Podcast & Blog Hopping Virtual Assistant Publishes Account of 45 Day International Virtual Tour

Entrepreneur travels Internet educating bloggers and podcast listeners about virtual assisting and the advantages of outsourcing to members of the fastest growing work-from-home industry of the 21st century.

Baltimore, MD (PRWEB) January 16, 2008 -- The 2007 Virtual Assistant Blog Hopping and Podcast Tour hits the virtual shelves this week. Last spring, Sharon Williams, also known as the Podcast and Blog Hopping Virtual Assistant, embarked on a 45 Day Virtual Tour designed to promote the Virtual Assistant Industry. "It was a lot of work" says Williams, "but the knowledge shared and the friendships gained were well worth it."

The new eBook recounts Williams' virtual 45-day trip around the Internet as she visited different blogs and podcasts, responding to 200+ questions about the Virtual Assistant Industry and its annual online convention. She stopped in Australia, Canada, the US, England and other countries, virtually, providing insight regarding the industry's history, technology trends, benefits of working with VAs -- anything blog readers and podcast listeners wanted to know about one of the fastest growing home-based businesses of the 21st century.

A Virtual Assistant (VA) is an entrepreneur providing administrative and other business support services to business owners, remotely. "Savvy small business owners as well as overworked and overwhelmed solopreneurs can now delegate back office, mundane and non-income generating tasks to more than 20,000 work-from-home admin. specialists, while they concentrate on responsibilities that fuel their passion."

Many participants were interested in learning how to build a successful VA practice. Others wanted answers to questions, such as, "Isn't working with a VA more expensive than hiring an employee?"; and, "How can I be confident that a VA who specializes in my industry won't share my business ideas with other clients?" Ms. Williams used the tour to respond to these and similar inquiries from emerging, aspiring and veteran VAs as well as Web-based business owners.

The tour was, and will continue to be an opportunity to educate executives and entrepreneurs about the advantages of working with VAs," states Ms. Williams. It covers many topics including pricing, promotion, marketing, networking, niches, branding -- just about any topic a small business owner and/or VA would be interested in exploring about the virtual assistance industry.

For more information about the Virtual Assistant Blog Hopping and Podcast Tour, visit the Alliance for Virtual Businesses at http://tinyurl.com/2uylcr.

About the Alliance
The Alliance for Virtual Businesses (A4VB) represents more than 20,000 Professional Virtual Assistants, worldwide. As the leading advocacy, education and publicity organization for administrative virtual professional entrepreneurs, the Alliance is dedicated to the growth of the Virtual Assistance industry through networking, information sharing and proactive interaction between the global business community and the industry.

About Sharon Williams
Ms. Williams is president of The 24 Hour Secretary (http://www.the24hoursecretary.com), an administrative, secretarial and marketing support services company which supports busy and often overwhelmed executives, entrepreneurs and their assistants. She is the Chairperson of the Alliance for Virtual Businesses and President of Virtual BusinessU (http://www.virtualbusinessu.net), an online e-leaning environment providing virtual business training in an interactive environment, for students ready to step toward their greatness.

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