Here's what to know about the assistants running your home . . . your car . . . your phone Google Assistant and Amazon's ...

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For general virtual assistants, important skills are communication, tech savviness, schedule and project management, social media proficiency and customer support.

Virtual assistants are increasingly expected to have expertise in social media — such as finding clients, promoting products, and general marketing. Christianson said social-media research is ...

Boldly is a work-at-home company that offers multi-lingual support from virtual assistants who are carefully matched to their ...

Employers that use virtual assistants don’t have to worry about office space, equipment or benefits, and can hire VAs on a per-hour or per-project basis as needed.In the realm of startups, the ...

Virtual assistants, emerging from humble mobile app beginnings, have undergone an evolutionary journey, and now have unique channel-dependent capabilities. This has led to discrepancies in customer ...

Hannah Dixon says virtual assistants have to exceed expectations to find success. That doesn't always mean working long hours — look for opportunities to "dazzle and delight!" ...

It’s flexible. When Army wife Delilah Wieman first looked at becoming a virtual assistant, she was attracted to the flexibility. She loved doing administrative work but couldn’t devote 40 ...