Local Virtual Assistant Receives Entrepreneurial Recognition

Local Virtual Assistant Receives Entrepreneurial Recognition

Hagerstown, MD – Ruth Martin, owner of Maplewood Virtual Assistance announced today that they are the recipient of the VAccolade Business Entrepreneurial award.

The VAccolade award not only recognizes participation at the Virtual Assistant Networking Association (VANA), but also recognizes the professionalism with which Martin presents herself on the web, thereby giving them more credibility amongst other Virtual Assistants.

“Virtual Assistants (VAs) are business owners who work from their own office providing professional support, services and skills to their clients via phone, fax and internet based technology. Partnering with a VA reduces stress, protects cash flow, eliminates administrative hassles, and enables business people to find the success they originally set out to achieve. A VA is your right hand person helping you to succeed in your business. The irony is you may never meet your VA as odds are they live nowhere near you!” states VANA’s definition of a VA.

The Internet has brought many skilled professionals out of the corporate environment and back into their homes, enabling them to create a better work-life balance, while still performing in the roles they love. The VA is one such professional. Working from their home-based offices and making use of the Internet, telephone, fax and email, VAs are able to offer small and medium-sized businesses a quality of administrative support, previously only available to the corporate giants, in a cost-effective manner.

Martin’s company specializes in administrative office support, marketing support and sales support and she is a home-based administrative professional providing various online services to her clients . She started her Virtual Assistant career because working from home allowed her the flexibility to care for her family while operating a home-based business, the freedom to work with many like-minded businesspersons, and the variety of services to always have an interesting work project at hand.

In a recent survey taken by over 750 Virtual Assistants at VANA, the United States has the largest number of VAs, followed by Canada, Australia and Europe. Clients only pay for time spent on their projects. There’s no need to pay for taxes, benefits, equipment, etc. Virtual Assistants are hired on an hourly or a monthly retainer basis forming long term business relationships with their clientele.

About Virtual Assistant Networking Association (VANA)
For successful and aspiring “IN THE KNOW” Virtual Assistants and achievers globally, VANA is the “largest, friendliest, informative, educational and resourceful network for VAs that everyone online is talking about!” Visit their website at www.VAnetworking.com.