Client Testimonials

"As a busy life and career coach, I had tried working with 2 virtual assistants in the past. Neither of them worked out; they just didn't follow through on the tasks that I asked of them.

"Since my business is growing, I really need administrative support that I can count on. My e-newsletter was taking me an entire day each week to create. I had to write it, format it, check the links, and email it out. It's an important part of my marketing, and it provides a great value to my clients. However, it was just taking too much of my time.

"I then heard about Secretary in Israel through a colleague of mine and decided to work with them, which I am so happy I did!

"My American virtual assistant through Secretary in Israel has taken over sending out my e-newsletter, which is an enormous relief to me. My e-newsletter now gets done, and I have one day each week back! She also edits my client contracts, she manages my schedule (and makes appointments with my clients), filters some of my emails, and she has even created new business cards for me. All of these are major time savers that enable me to spend my time working with my clients one-on-one.

"I highly recommend Secretary in Israel to other business owners. I have already passed their name out to a number of my colleagues."

"I was totally overworked, putting in 9 hour days and then coming home to an additional 4 hours of emails. A friend suggested that I get an assistant, but every time I had tried to hire one here locally in the San Francisco Bay Area, they quit within a few weeks.

"I then decided to hire Secretary in Israel LLC to locate an American virtual assistant within Israel for our company. Secretary in Israel screened and pre-qualified a number of potential virtual assistants for my company. I am so glad that I decided to work with them, as the American virtual assistant that Secretary in Israel placed with my company is nothing short of magnificent.

My American virtual assistant has freed up that extra 4 hours/day of my time. She answers our phones, she emails our clients, she places computer and technology orders with our vendors (on behalf of our clients), she invoices our clients, and handles all of the other odds and ends that have to get done on a daily basis.

"In my previous experience hiring Americans locally here in the San Francisco Bay Area, I wasn't able to find anyone with her level of dedication and hard work. What is most remarkable about my American virtual assistant is her level of motivation and commitment to my company. She has a stick with-it attitude that I haven't seen locally. Our American virtual assistant is better than I could have ever imagined.

"I am extremely impressed with Secretary in Israel's ability to accurately match assistants with corporations. Our company will continue to contract with Secretary in Israel in the future for additional American virtual assistants as we continue to grow.

"I give Secretary in Israel's services my highest endorsement and recommendations."

"I had tried hiring secretaries here locally for my business, and it drove me nuts! Because of my type of business -- the beauty business (I'm a Registered Nurse and I do Botox and other treatments) -- there is a certain discretion (i.e. confidentiality) needed by me and my staff. I've learned that you can't train an assistant to have discretion; either they get it or they don't. Plus, I really didn't want someone in my office that I had to manage or deal with on a daily basis.

"I decided to work with an American virtual assistant through Secretary in Israel because I really needed help, but I didn't want to lose the intimacy that I have with my clients. My assistant is extremely professional and very attentive to the details of my business. She is also is so sweet and adorable -- which is a must for me and my clients.

"Secretary in Israel is the perfect solution to my administrative needs. My American virtual assistant schedules and confirms all of my appointments for me. Plus, she checks my voicemail messages twice each day, which I hated doing. She actually gets back to my clients in a timely fashion, whereas I used to sometimes forget to do that. What's more is that I don't have to deal with someone onsite in my office, which wouldn't work in the type of physical space that I have here.

"Working with Secretary in Israel has been a dream come true. I talk about Secretary in Israel to my clients and friends all the time. I definitely recommend Secretary in Israel to other business owners."

"Sarah Leah,

"Just a note to let you know that you have made my life much simpler through the services of Secretary in Israel.

"I am getting a quality assistant that I could not possibly find here. She seems happy to have the work, and for me it has made my response to donors become far more streamlined.

"Thanks very much for finding me the right person."

"I did not know how I would squeeze time into my already overpacked day to do a very important, ongoing research project. With all of the events that I already plan (as the head of the alumni department for a successful high school), there is not much time left, even for something as important as the project we're currently working on.

"I decided to look into another option: hiring someone to do the research and find out the information for me. I then heard about Secretary in Israel LLC. They were able to find and place with me a wonderful assistant.

"My American virtual assistant is handling this project for me. (Incidentally, she used to worked for Merrill Lynch in the United States for 21 years!) My American virtual assistant calls each of our alums to find out about their lives, what they've been doing since they graduated, what is going on with their families, in their careers, etc. She then updates our alumni department with this information.

"My American virtual assistant has had tremendous success. My assistant has connected with many alumni who enjoy talking with her and telling her their life story. With our virtual assistant, we were able to gather much more information and at a much quicker pace than we would have been able to come across if it was up to me to put in just five minutes here and there. Our assistant is very good at connecting with alumni and helping them feel good about our school.

"I absolutely recommend Secretary in Israel to others. Secretary in Israel makes makes everything so easy, with wonderful follow-through, and excellent support-tips. I couldn't ask for a better assistant, virtual or in-person.

