Virtual Assistant service is a broad service that covers a lot of areas. Basically what a virtual assistant does is, it’s just like hiring a secretary to come to your office and work everyday but instead they stay at a remote office and work for you at a cheaper rate. What you get in return is low overhead.
This is something that is good and bad. Good meaning that you do keep your overhead low, BUT bad meaning that if you do outsource, who are you really hiring to deal with your business?
When you hire a virtual assistant try to hire someone withing american borders so that if anything does go wrong you have some type of leverage. These days there are many companies outsource to the asian market thinking that they are actually saving money, but in reality they are actually loosing money in many different way.
They loose money with time difference, communication, higher start up cost due to the first two issue listed, plus many more other ways. They also loose when they take money out of the country to send to another country. This creates an imbalance in the financial system. No matter what country you are in, this will create a BIG financial mess.
For more information on this view our article written about Virtual Accountants.
Glen