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Anybody here having real virtual assistants (people you contact via skype/email)? Is it a good or bad experience? How much do you spend per month?

• peteretep 11y ago
  Unless you have tasks that are repeatable, ad-hoc planning takes so much specification to make sure it's done right, that you generally might as well just do it yourself.
• ghaff 11y ago
  As someone who has been around long enough to have had actual (shared) admins/secretaries, I'm not sure I see the value. For travel, for example, someone really needs to understand your preferences well enough to understand and evaluate all the tradeoffs involved. Or they need to be able to reliably evaluate which of the many requests coming into you are really potentially interesting. Senior execs certainly get real value from long-term admins but that's a different equation. [EDIT: Of course, to the degree the assistant can find a venue for an event etc., that's something else entirely. But I'm not sure the degree to which the typical virtual assistant can be trusted to do that.]