Services Provided

We provide the following services to help you stay on track and focused on running your business rather than working on administrative tasks:

• "Third Hand Secretarial Service helped me meet my deadline with dynamic resourcefulness!" – Linda... Sales Trainer

  Word Processing
  Typing correspondence, sales reports/proposals, resumes, preparing mail merge documents, proofreading
• Bookkeeping (QuickBooks & QuickBooks for Mac)
  Preparation of invoices, monthly bank reconciliation's, accounts payable and accounts receivable management, financial reports
• Statistical Typing
  We can create a spreadsheet to meet your specifications, typing of financial statements
• Tape Transcription
  Digital, standard and micro-cassette

  Third Hand is a pleasure to work with! The work is accurate, fast and reasonably priced but best of all, Linda is always pleasant and friendly with a "can do" attitude. We'd recommend Third Hand Secretarial Service strongly… and do! – Wendy… Research company

• Administrative Services
  Assistance with travel arrangements, appointment scheduling and confirmation, event planning, voicemail and email message retrieval, faxing, ordering meeting materials such as business books, office supplies, magazine reprints
• Desktop Publishing
  Creation of newsletters (including Constant Contact newsletters), flyers, form design, menus, letterhead, business cards, tent cards, presentation materials, calendars
• Database Management/Data Entry
  We can create and maintain a custom database of all your clients or product information
• Information/Internet Research
  Need information yesterday? You just don't have the time or patience to weed through those search engines? Let us do the hunting for you.
• Mailing Services
  Do you need assistance with a large mailing? If so we can take care of everything from setting up the document, printing the letters and envelopes or labels, to delivery to the post office.
• Resumes and Cover Letters
• Other Services
  Form fill-in using an electric typewriter, photocopy service, Notary Public, State of New Jersey

If a service is not listed above, please don't hesitate to ask us, as we may be able to assist you or refer you to another qualified virtual assistant who specializes in that particular service.

Pricing Information

Third Hand Secretarial Services' rates are tailored to our client's budget and are based on the complexity of the project. We do offer special introductory rates to our new customers and also have a referral program for our existing clients for new clients referred to Third Hand Secretarial Service.

To help insure fair pricing, Third Hand Secretarial Service, LLC uses the "Industry Production Standards" guide published by OBCAI (Office Business Centers Association International) for computing time as one factor in calculating billable time. IPS is the industry's guide for computing time for document production and non-keyboard administrative services.

Our Technology

Equipment Networked Intel Pentium PC and Laptop Apple PowerBook Laptop HP LaserJet 4000 Xerox 6300 Color Laser HP Laser Fax 3100 Sony DVD-RW/CD-RW Drive CardScan 600c Dymo Labelwriter GBC Binding Machine

Fuji Digital Camera Start/Stop Digital Transcription Standard and Micro-Cassette Transcriber Zip 750 HP Scanjet 4670 Palm Tungsten T3 Laminator Cable Internet connection

Software Windows XP Microsoft Office 2003 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook) WordPerfect Office 2003 Adobe Acrobat Adobe Photoshop Act! ver. 7 Corel Draw Cute FTP FileMaker Pro Lotus 1-2-3

Norton Antivirus Microsoft Project Microsoft Publisher PC Anywhere Peachtree Accounting Quark XPress QuickBooks Pro - versions '99 through 2008 QuickBooks Pro for Mac - 2007 Quicken for PC and Mac Simply Accounting SmartDraw