Virtual Assistants Are Getting Supercharged with AI, and Clients Are Loving It
New Delhi [India], May 23: Spend an hour with an independent consultant in North America and a pattern shows up fast. The hours billed are not the problem. The hours not billed are. Proposals, follow-ups, decks, invoices, social media, the half-finished landing page, the tax document the accountant asked for three weeks ago. Most independent consultants do not have a revenue problem. They have an admin problem dressed up as a revenue problem.The old answer to this was a virtual assistant. Hire someone offshore, hand off the calendar and the inbox, reclaim ten or fifteen hours a week. It worked for a long time. But the work of an independent consultant today looks very different from a decade ago. The deliverables have multiplied. A consultant is now expected to ship a newsletter, run a...