Why Hire a Virtual Assistant? Well why not quite honestly!
An increased number of UK businesses now use Virtual Assistants, and since the move to home working in 2020, the trend is only going one way, and that’s up. Running a business means spinning lots of plates all at once, and for start-ups, or any small business that doesn’t have the capacity to hire a permanent member of staff to help spin those plates, freelance Virtual Assistants are a flexible alternative.
The reasons for hiring a Virtual Assistant will be different for everyone, but the benefits are the same. When you are flat out running your business day to day, it’s easy to think that it’s just quicker to do everything yourself, after all, it’s all in your head, so you could just do the task in the time it would take to explain it to someone else…right? Wrong.
What are Virtual Assistants?
Virtual Assistants are skilled professionals, highly organised and methodical at delivering a wide range of services. The assistance given can be similar to that provided by a PA, but Virtual Assistants today possess a wide range of different skill sets including bookkeeping, marketing, digital marketing including social media management and event planning. They will often have held management positions in their previous roles too.
A good Virtual Assistant is experienced at asking the right questions to deliver the desired results, with little more input then needed from you. Taking the leap to find the right Virtual Assistant, putting your trust in them and allowing them to get on with it, will soon lead to positive returns on the minimal time investment you made to find them and get things going, and you’ll wonder why you didn’t hire one earlier.
Why Hire a Virtual Assistant?
You’re working flat out and have little time away from the business.
The essential, yet low value tasks are stopping you grow the business.
Those same low value tasks are stopping you do the things you enjoy, and led you to start your own business in the first place.
You’d love to start new initiatives such as social media, but don’t feel you have the skills.
You know you need support but you don’t have the capacity to hire a permanent member of staff.
What are the Benefits of Hiring a Virtual Assistant?
You are free to focus on value adding tasks.
You have somebody to share the workload and reduce your mental load.
You can outsource the jobs you hate or simply don’t now how to do, even if that’s as little as a few hours work a week.
It’s more economical and flexible than taking on permanent employees.
You can finally get a break, and find freedom for your business, your family time, your interests and for your health and wellbeing.
Conclusion
So it’s quite simple really…hiring a Virtual Assistant is a really easy and efficient way to solve time or skill deficits in your business, with immediate effect. This will lead to a calmer and more organised working life and ultimately, more balance all round.
So, find yourself a Virtual Assistant, make the call today and let somebody help and change the way you do things in 2021 and beyond, then simply…relax.
Do you think a Virtual Assistant could be useful to you in your business? What are the work task obstacles stopping you finding freedom for your business or your work/life balance? I’d love to hear from you.