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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/atom10full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" gd:etag="W/&quot;CkUBSX84fyp7ImA9WxNUFEo.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4180311546892812796</id><updated>2009-11-06T12:17:38.137+11:00</updated><title>Welcome to the Virtual Angels Blog</title><subtitle type="html">If you like what you read, please email a link to your friends!</subtitle><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/" /><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><author><name>Virtual Angels</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13479492634195935446</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>13</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><link rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/VirtualAngels" type="application/atom+xml" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkUBSXw5eCp7ImA9WxNUFEo.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4180311546892812796.post-5530261978274668142</id><published>2009-11-06T12:10:00.001+11:00</published><updated>2009-11-06T12:17:38.220+11:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-11-06T12:17:38.220+11:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="redundancy" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Work from Home" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="professional advise" /><title>Life after Redundancy</title><content type="html">&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000066;"&gt;It's hard not to feel upset when your role is made redundant and your self-esteem certainly takes a battering, even if you are usually a stoic, positive person.  However, it's important to remember that it is the ROLE and not YOU that has been made redundant. Also keep things in perspective, redundancy is a situation that features in the life cycle of most businesses.  Financial crisis and technology are just two reasons why your role may no longer be required.  But businesses always need people and are looking at ways to redeploy people - redundancy is usually the last resort after all who wants to see all of that experience and knowledge walk out the door? Having said that, there is no such thing as "a job for life" any more and  people are realising that if they must remain positive and open minded about next steps down the career path.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000066;"&gt;There are steps you can take to ease yourself through this challenging transition.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000066;"&gt;Prepare Yourself&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000066;"&gt;Seek professional advice if you are unsure of your rights. These professionals will advise you on what your rights are, how to negotiate with your employer if necessary and help you sort out your finances for the road ahead.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000066;"&gt;Before going to see a professional career advisor, employment lawyer, or financial advisor do your homework and work out your budget. Separate what are essential costs like mortgage repayments etc and non essential items such as holidays or eating out. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000066;"&gt;Remain Positive&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000066;"&gt;As much as we know it's not personal it's hard not to take redundancy as such, even people who take volountary redundancy face a dramatic change of life and most of us go through this change cycle feeling at first denial, followed by anger and grieving before we learn to accept the new situation. Try and remmebr this is a natural process that everyone goes through and try and remain positive.  Seek the counselling of a good friend, your partner or a career development professional to help you through this tricky time. There's an old Buddhist saying "Everything passes" - remember this -  time will too and that time is best spent remaining positive and optimistic throughout.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Don't Give Up&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000066;"&gt;Persistence is a very important trait to develop if you are not naturally inclined.  Remember as you go through the job hunting stage there will be knock backs but it's a case of picking yourself up, not taking it personally, and moving on to the next opportunity.  If you do get knocked back for a job, always seek feedback from the agency or the employer. It's important to take on board constructive criticism and use that information for future applications. If your resume needs reviewing there are plenty of professional resume writers who will assist you and if your interviewing skills need polishing up seek the help of a professional or practice with your partner or friends. Filming yourself is a great way to get insight into how you come across during an interview.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000066;"&gt;Be Open Minded&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000066;"&gt;I think it's important to remember that the world of work is changing and as mentioned before, we need to be smart about doing our research about the type of work our skills and interests are suited to, to understand our values and what is important to us from a new employer.  Employers are now seeing the benefits of offering employees more flexible work arrangements such as part time, flexitime, hours off in lieu, work from home opportunities, etc.  Remember to ask any potential employer what might be available at the time of interview.  Even if it's not mentioned in the job ad it doesn't mean these type of benefits are not available.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4180311546892812796-5530261978274668142?l=virtualangelsau.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~4/5nShZgF8Wt0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/feeds/5530261978274668142/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4180311546892812796&amp;postID=5530261978274668142" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/5530261978274668142?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/5530261978274668142?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~3/5nShZgF8Wt0/life-after-redundancy.html" title="Life after Redundancy" /><author><name>Virtual Angels</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13479492634195935446</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="10359650542769206441" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/2009/11/life-after-redundancy.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEECSH84cSp7ImA9WxJWEkw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4180311546892812796.post-8888085427174962818</id><published>2009-06-17T15:22:00.006+10:00</published><updated>2009-06-17T15:31:09.139+10:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-06-17T15:31:09.139+10:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Saving Money" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Virtual Assistants" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Home Workers" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Virtual Angels" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Homesourcing" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Work from Home" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Keeping Costs Down" /><title>A New World of Work</title><content type="html">&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;Hi there,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sorry it's been a while since our last post......  I do hope you find the following as interesting as we did....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;According to a recent article in The Age newspaper, nearly a quarter of employees do some of their job away from the workplace. This new trend of flexibility is allowing people to start living the life they have always dreamed of and allowing them the time to combine their hobbies, interests, family commitments, and volunteering resulting in a more rounded, balanced lifestyle that is satisfying all of their needs and wants.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;Whilst one person is training for the Olympics, technology is allowing them to pull out their laptops, iphone or Blackberry and work from pretty much anywhere without missing an important email or phone call or deadline.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;Figures from the Bureau of Statistics show nearly a quarter of Australian workers do some of their work each week away from the office.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;Nearly 2.5million Australian employees take work home, fit it into weekends, or squeeze it in around training for the London Olympics.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;Men in managerial positions were most likely to work from home (31per cent), followed by technicians and tradesmen (18per cent), while women working from home were most likely to be professionals (39per cent) or clerical and administrative workers (23per cent). This is encouraging news for our Virtual Angels who are mostly work from home professional mums.