Enjoy More Time, Less Work, Better Quality − In ANY Market − With A Virtual Assistant!

Welcome to Team Double-Click^® The Virtual Assistant Company Trusted by Thousands of Businesses Worldwide

Team Double-Click^® provides professional virtual office assistants and professional real estate virtual assistants for small and home-based businesses. We are a virtual staffing agency, working with thousands of the best professional virtual office assistants the world has to offer. Team Double-Click^® offers its clients cost-effective solutions to inflexible bricks-and-mortar staffing by staffing virtually.

We don't just tell you where you can find a virtual assistant. We assess your needs and match you with one of our highly-skilled and Team Double-Click^® trained virtual assistants. Then we monitor and nurture that relationship so you get the most out of hiring virtually. Think of us as your virtual Human Resources department!

The original and still the best: Team Double-Click’s thorough virtual assistant screening process, outstanding customer service, and innovative approach to virtual staffing has earned the company mentions and features in such esteemed media as Entrepreneur Magazine, Staff Digest, CNN Money, NBC News, and even Woman’s Day magazine. Team Double-Click^® is truly setting the standard for the virtual assistant industry.

48 Days

The average number of days that it took for an American company to fill a job vacancy in 2004 was 48 days. The average cost per hire was $3,270.00.
(Source: Business Week)

Go virtual with Team Double-Click^® and cut the hiring cost to $0.00 and have a new staff member in less than a week!

Team Double-Click®: The Video

"Virtual Assistants (VA's) are independent entrepreneurs providing professional administrative, creative, managerial, technical, business office and/or personal support services. Virtual office assistants use the most advanced means of communication, and the newest, most efficient and time-saving office products and work delivery, regardless of geographic boundaries. Virtual Assistants work from their own offices, on a contractual basis, and abide by an established Code of Ethics requiring integrity, honesty and due diligence."

''The Alliance for Virtual Business''

