These are just some of the services provided by our team - there is much more and you can do a Search or place a job request below. Or, visit our Locations list if looking for someone close by or in a particular region.
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MISSION STATEMENT
To be the household name for secretarial support for home-based and small businesses. To make secretarial and office support within easy reach of all small and home-based businesses throughout the world.
ASSOCIATION MANAGEMENT
Secretariats for Associations (Association management). Is your committee so busy it can't keep up with it all? Our services include membership registrations and database, membership enquiries, information sent out, receipt of mail (postal address), dedicated phone line, minutes of meetings, reporting to committees, setting up functions and educationals, nametags, registration tables, banking of monies and reporting to the treasurer, etc. Think of the advantage of not having to rent an office, buy equipment and software, when you can engage the services of a home-based secretary who already has everything at hand. In effect, you have a office and only have to pay $$ per hour for the service, plus expenses such as stationery, printing, postage, faxing, etc. A number of our members have experience in this field and are waiting to service your association! Price on application - can be charged hourly, monthly or annually. Service outline attached. Wish to request support? Click here....
BOOK-KEEPING
QuickBooks for Windows, Quicken, MYOB, Excel and Microsoft Money. Also specialised software in some cases - refer secretaries' listing for more detailed information. Just click on Search and enter your preferred program for a listing of members with that service. Wish to request support? Click here....
 TRANSCRIPTIONS
We have experienced medical, legal, general audio and digital transcriptionists on our team. We can transcribe from micro, mini and ordinary audio tapes. Digital files of all formats can be transcribed using various software programs, including Quickscribe, Winscribe, Express Scribe in MP3, .dss, .wav and other formats. Medical terminology capabilities. As a large number of our team are based in Australia, for US, UK and other countries, this can mean a turnaround time that is very quick. We also have experienced transcriptionists in the UK and USA thereby providing quick turnaround time for those in the southern hemisphere.
Did you know that there is a big difference between the 'audio' hour and 'transcription' hour? An audio tape (or digitial recording) can take somewhere between 3-6 hours per hour of audio to transcribe. This is because there are many variables involved: speed of speech, accents, background noise, more than one voice speaking, terminologies used, bad quality recording. To keep your costs down it would be good if the recording had one voice at a time, at slower than normal speech, clear diction, no background noise. Quality, clarity, number of people speaking and speed of speech all affect how long it takes to transcribe a recording. Other things that can add to the length of time to type the recording are: accents, terminologies, how close the microphone was, background noises, quality recording and tapes/media. Wish to request support? Click here ...
SECRETARIAL SERVICES
Your office or ours - many of our secretaries are willing to work in either. Other services carried out include: Filing/General Office, Phone answering, Faxing, Binding, Laminating, Colour Printing, Photocopying and a myriad of other things. Just ask us! Wish to request support? Click here....
WORD-PROCESSING
Resumes, reports, thesis, manuals, books, newsletters, letters, mail merges and mail outs. All types of word-processing, including use of graphics. Also spreadsheets and desktop publishing. You can fax handwritten documents to us, we can email them back to you, ready to run off on your printer, saved to your disk, or to be edited and updated by yourself if you wish. In other words, we do all the work for you, providing you with a professional finish to your documents. Our clients are primarily individuals and small businesses - those who neither need a full-time secretary, nor can afford one. We're the secretary you need when you haven't got a secretary! Wish to request support? Click here....
Clients have included: insurance brokers, debt collection agencies, teachers, conference organisers, international trade consultants, management consultants, public speakers, schools, neighbourhood watch, writers, Ministers of religion, small businesses, advertising agencies, corporations, colleges, church groups, clubs and other various groups and associations, university students and private individuals.
WEB SUPPORT
Several members design and/or maintain websites. Search on our site for list of members click here to place your request for support.
OTHER SERVICES
Your office or ours - many of our secretaries are willing to work in either. Other services are included below:
EBAY TRADING ASSISTANTS
Do you have something to sell? Want to do it on eBay but not sure how? We have several members who are experience eBay traders and will be more than happy to list your household items, business products and other things on eBay. Fees include a percentage of sale price plus eBay's listing charges. Click here....
DATABASES
Design and management in Microsoft Access. Simple name and address listings for mail merges or more complicated set ups to produce directories and various types of listings. Also FileMaker Pro on the Apple Macintosh. Wish to request support? Click here....
DESKTOP PUBLISHING
Flyers, Brochures, Greeting Cards, Overhead presentations/slides, Certificates, Posters, Banners, Wedding Stationery, Invitations, etc. Wish to request support? Click here....
INTERNET
Web page design, publishing, broadcast e-mails and research. Contact us for pricing. Wish to request support? Click here....
TRAVEL-AID
Need to organise a trip overseas? What about all those late night overseas phone calls to organise the trip? Do you know the 'lay of the land' to arrange your itinerary? Why not engage the services of a local home-based secretary to make those calls and arrangements for you at the cost of local call charges, instead of overseas charges? The secretary can arrange your itinerary, make the contacts for you during regular business hours and relate the information back to you, either by email, or by fax. Contact Kathie for further details.
MEETING PLANNER/SPEAKER SUPPORT
A number of our team are experienced event/conference organisers and are well placed to support meeting planners and professional speakers with their events - particularly if the meeting planner or speaker is based out of town, out of the state or the country of their planned event. Wish to request support? Click here....
SCANNING - both image and OCR.
SEMINARS
We also provide full registration desk and seminar support - from taking bookings for registrations, to preparation of nametags, to front-of-house or backstage staff - just ask! Wish to request support?
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SPREADSHEETS
Data entry, formulas, charting - you name it, we can do it for you! Wish to request support? Click here....
SPEAKER
Kathie enjoys the opportunity of speaking at seminars relating her experience as a secretary and adding the benefits of Networking, Benchmarking and Key Performance Indicators with a view towards “Best Practice”. She has had several articles dealing with these subjects published in magazines, newspapers and newsletters.
CONFIDENTIALITY
All discussions, consultations, paperwork and negotiations are kept in the strictest confidence.
ABOUT OUR SECRETARIES
Each secretary or virtual assistant works as an independent contractor in their own business. Some work full-time and some part-time and also in temporary positions. Because they work independently, prices may vary amongst the group, so feel free to shop around. Please understand that until the work can be sighted, it is sometimes difficult to accurately price a job.
"All things are difficult before they are easy...." Thomas Fuller
"Let us make things easier for you" - Kathie M. Thomas |
