As a Christian Entrepreneur and Virtual Assistant, my expertise lies in collaborating with fellow Christian and Conservative business owners, providing comprehensive administrative support for their ventures. I specialize in handling various aspects of business operations, such as marketing design, website updates, CRM management, email newsletter distribution, and email management.
My journey led me to my current location in 2006, following the conclusion of my husband’s Army tour. Throughout my professional career, I’ve worked as an administrative professional at multiple local companies, affording me the opportunity to connect with colleagues and local business leaders. Drawing from my experiences as an Army wife and a dedicated professional, I’ve learned the importance of adaptability. I embrace change and am adept at recalibrating my focus when project directions shift or new tasks emerge.
In addition to my administrative prowess, I have a passion for creative writing and am eager to assist you with your writing requirements. You can explore some of my written work by visiting my blog.
Despite residing in a small-town American setting, my administrative support services are available to businesses nationwide. Whether you require eye-catching promotional materials, help with work overload, or assistance when team members are on vacation or leave, I possess the right solutions to enhance your business endeavors.
What is a Virtual Assistant?
A Virtual Assistant works remotely doing the administrative tasks that keep your business running smoothly. A VA can help you with your CRM; data processing; sending e-newsletters; cleaning up your email inbox; updating your website; appointment scheduling; digitizing paper files; creating presentation materials; social media; marketing; and ghost writing.
Why Do I Need A Virtual Assistant?
Why hire another employee? At Schroeder Administrative Solutions you only pay for what you need. I can reduce overhead and employment taxes & eliminate Office Space and purchased equipment.
Save Time and Relieve Stress
With a virtual assistant, you can delegate those time-consuming tasks that take your focus away from the core of your business: email management, phone calls, social media profiles to update, content to create, travel arrangements to make. All of these tasks will take you away from other critical parts of your business: like securing clients, completing work, and any other income generating tasks you have. By contracting with a VA, you are able to focus on making money while your VA keeps everything running smoothly behind the scenes. Additionally, when you outsource tasks, you limit the directions in which you are being pulled. You don’t have to rush through projects and tasks while worrying that something might fall through the cracks. Hiring a VA will alleviate stress and take some of the pressure off of yourself and your full-time team.
Grow Business
A virtual assistant will give you the opportunity to expand your business. While the VA is handling day-to-day tasks, you can focus on growth strategies and other ways to improve your business. A virtual assistant can also act as an OBM (Online Business Manager) which will help you get all of your systems, processes, and team in place. VA’s work with you to help you accomplish your goals. A virtual assistant can anticipate your business needs and help you to identify potential problems and find solutions. The support of a VA is great to have – especially in small businesses.
Reduce Overhead Costs
The cost to work with a virtual assistant is substantially less than the cost of hiring a full-time or part-time employee. It may be daunting that US-based VA’s may have a starting rate of $45-50/hr, however, working with a VA allows for a bit of flexibility. You contract for a certain number of hours, or perhaps just on a project basis.
Let’s say you need an administrative assistant for your business. Contracting with a VA $50/hr for 20 hours of service per month for 12 months ($12,000) is far less than paying a full-time employee $13/hr, 40 hours a week for a year ($27,040) and if there isn’t much work to do; you’re paying an employee to be bored. Even if your business doesn’t offer many benefits; if you hire an employee, you still have taxes, insurance and office space to maintain.
Phone
Location
Iron Mountain, Michigan
Hours
Mon-Fri – By Appointment
Phone
Location
Iron Mountain, Michigan
Hours
Mon-Fri – By Appointment
Testimonials
Jan Van Gasse
President, AAUW of Michigan, 2020-2022
Kristine has been the State Services Manager for AAUW of Michigan. Her skills are superb, as is her initiative. She designs engaging newsletters and keeps contact lists up to date in Constant Contact. She works very effectively with diverse personalities, as she interacts with our Board and members of the organization, and is always pleasant. She has done a tremendous job in redesigning our website to make it engaging, easy to navigate, and organized. She looks at problems to be solved as opportunities for growth and approaches them in a positive manner that strengthens our organization.
Dana Williams
Owner & CEO, At Your Virtual Service
I don’t know what I would do without Kristine. Her knowledge base and tenacity to find the answers goes above and beyond the call of duty. If she doesn’t know the answer, she doesn’t stop until she finds a solution. She built my beautiful website, and I couldn’t be happier! Her patience in teaching others and mentoring is a testimony to her calm professionalism. Hire her! It will be the best decision for your business!
