Well the Christmas holidays have come and gone in the blink of an eye. Or I could say in the flare of a flame… or in a flash. I think the word “flash” is the correct word to use here in Cape Town. It is scorching! It has been for weeks now.
My daughter loved the Christmas summer holidays. Very different from our Christmas holidays in England. Surfing and horse-riding and swimming and doing all the things kids like to do in their holidays…. But now it’s back to school, and as I mentioned previously… it is scorching. Blistering. Ice-cream-melting-in-seconds hot. You walk outside and it is as if you are walking into a fiery wall of heat. Temperatures have been over 30 degrees.
The orange sun blazes and sears the once green fields. Hills, once golden brown, now look like over-baked loaves burning in the sun. The sea dazzles. The wind howls. Today it slumbers, a slight sizzling breeze rippling palm trees, a warning, perhaps, of raging gales later. Plumes of smoke from unruly fires litter the hazy sky. This weather is dangerous. Water is scarce. Its weeks since it last rained and there are now water restrictions. Once green lawns slowly sink into the earth and become parched pockets of brown grass. Unless you have borehole water, then you can occasionally water the garden and watch the plants greedily suck up the liquid. Birds too, fly down onto the grass and fluff their wings in the drizzle.
Heat like this frays tempers. People get irritated and sweaty. Attempting to work in an office with no air-conditioning is almost impossible. It’s difficult to concentrate on important things. Panic sets in. Time runs away… chores get shoved to one side, sometimes vital things get buried under the burden of just… trying… to manage… Or so said one of our new clients who phoned us in a panic, needing assistance with administrative work. He was completely stressed. Things started to get out of control. No worries we said, Virtual Concierge Services are here to help. He compared us to a welcome glass of ice-cool water after a long stressful run in blazing heat.
Yes, we at Virtual Concierge Services douse the fires of panic, frustration and/or impatience and bring a welcome calm to your business. Ask yourself the following?
- Are you spending excessive amounts of time on routine tasks that are necessary but not generating revenue?
- Do you have a company that is growing but is not yet large enough to justify hiring staff or additional staff?
- Do you need help several hours a week but don’t have a physical space for another work area?
- Or perhaps you have administrative needs on at certain times a week or month or year?
- Are you perhaps committed to a special project that requires expertise beyond your staff’s qualifications or working hours?
If you can relate to any of these questions, and are not yet using a virtual assistant, you are putting your company at a financial disadvantage!
By using Virtual Concierge Services you can
- expand your customer base;
- dedicate your time to your business;
- gain new business;
- increase your profit;
- grow your marketing campaign;
- nurture improved customer relations;
- provide personalized follow up; amplify productivity;
- exceed goals and most important, ENJOY SUCCESS!
All this means you get to have more time for you, a personal life again – doing what YOU want to do most!
Whew, if the above hasn’t convinced you yet, bear in mind that by using Virtual Concierge Services you do not have to worry about the following staff related facts – There is no vacation or sick day pay; you only pay for the time spent on a task; you can handle your seasonal projects. There is no need to outlay for office equipment; no need for computer training; no additional office space requirements; no health benefits to pay and no employee taxes or workmen’s compensation insurance.
We save you TIME & MONEY! Virtual Concierge Services means MORE TIME FOR YOU.
We are tremendously excited about 2016! Our new year has begun with a bang and we are so happy to welcome on board some of new clients across Africa. Not only do we have several corporate clients who have renewed contracts but some new clients that are enthusiastically embracing the virtual assistant way!
One of these is UnoTelos in Nigeria (www.unotelos.com). UnoTelos design, build, manage and optimize customized networks, software and VAS solutions, which are tailored to strategically meet their customers’ goals and requirements. UnoTelos Vision is to be the foremost leaders in supporting networks and system integration. UnoTelos Mission is to deliver excellent and quality services, products and solutions, ensuring customer satisfaction. We are thrilled to be working on a project with UnoTelos and believe in their mission and vision.
Another very interesting lady I met recently is Romy Rycroft. Romy represents E for Exec as Talent Manager for Cape Town. She specialises in senior, technical and executive recruitment and is involved in coaching and career transition training. Romy’s passion is both recruitment and coaching, empowering individuals to achieve their goals. Romy is an HR Specialist, having worked in corporate HR as well as in the high end HR services field. While in corporate, Romy coordinated Employment Equity compliance across a number of companies and is well versed in the labour legislation and compliances of South Africa.
Romy is a qualified teacher, with a postgraduate diploma from the London School of Economics. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Social Science and has a strong interest in trends and developments in the working world, particularly the role of women in the workplace. This energetic and positive lady is an inspiration and it is a pleasure to have met her.
We also have some very exciting news coming up which has us all with our fingers on lips at present… but I do look forward to telling you soon and am sure you will be just as excited as us about it.