PITTSBURGH, PA December 04, 2009
/24-7PressRelease/ -- Young, fearless and laid off, Danielle Cuomo was 23 and about to start a company that would change the way business owners worked. Every year, nearly a million people start their own business, and only 50,000 make it. The odds were against her, with the Great Recession and high unemployment, so she decided if she could not find a way, she would make one of her own.
The goal of most people with an entrepreneurial yearning is to make it big after putting in 10 or 15 years of sacrifice, sweat, tears. She was determined to come out of the gate running and in fact, she had to. She had no fall back plan. That kind of urgency is certain to make it a little more daunting.
The company she created on the dining room table of her 1-bedroom apartment, Virtual Assist USA, uses a high-tech, cost-effective approach to gives busy business owners the opportunity to work on their business and not just in it. A one-stop-shop for business needs including marketing, search engine optimization, cold calling, sales, public relations, bookkeeping, social networking, customer support and administrative assistance a Virtual Assistant allows a business owner to outsource their business functions. It is all virtual owners do not have to create space and provide equipment for someone in their office and, for those that are working from home, they still have the opportunity to have an incredibly talented team to conduct business for them. The business owner is left to focus on the company' s bottom line, and not whether they remembered to Tweet or thinking about getting around to creating a newsletter. Additionally, Cuomo' s company slashes typical employment fees in half by using independent contractors and eliminating employee benefits, equipment costs, office space, paid vacation, payroll taxes and even the time spent on coffee breaks.
Virtual Assist USA grew to 50+ clients and 10 employees in just 6 months."I am so proud to be an American, where starting a business on your own, at such a young age, with no real capital, is possible, says Cuomo. She relied on no one to bail her out, and received unbelievable success. She was innovative and hardworking, and with virtually no advertising or marketing budget, still found ways to get her name in front of people. She used her expertise in social media and search engine optimization to provide publications with free articles, if they would site her name. She negotiated with a printer to give her free business cards and brochures. She utilized the free consulting resources at the Small Business Administration. Instead of expensive gifts for her clients, she baked cookies for them.
About Virtual Assist USA
She now enjoys a wildly successful business, with hardworking employees and thriving clients. She enjoys a truly international presence with clients in Canada, Australia, Israel, England and Ireland. Her clients range from CEOs to soccer moms, best-selling authors to small e-commerce shops. But, she still bakes the homemade cookies.
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