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Right Hand Plan is an Office Assistant service offering both virtual and on-site assistant services as needed or on a regular retainer basis. 

Right Hand Plan specializes in but does not limit its services to Law Firms and Real Estate sales professionals.

Others who benefit from our services are educators, writers, entrepreneurs, volunteer associations, religious organizations, non profit organizations, students, seniors, entertainers, etc.

Please see our pages to the right for details of our services and our current rates.

We are based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Marnie Banks, Proprietor
RIGHT HAND PLAN       rhplan@ymail.com

It may be trite, but it is nevertheless true, that time is the raw material out of which a salesperson’s livelihood is fashioned. This simple truth is that if you were able to improve the time management skills of your salespeople—and nothing else—you would see a meaningful and measurable increase in their productivity. Electronic calendar management, as part of a sales force automation system, can make time management easier and less prone to errors or oversights.

When a salesperson schedules appointments, telephone calls, or to-do items on an electronic calendar, the system automatically checks for conflicts as appointments are scheduled, eliminating the need for rescheduling. An electronic calendar can assign a relative priority to each item. It can also create an electronic link between a scheduled event and a particular contact or account, so that the appointment or call information is not only accessible as part of the salesperson’s calendar, but it is also accessible as part of the contact or account history. This makes the information contained in the calendar much more useful, since it can be viewed from a number of different perspectives.

For the sales manager, electronic calendar management automatically consolidates information concerning the warehouses of the entire sales force. Salespeople no longer need to submit weekly or monthly calendars; instead, that information is automatically generated when salespeople schedule their appointments. The system also allows salespeople to instantly update their appointments and schedules from the field, so that the calendar the sales manager is working with is never outdated.

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Businesses large and small now have a virtual solution to their staffing needs. Whether they’re part-time administrators, occasional IT talent or fully-fledged marketeers, Virtual PAs save their clients not only time and money but create that professional (and sometimes international) image.

When you consider the cost of employing a full-time PA and compare it to what you pay to a virtual PA this has to be the way forward for forward-thinkers.

Businesses are facing a tough choice in the current economic climate. For one-person businesses or city offices, an online solution to the inevitability of down-sizing and reducing their overheads is the Virtual PA or VA (Virtual Assistant).

Virtual PAs are independent freelancers who provide PA and specialised business services from a distance, through the internet, phone and e-mail. They help companies and individuals who still require work to be carried out to meet customer demands, despite the climate which surrounds them. Virtual PAs provide unique skills for special projects or step in to meet the demands of seasonal business growth, locally or globally.

As businesses grow, they all too often find themselves spending as much time on their diary management and admin as concentrating on their clients and the tasks which drive their bottom line.

Businesses can benefit from the help of Virtual PAs without having to compensate them with benefits and other associated costs which full or part-timers (and even sometimes temps) require. Neither do they have to find enough work to keep an additional person busy.

An employee can come and go and you may have them in situ for longer than you need them. Temps provided by third parties, are also transitory and, assuming you don’t always get the same person, they need to be trained, over and over again. Virtual PAs usually enter into an ongoing business relationship with a client and can work on an as required, project or long-term basis.

Services provided include database management, travel arranging & venue sourcing, online calendar management, securing meetings, database design & management, PowerPoint presentations, transcriptions, event management and more.

Sara’s e-mail: sara@virtually247.co.uk

Virtually 24/7 website: www.virtually247.co.uk

As the “R” word has now officially been mentioned in the media, any business with a full staff-capacity is bound to be looking at ways to cut budgets.  Anyone who has worked in a corporate office will know that to significantly reduce overheads, headcount and executive travel are the two items which must take a hit.

We need to get the word out there that there are Virtual workers fully set up for remote-working who are only too happy to forgo company politics, low morale and the sandwich lady to provide a support service from the comfort of their own offices.  UK businesses have been too slow to realise the benefits provided by virtual assistants – a fast-growing industry which is saving companies millions in the USA.  By utilising the services provided by virtual PAs, businesses could save themselves from becoming victims of the crunch and benefit not only from savings but from decreasing  their carbon footprint and gaining a professional image to boot.

There are considerable savings to be made by outsourcing tasks such as calendar management, meeting arranging, database design, PowerPoint, e-mail marketing campaigns and research (in fact anything a PA does in a corporate office, save making the coffee:)  These are usually available on an ad hoc, project or ongoing basis and charges are by the hour or monthly retainer.

For more on how to get the best from a VA

visit my website : http://www.virtually247.co.uk

Sara

The simplest Project Hacks are often the coolest!

No need for too much explanation here as we’ve all been in a position where we’ve needed a calendar when our computers are off or not logged in. I like this because I also try to keep my work area clean without too many pieces of paper stuck up on the partition wall.

If you’re a desk-bound Project Manager or team member, give this vertical or horizontal monitor strip calendara go.  I’ve seen versions with supplier advertising on it but I’ve always tried to remain vendor-neutral and this is a good way to go about it.