Virtual Assistant

Description: I need someone with great spoken English (little or no accent) this person could be located anywhere in the world, to be my FULL-TIME personal assistant. I define full-time as 8 business-working hours a day, 5 days a week, Monday through Friday. Your working time is fixed because you will be making business calls to the UK hence I require you to work from 10:00 am – 4:00 pm GMT for calls with the remaining 3 ½ Hours in the time frame in your country so that any letters, documents or other business documentation such as research I might need to operate the next morning I own 2 businesses 1. Training consulting firm and the other is a property firm, and I need someone who can help market my firms services via telephone and email, as well as perform some web-based tasks, research property online and is an effective and efficient user of MS Office program. As a FULL-TIME personal assistant, you may be asked to work on varied tasks and projects, so the ability to be flexible, energetic, and enthusiastic is essential! This will be a long-term commitment, so hiring the right person is a very important decision for me. Upon acceptance, we will have a trial period to determine if we are a good fit. Send resume or work experience and I'll send you my username for skype for a phone interview. The right assistant: • Is happy (or really wants to be!) • Will be able to work independently, with minimal supervision • Has a desire to learn • Must be reliable • Excellent writing and reading English skills and can communicate in fluent English on the telephone (British if possible and with little or no accent) • Very strong researching skills. You will have to find information on the Internet and present your findings in a concise way. (The job will involve a lot of internet research.) • Not be afraid to introduce new ideas and discuss with me any ideas that you may have on what ever work we are doing. • Is very comfortable with modern internet technology • Is business oriented • Can work with Web 2.0 tools like - social networks - wiki - blog – facebook, Twitter etc. • Has high speed internet access • Can use Skype • Owns a computer, headset and webcam • Has a valid Pay Pal account • Possesses good internet optimisation skills (Desirable but not essential) • Has some expertise Internet Marketing, Email Marketing and AdWords (Desirable but not essential) • Has some web-development experience – HTML, CSS, PHP , ASP? Knowledge of website creation (Desirable but not essential) • Has some understanding of how Joomla works. (If not must be willing to learn) • Is detail-oriented, organized, creative, resourceful, highly motivated, reliable and takes pride in doing on-time quality work' • Must have access to steady, reliable and fast broadband internet service that can handle VOIP calls • Must know how to speak English (British if possible and with little or no accent) • Must be good with handling the instructions I send over by email and telephone Some of your responsibilities could be: • Telemarketing – Contacting businesses to set appointments • Answer any inbound calls. • Take bookings from clients for events • Assist in managing my Diary and client appointments • Writing Ads/ press release writing and distribution • Daily/Weekly Performance Reports • Data Collection/Entry • Writing and Editing/ copywriting • Be willing to perform Ad-Hoc Projects • Bookkeeping • Market research via the internet, GOOD fast web research skills • Data Entry. Excel data Entry. • Email marketing – editing email messages for marketing • Conducting research for different projects • Typing, Editing and proofreading • Creating weekly newsletters for business groups • Transcribing audio/video • Updating and managing databases • Checking & Replying To Emails and basic office duties • Contact me with daily schedule and reminder calls • Post/Manage Wordpress Blogs (blog building) • Post/Manage Social Networking pages. • Post/Manage content on UTUBE, Twitter etc • Search Engine Optimisation, including manual directory submission, link building and social bookmarking/ keyword research • Other tasks as assigned by the company • Posting & Updating content to a number of website including creating contact forms and driving the RIGHT traffic to sites • Proofreading • SEO/ keyword And other tasks that may arise. I am looking for someone with an emphasis on productivity, and can get tasks done quickly and with a high standard of quality. This is long-term work and I am looking for someone for a year or more. The winner will be given a 2 week paid trial period to see if we work well together. Pay will be bi-weekly via or paypal.