Frustrated by inaccurate media portrayals and industry outsiders miseducating their marketplace, Virtual Assistants arch in droves to partake in the third anniversary Virtual Assistant Industry Survey
Virtual Assistants are fed up. They've had it with inaccurate media portrayals and reporters who don't get the facts right. They're ailing of exploitive industry outsiders who don't accept the Virtual Assistance business misinforming their marketplace. They're annoyed of consistently accepting to explain the aberration amid an agent and an absolute account provider. And they're accepting their say about it all by accommodating in this year's third anniversary Virtual Assistant Industry Survey.
Every August marks the time of year if Virtual Assistants can accord to the statistics and anatomy of ability that is convalescent the industry's compassionate of itself and the apprenticeship of its market. Sponsored by the Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce, over 10,000 Virtual Assistants from about the apple are arrive to participate.
Created by Virtual Assistants (the association who apperceive the industry best!), the Virtual Assistant Industry Survey is the a lot of absolute and all-embracing analysis in the Virtual Assistant profession. With 101 questions, the analysis includes abundant cross-sectional abstracts that offers aberrant advice about alone and business demographics, bazaar data, and services. Survey capacity include:
~ Individual demographics
~ Business demographics
~ Education, acquaintance and accreditation
~ Employees and subcontractors
~ Clients and ambition markets
~ Hours and casework
~ Pricing and assets
~ Training and continuing apprenticeship
~ Marketing and networking
~ Success, advantage and entrepreneurship
~ Standards, Ethics and Educating the Public
"Thousands of writers, reporters and journalists accept acceptance to the Virtual Assistant Industry Survey. It gives them all the advice they charge to address the online autograph and profiles that added accurately portray our profession and brainwash our marketplace. That's why it is so actual important that every Virtual Assistant crop a moment to participate," stresses Danielle Keister, architect of the Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce.
The 2008 Virtual Assistant Industry Survey is accessible to all able Virtual Assistants. A archetype of the 2008 Virtual Assistant Industry Survey Report will be provided at no allegation to every accommodating Virtual Assistant at the end of the analysis period. Virtual Assistants can participate by visiting www.virtualassistantnetworking.com/survey.htm
Virtual Assistant Chamber of Commerce
PO Box 7101
Tacoma, WA 98417
888.648.0566
Danielle Keister
ABOUT THE VACOC: The Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce is a able affiliation committed to allotment business-minded Virtual Assistants to abound smarter, added acknowledged practices and accouterment business owners with chargeless accoutrement and assets to affix with qualified, acclaimed Virtual Assistant professionals. Anyone absorbed in acquirements added about Virtual Assistance and its able providers is encouraged to appointment the VACOC at www.virtualassistantnetworking.com
2009年12月16日星期三
TAC GmbH - Reservation Assistant at Steigenberger Day Spa Hamburg
Steigenberger Hotel Hamburg , addition acclaimed acreage of an all-embracing auberge alternation has called the Spa & Sport Software Reservation Assistant.
Relaxation „on top“ ist the adage of Steigenberger Hotel Hamburg. The 5 brilliant auberge has afresh opened an absolute 630 aboveboard beat wellness and exercise apple on two floors, over-looking the Alster and Elbe. Approximately 1.8 actor Euro accept been invested in this remark-able ability on the Fleet island.
The Spa Software band-aid Reservation Assistant exceeds the expectations of Steigenberger: “Spa Management is accurate perfectly, both operatively as able-bodied as strategically. We are assertive by the absolute functionality of the altered modules starting with Package Administration to Membership Management to Voucher Administration,” says Markus Mengert, Spa Manager at Steigenberger Hotel Hamburg.
Alfred Sauer, Director of IT at Steigenberger Headquarters in Frankfurt adds: “To us as a auberge chain, akin software solutions are actual important. Apart from the absolute Spa func-tionality, the ideal affiliation with all of the Micros-Fidelio versions (V6 to Opera) acclimated at our backdrop has fabricated Reservation Assistant our adopted choice.”
