person can coordinate and handle all of this with zeal.

Multitasking is not for the faint of heart. You may do it in your own life and find you have a talent for it. A virtual assistant that was once the right arm of an executive or another management professional knows how demanding it can be to handle every detail.

For the highly organized and multi-talented virtual assistant, using your skills to help in every aspect of your client’s life is a rewarding challenge. Some of the duties you will be called upon to make as a concierge virtual assistant:

• Event planning
• Business scheduling
• Making personal appointments
• Planning parties
• Hiring various services
• Buying personal and corporate gifts
• Hotel reservations
• Travel arrangements for clients
• Paying personal bills
• Handling household activities

A concierge virtual assistant is a personal assistant and business assistant all rolled into one. When a business client has an idea for a new product, you are the one doing the fact finding. If they forget to schedule doctor’s appointments for the kids, you call the dentist and arrange it. Their entire schedule is managed by you so that they are where they need to be when they need to be there. A concierge virtual assistant takes care of a client’s personal and business needs with an air of professionalism.

Jan Tallent
Tallent Agency Virtual Assistance

p.s.

I do not have the assorted duties I can perform for your business all listed in the services section of my web site BUT am open for suggestions on how I might help YOU with your needs, just message me.

There are countless ways a Virtual Assistant can be of service to you and your business. Just like an assistant in a brick and mortar office, your own
Virtual Assistant can be one of the best investments you can make FOR both your business and your own peace of mind!

Among the thousands, I am sure, services a Virtual Assistant can perform, here are just a few to give you an example and help you decide if a Virtual Assistant is right for you.

Although, of course, your Virtual Assistant can be either male or female, to keep from saying “he or she” and “his or her” for every task, I will write this in the SHE and HER mode.

Your own Virtual Assistant can:

Respond to customer e-mails and phone calls

Help out with some facets of your social networking
so you can spend more time SOCIALIZING!

Schedule appointments and interviews

Do the transcriptions of your interviews, podcasts, videos, etc.

Handle your Bookkeeping chores; for example:

invoicing clients, receiving and paying bills, balancing checkbooks
and reconciling bank statements, tracking expenses and tax records,etc.

Perform internet research for various facets of your business

Plan your travel and make necessary arrangements

Maintain your ezine and customer mailing lists, manage your ezine ad sales,
do research FOR ezine content and even write and/or compile it for you

Maintain your website, for example edit when needed, make changes and updates

take customer orders, create sales reports, ship orders and products

Submit your articles to other publishers and article sites

Update, edit and maintain your blog and research content for you to use on it

Proofread your documents, advertisements, web pages, etc.

Place advertisements in print or e-publications and on websites.

Format eBooks, create PDF files, send out printing jobs or do them herself.

Perform Data Back Ups so that all of your important information,
downloads, documents, etc. are safely duplicated in case of data loss

Research, list and maintain products for your online store, eBay store, etc.

( which is one of the duties MY own Virtual Assistant will have when I get one! )

and just about anything else your own in office assistant could do for you,
without the added expenses of a fully stocked office on your premises,
insurance and other benefits you would have to provide FOR
an in house employee AND she can keep the paperwork
overload in HER office instead of yours!