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eight per cent, or one in 12 Australian workers, work more from home than any other place. The majority (83per cent) of those were aged 35 years or older, and most (55per cent) were women.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;Most people are beginning to realise that without the flexible work conditions on offer from employers that they will just not be able to pursue and fulfil their dreams. They are looking for flexible employers who will offer this as part of the package at interview..&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Why would an employer ask a person to choose between their passion and happiness when they can offer them flexible working conditions – after all they can only benefit from that persons positive and happy attitude at work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is a trend towards flexible working. Obviously technology is allowing it in many cases, but also people are a lot more savvy, and organisations are a lot more savvy - they are willing to create a good environment for people to work in.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another example where working from home can benefit both parties is when an employee breaks a bone or perhaps cannot physically get to the office because of family sickness.. people often report that they actually do more work from home than they would in the office anyway, there are no distractions, no interruptions and no ciggie or coffee bar breaks. Overall, employers are realising that flexible work arrangements can result in high productivity and a rise in general well being, both must be high on the list for employee engagement and retention.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Technology has been critical in making it possible but now we need a shift in mindset from our leaders who only have to trial these flexible work programs to see the benefits for all concerned.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until next time,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Caroline @ &lt;a href="http://virtualangels.com.au"&gt;Virtual Angels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://virtualangels.com.au"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 76px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eiXJ6lKfhQo/Sjh-PdBVW4I/AAAAAAAABVg/FI1rnSd_CVg/s200/logo_sm.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5348163361455823746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; line-height: normal; font-family: verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:10;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4180311546892812796-8888085427174962818?l=virtualangelsau.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~4/uBgVgcJNYiI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/feeds/8888085427174962818/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4180311546892812796&amp;postID=8888085427174962818" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/8888085427174962818?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/8888085427174962818?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~3/uBgVgcJNYiI/new-world-of-work.html" title="A New World of Work" /><author><name>Virtual Angels</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13479492634195935446</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="10359650542769206441" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eiXJ6lKfhQo/Sjh-PdBVW4I/AAAAAAAABVg/FI1rnSd_CVg/s72-c/logo_sm.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/2009/06/new-world-of-work.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUAAQ3s-cSp7ImA9WxJREU0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4180311546892812796.post-5580354185702584720</id><published>2009-05-12T14:38:00.004+10:00</published><updated>2009-05-12T14:49:02.559+10:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-05-12T14:49:02.559+10:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="javascript:void(0)" /><title>Virtual Angels are offering businesses a FREE BUSINESS ASSESSMENT</title><content type="html">Short and sweet today.....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To help small / medium business owners understand how a Virtual Assistant can help them to grow their business and save valuable time and money, Virtual Angels are offering a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Free Business Assessment&lt;/span&gt; - simply click the logo, complete your details and a Virtual Angels representative will contact you within 24 hours to arrange the assessment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have a great day!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suzanne @ &lt;a href="http://virtualangels.com.au/"&gt;Virtual Angels &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://virtualangels.com.au/feedback.aspx"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 172px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eiXJ6lKfhQo/Sgj_KndJ3hI/AAAAAAAABRs/nhjBRaL9DpI/s320/animated+logo+for+website+free.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334794316475391506" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4180311546892812796-5580354185702584720?l=virtualangelsau.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~4/pUmZzoCumZQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/feeds/5580354185702584720/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4180311546892812796&amp;postID=5580354185702584720" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/5580354185702584720?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/5580354185702584720?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~3/pUmZzoCumZQ/virtual-angels-are-offering-businesses.html" title="Virtual Angels are offering businesses a FREE BUSINESS ASSESSMENT" /><author><name>Virtual Angels</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13479492634195935446</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="10359650542769206441" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eiXJ6lKfhQo/Sgj_KndJ3hI/AAAAAAAABRs/nhjBRaL9DpI/s72-c/animated+logo+for+website+free.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/2009/05/virtual-angels-are-offering-businesses.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0cERXc4eyp7ImA9WxVUFEw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4180311546892812796.post-3735567637521068269</id><published>2009-03-19T10:20:00.003+11:00</published><updated>2009-03-19T10:30:04.933+11:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-03-19T10:30:04.933+11:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Saving Money" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Virtual Assistants" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recession" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Home Workers" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Economy" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Virtual Angels" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Homesourcing" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Work from Home" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Family Friendly Work Arrangements" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="resourcing in a recession. resourcing" /><title>Work from home mums are helping the Economy</title><content type="html">&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;Women from all over Australia are leading the way in helping their families by starting their own business, taking work from home roles and considering part-time or job share opportunities. I have always maintained the people on our Virtual Angels database are mainly highly educated, experienced and professional women who value the flexibility of working from home in their chosen professions and maintaining their career and profile. Now more than ever they are exploring innovative ways of re-joining the work force albeit remotely and what is not widely appreciated is that not only is this helping to sustain their own families but they are helping to kick-start Australia’s economy in general.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;Small and medium sized business has always been the life blood of Australian business but would it surprise you to know that in recent figures from the US around four out of five businesses are started by women and 80 percent are mums. Apparently the number of women entrepreneurs are growing at twice the rate of men. These figures do not surprise me in the least. I believe women are naturally more entrepreneurial in spirit, they have this ability to adapt themselves more readily to change and be innovative in the way they address the needs of their family. The old saying ‘necessity is the mother of invention” in itself is so true. I remember a conversation a friend and I had a while ago. She is from the country and her mother grew up in the country. I am originally from London and have always lived and worked in the city. Her mother’s comment was that I would make a good ‘country wife’ because in her experience the most successful country wives were those who grew up in the city because they went to the country looking for opportunities and then had the nous and drive to make it happen. I imagine this is what is happening out there at the moment and necessity is driving this growth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;When women work from home for other companies, they are still helping the Australian economy recover. Companies benefit when they allow their employees to work from home. When pay needs to be cut or frozen, “homesourcing” can serve as a form of benefit by allowing employees to enjoy the cost savings of reduced commuting expenses and flexibility and other benefits of working at home.