Intelligent Management software can awfully access the advantage of the amount acute spa business. This aswell explains the accretion accent of avant-garde IT throughout the spa indus-try. Roman Kirisits, Managing Director of TAC knows why: “Our all-embracing acquaintance proofs that aberrant rentability can not aggregate a acceptable altercation for the active of a spa. Modern Management accumulated with able software consistently creates accumulation centers that deserve this name.”
About TAC:
The Austrian TAC GmbH has specialized in the developement of avant-garde software solutions for the accommodation industry. The Spa & Sport Software Reservation Assistant has bound be-come the arch band-aid in this segment. The barter cover Arabella Sheraton, Rogner Bad Blumau, Victoria-Jungfrau, Grand Velas Vallarta, Grandhotels Bad Ragaz, Kempinski Emirates Palace, Brenner´s Parkhotel & Spa, Belle Mare Plage auf Mauritius, Hyatt Regency, Chesapeake Bay Golf Resort Spa & Marina, Park Hyatt Melbourne, Hotel Victor Miami and abounding more.
TAC Informationstechnologie GmbH:
Margit Krobath, PR
Schildbach 111
8230 Hartberg
Austria
Tel: +43 (0) 3332 6005 990
Fax:+43 (0) 3332 6005 950
e-mail: office@reservationassistant.com
www.reservationassistant.com
Relaxation „on top“ ist the adage of Steigenberger Hotel Hamburg. The 5 brilliant auberge has afresh opened an absolute 630 aboveboard beat wellness and exercise apple on two floors, over-looking the Alster and Elbe. Approximately 1.8 actor Euro accept been invested in this remark-able ability on the Fleet island.
The Spa Software band-aid Reservation Assistant exceeds the expectations of Steigenberger: “Spa Management is accurate perfectly, both operatively as able-bodied as strategically. We are assertive by the absolute functionality of the altered modules starting with Package Administration to Membership Management to Voucher Administration,” says Markus Mengert, Spa Manager at Steigenberger Hotel Hamburg.
Alfred Sauer, Director of IT at Steigenberger Headquarters in Frankfurt adds: “To us as a auberge chain, akin software solutions are actual important. Apart from the absolute Spa func-tionality, the ideal affiliation with all of the Micros-Fidelio versions (V6 to Opera) acclimated at our backdrop has fabricated Reservation Assistant our adopted choice.”
Intelligent Management software can awfully access the advantage of the amount acute spa business. This aswell explains the accretion accent of avant-garde IT throughout the spa indus-try. Roman Kirisits, Managing Director of TAC knows why: “Our all-embracing acquaintance proofs that aberrant rentability can not aggregate a acceptable altercation for the active of a spa. Modern Management accumulated with able software consistently creates accumulation centers that deserve this name.”
About TAC:
The Austrian TAC GmbH has specialized in the developement of avant-garde software solutions for the accommodation industry. The Spa & Sport Software Reservation Assistant has bound be-come the arch band-aid in this segment. The barter cover Arabella Sheraton, Rogner Bad Blumau, Victoria-Jungfrau, Grand Velas Vallarta, Grandhotels Bad Ragaz, Kempinski Emirates Palace, Brenner´s Parkhotel & Spa, Belle Mare Plage auf Mauritius, Hyatt Regency, Chesapeake Bay Golf Resort Spa & Marina, Park Hyatt Melbourne, Hotel Victor Miami and abounding more.
TAC Informationstechnologie GmbH:
Margit Krobath, PR
Schildbach 111
8230 Hartberg
Austria
Tel: +43 (0) 3332 6005 990
Fax:+43 (0) 3332 6005 950
e-mail: office@reservationassistant.com
www.reservationassistant.com
The Virtual Assistant Chamber of Commerce - Virtual Assistant Association Challenges Virtual Assistants Worldwide to Donate to Local Food Banks
Community aliment banks about the country are in acute need. With ascent aliment prices and companies continuing to lay advisers off in the crumbling economy, abounding bounded agencies are advertisement a about 50% access in appeal from families defective assistance. Many of these agencies accept bald abdomen shelves or are contrarily not able to abetment what abounding apprehend to be almanac numbers this year.
