Go Green : Hire a “Virtual” Marketing Assistant

by Vickie Perry Barker

Today’s entrepreneurs are implementing measures to reduce pollution, waste, and consumption. If you are a small business owner with a desire to “go green” and have a need for virtual marketing support, you should consider hiring a virtual marketing assistant to help you with your projects.

The virtual marketing assistant is a “green” alternative to a traditional in-house employee in that they allow you an opportunity to circumvent various environmental issues, while completing your projects in a timely, more efficient, and cost-effective manner.

There are several advantages to “going green” with a virtual marketing assistant. Here are a few:

1. Most virtual marketing assistants work from the comfort of their own homes, so they do not commute to and from work by vehicle. By not commuting, a virtual assistant saves gas, and reduces the amount of harmful gases and pollution released into the air by way of vehicle exhaust.

2. Virtual marketing assistants use the latest technology to communicate with their clients and transmit correspondence, files and completed work projects. Most of their communications are done electronically, and their projects are typically managed with the help of online applications. Thus, virtual assistants use a lot less paper, printer toner, ink, and other office supplies.

3. Many remote marketing assistants are eco-friendly small business owners. Hiring an eco-friendly virtual assistant will ensure that all materials are reused and recycled thus, office products are not wasted needlessly.

4. Working from home only when you need them, the virtual marketing assistant uses less heat, air conditioning, electricity, and water to run their home offices. This is just another way virtual assistants are going green with their clients.

FSVS’s team of virtual marketing assistants are technologically savvy professionals experienced in providing internet marketing, social media marketing, and blogging services to solo attorneys, internet marketers, publicists, and small business owners. “Go Green” with an eco-friendly virtual assistant and begin your efforts to save the environment.


Vickie Perry Barker, aka the Full Service VA, is founder and CEO of Full Service Virtual Support (FSVS), a multi virtual assistant firm that provides internet marketing, administrative, web site design, and blog support to busy professionals. Vickie has over a decade of legal administrative, marketing and entrepreneurial experience that clients of FSVS find valuable. For more information, please visit www.fullservicesupport.com.

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Vickie Perry Barker is a Litigation Paralegal. She provides legal and administrative support to attorneys and their in-house teams. You can connect with Vickie on LinkedIn or her semi-personal blog, Atlanta Mompreneur.

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