Team Double-Click® is looking for qualified candidates for the following positions:
Real Estate Virtual Administrative Assistant - Experienced Only
Real Estate Virtual Assistant Familiar with the Asheville, NC area
Cold Caller Located in United States or Canada
Cold Caller Located in the United Kingdom
Experienced Cold Caller/Real Estate Virtual Assistant Experienced with Top Producer
Real Estate Virtual Assistant Experienced with Relay Transaction Management System
Marketing Assistant
Public Relations Virtual Assistant
Please visit the website for detailed job descriptions. If you would like to be considered, are interested, motivated, and have a great attitude, please apply today by visiting our website at www.teamdoubleclick.com. Click on the “I want to work” button and you will be taken through the interview process.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Team Double Click is Hiring for Several Work at Home Positions
Monday, February 18, 2008
Team Double Click expands services to nonprofit sector
If you haven't heard of Team Double Click, they are one of the largest companies employing virtual assistants in the world. They place administrative professionals with businesses and handle the contracts and logistics. They also employ virtual personnel to handle customer service calls, answering services, and do telemarketing from home.
Team Double Click's virtual assistants go through a rigorous screening and testing process before receiving work, and they currently have a pool of over 34,000 trained professionals to choose from.
Hopefully, by expanding their virtual services to a new industry, more of those professionals will be able to get work from them, and work from home.
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Guest Article: How To Use Outsourcing And Virtual Assistants With These 3 Main Areas Of Business
This guest article by Diane Barnum is meant for businesses - but if you are interested in virtual assistant work, you'll find her to be a knowledgeable lady about how businesses are utilizing virtual assistants to save money and time.
Guest Article: How To Use Outsourcing And Virtual Assistants With These 3 Main Areas Of Business
By: Diana Barnum
The contracting of Virtual Assistants (VA) is the next big step for allowing businesses to cut costs while operating in an efficient manner. And companies like Moving Ahead Communications are bringing affordable outsourcing through their Virtual Assistant Plus programs, changing the face of outsourcing as we know it.
A Virtual Assistant provides any combination of tasks including administrative, technical and
even creative services to their clients, acting as an independent contractor. They work from their own offices, cutting out the costs of office space, operations costs and employment taxes, all of which usually fall to the responsibility of the employer. However, this type of outsourcing allows businesses to reduce expenses and redirect certain tasks to Virtual Assistant so that key employees can focus of vital responsibilities.
Research
Research is a vital aspect of marketing and valuable time can be wasted within a company by employees who do not have the training and skills to conduct efficient research or who are tasked with multiple duties where research is a fraction of their responsibilities. By outsourcing a Virtual Assistant to utilize research tools such as those offered by eBay, and Best Sellers at Amazon.com, and do nothing but research, a company can maximize its efficiency and stay ahead of the game.
Google Adwords and Adsense tools can be outsourced to a Virtual Assistant which means that there are no distractions stemming from other responsibilities. With this type of focus, a company can get very timely information on their market, what people are searching for and what they want to buy. When the VA delivers the information in real time, companies can get a jump on the competition. In marketing, timing is everything. It is imperative that a company receive up to the minute information on their target market, what is moving and what is losing ground. An employee who is torn between research and a dozen other tasks can not give this vital assignment the time and attention that is needs to keep the company at top notch competitive status.
Product Creation
While research tells a company how to fulfill the 4 P's of marketing, Product, Price, Place (distribution) and Promotion, the product is what generates the profit. Many products can be constructed by Virtual Assistants. Videos and EBooks are two prime examples of products that a business can outsource the majority of the creation process. Virtual assistants can even offer a service or a product on demand where specs are provided. For instance, an eBook company can take requests from clients. The company can then turn around and contract the Virtual Assistant to write the eBook to spec.
Other products may not necessarily be sold for profit, but may be use to attract customers and drive traffic to the company so that they will be exposed to the actual product. Autoresponders and various website visitor freebie give-aways like free eBooks can also fall into the category of products even though they will not directly contribute to the company's profit margin. Ecourses are another popular product that can be a free offering from the company or one of its products used for profit.
Sales & Marketing
A product can be top of the line, something that everyone needs or wants, but it does no good if no one ever sees it - if there is no promotion. A Virtual Assistant can be outsourced to conduct various aspects of the marketing process such as design and create websites, set up and manage affiliate programs, conduct the company's online campaign and do various other sales and marketing tasks. Article marketing and blogging are both very popular and very effective methods of marketing. The Virtual Assistant can focus all energies on the marketing process, attending to details that may normally be ignored or missed by employees who are tasked with a variety of responsibilities.
The Virtual Assistant can focus solely on driving relevant traffic to the company's website and can draw interested eyes to the product. They can help to increase the company's website ranking in the search engines. They can perform many duties including direct sales and sales calls. There are many options for promotion like ezines and newsletters, do social networking and email campaigns. The experts at Moving Ahead Communications can devise a plan for any business and any form of marketing campaign.