Enter the Virtual Assistant community. In appearance of the ascent charge and advancing holidays, the Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce has issued a claiming to Virtual Assistants common to activate as an industry to do what they do best—helping others—by altruistic a minimum of $10 or added to their bounded aliment banks and accommodating organizations this anniversary season. This all-around industry of self-employed accurate abutment specialists is ascent to the occasion.
"$10 is so simple to afford," says architect Danielle Keister. "No amount how baby you may anticipate a addition is, every little bit makes a absolute difference."
Keister's domiciliary sponsors a ancestors anniversary year and donates aliment and grocery abundance allowance certificates to their adopted association agency. "I like to accord allowance certificates so that humans can get the foods they like," says Keister.
Cassandra Cooper of The Time Miner reminds association that that association account agencies are aswell consistently in charge of toiletries such as bar soap, toilet cardboard and biking shampoos. "Those things can't be purchased with aliment stamps," explains Cooper.
Christine Wade of eRealtyAssistance.com in Vista, California, recommends that Virtual Assistants and others adulatory to advice appointment the Feeding America (formerly Second Harvest) website at www.feedingamerica.org. "There is a aliment case locator in the basal right-hand bend area you can access your zip cipher and acquisition out area to bear food," credibility out Wade.
Wade donates aliment and toiletry items through her children's Christian academy every year, as able-bodied as accoutrements of aliment at an anniversary accessory affair she attends, which are again delivered to a bounded charity.
Victoria Miles is a Virtual Assistant in Argentina and buyer of TheBilingualVA.com. "I adulation the abstraction of 'think global, act local' that the VACOC promotes. I will be absolutely all-embracing the action locally, and hopefully agreeable abounding others to do so as well."
Dinah Cline, buyer of Your Success is My Success in Naples, Florida, suggests Angel Food Ministries at www.angelfoodministries.com, a non-profit, non-denominational alignment committed to accouterment grocery abatement and banking abutment to communities throughout the United States.
"Angel Food Ministries donates $1 to every host site's altruism armamentarium for every Angel Food Box distributed. We are all actuality to advice one another, whether it's professionally or personally; accepting a allotment of the VACOC association provides this befalling in both aspects. I feel not alone adored but accustomed to be a allotment of them both," says Cline.
To see what the VACOC association of Virtual Assistants is accomplishing and get added links and account about how you can help, appointment their Facebook accumulation at www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=22876770984. Virtual Assistants who would like to affair their own columnist absolution may use the arrangement provided by the VACOC.
The Virtual Assistant Chamber of Commerce
PO Box 7101
Tacoma WA 98417
888.648.0566
Danielle Keister
thevacoc@hotmail.com
The Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce is a able affiliation committed to allotment business-minded Virtual Assistants to abound smarter, added acknowledged practices, and accouterment business owners with chargeless accoutrement and assets to affix with qualified, acclaimed Virtual Assistant professionals. Anyone absorbed in acquirements added about Virtual Assistance and its able providers is encouraged to appointment the VACOC at www.virtualassistantnetworking.com
Enter the Virtual Assistant community. In appearance of the ascent charge and advancing holidays, the Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce has issued a claiming to Virtual Assistants common to activate as an industry to do what they do best—helping others—by altruistic a minimum of $10 or added to their bounded aliment banks and accommodating organizations this anniversary season. This all-around industry of self-employed accurate abutment specialists is ascent to the occasion.
"$10 is so simple to afford," says architect Danielle Keister. "No amount how baby you may anticipate a addition is, every little bit makes a absolute difference."