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;Companies that “Homesource” decrease their overheads by reducing office space, IT equipment and other associated employee costs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;Traditionally, outsourcing has meant shifting work to overseas companies and is basically a way for a business to complete internal business tasks outside of the office. The process saves time and money, allowing the small business owner to pay for services only when they are needed. Not only does this remove a salary from the budget but all of the associated employee benefits package, it limits tax responsibility and reduces required office space, supplies and utility bills. Work-at-home mums who are self-employed could save businesses large and small millions of dollars annually.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;There is more support than ever for Australian businesses from companies like Virtual Angels with a database of over 1900 people who are ready to work, who do not charge their Angels to register who have experience and degrees in a wide variety of backgrounds. With technology, virtually anything can be done from one’s home office.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;It’s a win-win situation for the businesses and the mum-professionals; not to mention an advantage for the economy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;For more information on how Virtual Angels can help your business survive in these uncertain times visit our website - &lt;a href="http://virtualangels.com.au/"&gt;virtualangels.com.au&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eiXJ6lKfhQo/ScGDFQComPI/AAAAAAAABEM/u5b-hkndemY/s1600-h/468x60.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 41px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eiXJ6lKfhQo/ScGDFQComPI/AAAAAAAABEM/u5b-hkndemY/s320/468x60.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314673161502497010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4180311546892812796-3735567637521068269?l=virtualangelsau.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~4/N9UZm2UvrEQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/feeds/3735567637521068269/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4180311546892812796&amp;postID=3735567637521068269" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/3735567637521068269?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/3735567637521068269?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~3/N9UZm2UvrEQ/work-from-home-mums-are-helping-economy.html" title="Work from home mums are helping the Economy" /><author><name>Virtual Angels</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13479492634195935446</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="10359650542769206441" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eiXJ6lKfhQo/ScGDFQComPI/AAAAAAAABEM/u5b-hkndemY/s72-c/468x60.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/2009/03/work-from-home-mums-are-helping-economy.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUcEQHs5fyp7ImA9WxVVF0g.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4180311546892812796.post-5104170532353652050</id><published>2009-03-11T17:25:00.003+11:00</published><updated>2009-03-11T17:30:01.527+11:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-03-11T17:30:01.527+11:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Saving Money" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Virtual Assistants" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recession" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Home Workers" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Virtual Angels" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Homesourcing" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Work from Home" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Family Friendly Work Arrangements" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Keeping Costs Down" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="resourcing in a recession. resourcing" /><title>The Fresh Ideas for Work and Family Grant</title><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;I thought in today’s blog we would just bring to your attention the Fresh Ideas for Work and Family Grant. A government initiative that you and your small business may be eligible to apply for and which you may not have heard about yet.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;      &lt;p style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;This initiative will assist small businesses put in place flexible work arrangements for their people.  The program provides grants of up to $15,000.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"&gt;To be eligible you must be:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;ul style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"&gt;A small business in Australia with fewer than 15 employees&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"&gt;A sole trader that employs between 1 and 14 employees&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;      &lt;p style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"&gt;Family friendly work arrangements benefit both employers and employees. Employers benefit from improved efficiency, increased staff retention and better health and safety. Employees enjoy increased job satisfaction, reduced health issues and better work-life balance.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"&gt;For more information go to:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.deewr.gov.au/WorkplaceRelations/FreshIdeas/Pages/default.aspx"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a target="_blank"&gt;http://www.deewr.gov.au/WorkplaceRelations/FreshIdeas/Pages/default.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"&gt;Have a great day!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4180311546892812796-5104170532353652050?l=virtualangelsau.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~4/u8vckFdSTOE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/feeds/5104170532353652050/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4180311546892812796&amp;postID=5104170532353652050" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/5104170532353652050?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/5104170532353652050?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~3/u8vckFdSTOE/fresh-ideas-for-work-and-family-grant.html" title="The Fresh Ideas for Work and Family Grant" /><author><name>Virtual Angels</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13479492634195935446</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="10359650542769206441" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/2009/03/fresh-ideas-for-work-and-family-grant.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkUGSH4zeSp7ImA9WxVVFks.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4180311546892812796.post-3362367993399662783</id><published>2009-03-10T16:47:00.002+11:00</published><updated>2009-03-10T16:50:29.081+11:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-03-10T16:50:29.081+11:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Saving Money" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Virtual Assistants" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recession" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Home Workers" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Virtual Angels" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Homesourcing" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Work from Home" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Keeping Costs Down" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="resourcing in a recession. resourcing" /><title>Employ Local Vs. Off-Shoring?</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="font-family: verdana;" id=":2ru" class="ii gt"&gt;&lt;div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-AU"&gt;&lt;div&gt;              &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"&gt;One question raised by potential clients when thinking about taking on a local Virtual Assistant is “how will the cost of this local option compare to me employing a Virtual Assistant based overseas in India or the Philippines where hourly rates appear to be well under those we can offer at home?”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"&gt;The answer, I would suggest, is that there is more to be considered than just cost when making this decision and that a low hourly cost may be an illusion when it actually comes down to how long it is taking your VA to complete the work.