Comments on: Marketing, Semantics & the Virtual Professional: What’s in a Name? And Other Bla Bla Bla http://snapwebmarketing.com/virtual-assistance/marketing-semantics-the-virtual-professional-whats-in-a-name-and-other-bla-bla-bla/ Fri, 09 Mar 2012 06:51:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kimberly http://snapwebmarketing.com/virtual-assistance/marketing-semantics-the-virtual-professional-whats-in-a-name-and-other-bla-bla-bla/comment-page-1/#comment-386 Kimberly Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:36:41 +0000 http://www.snapwebmarketing.com/?p=198#comment-386 I posted a comment on Erin's blog and I have the same kudos to you for putting this out there plain and simple. Pigeonholing us all into the same box in order to be able to righteously call ourselves "Virtual Assistants" is a disservice to the whole spirit on entrepreneurship. It seems to me that the more people move away from that specific definition of Virtual Assistant, the more other people want to (desperately, IMO) want to control who can and cannot call themselves a Virtual Assistant. If one wants to get into semantics, then virtual means online, and assistant is someone who assists. By their own standards of so narrowly defining the term and the industry, then they should be working harder to claim Virtual Administrative Assistant or Virtual Executive Assistant. Thanks for a post that was right on! Kimberly JK Virtual Office Resources www.jkvirtualoffice.com I posted a comment on Erin’s blog and I have the same kudos to you for putting this out there plain and simple. Pigeonholing us all into the same box in order to be able to righteously call ourselves “Virtual Assistants” is a disservice to the whole spirit on entrepreneurship.

It seems to me that the more people move away from that specific definition of Virtual Assistant, the more other people want to (desperately, IMO) want to control who can and cannot call themselves a Virtual Assistant. If one wants to get into semantics, then virtual means online, and assistant is someone who assists. By their own standards of so narrowly defining the term and the industry, then they should be working harder to claim Virtual Administrative Assistant or Virtual Executive Assistant.

Thanks for a post that was right on!
Kimberly
JK Virtual Office Resources
http://www.jkvirtualoffice.com

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