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[accordion-item id=”item-1″ title=”Title of the first accordion item”]Virtual assistance is a branch of the administrative profession formalized by Anastacia Brice in 1997. The professionals are called virtual assistants, or VAs. VAs are micro business owners who provide administrative, operational, and personal support while working in long-term collaborative relationships with only a handful of terrific clients. Using phone, email, as well as other emerging technologies, VAs support their clients’ needs, across the board, without having to ever step foot inside the clients’ offices. [/accordion-item]
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As you move around the ‘net, you’ll see a variety of definitions about what virtual assistance is, and what VAs do. AssistU has always had a strong and distinctive brand of virtual assistance which we believe is the highest and best standard for the industry as a whole. We invite the entire virtual assistance industry to step up and use this particular definition!

We stand for VAs providing administrative, operational, and personal support, across the board, in long-term and collaborative relationships. So, a VA is a person who supports a client, across the board, administratively, operationally, and or personally without being geographically present in the client’s location.

Having said that, a VA is not someone who provides a single, focused service. For example, a VA doesn’t provide consulting services. That person is a consultant. A VA isn’t someone who only provides bookkeeping services. That person is a bookkeeper. A VA isn’t someone who only provides marketing support. That person is a marketing consultant or a marketing assistant. A VA isn’t someone who books speaking engagements. That person is an agent. Nor are VAs Tax Advisors, Accountants, Medical Transcriptionists, Web Designers, or professional business and personal coaches.

In our opinion, what makes a person a VA isn’t that the services can be performed at a distance, but rather that the services that are being performed are administrative, operational, or personal in scale and scope, and are provided with the desire to support the client across the board, not with just one specific function or task, no matter how ongoing that might be.

While it’s possible that a VA may offer additional services, those who offer limited, or non-administrative, operational, or personal services are not, in our opinion, Virtual Assistants.

Are we judgmental? We don’t believe so. There’s certainly room in the business world for whatever any business owner wants to offer to clients. However, we feel, and have always felt, that there needs to be a strong definition of what this profession is about; in order for Virtual assistance and VAs to have a future, we need to distinguish ourselves and what we offer as distinct from all others.

At AssistU, through our brand, we have been doing that since we formalized the profession years ago, and it’s part and parcel of what we stand for.
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For you working virtually in your own business can be especially powerful for many reasons, including

Gaining independence and control over your own life
Being successful on your own terms
Changing the paradigm from working for someone and running on that corporate gerbil wheel to owning your own company and choosing with whom you will work
Working at home lets you spend more time with your children, pets, aging parents
Only doing work you love
Doing diverse work
Getting to contribute in a way you may never have been permitted to before
Getting to use your creativity freely
Doing dynamic work with interesting people
Having no commute and no pantyhose!
Working with people who genuinely appreciate your contribution
Being a pioneer in a new profession
Setting your own hours, taking as much time off as is desired
Devising a schedule that works best for you and your family
Receiving compensation that genuinely honors the contribution you make
Not having to any longer be at the mercy of a corporate structure that doesn’t see you or honor you as a true professional in your own right

You might consider becoming a VA because of any one reason in the above list, or for a reason not shown. What we know is that the only job security in the world is the security you create on your own. The corporate world will continue to ask you for more, while giving you less. And downsizing continues… there is simply no way for you to know how long your job will be viable. If you want to, and are ready to create your own destiny, becoming a VA might be just the way to do that.
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