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Guide to Becoming a Virtual Assistance and Make Money at Home

A virtual assistance is a home-based entrepreneur or worker that provides business services to companies and enterprises. The services provided by virtual assistants include but not limited to:

  • Web design and Internet marketing
  • Database management
  • Data entry
  • Admin support
  • Customer services (respond to phone call, reply to email inquiries and, etc)
  • Organizing meetings
  • Medical and legal transcription
  • Writing, editing, translation and proofreading
  • Accounting services (bookkeeping, P & L and cash flow statement)
  • Secretarial services
  • Event planning
  • Mailing services
Virtual assistances are not employees of the companies they work for. They are independent contractors that provide business supports to companies using their own equipments such as telephone, computers, printer, scanner and fax machine. Virtual assistance usually are paid on hourly basis. The pay rate is anywhere between $5 to $50 per hour depending on the types of works you are handling and your qualifications.

Anyone who has working experience can become virtual assistance and high qualification is an added advantage. Finding virtual assistance job opportunities isn't difficult. You can start by searching on online job websites. Here are 2 websites that contain virtual assistance working opportunities:

Virtualassistantjobs.com/jobs.html - A staffing and recruiting firm that frequently need US virtual assistants (VA) to fill in the VA positions from their clients. It is free to get access to their VA jobs list.

Guru.com - Employers post jobs, VA vacancies and projects that they need assistance. Anyone can sign up as a service provider of guru.com to bid on the freelance & VA jobs, and projects. VA job offers mostly are targeted to US and Canada only. Freelance assignments and projects available to people around the world.
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