By Kerry Hannon for Next Avenue
Six months after Tamara Schumer, of Fairfax, Va., opened her home-based window-treatment business in 2016, it took off. “I was fortunate,” says Schumer, owner of Budget Blinds of Arlington & Alexandria. “But it was very stressful trying to handle customer service, scheduling, follow-up, orders, sales — all of that on my own.” So she decided to hire a couple of virtual assistants to help handle some of her business matters from their homes. What a relief that turned out to be…FORBES ARTICLE