How does Team Double-Click® stack up against Independent Virtual Assistants?
	Team Double-Click®	Independent Virtual Assistant
Pricing	Always the same price for the same set of tasks. Our pricing starts at $24.86 per hour.	Pricing all over the board. Each individual virtual assistant has different pricing structures. Some will be $20/hour, some $50/hour, some $75/hour – for the same tasks.
Skills and experience	At Team Double-Click®, all virtual assistants are sent through the same interview and skills testing process. Only those who pass this process receive our seal of approval and are allowed to work with our clients.	Skills, experience, and quality are all over the board. There is no one company/entity who actually screens for skills and quality.
Stability	Team Double-Click® has been in business since 2000. We bring experience, longevity, and stability to the table.	Varies widely. Many new virtual assistants come into the industry daily, so many are very new to virtual assisting.
Quality	Team Double-Click’s virtual assistant interviewing and screening process is the best in the industry. All virtual assistants are quality-checked and come with our stamp of approval. This system has been five years in the making and perfected through time and trial.	Varies. Team Double-Click® turns away a whopping 80% of the potential virtual assistants it interviews. As a client, expect the same ratios when interviewing on your own.
Getting a return call	Team Double-Click® guarantees a return call or email (respectively according to client wishes) within 3 business hours. We’ve lost count of the number of clients who have come to Team Double-Click® surprised that someone returned their call because “the first 10 virtual assistant companies I tried never answered the phones and never called me back.”	Our experience shows that with independent virtual assistants, when they hit that point of being “full” on hours, they also quit returning potential client calls and emails. Imagine you referring a client to an independent virtual assistant and the client never getting a return call.
Money back guarantee	Team Double-Click® offers its clients a 30-day money-back guarantee on work performed.	No
Support staff	Team Double-Click® staffs as many as 30 people whose sole job it is to keep things ticking along well between client and virtual assistant. Clients have a third party to come to if there are problems. Additionally, if there is a problem with the virtual assistant, we take care of dismissing her and locating another virtual assistant.	With an independent virtual assistant, the client is forced to confront the virtual assistant and “manage” her himself – there’s no one to go to if there are problems and no one but the client to spend time seeking out another virtual assistant.
Free training time	At Team Double-Click® every client gets 2 hours of free orientation/training time with every virtual assistant.	Most independent virtual assistants do not allow a client free orientation time – time for the client to show the virtual assistant how he likes things done in his business. With independent virtual assistant services you’re generally on the clock immediately.
Referral fees	At Team Double-Click® if you refer a client to us, we pay you a 5% referral fee. That new client in turn can register as a referral partner as well. If he does, he will receive 5% of the gross sales for anyone he refers.	Each virtual assistant is independent of one another so there is no way to offer an incentive of this nature to a client.
Interviewing, skills testing, selection	At Team Double-Click® we interview our virtual assistants and either deny them or place our seal of approval on them. Next, we train each virtual assistant to take her excellent bricks-and-mortar skills and put them to work for you – virtually. We then sit down one-on-one with our clients to determine what tasks you need to have done and what skills you need in a virtual assistant. We then do the legwork (free) of locating the best fit and then assign the virtual assistant to you, the client. Thus saving you countless hours of hassle.	You can locate a virtual assistant by doing an internet search for “virtual assistant” or you can go to an association who will give you a list of virtual assistants and it’s the clients’ job to sift through them all to find one that a. returns his call, b. has time available, c. has a price he likes, d. has the skills he needs.
Number of virtual assistants and capacity	With Team Double-Click®, we have an unlimited supply of virtual assistants and can, at the drop of a hat, bring in additional virtual assistants or alternate virtual assistants. Check our ticker above for our current number of virtual assistants on board.	Each independent virtual assistant, once full-up on hours, has no means to service more clients. When they’re full, they’re done. In other words, they do not have scalability. As of March 2008, the top two virtual assistant associations have a mere 1,121 virtual assistants combined.
Endorsements	Team Double-Click® is endorsed and recommended by: The Direct Selling Women’s Alliance, Audio Acrobat, Women’s Radio, Women’s Calendar, Alex Mandossian, The Microenterprise Journal, Jim Blassingame, Small Business Trends Radio, Michael Russer, ROYAL LePAGE, EXIT Realty, Kendra Todd (winner of NBC’s the Apprentice Season 3), Jim Gillespie, Jack Peckham, Top Producer, SharperAgent, Fidelity Financial, Dirk Zeller, ZipForm, Agency Logic, RELAY, E-Agent, CKG International and Coach Ken Goodfellow, Blogging Systems, Ralph Roberts, Real Estate Champions, Flipping Homes, Rapid Listings, RECyber Society, and Real Pro Systems, and has appeared on FOX News, Entrepreneur Magazine, The Small Business Advocate, and CNN Money, just to name a few.	Varies.
Training	Team Double-Click® puts each and every virtual assistant through the same virtual assistant and real estate virtual assistant training and demands that they pass successfully prior to being placed with a client.	Varies. Very few standardized virtual assistant training courses exist for independent virtual assistants to take.
Retainer fees	Team Double-Click® never requests a retainer fee from its clients.	Many virtual assistants demand a “retainer” fee with the client. If the retainer amount is not utilized during the course of the month it’s lost.
Pay before the work is done	Team Double-Click® bills its clients only after the work is done – never before.	Varies. Some independent virtual assistants demand payment upfront, some do not.
Client pays benefits (health insurance, vacation time, sick pay, etc.)	Never	Generally no.
Pay only for what you use	Yes. Team Double-Click® virtual assistants time the work they do for you right down to the minute and you’re billed only after the work is done.	Varies. See above with regards to retainer fees. Additionally, some independent virtual assistants round to the nearest 5 minutes or the nearest 15 minutes.

From Kendra Todd, Apprentice 3 Winner and Team Double-Click® client.

"I can tell you just by comparing my experience so far with Team Double-Click® vs. working with Virtual Assistants in the past; it's like night and day. When I was seeking out a new Virtual Assistant, it's because I was frustrated with the lack of communication I had in the past with Virtual Assistants. I couldn't be more impressed, and more thrilled with the level of follow-up, the level of expertise and knowledge, and just the numerous different people who are there to help me."

Virtual assistants are far more cost effective than regular employees. You may pay more per hour than a regular employee, but leave out the FICA, state unemployment taxes, Social Security, health insurance, vacation time, sick time, 401(k), profit sharing, Christmas bonus, holiday pay, and other benefits you need to offer a regular employee, and teleworkers’ wages comes out far lower than that of regular employees.

Scenario 1 - You can hire a full-time, in-house employee, and wind up paying $35.47 per hour. This doesn’t take in to account what percentage of the 40 hours the employee is working on personal tasks. Plus you still have to deal with the “employee mentality”.

