Virtual Assistant

I need someone with great spoken English (little or no accent) preferably in the Philippines but this person could be located anywhere in the world, to be my FULL-TIME personal assistant. I define full-time as 8 business working hours a day, 5 days a week, Monday through Friday. Your working time is fixed because you will be making business calls to the Australia hence I require you to work from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Australian Eastern Standard Time (make use of [login to view URL] to verify convert your local time accurately). I own 2 businesses 1. business consulting firm and the other is a bookkeeping firm, and I need someone who can help market my firms services via telephone and email, as well as perform some web-based tasks and is an effective and efficient user of MS Office program. As a FULL-TIME personal assistant, you may be asked to work on varied tasks and projects, so the ability to be flexible, energetic, and enthusiastic is essential! This will be a long-term commitment, so hiring the right person is a very important decision for me. Upon acceptance, we will have a trial period to determine if we are a good fit. Send resume or work experience and I'll send you my username for skype for a phone interview. The right assistant: • Is happy (or really wants to be!) • Will be able to work independently, with minimal supervision • Has a desire to learn • Must be reliable • Excellent writing and reading English skills and can communicate in fluent English on the telephone • Very strong researching skills. You will have to find information on the Internet and present your findings in a concise way. (The job will involve a lot of internet research.) • Not be afraid to introduce new ideas and discuss with me any ideas that you may have on what ever work we are doing. • Is very comfortable with modern internet technology • Is business oriented • Can work with Web 2.0 tools like - social networks - wiki - blog – facebook, Twitter etc. • Has high speed internet access • Can use Skype • Owns a computer, headset and webcam • Has a valid Pay Pal account • Possesses good internet optimization skills (Desirable but not essential) • Has some expertise Internet Marketing, Email Marketing and AdWords (Desirable but not essential) • Has some web-development experience – HTML, CSS, PHP , ASP? Knowledge of website creation (Desirable but not essential) • Has some understanding of how MYOB works. (If not must be willing to learn) • Is detail-oriented, organized, creative, resourceful, highly motivated, reliable and takes pride in doing on-time quality work' • Must have access to steady, reliable and fast broadband internet service that can handle VOIP calls • Must be able to work from 8:00AM AEST to 5:00PM Australian EST • Must know how to speak English (Australianized if possible and with little or no accent) • Must know how to use Microsoft Office (if possible be an expert in using the program) • Must be good with handling the instructions I send over by email and telephone Some of your responsibilities would be: • Telemarketing – Contacting businesses to set appointments • Answer any inbound calls. • Take bookings from clients for events • Assist in managing my Diary and client appointments • Writing Ads • Daily/Weekly Performance Reports • Data Collection/Entry • Writing and Editing • Be willing to perform Ad-Hoc Projects • Bookkeeping • Market research via the internet, GOOD fast web research skills • Data Entry. Excel data Entry. • Email marketing – editing email messages for marketing • Conducting research for different projects • Typing, Editing and proofreading • Creating weekly newsletters for business groups • Transcribing audio/video • Updating and managing Act and other databases • eFile and email documents • Contact me with daily schedule and reminder calls • Post/Manage Wordpress Blogs • Post/Manage Social Networking pages. • Post/Manage content on UTUBE. • Search Engine Optimization, including manual directory submission, link building and social bookmarking • Other tasks as assigned by the company • Posting & Updating content to a number of website • Copywriting • Data Entry • Proofreading • SEO UPON ACCEPTANCE you should be able to: 1. Sign a Non Disclosure Agreement; (not necessary initially, while I am trying to decide if you're a good fit, but probably will become necessary if I decide to make it a long-term relationship).