Top 5 Reasons for Hiring a Virtual Assistant
November 5, 2009
1. Saves TIME and MONEY! Lets talk about payroll, a benefits package including personal, vacation and sick time, holidays, insurance, etc. On average, it’s smart to budget an additional 40% of the employees salary. So let’s say that you pay your employee $15.00 per hour for 40/hrs per week. The yearly salary for this employee is $31,200, add an additional 40% to that and you are looking at $43,680 for total costs to cover this employee. Now, lets talk about TIME! You pay your employee for 40 hours in a week, but realistically, there are breaks in there, social time, and just regular down time. The amount of work completed in a week may be as 15 or 20 hours. Now your paying for this employee to just “BE THERE”. You could instead be dedicating these wasted funds into building your business. With a Virtual Assistant (VA), you ONLY pay for the time actually worked. If there is only 3 hours of work to do, that is all that you are charged for. There are no vacations that you have to pay for, no sick time, no bonuses, just the regular hourly rate for the time actually worked.
2. You can work from ANY location. In the habit of checking your email in the morning with bed head and pj’s while sipping your cup of Joe? Why change that!? First, if you work from a home office, why would you want to open that up to an employee? Second, from any location, anywhere, you can connect with your VA. Contact is maintained through various methods including e-mail, phone, and online instant messaging to name a few.
3. Specialized/Niche Services. Whether you are a real estate professional, business coach, internet guru, or a small business needed customer service support, you can find a VA to suite your needs. Many VAs have specialized services that they offer, ones that they are very good at and love to do! VAs are professionals and entrepreneurs just like you! They have years training and expertise. Why spend time and money training someone or even spend time and money to take trainings on a task that you really don’t want to do, such as bookkeeping or social media, when you can partner with a VA that already offers expertise in those areas?
4. Work ON your business not IN your business. Are you currently spending time organizing paperwork, filing, working on mundane tasks, or doing background work? If so, you are working IN your business. These tasks are typically not profitable and are taking up much of your valuable time. Hiring a VA to handle these tasks will free up your time to start working ON your business. By working ON your business, I mean, following up on customer leads, spending more time building profit, and growing your business, and working on billable tasks.
5. FREEDOM! You work all day building your customer database, following up with customers, and making money. Now you need to spend all night paying bills, scheduling upcoming appointments, calls and meetings, filing and following up on the tasks of working IN your business. Partnering with a VA will enable you to have FREEDOM! Free time to have dinner with your family or to spend that extra hour with a customer not worrying about whether the mundane tasks that need to be done are getting done. A VA can complete this work for you and allow you to rest easy.