Last week Jerry contacted me again and asked if I would be interested in doing another interview to see how things had changed for me. WOW! Have they changed!
Social networking has taken my business from 0 to 60 in 4 seconds! And much more importantly, my client’s businesses too!
Here’s an excerpt from the write up from The Herald Tribune today:
Real Estate and related industries have suffered the most during the Great Recession. So I checked in with Suzanne Roy, who depended on real estate agents for her living when I interviewed her in 2006.
“The real estate industry has not affected me at all,” she says. “Actually, I am making 10 times the amount I used to make.”
Roy is a virtual assistant, an independent businessperson who offers administrative and Internet services to her business clients.
When I spoke to her in 2006, she specialized in providing support services to real estate sales agents who wanted to spend more time listing and selling houses.
Roy continues to work for real estate agents, but has mastered social-networking and online-technology skills that she applies to most industries.
As a result, “my business has skyrocketed,” she says. “The opportunities to connect with people has gone from a speck on the Internet to the entire world in the matter of moments.”
Roy moved from Bradenton to Stuart but the Internet permits her to have a home-based business and work with clients in any location. “My husband got a job transfer with Verizon, and being a VA, I can work from anywhere life takes us,” she says.
You can read the entire article here:
The virtual assistant: home offices for many
Article courtesy of Jerry Chautin, SCORE Volunteer
Jerry Chautin is a local volunteer business counselor with Manasota SCORE, Counselors to America’s Small Business. You can follow him on Twitter.com/JerryChautin.
