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Maryland Secretarial Services, Inc. is a virtual assistant (VA), business support and personal assistant service. We provide a wide range of support services to businesses of all sizes, from sole proprietor to national corporation, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and individuals. 

Virtual Assistants are business owners who provide professional administrative, technical, or creative (social) assistance to clients - usually other independent entrepreneurs and small businesses. Virtual Assistants work from their own office (hence "virtual"), thus making it a fairly popular (and growing) profession in centralized economies. It is estimated that there are as many as 35,000 Virtual Assistants worldwide.

Common modes of communication and data delivery include the Internet, e-mail and phone call conferences, online work spaces, and fax machine. Professionals in this business work on a contractual basis and a long-lasting cooperation is standard. Typically five years of administrative experience in an office is expected at such positions as executive assistant, office manager/supervisor, secretary, legal assistant, paralegal, legal secretary, real estate assistant, etc.