By outsourcing vital tasks to Virtual Assistants, businesses can delegate non core operations to experts that exist outside of the business. Moving Ahead Communications is breaking ground in providing businesses of any size a one stop shop for outsourcing through Virtual Assistants. From administrative duties, press releases, copywriting and marketing, to web content, auto responders and other tasks, Moving Ahead Communications meets the needs of businesses where it counts and they allow those businesses to utilize outsourcing and Virtual Assistants through three primary areas of business, research, product creation and sales and marketing, thus cutting costs and increasing efficiency and production.
Hiring a Virtual Assistant - the work, the need, and the business
Hiring a virtual assistant is fast becoming a need for the busy entrepreneur, small business owner and person on the run. With the advent of new technologies and ways of doing business, the VA is here to help you on your way.
Virtual assistants are independent entrepreneurs who work remotely and use technology to deliver services to clients globally. Most work from their home offices and receive their project instructions by phone, fax, e-mail or even instant message. Many virtual assistants offer secretarial services, marketing, graphic and Web design, IT support or even translations are becoming more common.
Clients are most likely to hire virtual assistants to save money. Virtual assistants pay for their own equipment, taxes, training, healthcare and insurance. Industries most often hiring virtual assistants include the real estate, insurance, financial services, accounting, legal, engineering and large corporations as well as small business owners to reduce financial constraints while building a business.
Clients benefit from:
* No Overhead
* Minimal investment
* No long term commitment
* No multiple vendors
* No hidden costs
* No hiring and payroll headaches
Working virtually is especially powerful for many reasons:
Giving work to a Virtual Assistant gives back time and space for an abundance of other things, which may include:
* Growing a business
* Doing just the work you love
* Spending more time with family and friends
* More balance in life
Virtual Assistants will manage all the services that your business requires. Some of the more common services offered are:
* Business and Personal Services
- Word Processing
- Photography
- Desktop Publishing
- Ad Campaign Management
- Personal Assistance - errands, scheduling, reminders
- Database Management
- Corporate and Personal Travel Services
- Corporate Event and Party Planning
- Copywriting - News articles, blog, press releases
- Promotion Products search
- PowerPoint Presentations
- PDF Conversions
- Consulting - Home Based Business
* Design and Site Marketing
- Link Building Campaigns
- URL submissions
- News Articles/Blogs
- Web Design and Marketing
- Website Page Content
- Commercial Photography Services
- Photo Enhancing and animation
* Other Services
- Mapping Services - Digitizing, GIS (Geographical
- Information Systems) and AutoCad
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Psst... The Little White Ebook of Virtual Assistant / Admin Jobs
First of all, if you want to get an EXCLUSIVE great deal on BOTH The Little White Ebook of Homeshoring Jobs and The Little White Ebook of Virtual Admin Jobs in the next week, jump on our email list now.
If you are a member of the media or a blogger, and would like to review either ebook, email melissa at littlewhiteebook.com
And if you just want to see the super-secret sneak preview, with over 70 employers that hire work from home administrative professionals, download it below. You're the first to set eyes on it - and we're doing the final edit as I type this.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Free Virtual Career Training & Support for Military Spouses
There are a couple of great companies out there that provide support, services, and career matching for military spouses that want to work from home. While they primarily focus on helping miltary spouses learn to start their own virtual enterprises, the training they give is worth hundreds of dollars, and the support they give is priceless with their online communities.
VSS CyberOffice
Military Spouse Virtual Assistants
Home Base USA
We applaud these companies - please let us know if you hear of any more like them!
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Virtual Assistant Blog Hopping :-) ebook
There's a fun new ebook out that should be a great resource for small business owners and others interested in the virtual assisting businesses. Sharon Williams, a professional VA, spent 45 days "blog hopping" - answering questions from people around the world. She's turned the Q & A into an Ebook.
2007 Virtual Assistant Blog Hopping and Podcast Tour hits the virtual shelves this week.
The new eBook recounts Williams' virtual 45-day trip around the Internet as she visited different blogs and podcasts, responding to 200+ questions about the Virtual Assistant Industry and its annual online convention. She stopped in Australia, Canada, the US, England and other countries, virtually, providing insight regarding the industry's history, technology trends, benefits of working with VAs -- anything blog readers and podcast listeners wanted to know about one of the fastest growing home-based businesses of the 21st century.
A Virtual Assistant (VA) is an entrepreneur providing administrative and other business support services to business owners, remotely. "Savvy small business owners as well as overworked and overwhelmed solopreneurs can now delegate back office, mundane and non-income generating tasks to more than 20,000 work-from-home admin. specialists, while they concentrate on responsibilities that fuel their passion."
Many participants were interested in learning how to build a successful VA practice. Others wanted answers to questions, such as, "Isn't working with a VA more expensive than hiring an employee?"; and, "How can I be confident that a VA who specializes in my industry won't share my business ideas with other clients?" Ms. Williams used the tour to respond to these and similar inquiries from emerging, aspiring and veteran VAs as well as Web-based business owners.
The tour was, and will continue to be an opportunity to educate executives and entrepreneurs about the advantages of working with VAs," states Ms. Williams. It covers many topics including pricing, promotion, marketing, networking, niches, branding -- just about any topic a small business owner and/or VA would be interested in exploring about the virtual assistance industry.
Sounds like a fun project with some interesting insight. Go check it out.
