ATLAS VIRTUAL SERVICES LAUNCHES CUTTING-EDGE ONLINE SUPPORT SERVICE

With Internet, Company Offers Bigger Image, Low Rates to Small Business Clients

HELENA, Alabama -- August 4, 2000 -- Kelly Cullison, a Helena entrepreneur, announced the opening of Atlas Virtual Services, a virtual assisting practice devoted to helping small business owners handle administrative tasks so they can focus on growing their business. Using the Internet and email with other mainstay communications tools, businesses are now able to pass along time-consuming chores without having to hire employees or temporary help.

Cullison explains that Atlas Virtual Services aids small business owners by handling such tasks as correspondence, travel arrangements, appointment-setting, preparation of reports and presentations, and Internet research, as well as managing voice and email and other day-to-day,
non-core matters.

Cullison is one of a growing number of home-based "Virtual Assistants," leveraging the Internet to launch practices around the world. These professional administrative assistants represent a broad cross-section of society, including single parents, seniors, college students, people with disabilities, downsized executives, and many others with skills and expertise essential to the smaller enterprise.

Cullison explains, "Virtual Assistants are the ideal staffing solution for the new breed of 'wired' small-business owner. Without requiring more office equipment or space, and without the hassles associated with hiring employees, Virtual Assistants offer expert support on an as-needed basis -- billing only for time-on-task. Since Virtual Assistants themselves are also small-business owners, they have a direct interest in making sure their clients are happy with their performance, and better understand the small-business arena than either employees or temps."

Virtual assistance works because the immediacy of todays technology enables the virtual assistant and client to respond to each other in a timely manner from remote locations -- a client traveling several states away can benefit as much as a local client. "Small-business owners can pick up the phone in their car or at the airport and delegate work to their VA in 'real time,' knowing that the work will be completed professionally and on time, and at a reasonable fee," says Cullison.

Contact information:
Kelly Cullison, Atlas Virtual Services
Email: atlas_vs@hotmail.com
URL: http://www.atlasvs.com
Phone: 205 685-8077