Where Can I Get a Replacement?

Dear Gritty VA:

Its not easy to find a Virtual Assistant. Do you go for a one person operation or do you use a company that can offer replacements if your VA has the flu. –DA

Here’s what seems to be the tricky part for folks to understand about Virtual Assistants. They aren’t employees and they aren’t temps. So maybe to help you better understand the relationship, it might help to switch the question around: Do you offer "replacements" to your clients when you get the flu?

Sometimes businesses are closed for whatever reason, and a Virtual Assistant is not going to be working with you in the same capacity as an employee so it should not matter if they get the flu or go on vacation. Your business shouldn’t be dependent on whether ANY of your service providers happens to be closed.

It’s not the role of a Virtual Assistant to keep your operations going. If that’s what you need, then you really need an employee.

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This entry was written by Danielle Keister, posted on September 17, 2008 at 10:00 am, filed under Business Savvy, Dear Gritty VA, Virtual Assistant/Virtual Assistance and tagged Virtual Assistance, Virtual Assistant, Virtual Assistants. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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