In a time lacking in truth and certainty and filled with anguish and despair, no woman should be shamefaced in attempting to give back to the world, through her work, a portion of its lost heart. — Louise A. Bogan

Assist University Electronic Media Kit

Virtual Assistance Story Angles

Virtual Assistance Businesses eliminate negative stereotypes and discrimination
Even in a work world where discrimination is prohibited by law, stories abound about people losing jobs due to perceived imperfections: age, size, looks. If yours aren't ight, there's no job for you. Virtual Assistants face none of that. Only their personalities, skills, experience, and the value they create for clients are considered. Ask for contact information for imperfect VAs.

Unhappy employees become happy VAs
Often underpaid, overworked, disrespected, undervalued, doing mundane task after mundane task, lack of control, no security (pink slip always looming) = unhappy employee

Paid what she's worth, setting her own work hours, respected as a professional and equal by clients who are hand selected, choosing work that jazzes her, complete control (says yes or no-it's her right!), all the security she can create for herself (pink slip never again looming) = happy VA

AssistU trains people to start and sustain thriving, individual businesses so that they never again have to be slaves to the corporate world. Ask for contact information for happy, thriving VAs.

Disrespected administrative professionals find a new "home," respect and recognition they deserve in their own businesses
Ask administrative professionals and they'll tell you horror stories about the rampant disrespect and mistreatment in the corporate world that sees them as being about as integral and worthy of attention as the copy machine.

Ask expat administrative professionals who have become VAs, and they'll tell you stories about having work that finally frees them to fully contribute, while allowing them to have high-quality lives they create for themselves in businesses where they no longer feel disrespected, and feel very much valued. Ask for contact information for expats turned VA.

WAHMS
The biggest issue for families today is sustaining an income while also wanting to provide loving, nurturing care to their young children. Some find virtual assistance as a way to work from home. All who come to AssistU find that their VA practices allow them to use their skills, do work they love, and feel as if they're fully contributing to their clients' businesses, all the while able to design a flexible work schedule that lets them be available to their children. Ask for contact information for work-at-home-moms with successful VA practices.

Virtual Assistance enhances the retirement experience
It's no secret that the baby boomer generation will be retiring in record numbers within the next 10 years. Boomers, on the whole, tend to be well educated, independent, and socially responsible. In retirement, as in their careers, they will look for meaningful ways to use their time. Boomers typically enjoy a relatively high income level, and that will encourage many to look for ways to augment their retirement income.

Virtual Assistance will prove a perfect fit for some retiring boomers. It provides an avenue for continuing meaningful, creative work and forming rewarding client relationships. The VA can design the work schedule and choose the income level that best suits her new lifestyle. In fact, this may prove to be one of the most rewarding phases in her life! Ask for contact information for satisfied, productive, previously-retired VAs.



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