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"&gt;Obviously, a $5 per hour VA who takes 20 hours to complete an assignment is less affordable than a $25 per hour VA w&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"&gt;ho does it in just 3 hours. Lack of experience, lack of local knowledge, more learning time, re-doing work, are just some of the reasons why the cheaper option will in the end cost you more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal;" lang="EN-US"&gt;Cultural differences and communication breakdowns&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"&gt; also may add to the time it takes to complete an assignment and although &lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Time Difference&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is often quoted as a benefit to Virtual Assistance, i.e., “go to bed and the work will be ready in the morning when you wake up” it can work against you if you are having to wait until your VA is up to be able to get something done quickly in real time not to mention the inconvenience of working in the middle of the night with them when you are trying to make a deadline!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"&gt;There are many things to consider besides hourly rate when looking to appoint your VA – cheapest is not always best!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"&gt;If you would like more information, visit &lt;a href="http://virtualangels.com.au"&gt;Virtual Angels&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"&gt;Until next time.....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;Caroline &amp;amp; The Virtual Angels Team&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4180311546892812796-3362367993399662783?l=virtualangelsau.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~4/3WBGTNyr5mc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/feeds/3362367993399662783/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4180311546892812796&amp;postID=3362367993399662783" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/3362367993399662783?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/3362367993399662783?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~3/3WBGTNyr5mc/employ-local-vs-off-shoring.html" title="Employ Local Vs. Off-Shoring?" /><author><name>Virtual Angels</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13479492634195935446</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="10359650542769206441" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/2009/03/employ-local-vs-off-shoring.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CU8MR3kzfSp7ImA9WxVVE00.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4180311546892812796.post-3705226034899994591</id><published>2009-03-06T12:41:00.001+11:00</published><updated>2009-03-06T12:44:46.785+11:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-03-06T12:44:46.785+11:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Saving Money" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Virtual Assistants" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recession" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Home Workers" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Virtual Angels" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Homesourcing" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Work from Home" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Keeping Costs Down" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="resourcing in a recession. resourcing" /><title>Small Businesses Can Now Hire Virtual Assistants More Affordably Than Ever and Do Their bit for the Environment</title><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-family:Arial;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;I note from various recent press releases, particularly out of the US that virtual assistants are being used more and more of late and what happens in the US and the UK is usually a good indicator of what will happen in Australia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A recent survey from the US suggested that some businesses have up to 50% of their workforce working from virtual locations. We still struggle here in Australia breaking down the mind set of employers and convincing them of the benefits of virtual workers, so I urge Australian business owners to not take my word for it but look at some of the comments coming from business owners in the US already benefiting from this under used resource pool.  They talk about the convenience, flexibility, and financial benefits of remote work. Some of the media reports I have been reading have cited small businesses looking to replace their bricks-and-mortar staff with virtual assistants in order to save as much as 50% on office expenses in this uncertain economy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When a small business starts to look for a VA, the process may be quite daunting as there are so many people out there offering these services. Virtual Angels offer a personalised, service to all their clients and take the time to understand your individual needs and will carry out a tailored search of our extensive national database to find you the most suitable candidate for you and your business. Our clients are assured of the best possible Virtual Assistant to fit their business needs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Another obvious benefit that businesses may not have thought of is the reduction of carbon emissions that hiring a virtual assistant or team of virtual assistants can provide your business.  We shouldn’t under estimate the amount of savings to be had by office staff not driving into the office every day. Gallons of fuel will be saved along with the harmful emissions into the environment.  It may seem insignificant but it is a big start for businesses to be more environmentally aware and to build on this for the future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more information on how a virtual assistant can help you save time and money in your business, visit virtualangels.com.au&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have a great weekend!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Caroline&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4180311546892812796-3705226034899994591?l=virtualangelsau.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~4/OnEZZf8RsRg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/feeds/3705226034899994591/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4180311546892812796&amp;postID=3705226034899994591" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/3705226034899994591?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/3705226034899994591?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~3/OnEZZf8RsRg/small-businesses-can-now-hire-virtual.html" title="Small Businesses Can Now Hire Virtual Assistants More Affordably Than Ever and Do Their bit for the Environment" /><author><name>Virtual Angels</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13479492634195935446</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="10359650542769206441" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/2009/03/small-businesses-can-now-hire-virtual.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUcDRnY-eSp7ImA9WxVVEk8.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4180311546892812796.post-3988766660459217798</id><published>2009-03-05T14:14:00.002+11:00</published><updated>2009-03-05T14:17:57.851+11:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-03-05T14:17:57.851+11:00</app:edited><title>How a Virtual Assistant can help your business especially in this challenging financial climate!</title><content type="html">&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Hiring a virtual assistant from &lt;a href="http://virtualangels.com.au"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Virtual Angels&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; can help a small business to succeed in today’s market. I would suggest that many business owners just don’t realise how many benefits an outsourced VA would bring to their business immediately. These people are so experienced they can ‘hit the ground running’ from day 1!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;This challenging financial climate for small business could well be viewed as an opportunity to grow but you must have the right resources in place to free you up to develop the business. Here are some important things to think about right now:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"&gt;1/ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Plan Ahead&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"&gt; – don’t be too short term in your overall business planning – think about where you want your business to be in five years from now and think about investing in the future. You may well be missing a fantastic opportunity to get one over on your competitors right now.  