TAVASA - Virtual forum

Hi everybody just to notify you that I (Gaynor Paynter from Typewrite Transcription and Typing Services CC) have again become a moderator of the Transcriptionists and Virtual Assistants of South Africa Forum (TAVASA) after a leave of absence of a while. My huge thanks to Alison Fourie for her continued support, it's a pleasure to be a comoderator with you again. Email tavasa@yahoogroups.com to join up to the forum.

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Gaynor Paynter is the owner of Typewrite Transcription and Typing Services CC provoding a full virtual and online marketing suite of services from transcription and typing services to online social media marketing services.  

Services covered include:

- Transcription

- Typing

- Proofreading

- Editing

- CV Writing

- Social media marketing

- Website development

- figg Excel Accounting software (with the option of bookkeeping services included)

We customise our services to meet the needs of your business.

Author of an e-book, "Working from Home as a Transcriptionist in South Africa" which retails for R120.

Contact us:

- +27834424689

- email gpaynter@telkomsa.net

- Skype gaynorp

Our websites:

www.typewritetranscription.co.za

www.talkingpointmedia.co.za

www.typewrite.blogspot.com

www.talkingpointmedia.blogspot.com

2010 Afrivan Nominees:
Achievement Award Nominee Category
Gaynor Paynter - Typewrite Transcription VA Regional Award Nominee Category
Gaynor Paynter- TAVASA

2012 Worldwide VA Services Special Report - Survey.

Hi Gaynor,

We’re about to distribute survey data collection forms to initiate research leading up to the 2012 Worldwide VA Services Special Report. We want to invite all VA professionals and forum members to participate. Would you please mention this opportunity on your blog?

All responses will be treated as confidential and company proprietary. We will never release any pricing information associated with a particular person, business, or company. Everyone who participates will receive the statistical results for those areas in which they provide input. The complete survey results will be available as a Special Report near the end of April. Participants will be able to purchase the complete report at deep discount. (They’ll still get the statistical results for their own input.) All one needs to do to participate is to click off a request to receive the survey form. We’ll send it as an email attachment in RTF. We anticipate over 1,000 active participants.

Warm regards,

Robert Brenner, MSEE, MSSM
Brenner Information Group
www.brennerbooks.com
brenner@brennerbooks.com

Scribe needed

Hi guys, I need help with the following query. If you can assist with this, please contact me at gpaynter@telkomsa.net. Gauteng based. 

Dear Gaynor,

It was a pleasure speaking to you. Thank you for the offer to help source a  good scribe for me. The details are as follows:

Requirements:

·         Fast accurate scribe with the ability to listen and type onto live screen at the same time. EXCEPTIONAL WORD POWERPOINT AND EXCEL  SKILLS

·         A reasonable understanding of strategic planning processes –must be able to quickly understand and follow the content

·         Must be able to produce a first draft report a day after the workshop

·         Workshop will run for three days- usually client chooses an away from office venue- requiring sleeping over for the three days- the cost of  accommodation travel and meals is borne by client. I will require the services for an extra two days. Maximum therefore will be five days.

·         A mature and highly self driven and professional individual.

I look forward to your response.

Kind regards

World Wide Virtual Service Billing Rates

Robert Brenner is the Publisher: Pricing Tactics and Small Business Guide to Pricing and the

Manager of  Real Prices Confidential(RPC) online database.

He recently published the following which he gave me permission to publish. Of note is the fact that South Africa doesn't feature.

I don’t hav stats but my gut feel says that there are more Vas in SA than in the Ukraine, and Hungary. The Ukraine’s population is 46 million, Hungary a paltry R10 million.  Our population is 49 million. It would be interesting to find out what percentage of people are Vas and if there eare more in SA or in these countries. After all, Hungary also have political differences and I don’t think can be considered first world. Unless, like the Chinese government, their focus is on education and they have free internet, I cn’t see how they can have more than us. It leads me to wonder whether this bears out something that my colleague Alison Fourie of AMF Typing - who put me in touch with Robert - and I have always wondered. Do South African VAs NOT ADVERTISE?

World Wide Virtual Service Billing Rates

Based on almost 6,000 prices that we’ve collected (most in the last 6 weeks) a Quick Look analysis shows the following:

Sample size: 5,982 companies (and growing)

Price Range: $5-$300/hour

Average Price: $27.66/hour

Countries represented: 21

Top Countries Advertising on the Internet (listed by number of ads found):

USA

Canada

India

Australia

UK

France

Hungary

Pakistan

Ukraine

The highest average hourly rate was $35.80 for the UK, then $31.50 for Canada. The U.S. came in with an average of $27.69. Billing rates for India averaged $9 per hour. Details for all of these prices are in our Real Prices Confidential database (RPC). RPC will be used to develop the 2012 Special International Report on Virtual Service Prices< /i> (available this month). If you’re thinking about outsourcing work or creating a strategic partnership with a company offshore, these may be helpful to you.

Hopefully this information will help you start 2012 focused on increased sales and profit and ready to prosper in the New Year!

Best wishes,

Robert Brenner, MSEE, MSSM

Brenner Information Group

www.brennerbooks.com

Publisher: Pricing Tactics and Small Business Guide to Pricing

Manager: Real Prices Confidential(RPC) online database

P.S. We’re also developing a Special International Report on Web Service Prices. Are you interested?