Liskeard Businesswoman delighted With 'Virtual' Certificate

July 21, 2009 - PRLog -- A Liskeard businesswoman, Dawn Lane, of Your Office Online, is the first UK Virtual Assistant (VA) to be awarded certification which sets a benchmark for virtual assistants across the globe.

The high-flyer was singled out by a panel of experts from America, UK, Canada and Australia as having achieved the high standards the VA industry believes are essential for clients to know that the VA they are partnering with are capable of the job.

Tawyna Sutherland, of VAcertified.com, says “Virtual Assistants who are VAcertified demonstrate to clients and prospective clients that:
1.   Their products and services are relevant to how business is conducted in today’s global economy.
2.   They are committed to offering a level of professionalism in all that they do, both for their clients and the virtual assistance industry at large.
3.   They are the VA they say they are. They represent themselves, their businesses, their offerings and the VA industry with integrity, honesty and respect for others.

When VAs have the VAcertified seal on their website and other key marketing materials, any client from any country will have reason to trust in their ability to be the RIGHT Virtual Assistant to partner with. It’s that simple.”
   
Lane says “I am absolutely delighted to be recognised by my industry with such a prestigious award.” She continues “Most businesses, from small start-up companies to multi-national, can benefit from partnering with a VA gaining the professional services of a personal assistant whilst only being charged for the actual time spent on their work and not having to worry about things like HR issues, covering for leave, NI and PAYE etc. As VAs are self-employed business people in their own right, they have an understanding of the pressures businesses are under in today’s economy and are able to help businesses with their admin requirements in many ways, not just typing reports and memos.”
“And I am thrilled to be recognised as one of the best.”

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About Your Office Online: Set up in 2006 when Dawn Lane recognised a gap in the administration market for SMEs, business start-ups and business executives who needed secretarial support but who may not want or need to employ a full or part time secretary. Your Office Online provides remote secretarial support to a wide range of business and industry sectors with clients in the not for profit, medical and journalism sectors. Work is carried out via fax, email and telephone from their own premises thus cutting down on overheads to the clients they work with. The client receives the highest quality secretarial support on an 'as needed basis' without the worry or on-going financial cost that an employee can bring in these difficult economical times.