As they shed resources you can monopolise and leverage off a very flexible resource – your Virtual Angel. You can control the budget and use your VA for 2 hours or 20 depending on what is happening in your business at the time. Remember you are helping to stimulate the economy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt; by keeping people working albeit in a part-time capacity – this is usually enough for them to keep their cash flow going and help them survive this bleak period of unemployment – so do your bit for the community and at the same time maximise your business opportunities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;2/ Change Your Mindset&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"&gt; – We all need to get our head around the fact that the future of business is going to depend more and more on trusting virtual workers. We must adopt a more outcome focussed mindset and apply these outcome oriented KPI’s to our workers.  Micro-managing people and looking over their shoulder constantly is unproductive and time consuming. Trust your professional Virtual Assistant, apply deadlines and be clear on expectations – you will be amazed at the results.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;3/ Stop Being a Control Freak&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"&gt; – So you think you are the only one who can run your business, eh? You are the one who started this business because you have a passion and you believe in the service or product. There comes a time when we all have to let go and let other people come in and help us otherwise you will run yourself ragged trying to be all things to all people and your business will simply not grow. Before you know it you will be frazzled and in a heap and possibly fail.  Build your resources slowly but surely and trust. Allow us to find you the perfect person for your business who shares your values and your passion, first and foremost.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;4/ Learn to Delegate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"&gt; – Stop being too busy to explain and delegate. Your Virtual Angel is an experienced professional, you usually will only have to explain things once and they will get it.  Believe it or not he or she may even suggest a new and better way of doing things and before you know it you have a streamlined and efficient process in place. A little bit of time spent up front explaining how things need to be run will be worth the investment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;5/ Guaranteed Return on Investment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"&gt; – This will be the most cost effective and life changing investment you ever make.  A Virtual Angel will change the way you work forever and free you up so much time you didn’t think you had.  I would almost guarantee you will get your return on investment in the first few weeks of hiring your angel because at last you will have the time to personally follow through on all of the sales leads and opportunities you were missing before.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Take action NOW. Give us a call and start making your business really work for you. Find the passion you started with….I think it’s hidden under all of those invoices over there that need doing!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Have a productive day! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Caroline &amp;amp; The Virtual Angels Team&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4180311546892812796-3988766660459217798?l=virtualangelsau.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~4/Sn5wje2riD0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/feeds/3988766660459217798/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4180311546892812796&amp;postID=3988766660459217798" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/3988766660459217798?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/3988766660459217798?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~3/Sn5wje2riD0/how-virtual-assistant-can-help-your.html" title="How a Virtual Assistant can help your business especially in this challenging financial climate!" /><author><name>Virtual Angels</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13479492634195935446</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="10359650542769206441" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-virtual-assistant-can-help-your.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUIFQ3o9fSp7ImA9WxVVEUg.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4180311546892812796.post-1578147846278574635</id><published>2009-03-04T18:54:00.002+11:00</published><updated>2009-03-04T18:58:32.465+11:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-03-04T18:58:32.465+11:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Saving Money" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Virtual Assistants" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="recession" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Home Workers" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Virtual Angels" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Homesourcing" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Work from Home" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Keeping Costs Down" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="resourcing in a recession. resourcing" /><title>Resourcing in a Recession</title><content type="html">&lt;p style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt;"&gt;As we can all see, hear and feel around us. Things are tough in the labour market. Hundreds are losing their jobs and organisations are suffering on under resourced trying to keep their heads above water, especially small to medium businesses.  Hiring freezes are on and the costs associated with taking on another employee can make small business owners think twice about getting help - even though additional help is desperately what they need. For some struggling small businesses there is no choice, they simply cannot afford another person so business owners are forced to work longer hours and probably are not doing what they do best and that’s promote and sell their business.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt;"&gt;An affordable alternative to hiring an employee, for a small business, is a Virtual Assistant – through &lt;a href="http://virtualangels.com.au"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Virtual Angels&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of course!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt;"&gt;Essentially, we will find you a highly productive, professional who works off site saving you time and money. The virtual worker is available on an as-needs basis – whether it be 2 or 20 hours a week. . A virtual assistant can answer the phones once they’ve been re-directed, coordinate diary’s, design and deliver marketing campaigns, organise travel, proofread and format documents and presentations, update blogs and create newsletters, handle customer support, transcribe dictation, create a new website or logo and keep your book-keeping and accounts in order, and much, much more. If it can be done remotely using phone, Internet, email, and/or fax, a virtual assistant can take care of it. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 9pt;"&gt;I think it’s a shame more small businesses do not know this amazing assistance is available to them. For small and soloist business owners trying to keep costs down, there isn't a more low risk and affordable way to get work done and continue growing through this recession.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;Until next time......&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);font-size:85%;" &gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Caroline&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4180311546892812796-1578147846278574635?l=virtualangelsau.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~4/uVgoo-di6Kc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/feeds/1578147846278574635/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4180311546892812796&amp;postID=1578147846278574635" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/1578147846278574635?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/1578147846278574635?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~3/uVgoo-di6Kc/resourcing-in-recession.html" title="Resourcing in a Recession" /><author><name>Virtual Angels</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13479492634195935446</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="10359650542769206441" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/2009/03/resourcing-in-recession.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0UARng8cCp7ImA9WxVWGUk.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4180311546892812796.post-3447771033963716054</id><published>2009-03-02T10:09:00.002+11:00</published><updated>2009-03-02T10:14:07.678+11:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-03-02T10:14:07.678+11:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Saving Money" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Virtual Assistants" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Home Workers" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Virtual Angels" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Homesourcing" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Work from Home" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Keeping Costs Down" /><title>Who has heard of Homesourcing?