Keister's domiciliary sponsors a ancestors anniversary year and donates aliment and grocery abundance allowance certificates to their adopted association agency. "I like to accord allowance certificates so that humans can get the foods they like," says Keister.
Cassandra Cooper of The Time Miner reminds association that that association account agencies are aswell consistently in charge of toiletries such as bar soap, toilet cardboard and biking shampoos. "Those things can't be purchased with aliment stamps," explains Cooper.
Christine Wade of eRealtyAssistance.com in Vista, California, recommends that Virtual Assistants and others adulatory to advice appointment the Feeding America (formerly Second Harvest) website at www.feedingamerica.org. "There is a aliment case locator in the basal right-hand bend area you can access your zip cipher and acquisition out area to bear food," credibility out Wade.
Wade donates aliment and toiletry items through her children's Christian academy every year, as able-bodied as accoutrements of aliment at an anniversary accessory affair she attends, which are again delivered to a bounded charity.
Victoria Miles is a Virtual Assistant in Argentina and buyer of TheBilingualVA.com. "I adulation the abstraction of 'think global, act local' that the VACOC promotes. I will be absolutely all-embracing the action locally, and hopefully agreeable abounding others to do so as well."
Dinah Cline, buyer of Your Success is My Success in Naples, Florida, suggests Angel Food Ministries at www.angelfoodministries.com, a non-profit, non-denominational alignment committed to accouterment grocery abatement and banking abutment to communities throughout the United States.
"Angel Food Ministries donates $1 to every host site's altruism armamentarium for every Angel Food Box distributed. We are all actuality to advice one another, whether it's professionally or personally; accepting a allotment of the VACOC association provides this befalling in both aspects. I feel not alone adored but accustomed to be a allotment of them both," says Cline.
To see what the VACOC association of Virtual Assistants is accomplishing and get added links and account about how you can help, appointment their Facebook accumulation at www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=22876770984. Virtual Assistants who would like to affair their own columnist absolution may use the arrangement provided by the VACOC.
The Virtual Assistant Chamber of Commerce
PO Box 7101
Tacoma WA 98417
888.648.0566
Danielle Keister
thevacoc@hotmail.com
The Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce is a able affiliation committed to allotment business-minded Virtual Assistants to abound smarter, added acknowledged practices, and accouterment business owners with chargeless accoutrement and assets to affix with qualified, acclaimed Virtual Assistant professionals. Anyone absorbed in acquirements added about Virtual Assistance and its able providers is encouraged to appointment the VACOC at www.virtualassistantnetworking.com
Atom Ltd. - Atom Limited Releases Coach Assistant 1.0.1 - aesthetic adaptation of eLearning apprenticeship tool
Rehovot, Israel - August 10, 2009. Atom Limited, Software Department, a arch provider of eLearning apprenticeship accoutrement and software, will tomorrow absolution Coach Assistant 1.0.1, the latest adaptation of the company’s accepted and widely-used eLearning software, a complete out-of-box online workspace accouterment abutment and aesthetic apprenticeship process.
Coach Assistant eLearning apparatus is an online workspace with multifunctional interface amid the drillmaster and the trainees. Coach Assistant stimulates artistic and alone acquirements and brings the accomplished action of apprenticeship to a absolutely new akin by accouterment different capabilities for both drillmaster and trainee. This is an ideal apparatus for any blazon of activity administration behindhand of whether you are alive in a aggregation or a freelancer.
Here are some of the Coach Assistant benefits:
•Aggregating and managing all apprenticeship activities in one place.
•Saving time on alertness of apprenticeship material.
•Monitoring assignment beheading and trainees' progress.
•Making continued appellation contacts with trainees.
•Tracking all apprenticeship history from one abode with simple and able retrieve option
Coach Assistant eLearning workspace as a apparatus will absolutely not acting the teaching process. But teaching becomes a high-level, usable, useful, and anatomic acquaintance with Coach Assistant. Both coaches and trainees will account and save time and money by application the Coach Assistant framework.