Line item	Calculation	Amount
Wage	$15/hour x 40 hr/week	$31,200/year
Social Security	(.062 x 31,200)	$1,934/year
Medicare	(.0145 x 31,200)	$452/year
Workers comp	(.15 x 31,200)	$4,680/year
Sick time	1 week/year	$600/year
Vacation time	2 weeks/year	$1,200/year
Health Insurance	Average	$7,800/year
FUTA	(.008 x 7,000)	$ 56/year
Cost of hiring	According to Business Week	$3,270/year
Office distractions*		$8,190 per year
Office utilities	$300 per month	$3,600/year
Computer	Computer for the assistant	$ 1,000
Desk and chair	Modest desk and chair	$ 700
Add’l phone line	Phone line install & monthly charges	$ 1,300
Office space	Moderate office $900/month	$10,800/year
Total		$73,782 per year
	Or	$35.47 per hour

*A study by Basex, a New York research firm, found that office distractions ate up 2.1 hours a day for the average worker.

Scenario 2 - You can hire Team Double Click® virtual assistants, and wind up paying just $24.86 per hour. The hours per week went down from 40 to 30 because Team Double-Click® only charges for time worked, the teleworker will still be on call 40 hours.

Line item	Calculation	Amount
Wage	$24.86/hour x 30 hr/week	$38,782/year
Social Security	N/A Independent Contractor	$0
Medicare	N/A Independent Contractor	$0
Workers comp	N/A Independent Contractor	$0
Sick time	N/A Only Pay for Time Worked	$0
Vacation time	N/A Only Pay for Time Worked	$0
Health Insurance	N/A Independent Contractor	$0
FUTA	N/A Independent Contractor	$0
Cost of hiring	Team Double-Click® requires no start up payment	$0
Office distractions*	Working from home there are no office distractions	$0
Office utilities	N/A Independent Contractor – they pay their own utilities	$0
Computer	N/A Independent Contractor – they buy their own computer	$0
Desk and chair	N/A Independent Contractor – they buy their own desk and chair	$0
Add’l phone line	N/A Independent Contractor – they pay for their own phone	$0
Office space	N/A working from home	$0
Total		$38,782/year
	Or	$24.86/hour

By comparing these two scenarios you can see that you are saving almost 50% versus hiring an in house employee.

All Team Double-Click® virtual assistants are set up with our company as an independent contractor – never an employee.

A virtual assistant can save money in other areas as well. How much does it cost you to maintain office footage, a computer, phone lines, desks, electricity, heat, air conditioning, and parking for your regular employees? With Team Double-Click® virtual assistants, you don’t need any of those things - he or she supplies his or her own.

A Virtual Office Assistant To Fit Your Business!

Many businesses and associations, including our partners suggest the use of virtual office assistants so their clients and members can concentrate on their core abilities. Even Inc. Magazine and Entrepreneur discuss the benefits of utilizing virtual help. We've been able to assist many clients who agreed with the vision of utilizing virtual office assistants.

Small businesses and self-employed individuals are turning to virtual office assistants, graphic designers, and web developers in order to stay on top of those tasks while eliminating the need to support a full-time staff. As USA Today wrote:

"The savings come from being able to concentrate efforts on building the business instead of balancing the checkbook and typing envelopes."

Your time and money are worth more when you are able to concentrate on what you do best and leave the rest to us. Our virtual office assistants work from home and are highly trained in their skill areas as well as a variety of technologies. Many of them have advanced degrees as well as years of professional experience. Not only can we relieve you of mundane, everyday tasks, but also in many cases, we can even help you grow your business.

To further assist you, Team Double-Click's marketing associates and virtual administrative assistants are required to thoroughly review and understand your web site and your information. This ensures that we can relate to the pressures, stresses, and challenges you face, and help you overcome them to become successful and reap the rewards of your industry.

Depending on the level of service you choose, Team Double-Click® can do virtually everything necessary to support you and your administrative needs and marketing efforts – except close the sales – that's up to you.

Our virtual office assistants and associates work best as an extension of you. In other words, if you are utilizing a marketing method or target market that works well for you, it's best to use your assistant to duplicate those efforts in those markets.

Team Double-Click® works with talented individuals who specialize in the following areas:

Virtual receptionists	Administrative assistance
Travel arrangements	Appointment reminder calls
Appointment setting	Letter preparation
Topic research	Meeting arrangements
Marketing	Mailing preparation and processing
Event planning	Bookkeeping
Executive assistance	Accounting
Data entry	E-mail screening and processing
Customer support

Additionally, if you require assistance in determining how to set up a full-fledged virtual office or simply how to outsource a portion of your work to a virtual assistant, we can help. Our firm offers this type of assistance as a complimentary service to our clients. And there is never a set up fee to work with our agency. All work is based on either a per project or per hour rate.
Our top-notch professionals, affordable pricing, and flexibility allow Team Double-Click® to be your one-stop-shop for office services. Call or click today to see how we can be here for you... virtually!

Call 888.827.9129 or today for a free quote or to discuss your project needs.