</title><content type="html">&lt;h1&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN"&gt;Apologies…it’s been a while since we last blogged but things have been hectic to the say the least. However, interesting article and new buzz word has come to my attention that I thought I would share with everyone based on the fact this r&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN"&gt;elates to exactly our field and sector.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;  &lt;h1&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;" lang="EN"&gt;Who has heard of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Homesourcing&lt;/span&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;  &lt;h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN"&gt;I looked it up in good old &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/span&gt; and here’s the definition:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Homesourcing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN"&gt; also known as &lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;homeshoring&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt; is "the transfer of service industry employment from offices to home-based employees with appropriate telephone and Internet facilities".&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesourcing#cite_note-mac-0%23cite_note-mac-0" title="" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Homeshoring&lt;/span&gt; is best thought of as a combination of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsourcing" title="Outsourcing" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext;"&gt;outsourcing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommuting" title="Telecommuting" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext;"&gt;telecommuting&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Homesourcing&lt;/span&gt; refers to hiring &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee" title="Employee" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext;"&gt;employees&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; or engaging &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_contractor" title="Independent contractor" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext;"&gt;independent contractors&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Homesourced&lt;/span&gt; workers are sometimes required to come to an office for training from time-to-time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN"&gt;Traditionally, employers were most likely to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;homeshore&lt;/span&gt; call-centers and other customer service processes. However, this trend is changing as employers realize a wider variety of work is amenable to &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;homeshoring&lt;/span&gt;. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Ridder" title="Knight Ridder" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext;"&gt;Knight &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Ridder&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Newspapers reports "it's no longer just call centers and information-technology jobs. Now it's architects, accountants, tax preparers and financial analysts."&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesourcing#cite_note-kn-1%23cite_note-kn-1" title="" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN"&gt;According to researcher &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;IDC&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Homesourcing&lt;/span&gt; is expanding by about 20% a year and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;homesourcing&lt;/span&gt; is "on track to explode".&lt;sup&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homesourcing#cite_note-bw2-2%23cite_note-bw2-2" title="" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color:black;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: windowtext;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;h2&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"&gt;Advantages of &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;homesourcing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;  &lt;ul type="disc"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN"&gt;Worker preference –      &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;homesourced&lt;/span&gt; workers often need to work from home or strongly prefer to      work from home. They appreciate this opportunity, and therefore are loyal.      &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;ul type="disc"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN"&gt;Reduced costs for the employer      as &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;homesourced&lt;/span&gt; workers often provide their own telephone equipment and      computer systems. Employer also saves on cost of office space. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;ul type="disc"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN"&gt;Using &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;homesourced&lt;/span&gt; workers that      are local to the area where they are calling precludes the prejudice that      is sometimes created from regional accents, mannerisms and rates of      speech. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;ul type="disc"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN"&gt;Possible tax advantages for the      worker using part of their home for business purposes. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;ul type="disc"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;" lang="EN"&gt;it provides the employer the      ability to provide work to individuals who through disability are unable      to travel to a workplace &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN"&gt;Well &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;isn&lt;/span&gt;’t this just we have been talking about for 4 years now?!  Suddenly there is a surge of interest for home based workers – not only by small to medium business but now the corporates are waking up to the idea.  It certainly gives me hope that during these trying times for some families that our employers are beginning to wake up to the fact that this method of resourcing makes perfect sense – for all parties. Keeping costs down for employers and keeping Aussie’s working!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN"&gt;Speak to you soon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold;" lang="EN"&gt;Caroline and the Virtual Angels Team&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4180311546892812796-3447771033963716054?l=virtualangelsau.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~4/DZXL3WW7q6Y" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/feeds/3447771033963716054/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4180311546892812796&amp;postID=3447771033963716054" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/3447771033963716054?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/3447771033963716054?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~3/DZXL3WW7q6Y/who-has-heard-of-homesourcing.html" title="Who has heard of Homesourcing?" /><author><name>Virtual Angels</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13479492634195935446</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="10359650542769206441" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/2009/03/who-has-heard-of-homesourcing.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0INQnYzcSp7ImA9WxRbEU8.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4180311546892812796.post-8972946922739779519</id><published>2008-12-01T19:47:00.003+11:00</published><updated>2008-12-01T19:53:13.889+11:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-12-01T19:53:13.889+11:00</app:edited><title>Christmas is coming</title><content type="html">Hi everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, Christmas is coming but is the goose getting fat? It may be decidedly thin for a few families this Christmas, and this is why we must all push harder for more opportunities for working mums and dads.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A recent survey I read from the UK press this week talks about recent research carried out which cites that millions of mothers are being forced to return to work because families are finding it harder than ever to live off one salary.  Apparently the soaring cost of living means two-thirds of parents need two incomes. I imagine there is a similar story happening here in Australia.  That combined with the collapse of the main provider of Child Care in Australia must be of huge concern to working parents, which again is another enormous reason for all of us to be pushing ‘work from home’, part-time, and school hour opportunities. Rest assured, Virtual Angels will be lobbying as hard as we can!