Getting The Job Done
Yourself, Employee or Virtual Assistant?
There is work essential to your business operation and there is non-essential work that would add to the success and growth of your business. Being on this website likely means that you either don’t have the time, the knowledge or desire to accomplish everything you want in your business. Perhaps also you recognize the value of input an extra mind could bring.
With funds and space available, the traditional tendency is to think of an onsite employee. However, unless the onsite employee is kept fully occupied for all their paid hours, the more cost-effective alternative is a virtual assistant: no fixed salary, sick pay, holiday pay, insurance or employment taxes. If the space an onsite employee would occupy represents an expense, by hiring a virtual assistant neither space nor equipment have to be provided.
A virtual assistant is the perfect solution for any business requiring assistance and faced with funds and/or space issues. Virtual assistants offer packages of services or hourly rates (no down time) and work from their home. Generally they have substantial administrative background and – depending on their experience and your needs – will handle routine to complex tasks and assignments on an ongoing basis or for specific periods.
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Possible Concerns About Hiring A Virtual Assistant
First, you do not have to get better organized before you hire a virtual assistant!! A good virtual assistant does not judge and is masterful at bringing order to your existing “office” status!
Second, you may be concerned as to how you can “train” an off-site virtual assistant. Good virtual assistants are generally more experienced and skilled than a new employee might be, and will not need extensive training, but will know the questions to ask in order to become familiar with your business and your business needs. This “familiarization” process is a lot easier and faster than you might imagine.
Third, you may question how you can effectively transfer information and paperwork to someone who is not physically present. With the telephone, internet and software programs (mostly free downloads), a skilled virtual assistant will quickly possess or have instant access in order to fulfill her responsibilities, and will also have the ability to share all her work with you.
Fourth, you may wonder exactly what services virtual assistants offer. This varies, but please click here to view the most common services requested by my clients.
Fifth, if your virtual assistant’s duties include customer contact, by providing her with a toll free telephone number, a company email address and an applicable title, your customers need not know she is “virtual”.
Finally, for some there is the fear of “letting go”. Let the vision of having real time to devote to your customers, and to new strategies and initiatives, be your inspiration to take that leap of faith, as thousands of entrepreneurs have successfully done.
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