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It seems that in the UK, businesses are still relatively unsure as to what benefit they could get from partnering with a Virtual Consultant/Assistant ... that is, if they have even heard of them!

This brilliant 'blog article from a leading American VA, Tawnya (of www.VANetworking.com) puts the relationship into perspective:

"Let us, for a moment, imagine that your business is a beehive and you are the Queen Bee. After all, the Queen is the most important person in the hive - her sole job is to lay eggs. Without eggs, there are no bees so nothing else can happen. You are also the most important person in your business - goes without saying if you are a "solo-preneur". You are responsible for getting new clients and ensuring all daily operations run smoothly.

Each beehive is a whole world in itself. Each bee has a role to play, it is a very well-organized society. The Queen has one job - to lay the eggs, but there are worker bees who make the honey, there are guard bees who make sure no robber bees get in, there are scout bees who go around finding the best flowers, there are nurse bees who make sure the babies are cared for, there are bees who tend to the Queen - fanning her and caressing her, there are even bees whose lot in life is to remove the dead bees from the hive.

If it were the Queens responsibility to make honey, guard the hive, scout for nectar and remove dead bees, how many eggs would get laid?

As a business owner, every second you spend typing up letters, writing newsletters, blogging, entering contacts in your database and researching stuff on the Internet is eating up your egg laying time. Rather, the time you should be spending on meeting with clients, finding new ones and just doing what you want to be doing.

Honeybees have a lot to teach us ... What sort of chaos would a hive be in if the Queen were running around trying to do everything herself? She is smarter than that. If a Queen bee could give you some advice, she would probably tell you to go get yourself a Virtual Assistant so you can focus on what is important. The future of your company depends on it just as the future of the Queens hive depends on her focus on egg laying.

Honeybees invented the art of delegating as far as I am concerned!"

Maybe you are an individual looking for help with typing a manuscript from handwritten notes?

Maybe you are part of an SME (small and medium enterprise) looking for an extra pair of hands to help with transcription or have particular projects in mind which need specific skill-sets but you don't want (or have space for) another person in your already-cramped office?

Maybe you are part of a large company and temps are proving too expensive or it is too difficult to find additional desk-space?

Maybe are a wellbeing practitioner, needing a little help in sorting out your client consultation forms, typing up case studies for CPD purposes, tweaking your marketing materials to ensure a continuous corporate image or thinking of setting up e-courses or e-marketing?

Virtual assistance provided by a Virtual Assistant will give you experienced support given off-site which frees up more space and gives you freedom to continue working, without having to oversee the "temp" or train up another person. You will always have direct link to your Virtual Consultant/Assistant and you choose to either use their skills on an ad-hoc, short-term or long-term basis.

By using a Virtual Consultant/Assistant's skills and knowledge you will be able to cut back on not only time and space, but also substantially on financial expenditure.

The financial advantages of using a Virtual Consultant/Assistant are plenty: no taxes or payroll issues to concern yourself with; no health or safety issues; no need to buy more workstations and hardware; no need to move staff around to find room for just one more desk - a big issue for today's corporate, banking and legal sectors; no need to ring a dozen agencies to find a temp at short notice or worry about finding someone to train the temp up.

Instead, all you need to pay for is the time that your Virtual Consultant/Assistant has spent entirely focused on your project.

It is always, in today's environmentally-conscious society, good to feel as if you are doing your small bit for the world too.  No need for a temp or new employee to commute in, suffering stresses of daily commuting and fuel usage; less energy used as no extra hardware is needed.  No need to have the air-conditioning turned up to accommodate another hot employee in an already-cramped office; less consumables used. 

Why use a Virtual Consultant/Assistant? Because it gives you a timely, cost-effective and environmentally-sound option, enabling you to tap into specialist skills that may be all but unidentifiable when you are recruiting ... and affords you FLEXIBILITY.

Take a peek at our Fees section to see examples of how to maximise your clientele and profit-margins by making use of your cherry-picked Virtual Consultant and Assistant.

Are you finding it increasingly difficult to keep track of your ever-expanding client list? 

We are happy to help you maintain and manage your database requirements.

We are able to help you with everything from specifications, reports and journals to letters, memos. Minutes and complete procedural manuals.  Overflow typing.  Your documents will be professionally-presented electronically in your specific in-house style or in our professional corporate style

With an excellent eye for accuracy and detail, re-formatting tricky documents is a speciality - no more need to spend hours trying to figure out what to do, no need to panic or start re-typing! Just send it to Moonpoppy Enterprises where we can work some magic on it.

We are also able to incorporate special features such as graphics and DTP (desktop publishing) options. If you wish us to include special layouts incorporating columns, tables or charts, just let us know.

No more old-fashioned typewriters ... all hi-tech, fast and accurate!

:: Event organisation

If you need to organise business meetings, trade shows, conferences and exhibitions, Moonpoppy Enterprises can help you to project-manage your big event by issuing invitations, collation of responses and preparation of literature.

:: Editorial work

We can offer any, or all, of the following:

- correction of grammar, spelling, punctuation and English usage, retaining the original meaning

- checks for clarity, tone and structure of the document

- re-organisation of text and/or change the order of paragraphs to improve the overall clarity and readability of the document

- re-write service 

- reduce word count

NB. Should the project contain technical terminology or subject-matter which we are not automatically familiar with, we reserve the right to limit editorial services.

For all writers, publishers, University students or trainee complementary therapists or homeopaths (not an exclusive list, by any means!) ... this is the quick turnaround service you have been searching for!

If you have:

:: handwritten notes

:: typed drafts

:: a mixture of allsorts ... just send them to Moonpoppy Enterprises to be prepared for readership.

What do you do if you are due to make a presentation or deliver a lecture, but the overhead projector never works and you can't figure out - or have the time and patience to work out - the peculiarities of PowerPoint?  Or if you need it reformatting to fit a new company structure or business idea?

All we need is for you to provide us with your notes (and a company logo or company PowerPoint (PPT) template for extra "wow" factor).  We can turn them into a dazzling PowerPoint presentation for you. From your notes we can also incorporate graphics, clipart and charts - even music if you so wish. 

The PowerPoint presentation will also enable you to print out accompanying handouts, exactly as per your presentation.

Checking proofs (documents) for spelling mistakes and grammatical errors is a critical but fundamental task for any business.  Mistakes not noticed at this stage can lead to huge costs being incurred at the page proof stage (or even after printing).  Although spellcheckers are useful, they are limited in their intelligence and will not be able to distinguish the correct tense in the sentence. 

We are able to provide:

:: straight proofreading, marking-up on hard copy using industry-standard proofreading symbols

:: corrections to digital copy with all changes flagged for approval before printing

:: checks for clarity and fluidity

:: checks for problems in page layout and mark-up copy

:: checks for inconsistencies in both content and style, querying errors

:: checks for English grammar errors, punctuation and spelling

We are able to search and review Internet resources on specific topics and report to you in your preferred format.

Desk-based research is also available.