Has anyone used a virtual assistant?
My practice pivoted hard during covid.
I used to travel 60,000 miles a year to meet clients. Now it's mostly virtual from my home office. I have clients choose virtual who live closer to my office than I do.
What is your experience and what do you have them do?

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I don’t have a virtual assistant but if I did, I’d have them book travel, handle sorting emails and delegating email tasks (if someone else can answer the question, and give them a flow chart of example emails that should be delegated, answered, or marked urgent). Organize tedious computer folders so everything is in one place or organizing a shared folder. Setting appointments and putting them on the calendar. Just for a few ideas.

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