An Extra Pair of Hands Whenever You Need Them

Is there anybody out there who couldn't use an extra pair of hands? Who needs help with getting the bills paid on time? Organising an electrician, plumber, decorator, etc to carry out work at home? Someone to answer the phone? Make your appointments? Type up your reports? Research holiday destinations and organise your travel - both home and abroad? Someone to manage your expenses and file your returns? Someone who can help you write your literature, blogs, flyers, who can help you with mailing campaigns or follow up calls. Sounds good?

Well, a virtual assistant service can place all this help at your fingertips. A perfect solution for anyone with too much to do and not enough time to do it in.

Think of it like hiring a temp from an employment agency - only you'll never have to do that again! A virtual assistant is self employed and bills only for actual hours worked - no paying for coffee breaks, holiday leave, sick leave or employment taxes. Because a virtual assistant works remotely (ie not in your office) the use of web based tools like instant messenger services, email, online calendars, task managers, online filing etc are used to help you work with your assistant. Schedule changes, project reports, customer service alerts can all be performed immediately. A virtual assistant can help bring the impression of size to your company.

Find out more about working within a virtual office.

The Away PA provides an "on demand" secretarial and business support service in conjunction with it's online office "Head Office". To find out more about how you can take advantage of a fully supported office, anywhere, any time, visit the Head Office website or The Away PA Website or email info.headoffice@theawaypa.eu or telephone 08450 527565.

Share your Diary and More

Sharing your weekly diary/calendar with a remote or virtual assistant/secretary can be a great asset to your business. There are various tools on the web which enable you to do this, for example Head Office and Google Calendar.

Keeping track of projects with one of these tools, or other similar available online systems, can go a long way towards helping you organise your business and keep things running smoothly - and you can utilise a virtual or remote assistant/secretary to help you.

These diary / calendar systems allow any number of people to see when events are happening within your business and to make notes on a project's status. You can also use these systems to assign tasks to your remote / virtual assistant and track progress.

In order to manage your projects effectively, you will need to ensure that each project is properly defined with accurate deadlines and milestones. It would be prudent to also allow contingency timings as a "cushion" in the event of unexpected delays. The online calendar systems will provide daily reminders, due dates and the current status of each project. As each stage of the project comes together, colleagues and teams will need to collaborate with each other to drive the project forward. These tools allow people to communicate effectively, with the ability to work away from the office location, on site, from home, etc.

These online "e-office" systems, eg Head Office, also allow you to share files easily. Technology is great, but when something goes wrong - for example lost emails, computer crashes, etc - the impact can be significant on your business. With these systems, files can be stored and shared online - if one person downloads a file and loses that copy, the last or latest version of the file can simply be downloaded again.

Being able to share your "e-office" (diary, files, email (if you require email monitoring by your secretary/assistant) ) makes it extremely easy to work together with someone if you are a home worker or travel a lot in your business. It also allows you to share information with business partners and clients.

The Away PA is a small business support specialist focussed on the needs of the individual entrepreneur and small business. Find out how a remote / virtual assistant/secretary can transform your business and save you time.


The Away PA provides an "on demand" secretarial and business support service in conjunction with it's online office "Head Office". To find out more about how you can take advantage of a fully supported office, anywhere, any time, visit the Head Office website or The Away PA Website or email info.headoffice@theawaypa.eu or telephone 08450 527565.

A Creme PA Service

Virtual Assistants are a crème service similar to that of the old fashioned personal secretary of years gone by. Today's online personal secretaries (Virtual Assistants or VAs) can help entrepreneurs and professionals expand their respective businesses in a very cost effective way.

In today's technologically developed world, Virtual Assistants are not limited to the old concept of simply completing routine administrative and secretarial tasks. Instead, the role of the VA today has become much more extensive. These online personal assistants are not only able to handle all your business administration processes but can also handle many other business requirements, such as creating dynamic and interactive Powerpoint presentations, developing complex Excel spreadsheets, writing and designing advertising, writing blogs, email marketing , debt recovery, designing company branding, building websites, as well as the more routine appointment scheduling, travel itinerary planning, email support etc.

With mobile working becoming more prevalent a VA service makes a perfect support system to this style of working.

The Away PA provides an "on demand" secretarial and business support service in conjunction with it's online office "Head Office". To find out more about how you can take advantage of a fully supported office, anywhere, any time, visit the Head Office website or The Away PA Website or email info.headoffice@theawaypa.eu or telephone 08450 527565.

Consider Social Media for effective Company Branding

Brand-building is very important when selling products and services. Effective brand building needs the concerted efforts of everyone involved in your company, irrespective of the efforts of brand managers and people responsible for really driving the brand and for establishing the image of the company. Anyone who represents the company must hold onto the business’ values and beliefs to maintain the business’ reputation and project a solid image of the company.

A Virtual Assistant can represent your business in a number of ways. Consider using social media for brand-building and take advantage of the services of a virtual assistant to deliver consistent branding messages through Twitter, Facebook, and other similar social media accounts.

Social media will let you send messages to your target market that will reinforce the kind of image you want to project to the public. Because social media are capable of reaching a wide audience, they can be used to help you establish and propagate your brand. The more people you are able to communicate with the more people will also understand what your business is about, what products and services you sell and what value you provide.

Twitter provides an effective tool for you to communicate with hundreds and thousands, millions even, of people from all around the globe. Other social media will also give you that opportunity. However, using social media for branding and other tasks is time consuming. Consider hiring a Virtual assistant who can dedicate the required time for your social media tasks to support your branding efforts on line.

To find out more about branding using social media and how a virtual assistant can help you achieve this, contact The Away PA.

The Away PA provides an "on demand" secretarial and business support service in conjunction with it's online office "Head Office". To find out more about how you can take advantage of a fully supported office, anywhere, any time, visit the Head Office website or The Away PA Website or email info.headoffice@theawaypa.eu or telephone 08450 527565.