FF: Protection of life and property
VA: Assisting clients in keeping their business alive and growing
FF: Emergency care for sick and injured
- More calls for medical emergencies than any other
VA: Resolving operations issues
- Like I did for a client who set up a professional organization meeting for a Thursday. Late Wednesday afternoon, the company where he had reserved a special type of microphone (e.g., not many vendors carry them) called to say that one of theirs had been damaged and none was available. I researched and found one in the same city and arranged for my client to pick it up at 3 pm on the next afternoon, Thursday.
- Inspections
- Educating school children
- Presentations & educating community organizations
- Product and Service research for clients
- Purchasing
- Interfacing with professional organizations and government entities on behalf of my clients
FF: Maintenance of fire apparatus
- Cleaning, repairing, replacing
VA: Day-to-day office activities
- Correspondence, - authoring, preparing, & transmitting both hard copy and electronic
- Database creation, maintenance & updating Invoicing and expense report preparation
- Proposal & Contract preparation
VA: Constantly be aware of and ready to use and teach new
- Office techniques
- Software
- Hardware
Additional Firefighter Qualities
Good student
Continuing education
Team work/players
PR/public contact skills
Additional Virtual Assistant qualities
Good student
Continuing education
Team work/players
PR/public contact skills
So while Virtual Assistants are not universally recognized heroes like firefighters, we are heroes to our clients. Our professional goal is their business’s growth and success.
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