In the early noughties, not many people were familiar with the term VA and there were many raised eyebrows and long explanations. It was typical to be an employee of a businesses, work in an office with colleagues and enjoying the reliability of a salary, sick pay and holiday allowance. For their employers it was a different story. They had the expense of HR, payroll and IT departments, expensive offices to maintain and buying the latest IT equipment before they could think of staff!
Fast forward twenty years and the term VA is well known. Businesses who use a VA no longer have the expenses they had previously – there is no salary, tax or National Insurance to pay. No swanky office or equipment to buy. VA’s are commercially experienced individuals. Some specialise in marketing, some in IT, some in social media and Virtually Sue handles and enjoys every challenge given to her!
So, looking at it from that direction, why wouldn’t you use a VA
Do you look at your diary and sometimes think: Wow, how I am so busy? Why am I double booked?! I’m not free on that day! – Help!
Diary management isn’t easy. However, Virtually Sue really enjoys it! Sue works with her clients to ensure that their diaries are kept up-to-date and never double booked. Sue arranges meetings and re-confirms them the day before as your Personal Assistant (your contact doesn’t need to know you are using a VA service) and your chaotic diary becomes clear and more efficient for you.
How often do you check your email? every alert, every hour or not very often! Sometimes it is difficult not looking at your inbox but it’s not a great use of your time. By giving Virtually Sue access to your emails, Sue can identify and prioritise what is urgent and what is important. Sue can reply to emails on your behalf as your PA and you can carry on doing what you are best at without the constant ping alert on your phone!
Sometimes you need someone that you can trust with the details of a transaction you are working on or the meeting you are having away from your office, that is confidential, and you don’t want your staff to know about it. Over the years, Virtually Sue has been involved in arranging confidential phone calls, meetings and a lot more for her clients. Virtually Sue is the discrete, confidential resource you need at short notice and her lips are firmly sealed!
You would be surprised how many tenders, presentations, documents and websites Virtually Sue has reviewed as a fresh set of eyes for her clients. You may have spent many hours working a document or presentation, think it is finished but feel it just doesn’t look right. You can’t put your finger on what the problems is, and you are exhausted working on it and have had enough! By using Sue’s fresh eyes, she can usually identify the issue quickly. It might be a missing word, typo, comma or full stop and it will be these small details that will either win you the work or it will slip through your fingers. Never under-estimate the benefit of a fresh set of eyes!
During the pandemic everything stopped and there weren’t many events taking place. However, as we are gradually returning to “normal”, events and corporate hospitality will be back on the agenda. So, if you are planning a breakfast, lunch or dinner a corporate away-day or conference, let Virtually Sue take the pressure off and let her organise a super event for you.
This is a different kind of virtual administration service and hardly any VAs offer it. Over the last few years, Virtually Sue has helped individuals and small legal firms with pre-probate administration.
If you have had a bereavement and are surrounded by piles of paper and don’t know where to start, call Virtually Sue. Sue can collect all your papers, collate them and schedule everything onto a very straightforward spreadsheet and then suggest the best way forward to obtain Probate. At a very difficult time, there is a lot going on and a large amount of paperwork to deal with. Sue can help and take the pressure off. Of course, your solicitor could do all this for you but at a much higher fee than hers – and Sue would probably be quicker! Virtually Sue specialises in pre-probate administration, so why not give Sue a call for a free consultation.
While Virtually Sue is based in Norfolk, her clients are spread around the country and beyond.
In Sue’s experience, she has found that no two clients are the same, their priorities and requirements differ. So rather than buying blocks of time that you might not need or use, Sue offers a more flexible and cost-effective option with her On-Demand fee, where you pay for just what you need – nothing more.