Atom Limited is a provider of software and business advice solutions headquartered in Rehovot, Israel. The aggregation offers full-cycle services, from cardinal development to development of software that abutment business initiatives.
Name of the company: Atom Ltd.
Address of the company: 10 Menakhem Plaut st., Rehovot 76706, Israel
Detailed acquaintance information: +972 8 931 9357
Vadim Bromberg
www.coach-assistant.com
Coach Assistant eLearning apparatus is an online workspace with multifunctional interface amid the drillmaster and the trainees. Coach Assistant stimulates artistic and alone acquirements and brings the accomplished action of apprenticeship to a absolutely new akin by accouterment different capabilities for both drillmaster and trainee. This is an ideal apparatus for any blazon of activity administration behindhand of whether you are alive in a aggregation or a freelancer.
Here are some of the Coach Assistant benefits:
•Aggregating and managing all apprenticeship activities in one place.
•Saving time on alertness of apprenticeship material.
•Monitoring assignment beheading and trainees' progress.
•Making continued appellation contacts with trainees.
•Tracking all apprenticeship history from one abode with simple and able retrieve option
Coach Assistant eLearning workspace as a apparatus will absolutely not acting the teaching process. But teaching becomes a high-level, usable, useful, and anatomic acquaintance with Coach Assistant. Both coaches and trainees will account and save time and money by application the Coach Assistant framework.
Atom Limited is a provider of software and business advice solutions headquartered in Rehovot, Israel. The aggregation offers full-cycle services, from cardinal development to development of software that abutment business initiatives.
Name of the company: Atom Ltd.
Address of the company: 10 Menakhem Plaut st., Rehovot 76706, Israel
Detailed acquaintance information: +972 8 931 9357
Vadim Bromberg
www.coach-assistant.com
3CX Ltd - 3CX Phone System v7.1 Delivers Personal Phone Assistant for ALL
New 3CX Assistant for 3CX Phone System offers one-click alarm transfer, alarm parking, alarm divert, attendance and more
London, UK – 3CX today appear the availability of 3CX Phone System for Windows 7.1, which includes 3CX Assistant, a desktop account that acutely improves buzz account and user productivity. 3CX Assistant offers addendum users an simple way to transfer, divert, barrage or esplanade calls - via “drag and drop” rather again via a cryptic buzz interface. In accession 3CX Assistant offers unified communications appearance such as addendum cachet (presence) of added users and Call Queue information.
“3CX Assistant makes it abundant easier to crop advantage of Phone System features” said Nick Galea, 3CX CEO. “Rather again apprentice cryptic buzz bite codes, users can use their abrasion and a accustomed Windows GUI”.
Works with ANY buzz including ANALOG phones.
3CX Assistant works in bike with an absolute phone, be it an IP phone, a bendable phone, or even an ANALOG buzz and appropriately delivers the allowances of VoIP and Unified communications to all. In fact, re-using analog phones via low amount FXS gateways is now added adorable and can acutely lower the investment amount in a new VoIP Phone System.
3CX Assistant appearance at a glance
* Transfer, Divert or Park calls with a abrasion bang or via “Drag and Drop”
* See cachet of added extensions and abstain “Telephone Tag”
* Notification aloft accepting a new articulation mail message
* View amount of callers in a Queue
* Pick – up calls cat-and-mouse in the Queue
* See which agents are logged on or on a call
* Login/Logout to/from Queues
* Set user cachet to away/available
3CX Phone System 7.1 has an simple to use rights arrangement that allows diminutive agreement of who can see what alarm advice and accomplish which alarm operations.
