International virtual staffing agency, Team Double-ClickSM frequently replies to beleaguered prospective clients who ask, �Do I Need a Virtual Assistant?� Gayle and Jim Buske, founders, CEO and CFO, respectively, offer a remarkably straightforward means to answer this critical question. Team Double-Click�s recent unveiling of the company�s easy-to-navigate website offers a self-administered quiz entitled, �Fast Quiz: Do I need a virtual assistant?� Within five minutes, future clients can determine whether internet-based professionals, who provide virtual administrative, marketing and sales support, can indeed contribute to an entrepreneur�s emerging or existing business plan. Answering a series of nine thought-provoking questions; one for example, �How often do you work additional hours in the evenings or on weekends just to stay on top of administrative tasks?� business owners select one multiple choice answer; each assigned an individual point value. Upon completion of all nine questions the allotted points are tallied to determine if a virtual assistant can or cannot be a useful team member to assist in the growth of a future client�s particular business. If determined that a virtual assistant is needed, the quiz further clarifies a recommended number of hours an assistant can be contracted to relieve a business owner of any routine responsibilities, project work and/or on-going; albeit important, time-consuming tasks. Another challenging quiz question presented on the website is, �Do your phones go unanswered because you are often out of the office or busy on another line?� This particular question frequently leaves the small business owner wondering how much revenue is truly lost when potentially important telephone calls remain unanswered. Additionally, Team Double-Click�s all-inclusive website offers a myriad of other customized virtual office assistant solutions for the entrepreneur. Targeting small business owners, real estate brokers, investors, and agents, visitors to the site can view a task list that a contracted virtual assistant can accomplish in their specified industry. In a 2006 interview with Kendra Todd, winner of NBC�s �The Apprentice Season 3�, hosted by Gayle Buske, Todd was asked to explain how she eventually determined that Team Double-ClickSM virtual assistants would add value to her rising real estate empire. Todd explained that as her business grew, a business partner eventually approached her and said, �Kendra, you can�t do it all, and you need a virtual assistant�. Todd added, �I have a very large database with lots of people � a couple thousand people in my database. It is important for any successful business owner to keep in touch with their clients, and email and ezines are a wonderful way to do that.� Todd continued, �It�s hard to pick up a phone and call several thousand people and say, �Hello, how are you doing?� but there are some wonderful virtual ways in which to have an intimate relationship with your customers, and so that was one of the reasons why I really needed to get a virtual assistant.� Todd has built her real estate team based on the premise that she, ��just want[s] the best people at what they do, regardless of where they are [virtually].� Business owners and entrepreneurs can now determine within a few minutes if a virtual assistant can be a viable addition to a client�s organization and, if so, through the use of Team Double-Click�s virtual staffing solutions website customized tools are available to effortlessly assemble a dynamic virtual team.