Jill Mondloch
Executive Assistant - DACC; Director IM Builders Exchange
Our nonprofit organization kept track of our members with paper files and a very large spreadsheet in which was updated when members paid their annual dues. It also contained contact information such as name, email, phone number and address. It was very clumsy and easy to make mistakes when posting information.
Kristine presented to our director a number of programs available as a simplified way to track member information. She investigated a number of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools and compared what would work best for our needs as a non-profit. She settled on one which has worked well for us. We have all the information we need on all of our members and we can pull many different reports to help us track membership payments, donations and more.
Kristine is very good at analyzing data and putting it to use. She created many of the reports I still use today. Kristine’s help with us going from a cumbersome paper system to an online system has saved me time and our organization money.
Josh Shannon
Non-Profit Organization
Kristine brought our non-profit into the 21st century. We had everything on paper going back to the 50’s. Kristine was able to research a great CRM system that met our needs and our budget. We digitized all of our files and now we can create reports for just about anything we need. We can also pull up our members and see their information so much easier! Whenever we have quick questions; Kristine is available for a fast answer. She’s a rockstar!
Brenda Dunse
Serenity Textile Designs, LLC
Kristine is knowledgeable of a wide variety of systems and tools. She was quick to send me an invitation & link to jump on a Zoom call to troubleshoot an issue with a WordPress website. It just so happened on the day Facebook, Instagram, and What’s App was all down. Wow, it proved just how important it is for me as a small business owner to have email and my website.
Satisfied Customer
Kristine has been an extremely valuable resource for our nonprofit organization. She has been available for our pleas for help when we are stuck with a website problem or if we generally need advice on a coding issue we are having with our new website. Kristine will NOT be stumped. If she doesn’t have the answer for an issue we are having, she WILL find out how to fix our problem within 24 hours. She is simply amazing and fixing our website issues, helping us with general issues we have with anything website or internet related.
Testimonials
Kristine has been the State Services Manager for AAUW of Michigan. Her skills are superb, as is her initiative. She designs engaging newsletters and keeps contact lists up to date in Constant Contact. She works very effectively with diverse personalities, as she interacts with our Board and members of the organization, and is always pleasant. She has done a tremendous job in redesigning our website to make it engaging, easy to navigate, and organized. She looks at problems to be solved as opportunities for growth and approaches them in a positive manner that strengthens our organization.
Kristine is knowledgeable of a wide variety of systems and tools. She was quick to send me an invitation & link to jump on a Zoom call to troubleshoot an issue with a WordPress website. It just so happened on the day Facebook, Instagram, and What’s App was all down. Wow, it proved just how important it is for me as a small business owner to have email and my website.
Our nonprofit organization kept track of our members with paper files and a very large spreadsheet in which was updated when members paid their annual dues. It also contained contact information such as name, email, phone number and address. It was very clumsy and easy to make mistakes when posting information.
Kristine presented to our director a number of programs available as a simplified way to track member information. She investigated a number of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tools and compared what would work best for our needs as a non-profit. She settled on one which has worked well for us. We have all the information we need on all of our members and we can pull many different reports to help us track membership payments, donations and more.
Kristine is very good at analyzing data and putting it to use. She created many of the reports I still use today. Kristine’s help with us going from a cumbersome paper system to an online system has saved me time and our organization money.
Kristine brought our non-profit into the 21st century. We had everything on paper going back to the 50’s. Kristine was able to research a great CRM system that met our needs and our budget. We digitized all of our files and now we can create reports for just about anything we need. We can also pull up our members and see their information so much easier! Whenever we have quick questions; Kristine is available for a fast answer. She’s a rockstar!
Kristine has been an extremely valuable resource for our nonprofit organization. She has been available for our pleas for help when we are stuck with a website problem or if we generally need advice on a coding issue we are having with our new website. Kristine will NOT be stumped. If she doesn’t have the answer for an issue we are having, she WILL find out how to fix our problem within 24 hours. She is simply amazing and fixing our website issues, helping us with general issues we have with anything website or internet related.
I don’t know what I would do without Kristine. Her knowledge base and tenacity to find the answers goes above and beyond the call of duty. If she doesn’t know the answer, she doesn’t stop until she finds a solution. She built my beautiful website, and I couldn’t be happier! Her patience in teaching others and mentoring is a testimony to her calm professionalism. Hire her! It will be the best decision for your business!