Working for yourself will always have its ups and downs. If you’re doing something you love, something your passionate about but you’re also doing it all single handedly it can all get a bit much sometimes and this is where a Virtual Assistant can step in and help. Delegating admin tasks to someone you can trust will have a positive impact on your business and could even be life changing. Below are 5 ways a virtual assistant can help your business.
1 – Time Saving
The first of 5 ways a virtual assistant can help your business is by saving you time! There aren’t enough hours in the day sometimes, no matter how early you start or how late you finish, if your business is succeeding then the demand will always be there. If you find yourself working in the evening trying to catch up on tasks you couldn’t get to during the day, why not think about hiring a Virtual Assistant to help manage your workload more efficiently giving you that precious time back.
2 – Stress Minimising
It can be tough trying to manage everything, you might rely on family or friends to help out or you might not like to admit you need any help, so stress levels accelerate as the workload piles up. My advice would be to sit down and work out what the time consuming stressful tasks are and see if there’s specific tasks a VA can help with.
3 – Flexible Support When You Need It
Hiring a VA to support you is the most flexible way of working. There are no long-term contracts to worry about, most VA’s offer packages or day rates and once the time is up, you can decide whether you want to work with them again or not. It’s a good way of testing whether you need assistance more regularly or if the occasional batch of paperwork can be taken care of without the commitment of hiring a member of staff.
4 – Cost
You might think hiring business support comes with a heavy price tag, and it does if you’re hiring part or full-time members of staff. You have to take into account taxes, pension contributions, holiday pay etc. Working with a VA doesn’t require any of these costs or worries as they’re not classed as an employee, instead they’re simply contracted on a package basis using time tracking software so when your times up its completely up to you whether you want to extend the hours or not.
5 – Grow Your Business
In order to grow your business, you need to look at opportunities you might not have needed to consider at the start of your venture. Having a VA in the background checking and responding to your emails, handling enquiries and dealing with your paperwork means that you are not having to deal with these tasks. This allows you more time to focus on what you really love doing, the primary reason you started your business in the first place.
Think about what’s important to you overall and what support you need to help grow and expand your business, consider how you value your own time and don’t be scared to bring someone on board to help you.