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since the credit crunch kicked in last August, ­families have been under pressure from rising energy prices, cost of living increases and mass redundancies and unemployment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the UK, about 47 per cent of people now need both partners to work in order to maintain their lifestyle, according to life insurer Scottish Widows and among households with children, the figure rises to 61 per cent suggesting that more than four million mums have had to go back to work after having a baby  to provide their family with a comfortable life. I just think it’s such a shame that women (and some men) don’t have an alternative – this is the reason why Virtual Angels exists.  I am sure if we dig around we can come up with very similar numbers here, closer to home and I will try and track these down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Richard Jones, protection market director at Scottish Widows, said: “The reliance on two incomes is the only way to maintain a decent standard of living for many families.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The research also found that families with children had higher levels of debt than households without children. Family campaigners have called on the Government to do more to help women who want to stay at home and I believe we must start making similar noises here in Australia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Recent figures show the number of stay-at-home mothers has fallen 25 per cent in the past 15 years. Wouldn’t it be fantastic if mother’s had some alternatives besides back to work full-time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Motherhood has never been harder than it is today,” said Dani Zur, of UKfamily.co.uk. “Parents today are burning out trying to fit in all the demands of modern life”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Suzanne and I at Virtual Angels are deeply motivated to trying to re-address this burning issue and will continue to push for what we sincerely believe is so important right now – flexible job opportunities for working families!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Speak to you again soon,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Caroline @ Virtual Angels&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="storycopy" style="text-align: left;" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:85%;color:black;"   &gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;color:black;"   &gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4180311546892812796-8972946922739779519?l=virtualangelsau.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~4/qiCuyLaNzos" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/feeds/8972946922739779519/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4180311546892812796&amp;postID=8972946922739779519" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/8972946922739779519?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/8972946922739779519?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~3/qiCuyLaNzos/christmas-is-coming.html" title="Christmas is coming" /><author><name>Virtual Angels</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13479492634195935446</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="10359650542769206441" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/2008/12/christmas-is-coming.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0QAQnY_fSp7ImA9WxRUFk0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4180311546892812796.post-4233559254011632818</id><published>2008-11-17T11:55:00.010+11:00</published><updated>2008-11-25T21:35:43.845+11:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-11-25T21:35:43.845+11:00</app:edited><title>Flexibility is the key to a happy work force!</title><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Apparently, the economy is going part-time&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt; (as reported by Chris Zappone - The Age Newspaper - 6 November 2008)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hi again&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As a work from home mother of 3 children and more specifically as a Director of Virtual Angels, I was so pleased to read the details of Chris Zappone's report!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;In the report, the following points were made:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul  style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Employers are increasingly &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;turning to part-time workers to fill their needs &lt;/span&gt;as the economic slowdown begins to pinch and NSW's jobless rate jumps.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; The economy added an unexpectedly large number of jobs last month - 34,300 in total - but the gain masked the loss of 9200 full-time positions.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; The unemployment rate stayed put at 4.3% because of the &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;whopping 43,500 part-time positions created last month&lt;/span&gt; - the most since April 2001.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;      This is positive news for all our registered (and would be) Angels.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;We at &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;Virtual Angels&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; know the value of flexibility, because we have over 1700 registered Angels who tell us how important it is to them, to be able to work and help to provide for the family, but also to be their for their family.  We all know how quickly our children grow up, and if we can, isn't it great for at least one parent to be around when they go to school and when they come home?  To be able to attend the Christmas concert or the open morning at pre-school?  What about when the children are sick or on school holidays - which is approx 12 weeks per year - what job (apart from a teacher or school worker) can offer 12 weeks annual leave per year?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Obviously some people cannot afford to work only part-time, but businesses have to understand the benefits of recruiting work from home employees.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;The feedback from employers when broached with the offer of work from home resources is that they don't trust that the work will be done properly or will take longer and that they have no control over the person.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;WRONG!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;  The feedback we have from our clients that utilise work from home contractors is that the work rate is far quicker, the cost is cheaper and the Angel often gives 110% .  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;Why?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;  Put Simply, Angels feel grateful, they don't want to loose the opportunity, they feel appreciated, they are contributing to a business and their family and most importantly the are &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;HAPPY!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; (because we should all know that flexibility is key!)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;A couple more points to consider:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;A stay at home worker doesn't have to allow for travelling time, which means they have even more time to dedicate to a job if they work from home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;When normal workers leave work to go home, their work is done for the day.  We find that our Angels will work into the evening to finish an assignment if necessary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Some even prefer to work in the evening when the house is quiet!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How nice would it be to have a task sent out at 4pm and the finished task waiting for you in your email inbox the next morning when you arrived at work?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Now, isn't that the way forward?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;So if you are a business person reading this blog - please, don't write off work from home employees, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;give us a chance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div  style="text-align: center;font-family:verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Contact us on 1300 659 802&lt;/span&gt; or via our &lt;a href="http://virtualangels.com.au/Feedback.aspx"&gt;contact form&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;If you aren't in business but would like to work from home, log on to our &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://virtualangels.com.au/"&gt;website &lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;now and register your details to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;Become An Angel &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;and remember - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" &gt;spread your wings and spread the word&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt; - the more businesses that know about Virtual Angels, the more opportunities we will start to see.