Trends in search volumes for Virtual assistants...

I guess every business relies on facts and figures, some of them more than others. The idea of Virtual assistants is relatively new concept that is still exploring the available market space.  As the recession-struck year is about to end, I guess one would expect that lots of businesses (e.s.p. the small and medium sized) would have capitalized the chance to offshore some of their tedious work to less expensive regions of the world.

As the graph suggests, the volume of searches reached peak levels two times in the year. May be the search volumes (and hence the demand for professionals) peak whenever companies venture out more, and seek to unload their work to other companies. Apart from that, the search volume has pretty remained the constant through out the year, and a little drop towards the end is something easily explainable (as the businesses wrap up their yearly cycle).

Interestingly Philippines have most of the searches for the same keyword. One wonders if people there are actually providing Virtual assistants services, or seeking services. Philippines has become one of the largest exporters of IT talent, and hence the results are not surprising at all. In U.S, the assistant services are gaining pace as indicated by the search volumes of Houston, Denver, Miami and San Francisco areas.

Let us keep an eye on the search trends as we break in to the new year, and global businesses are flattening more and more, one would expect this new form of business to gain rapid strides in the future.