  • Laura Shapiro, Director, Alumni Department
  • The Branson School
  • San Francisco Bay Area, California
  • (415) 454-3612

"I used to spend 3 or 4 hours every day doing administrative work, including email, typing letters to clients, scheduling my appointments, etc. It dawned on me one day that none of these were helping me or my business grow.

"I then decided to hire Secretary in Israel to place with me an American virtual assistant. I'm thrilled at the decision!

"First, I want to say how remarkable the American virtual assistant is with whom I'm working. Secretary in Israel placed with me a senior-level executive assistant who has 18 years of experience working exclusively for high level executives. My American virtual assistant had worked for a top-level executive at Goldman Sachs for 5 years. I never could have found a person who has these qualifications here locally, and especially for the price that I'm paying.

"Second, and most importantly, as a result working with my new assistant, I have much more time. I can actually focus on big picture items – like thinking about where my business should be going. I can also be doing revenue generating things, like meeting with clients and working with my strategic marketing partners. I even come home earlier from work a few afternoons a week. Having an American virtual assistant gives me the freedom to choose what I want to do with my time.

"I am so happy with Secretary in Israel that I have given their name to a few of my colleagues, who have also signed up with them."

"With an upcoming month-long trip abroad, and knowing that I would have limited email and phone contact, I was deeply concerned about how to leave the office unattended for a month.

"As luck would have it, I received a phone call from a young woman named Sarah Leah Gootnick about Secretary in Israel LLC. Skeptical at first about working with someone whom I've never met, after only one phone call with Secretary in Israel's referral, I was convinced that I would be in excellent hands.

"My American virtual assistant, who moved to Israel last summer, had many years in senior executive assistant and office management positions. In just a few hours of training via phone, my American virtual assistant had grasped the essence of my business and was ready to go!

"My American virtual assistant managed my office in my absence. Her services were invaluable and was one of the best things I could have done to maintain continuity of my existing business and to handle new business as it came in. She was absolutely wonderful in intuitively understanding what to do and how to react when faced with relocation-related challenges! I absolutely could not have gone on vacation without her!

"My American virtual assistant's superb administrative skills will take me beyond the requirements of this trip.

"It has been a joy working with such an accomplished American virtual assistant. Secretary in Israel provides executive assistants who deliver truly excellent help.

"I fully recommend Secretary in Israel to other small business owners."

"I can honestly say that having an American virtual assistant through Secretary in Israel has transformed my business and my life.

"I had tried hiring an executive assistant here locally a number of times without success. The assistants that I could afford locally could not do the job that I needed. And the assistants locally that could do the job that I needed were out of the range of my budget.

"It's hard to find good help here locally. Hiring an American living in Israel is affordable.

"Having an American virtual assistant in Israel is a G-d send. It's exactly what I need so that I can create order in my business and be productive. I can now focus on the priorities of the business, and my American virtual assistant can take care of the many details.

"I'm also happy that by hiring an American virtual assistant in Israel, I'm reducing my carbon foot print. Since no one commutes to my office each day, work is getting done but no extra carbon dioxide is being released into the atmosphere.

"I highly recommend Secretary in Israel for anyone that wants to take their business to the next level."

  • Rabbi Yisrael Rice, Executive Director
  • Chabad of Marin
  • San Rafael, California
  • (415) 492-1666

"I had been looking for an Assistant locally, but I didn't want to hire someone full-time. What I was looking for was a self-starter; someone who could think on her own.

"The first Assistant whom Secretary in Israel provided me with was very reliable and exactly what I needed.

"My Assistant is incredibly professional and extremely qualified (and even maybe over-qualified).

"I have received feedback from account representatives and other business associates that my Assistant spoke with. They were very impressed with her professionalism and her vocabulary.

"Secretary in Israel is a way to get more intelligent staff than by hiring locally.

"At first the concept of a secretary I've never met was a bit uncomfortable it for me. However, now that I've used Secretary in Israel, I definitely recommend it in place of an in-person secretary."

  • Rich Rifkin, CEO
  • New Home, Inc.
  • San Francisco Bay Area, California
  • (415) 256-9000

"Our challenge at Inspire Human Resources is to rapidly build infrastructure that scales our high growth business. We need administrative and operations solutions to do so. What Sarah Leah Gootnick and Secretary in Israel did was open our eyes to the broad technology available to run our business more efficiently.

"Sarah Leah showed us how to get the most leverage out of our administrative support. She shared everything from ways to streamline paperwork processing (for example, how to scan documents, online faxing capabilities) to sharing with us her recommended vendors (for example, credit card processors). Her suggestions had breadth and depth and were tailored and personalized to our specific business.

"The advice was priceless to help me build our business and deepen my relationship with both my clients and team members.The best advice she shared with us are those things that 'I did not know I needed'. For example, the fact that our mail can be scanned in (earthclassmail.com) or that my voice messages can be transcribed and emailed (jott.com).

"It is truly incredible how Sarah Leah gets so much done in 60 minutes. She is uber organized and a force!

"Secretary in Israel is a great solution for any high growth business that anticipates growing beyond its current level of administrative support."

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