First, let me tell you a little about my background. I graduated in 1999 with a degree in business management and executive office procedures. Since moving to Philadelphia from Western, Pennsylvania eight years ago, I’ve worked with 3 of the top producing investment firms in Philadelphia and most recently, spent 2 years in banking for Wachovia. I’ve dealt with the marketing side of these firms as well as administered high profile client’s quarterly investment portfolios, prepared client marketing material such as pitch books, equity strategies, company prospectus, and dealt with the over-all administration side of the departments in which I’ve worked. I have a compiled 10 plus years in administration and marketing.

Many of you probably know what a virtual assistant is or have heard of them before. But, how many of you know what actually goes into a va company or how it works? A VA’s office is set up at home, just like it would be at the client’s office. They work with email, fax, scanners, phone, cell, and sometimes even skype. The difference between independent projects and a virtual assistant company is that I have the ability to not only use my home office for many of the projects my clients need, but I can also go into their office, but still not be viewed as an employee. This cuts their costs, not only do they not have to pay the employee extras, but they can also write off the expenses as a professional business expense. What may take a VA an hour or so to complete, may take you hours because of all the distractions and necessary projects that have to be done. Our goal is to be sure that after you realize what just one hour can do for your business, imagine what five or ten hours can do!

Every core of your business starts with the administration of your business. When you think of how you run your business, you first need to think about the basics of admin. And you also have to realize that this term changes with the times, just like with anything else. With every new advance in technology comes with changing the core of your business, your administration. For example, on-line social networking. You should involve your business with LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, updating regularly to stay current. You should be back-linking your own website with other high Page Ranking Sites. You should research other business owners blogs and get online articles written about your company. This takes a ton of time and research and how many of you have the time to invest in that? How many people in your network of contacts have the time to invest in this? If you’re not social networking on-line, you need to be.

All organizations need timely and effective office and administrative support to operate efficiently. If you know of someone that doesn’t have this, this is a good referral for me.

Now, why me? Why Independent Projects. Because I’m VERY experienced in my profession, because I take pride in my work and because my clients’ needs come first above anything else. Because my clients’ success is also my own success. I cannot stay in business if I don’t provide my clients with the utmost professionalism. Because I know administration, I’ve worked with every different type of personality from a client’s side to a manager’s side. I know people and I know what they need as far as administration goes. I know how to speak intelligently to prospects; I know what a letter needs to say when you are introducing your services to someone.

Independent Projects IS the company YOU can feel confident about referring to your contacts. If you get me in contact with them, I can meet with them one on one, discuss their administrative and social on-line marketing needs and create a plan that WILL work for them. Plans that will free up their time to focus on their clients, business development OR just spend more time with their family. Just a few things that I can do under an hour:

· Create a viable prospect list of 25-30 contacts.
· Create an Email campaign.
· Data Entry of a minimum of 75 contacts in an Excel spreadsheet.
· Create correspondence for a client or prospect.
· Create a PowerPoint presentation
· Research travel, hotel and meeting facilities.
· Update and manage your calendar.
· Transcribe a half hour of audio.
· Do all of the Research for a project.
· Book your flight, hotel, and/or rental car reservations.
· Delete spam accumulated in your e-mail overnight, and sort, answer, or redirect remaining messages

If I can do each one of these things in under an hour, think about what I can do for your contacts in 5 to 10 hours per week.

If someone says I don’t know how or haven’t started to twit, tweet, link, space or face, forward my website to them!