Virtual Administration services and the eCottage

Nomadesk will be viziting Bizcamp Limerick this weekend and looking forward to meeting up with some very interesting entrepreneurs. Such as Vicky O’Connor - a “Virtual Administrator who partners with start-up and small business owners to help them manage their daily administration duties while they can spend time building their business.”

Vicky is the founder of Tralee based Cuile Virtual Administration Services, which is pioneering the delivery of an extremely attractive value proposition for small and medium sized enterprizes. As she explains - “the math is easy – subtract my rate from your own hourly rate, and that’s what it’s costing you per hour, every hour, that you’re doing your own admin instead of hiring me.”

On her website Vicky points to a recent Reuters article which explores the upswing in demand for virtual administration services in the States - “A lot of clients are replacing their brick-and-mortar offices with virtual offices. They’re staffing virtually. Indeed such arrangements save companies that can no longer support full-time staff large sums in costs such as overhead, workers’ benefits and most important, paid time for unproductive hours when the workflow ebbs.”

Our own interest in Virtual Administration Services stems of course from the fit we see with a hotdesking and coworking lifestyle. While a majority of virtual assitants like Vickly may work out of their homes for most of the week there’s a real and exciting synergy to be explored between coworking and both the delivery and utlization of virtual administration services.

Freelancers and entrepreneurs providing and consuming services in a densely interconnected and localized ecosystem could lead to the rise of the eCottage - ‘cottage industry’ for the 21st Century.