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The benefits of a virtual assistant for your business

Are you constantly feeling overwhelmed? Running a business is hard work. You need to be the salesman, the accountant, the marketer and manage your staff too. But it doesn’t have to be that way forever. One way to help reduce the overwhelm is to start outsourcing a variety of tasks in your business. Outsourcing can be done in a number of ways, with outsourcing to a virtual assistant, one of the most popular ways to begin outsourcing.

There are many benefits for your business by hiring a virtual assistant. A virtual assistant can give you more time and freedom to focus on doing the things that you love. You can work on the strategy for your business, developing deeper relationships with your clients or customers, or even have the flexibility to spend more time with your family.

What is a virtual assistant?

A virtual assistant is an office administration professional who works from their own home or office and completes their work online or virtually. Having a virtual assistant work for your business is just like having your own employee, but with a lot more flexibility. They may complete their work during standard business hours, or they may do it at different times of the day, depending on their schedule and yours.

What can a virtual assistant do?

A virtual assistant can do a number of things in your business. They can help with admin work that a receptionist or office administrator would normally do within a standard business office. They may also help with more complex tasks that are normally completed by specialists such a marketing or a finance assistant.

What a virtual assistant can do for your business depends on your requirements, and their skills and abilities. Most virtual assistants can assist with all administration tasks such as answering telephones, replying to emails, creating documents, word processing, basic invoicing and accounts and other general administration.

What can a virtual assistant do?

What tasks can I outsource to a virtual assistant?

There are a lot of tasks that you can outsource to a virtual assistant. With video conferencing and other advanced technology now at our fingertips, anything that can be done in a standard office can usually be completed by a virtual assistant.

Some common tasks that can be outsourced to a virtual assistant include:

  • Managing emails and scheduling appointments
  • Taking incoming phone calls
  • Updating website content
  • Data entry
  • Calendar management
  • Document creation and word processing
  • Creating reports and presentations
  • Social media content creation and management
  • Blog writing
  • Booking travel and accommodation

Want a huge list of over 100 tasks that you could outsource to a virtual assistant? We’ve done all the hard work for you. Check out this mega list of tasks you could be outsourcing in your business, and save yourself time, money and your sanity.

Why should I use a virtual assistant?

A virtual assistant can allow you to spend more time doing the things you love in your business. They can remove the smaller, time-consuming tasks and allow you to focus on more of the big picture stuff. With a virtual assistant as part of your team, you can then work on the future direction of your business, your strategy, finding new clients/customers, or enjoying more flexibility to attend networking functions or school events.

Using a virtual assistant can also make you more money. If your charge out rate for your own work is higher than the cost of the virtual assistant, then most times you will end up increasing your profit. You can spend time doing the work you love in your business (and be more productive), and outsource the tasks that you don’t enjoy, or aren’t good at.

Ultimately, using a virtual assistant helps you to free up your time for more important (money-making) tasks and gives you the flexibility that most business owners crave. So put yourself and your business first, and take the first step to outsourcing - working out the tasks that you could delegate to a virtual assistant. We’ve already done the hard work for you, and put this awesome list of 100+ tasks you could outsource together.

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