In doing a cost/benefit analysis to compare a Virtual Assistant (VA) to hiring a full-time employee (FTE), you may look at the per hour rate and on the surface think that you can hire a full-time employee more cheaply. A Virtual Assistant rate is typically from $35 – $50 per hour based on the time worked. A full-time employee is typically paid for 40 hours per week at a rate of around $15 – $25 per hour plus overtime.
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4 Out of 5 Stars for Threadsy
Threadsy has added a bio feature for learning more about fans and followers in your social media stream. When a fan or follower’s pic is clicked, a box pops up with a wealth of information including latest posts by the person. The best part about this is that it works for Facebook too, which is something I haven’t seen before. On a side note, this feature “works” with email profiles as well, but don’t expect to see much bio info pop up. Email security settings are too high for much info to get through.
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Social Media is Here to Stay
According to the Newsweek article Social Media Trends for 2010 social media is still on the rise. Twitter alone has over 7 million unique users and growing monthly. The biggest trend predicted for 2010 is the increased use of social media in corporate marketing structures. The small business sector is not excluded from these trends. [...]
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Your Personal Brand IS Your VA Reputation
DFW Virtual Assistants are free-agents and we are judged on both our past performance and our reputation. Both are strong indicators of future performance and because this directly effects future earnings VAs must create and promote their personal brand to clients, vendors, AND other VAs. Be sure to schedule time to review what is written [...]
