Businesses owners hire Virtual Assistants to take on supplemental and administrative tasks, such as editing and proof-reading webinar presentations, sending thank you notes to customers and scheduling appointments, freeing up time for to increase profits and enjoy success with friends and family.

The Virtual Assistant community is a group of professionals who are largely former corporate employees committed to the highest level of service and quality. Becoming a Virtual Assistant is not an entry level role. Virtual Assistants bring years of administrative experience and knowledge who already “know the ropes” as opposed to a full-time employee who may be new to the business world.

I signed up for my Threadsy account fully expecting to be unimpressed. As a busy Virtual Assistant who manages multiple emails and social media accounts, I already use the top-rated tools out there. However, I found that Threadsy has some elements that are really interesting.

Email

Like all email applications, Threadsy does pull in emails and folders from multiple accounts. It shows them in one stream, much like Google’s Gmail. However, there is the option to view one email account stream at a time. Once an email is open, one can easily get back to the email stream by simply scrolling down, rather than using a back key or extra click somewhere. This simple feature removes a step, which is always an A+ in my opinion.

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 about you online, including your website or blog, your social media profiles on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter and most importantly your profile on LinkedIn.