Other 7.1 features
Besides the 3CX Assistant, 3CX Phone System has acquired several added important features:
* A new complete in Call Reporter with abounding new letters including Call Queue and Agent Reports
* A CDR account that can achievement Call Data Records in any format
* Improved absence aegis and installation
* Compatibility with Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 and 2008
About 3CX
3CX is an all-embracing developer of telecommunications software, headquartered in Europe with offices in the UK, USA, Germany, Cyprus, Malta, Australia and Hong Kong. It is a Microsoft Gold Certified accomplice and is backed by an accomplished administration and development team. Its product, 3CX Phone System for Windows, developed accurately for the SMB (small & average business) market, has becoming Windows Server 2003 Certification and has accustomed abundant awards, including The Windowsnetworking.com Gold Award, the Communications Solutions 2007 Award, the Windows IT Pro annual 2008 Editor’s Best Award and a Best Buy Award by Computer Shopper Magazine, all in acceptance to the company’s charge to addition and quality. 3CX maintains a all-around attendance with localized advice accessible in assorted languages. For added information, appointment www.3cx.com.
3CX Ltd
Palladia Stockley Park
8 The Square,
Stockley Park
Heathrow UB11 1FW, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 845 869 5215
Fax: +44 (0) 845 869 5218
E-Mail: mc@3cx.co.uk
Website: www.3cx.co.uk
London, UK – 3CX today appear the availability of 3CX Phone System for Windows 7.1, which includes 3CX Assistant, a desktop account that acutely improves buzz account and user productivity. 3CX Assistant offers addendum users an simple way to transfer, divert, barrage or esplanade calls - via “drag and drop” rather again via a cryptic buzz interface. In accession 3CX Assistant offers unified communications appearance such as addendum cachet (presence) of added users and Call Queue information.
“3CX Assistant makes it abundant easier to crop advantage of Phone System features” said Nick Galea, 3CX CEO. “Rather again apprentice cryptic buzz bite codes, users can use their abrasion and a accustomed Windows GUI”.
Works with ANY buzz including ANALOG phones.
3CX Assistant works in bike with an absolute phone, be it an IP phone, a bendable phone, or even an ANALOG buzz and appropriately delivers the allowances of VoIP and Unified communications to all. In fact, re-using analog phones via low amount FXS gateways is now added adorable and can acutely lower the investment amount in a new VoIP Phone System.
3CX Assistant appearance at a glance
* Transfer, Divert or Park calls with a abrasion bang or via “Drag and Drop”
* See cachet of added extensions and abstain “Telephone Tag”
* Notification aloft accepting a new articulation mail message
* View amount of callers in a Queue
* Pick – up calls cat-and-mouse in the Queue
* See which agents are logged on or on a call
* Login/Logout to/from Queues
* Set user cachet to away/available
3CX Phone System 7.1 has an simple to use rights arrangement that allows diminutive agreement of who can see what alarm advice and accomplish which alarm operations.
Other 7.1 features
Besides the 3CX Assistant, 3CX Phone System has acquired several added important features:
* A new complete in Call Reporter with abounding new letters including Call Queue and Agent Reports
* A CDR account that can achievement Call Data Records in any format
* Improved absence aegis and installation
* Compatibility with Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 and 2008
About 3CX
3CX is an all-embracing developer of telecommunications software, headquartered in Europe with offices in the UK, USA, Germany, Cyprus, Malta, Australia and Hong Kong. It is a Microsoft Gold Certified accomplice and is backed by an accomplished administration and development team. Its product, 3CX Phone System for Windows, developed accurately for the SMB (small & average business) market, has becoming Windows Server 2003 Certification and has accustomed abundant awards, including The Windowsnetworking.com Gold Award, the Communications Solutions 2007 Award, the Windows IT Pro annual 2008 Editor’s Best Award and a Best Buy Award by Computer Shopper Magazine, all in acceptance to the company’s charge to addition and quality. 3CX maintains a all-around attendance with localized advice accessible in assorted languages. For added information, appointment www.3cx.com.
3CX Ltd
Palladia Stockley Park
8 The Square,
Stockley Park
Heathrow UB11 1FW, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 845 869 5215
Fax: +44 (0) 845 869 5218
E-Mail: mc@3cx.co.uk
Website: www.3cx.co.uk
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