I’ve been preaching (yes, preaching) about the benefits of using VA’s since the mid-1990′s.  It seems to have taken a major down-turn for the industry to wake up to Virtual Outsourcing.

The following is an excerpt from an article posted on the National Association for the Self Employed Website.  If you ever questioned whether VA’s are right for you, this should convince you…

By Phillip M. Perry

For Laura MacDonald, running a successful real estate agency always meant maintaining a full-time staff. And why not? Her two office workers responded efficiently to a flood of housing inquiries from buyers and sellers.

Then the recession hit the real estate industry with the force of a freight train hitting a wall. Her profits threatened, MacDonald knew she had to do something to preserve the viability of her 17-year-old St. Louis-based firm. <continued…>