The virtual Man-Friday is just a click away, it a personal concierge available to all clients and they do amazing things to free you from hassles or utilize your time in a better way. Right from setting appointments, making travel arrangements, and moderating websites. Beyond that, their virtual assistants have even helped find a customer’s lost dog and plan a wedding! They will wake you up in the morning, attend to your phone calls, manage your files, follow up with your clients, remind you when it's time for a coffee break and even put your children to sleep
People who have identified this potential sector are already in action. Get Friday is an outsourcing company that is based in Bangalore, India. They are best-known as the virtual assistant division of Your Man in India, the famous personal concierge company. Get Friday caters to the needs of individuals who have hectic schedules, by offering virtual assistants who can deliver high quality work on administrative tasks. Get Friday derives its name from Robinson Crusoe’s Man- Friday.
Virtual PA (VPA) executes tasks in their offices, reducing overheads for organizations. The work handled by a virtual personal assistant ranges from handling routine administrative tasks like managing appointments , internet search, formatting documents , customer and sales support, preparing PowerPoint presentations and expense reports to higher-end ones like conducting due diligence for global companies, handling research, procurement and other consulting assignments.
As per industry pundits this market is going to cross over $ 2Bn by 2015. First it was the software boom when corporate used to do body-shopping and now individual users are turning their head towards India for getting things meticulously done. Virtual Assistance is great, and a great rarity: political art that’s poetic, elliptical and practically gleeful. Without being heavy-handed or preachy deliver a story of successful human interaction in the face of globalization and a corporate-dictated power structure.
