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Breaking Down the Costs
Being in the virtual staffing business, we at Team Double-Click? are often asked, ?why should I hire a virtual assistant and how would it benefit me?? The answer is simple: you will save money (nearly 50 percent) and time.
I don?t think it?s any secret that when an employee is in the office [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Key #3: Training</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you struggling with the thought of how to train your virtual assistant? Is that preventing you from getting started? I hear that a lot. Maybe you are concerned with the amount of time it might take to train her. I hear that too. The first thing to remember is that if don?t train your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualassistants.lakho.com/2008/11/key-3-training/</link>
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		<title>How Long Can I Expect My Virtual Assistant To Stay With Me?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That?s the number one question I?m asked by clients, future clients, and interviewers. So how long can we expect virtual assistants to stick? My answer is always the same: ?it depends?. It depends on many things. But first we need to realign our thinking a little bit and better understand today?s workforce.
As a small or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working Green</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Gayle Buske 
These days everyone is talking about going green: green building, green recycling, and green commuting, green EVERYTHING! And with good reason; all reports indicate that global warming is on the increase; various animal species are on the decrease and near extinction. Much of this is due to the way we, and generations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you still wondering what in the world a virtual assistant can do for you?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you still wondering what in the world a virtual assistant can do for you? Below you&#8217;ll find some helpful suggestions. Keep in mind that our VA&#8217;s have been through an extensive interview and training process: Only about 30% of interested VAs are added to the Team Double-Click? roster following their interviews. In addition, our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does A Down Market Mean You Need To Downsize Too?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let?s just say it ? the real estate market is down and the mortgage industry is, well, a smidge messy right now. It?s no secret. The question is how to survive during a poorly performing market. What do most companies cut first when things start to slide? If you answered ?marketing? or ?staff? you nailed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualassistants.lakho.com/2008/08/does-a-down-market-mean-you-need-to-downsize-too/</link>
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		<title>Valuable article: Avoiding Virtual Assistant Performance Pitfalls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my last article, Virtual Assistant-Hiring Pitfalls we explored the common hot water items companies face when hiring virtual assistants and how to avoid them. Now it&#8217;s time to talk about possible performance pitfalls and how we can protect ourselves and the virtual assistant when hiring.
What&#8217;s really most important when hiring a virtual assistant is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make Sense: Avoiding Virtual Assistant-Hiring Pitfalls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can hear it now, ?What?? All this time you and others have been telling us about the benefits of hiring virtual assistants and now you tell us there are pitfalls?? I feel like the old Endust? commercial ?And now Pledge? says to watch for build-up?? It?s as true with hiring virtual assistants as it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualassistants.lakho.com/2008/08/make-sense-avoiding-virtual-assistant-hiring-pitfalls/</link>
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		<title>Soaring Gas Prices! Makes Even More Sense To Hire Virtual Assistant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What happens when gas prices soar to all-time highs of $3.00 and $3.50 per gallon &#8211; more in some areas? Recent tragedies, such as Hurricane Katrina, and alleged oil shortages have driven gas prices to an all-time high. Most of us can ride out high gas prices in the short term but what happens when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Paperless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Going paperless. Sound a little scary? Nah, not really. At least it doesn&#8217;t have to be. As few as 10 years ago, we kept box upon box of archived paper files. At one point, we had at least 100 of those boxes stuffed to capacity with trees. Unfortunately, it was a necessity. Back then, though, [...]]]></description>
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