AJL Business Secretarial Services was founded in 2006 by Barbara Gilbert, Owner and Proprietor.  Barbara has over 25 years’ corporate experience in the public and private sectors in administrative operations, document preparation, spreadsheets and database development, bookkeeping, customer service and customer relations.

Throughout her career, Barbara has taken courses to develop and enhance her skills to the level of proficiency she has today.  Barbara uses her expertise of the Microsoft Office suite to prepare a wide variety of documents for the business community.  Accounting software is used for bookkeeping tasks.

Her career has provided her with many opportunities to work in the areas of office administration, customer service, financial tracking, monitoring and reporting, invoicing, bill payments, purchase orders, and information management. 

By utilizing services of AJL Business Secretarial Services, Barbara helps to keep you organized, relieve you of the stress of having too much to do and improve your proficiency. You will have time to keep your commitments to your clients, promote your products and services, generate revenue, and accomplish your business goals towards success.

How We Work with You

We can work from:

• Faxed originals
• Emails
• Handwritten or typed notes
• Word, Excel, Publisher, Powerpoint (Microsoft Professional 2003 and 2007 versions)
• Rich text format
• Audio cassette tapes

AJL Business Secretarial Services conducts all communications and completes projects with courtesy and complete confidentiality.  Barbara is highly dedicated to completing her work with care and integrity.  Highly developed organizational skills and attention to detail are a significant part in the operations of her business and are crucial to the function of any business.

Our Priority:  Working with Clients to Develop Partnerships

Our priority is to build long-term professional partnerships with our clients.  We work closely with you to gain a complete understanding of your business support requirements. Communication plays a major role in the work partnership in order to ensure our services meet your requirements.  These things enable us to customize our services to ensure satisfaction and provide you with the administrative support you require to achieve business success. 

What is a Virtual Assistant?

A virtual assistant is an independent administrative support contractor who works on a contract basis from their own remote private fully-equipped office (hence “virtual”) to provide services virtually to assist businesses, professionals, and entrepreneurs with office administrative processes.  As a cost-effective alternative to hiring a regular full-time or part-time employee, a virtual assistant can provide specialized administrative support services to a business owner without all the costs associated with payroll and providing office space and all the necessary IT equipment.

Areas of expertise vary to include daily office administrative assistance and office management support, document preparation, data management, accounting, bookkeeping, resume writing, and website design services without being physically present in a business owner’s office.  Through the use of the internet, email, fax, phone, mail or courier contact can be made to a virtual assistant anywhere.  A virtual assistant can provide professional assistance for the busy entrepreneur locally or anywhere in the world.

Virtual Assistants are not temps and they are not employees.  They are specialized administrative professionals who can provide specialized assistance based on the needs of businesses and individual business people who want to utilize their time more efficiently to focus on core priorities that make their business successful.

Partnering with a virtual assistant reduces stress, improves cash flow, alleviates administrative burdens and opens the doors for busy people to accomplish the success they originally set out to achieve.

The following are articles with more information on the value of a VA:
(Note: These are all in PDF format and will require the free Adobe Acrobat to view)

Virtual Assistants Can Help During Tough Economic Times
No Better Time to Hire a Virtual Assistant
How to Work Effectively with a Virtual Assistant
VAs Take on Chores
VAs - A Support System That Works
What a Virtual Assistant Is and Is Not
Who is Your Virtual Assistant?
How to Get the Most Out of Your VA
Virtual Assistants Get the Job Done
Top 10 Ways a VA Saves You Money
Getting to Catch Friday With a VA
Virtual Assistants Handle Chores from Far Away
Virtual Workspace: A Virtual Assistant Outsourcing Company
VAs Globally Taking Clients to New Frontiers
Finding Yourself a Virtually Perfect Assistant
Virtual Assistant: Questions & Answers

Contact Barbara today to help you with your administrative & bookkeeping overflow.