"A Clayton's Secretary"®
Secretarial Support with Virtual Assistants
(The Secretary you need when you haven't got a Secretary)
est. March 1994

ACS News November 2002
The regular newsletter for ACS contacts

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Regd. March 1994, Copyright © 1996-2002.  Updated: 1 November, 2002
LPO Box 6062, Cromer, Victoria, Australia, 3193.  Tel: 1800 033 355, +613 9583 8359, Fax: +613 9585 3785
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As most of you know we’d been experiencing email receipt problems at this end and found it frustrating, to say the least, to find out that some of you had been trying to contact us several times.  For the past couple of weeks we’ve been using a new host and we trust that you are now no longer experiencing problems reaching us.  The new host has been very good, and very quick and I encourage you to consider the web & mail hosting services of Danielle Musicka if ever you are looking for a new host.  Danielle is one of our team members, who took up web hosting to add to her services and this is working out really well for her – for our corporate site, and for others.  The mail and web hosting are handled in the one package, but she has lots of other goodies available to you too, such as shopping carts, mail lists, secure server, file manager, many other items and a fantastic control panel – so you can have control!  You can find her services at http://www.musicka.net/WebServices.htm.  Just tell her I sent you!

I really love today’s technology and exploring new products and options really excites me.  If you are planning getting onto the internet, or updating/changing your current system, my team and I would be thrilled to assist you and point you in the right direction.  And if you feel it is all way too beyond you – then we can do it for you!  Just ask. 

If you received this newsletter by post and are now on email, please let me know so I can add you to our email listing, or register as per the address on page 2.  If you do not wish to receive these any longer – please let me know that too, so I can take you off our database.

Do you belong to a membership-based association?  It might be a professional association, a sports club, a hobby interest, or some other type of group.  Do you know there are hundreds of thousands of these types of associations in Australia alone?  Voluntary teams run many associations – usually the committee of long-suffering people who love their association and spend many hours running it. 

 

 

Few of these associations can afford to rent an office, purchase furniture, equipment and software and then pay for someone to run it, along with the additional expenses of phone, fax, mail, stationery, etc.  However, if they knew that they could engage the services of a home-based secretary or virtual assistant for $xx per hour, then things might be different for them.  Our team includes a number of experienced secretariat operators just waiting to be asked!

If you know of any membership-based association seeking administrative help, please pass on this newsletter – we would love to discuss their needs with them and show them how we could assist.

Have a great month everyone.

Kathie


We welcome the new members who have joined our ranks since last newsletter:

Cheryl-Lee Carter, Greensborough, Vic, clcarter@bigpond.com
Jill Hoogenstein, Willoughby, NSW, jaymjay@optusnet.com.au
Roslyn Lambert, Ivanhoe, Vic, ralambert@optushome.com.au
Marianne Hewitt, Leichhardt, NSW, hewittm@ozemail.com.au
Narelle Quigley, Langwarrin, Vic,
narelle_q@yahoo.com.au

Each secretary has a minimum 5 years experience.  Their resumes are kept on file should a client require to view them.  They are also encouraged to continually update their skills and apply for the accreditation program we have available to them.


Members may charge differently as they are independent contractors. Some specialise in medical/legal transcriptions, bookkeeping, or Internet based work and have varying backgrounds of experience. 

Useful Web Links

Awards
www.achiever.com.au
www.businessawardsaus.com

Bridgeworks
www.bridgeworks.biz

Creative Celebrations
www.creativecelebrations.com.au

Guerrilla Marketing
www.guerrillamarketing.com.au

Hampering Around
www.hamperingaround.com.au

JewishAustralia
www.jewishaustralia.com

Networks:
For a list of networks in Melbourne go to

www.whats-on-in-town.com
www.bni.com.au

Seminars
www.asecretary.com.au/seminars.htm

Small Business Support
www.homebusinessmanual.com.au  
www.mbn.com.au
www.soho-life.com

The Australian Image Company
www.taic.com.au

The Office Organiser
www.office-organiser.com.au

The Ultimate Gift Experience
www.ultgiftexp.com.au

Travel Solutions
www.travelsolutions.com.au  

Universal Currency Converter
www.xe.net/ucc

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- 3 TIMES AWARD WINNER:
2002 Highly Commended MBN Established Business, Victoria
2002 MBN Virtual Business Award Winner, Victoria
2002 MBN Ambassador of the Year


“A Clayton’s Secretary”®
ABN 76 809 078 624

LPO Box 6062, Cromer, Vic, Australia, 3193  
National: 1800 033 355
Melb. Metro: (+613) 9583 8359
Mobile: 0414 659 142
Fax: (+613) 9585 3785
Email: kathie@asecretary.com.au
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Current Rates apply:
Word-processing
Overheads design/graphics
Desktop Publishing
Database design & maintenance
Colour printing
O/H Film
Internet:
Research on the Internet
Send email
Design, publish and register
Website with search engines
Webpage maintenance                             


$30.80 per hour
$38.50 per hour
$44.00 per hour
$49.50 per hour
$  3.30 per item
$  2.20 per item

$33.00 per hour
$ 2.20 with text
$825.00  (8 pages )

$ 66.00 per hour

Photocopying:                                           
Laminating                                                   
Faxes:
Local                                                             
STD
Scanning
Image - graphics - per graphic on disk    
OCR (Character recognition)                    
Training
Use of computer and software                 
Event Management
Flyers prepared, registrations handled,
bookings made, registration desk, etc.


$4.40 A4 size
$1.10
$5.50

$2.75 for first 5 pgs
$16.50  minimum

$55.00 per hour
POA

All prices are GST inclusive in Australian Dollars
Our team offer many more services than listed above.  If something you require is not listed here, please do give me a call and I will source it for you.  Further information about ‘A Clayton's Secretary’
® can be obtained through the web page address listed at the top of this page.  Rates for clients outside of Australia are ex GST (Goods & Services Tax = Base + 10%).