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;If you are interested, you can read Chris Zappone's full report online &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://business.theage.com.au/business/economy-goes-parttime-20081106-5iy7.html?page=1"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Thanks for reading - have a great week.....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;Suzanne @ Virtual Angels&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:verdana;"&gt;ps did you know is only 4 weeks to Christmas - are your staff going on a well deserved Christmas break?  If you need help please contact us know, we have many Angels who are willing to work not only from home, but at a client's office if necessary!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4180311546892812796-4233559254011632818?l=virtualangelsau.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~4/Zy9rhFaMQh8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/feeds/4233559254011632818/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4180311546892812796&amp;postID=4233559254011632818" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/4233559254011632818?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/4233559254011632818?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~3/Zy9rhFaMQh8/flexibility-is-key-to-happy-work-force.html" title="Flexibility is the key to a happy work force!" /><author><name>Virtual Angels</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13479492634195935446</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="10359650542769206441" /></author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/2008/11/flexibility-is-key-to-happy-work-force.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEMCQnk-eSp7ImA9WxRVE0s.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4180311546892812796.post-1030345758360303938</id><published>2008-11-10T07:30:00.000+11:00</published><updated>2008-11-11T12:21:03.751+11:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-11-11T12:21:03.751+11:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Virtual Assistants" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Virtual Angels" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="Work from Home" /><title>WELCOME TO THE VIRTUAL ANGELS BLOG!</title><content type="html">&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:georgia;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;Hello and thanks for viewing our blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are new at this, so please bear with us..... We hope to keep you updated on all things &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;'working from home...'&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have you ever thought how having a personal assistant could help you manage your business or personal life? But perhaps you don't need someone all day every day, maybe you just need help for a few hours a week or month, or what about the time you have a deadline to reach - an ad-hoc project to complete. In addition to this, you might not have the facilities for an 'employee' a desk, computer etc. Wouldn't it make your life easier if you had someone to call on, someone who can work from their own home office, using their own computer, available to you for only the time it takes to do the job? If this is you maybe you've never even heard of a &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;VIRTUAL ASSISTANT&lt;/span&gt;. But this is indeed the 'Angel' that can help you out of your quandary. They can be on call to you whenever you need them. And you are only charged for the hours that are worked. You do not pay for travel time, breaks, payroll tax.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you need help from a Virtual Assistant or you would to discuss the benefits of utilising a Virtual Assistant, you can contact the team at &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Virtual Angels &lt;/span&gt;on &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;1300 659 802 &lt;/span&gt;or visit our website - &lt;a href="http://virtualangels.com.au/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;virtualangels.com.au&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, a bit about the company....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Virtual Angels &lt;/span&gt;was started over 3 years ago by Caroline McAuliffe &amp;amp; Suzanne Mulvihill. Both working mums they initially created the company to provide work for mums or more mature women who were finding it difficult to secure full-time work in the traditional corporate world. Interest has since widened its scope attracting all individuals wanting to operate in a virtual environment, uniquely enabling them to work on a flexible basis while achieving the lifestyle they seek.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The idea of a ‘virtual assistant’ and remote, home based workers is a relatively new one in Australia but has been rapidly growing in the UK and the United States. Virtual Assistants and home based workers have the ability to work independently away from the normal office environment and can save businesses, small and large, time and money. Administrative, secretarial, marketing, project management, company recruitment and event organization are only some of the services on offer from the Angels. Whether the client is a small business owner, busy executive, an overworked P.A., an entrepreneur, a lecturer, a journalist, or coach, the Angels can assist with a permanent role, working remotely or special projects or at times of overflow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The traditional work environment has changed dramatically in the past few years; more people are looking for flexible working hours, and a better work/life balance, while companies are finding it harder to retain and engage good staff. Virtual Angels are currently recruiting fresh talent and intend to create a virtual arena that offers employers access to reliable, high quality resources without the hassle and expense of hiring a staff member. We currently have over 1400 'Angels' registered.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;To become an angel all you need is to be self-employed with an ABN and a working home office. There are no membership fees or hidden costs. Simply post your resume online at &lt;a href="http://virtualangels.com.au/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;virtualangels.com.au&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and let employers come to you. Your personal details are not displayed and you maintain full control as to who your resume is sent to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Virtual Angels &lt;/span&gt;would value enquiries from interested contractors and potential clients. Complete the contact form at: &lt;a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://virtualangels.com.au/feedback.aspx"&gt;virtualangels.com.au&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Until next time, have a great day and remember, you don't need to stuggle on alone, contact &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Virtual Angels - heaven knows, you deserve the best!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(102, 0, 204);font-family:georgia;" &gt;The Virtual Angels Team&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eiXJ6lKfhQo/SRjVFZziezI/AAAAAAAAA3U/4cl39O-woZ4/s1600-h/140x140.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 140px; height: 140px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eiXJ6lKfhQo/SRjVFZziezI/AAAAAAAAA3U/4cl39O-woZ4/s320/140x140.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5267194053012912946" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal" style=""&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10;color:blue;"   &gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.virtualangels.com.au/"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4180311546892812796-1030345758360303938?l=virtualangelsau.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~4/KcqxR6nHomo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/feeds/1030345758360303938/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=4180311546892812796&amp;postID=1030345758360303938" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/1030345758360303938?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4180311546892812796/posts/default/1030345758360303938?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/VirtualAngels/~3/KcqxR6nHomo/welcome-to-virtual-angels-blog.html" title="WELCOME TO THE VIRTUAL ANGELS BLOG!" /><author><name>Virtual Angels</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13479492634195935446</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty name="OpenSocialUserId" value="10359650542769206441" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eiXJ6lKfhQo/SRjVFZziezI/AAAAAAAAA3U/4cl39O-woZ4/s72-c/140x140.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://virtualangelsau.blogspot.com/2008/11/welcome-to-virtual-angels-blog.html</feedburner:origLink></entry></feed>
