Let your business grow with Virtual AssistantsPosted by Swapnil Dhamankar on May 11th, 2017 What are virtual assistants? Virtual Assistants are qualified, experienced, and skilled independent contractors that remotely provide administrative, accounting, marketing, technical, creative, and/or personal support to entrepreneurs and businesses. They virtually assist the client's business operations and connect with them through Internet, telephone, or any other means that enables them to complete the task virtually.
An entrepreneur's essential and primary focus is on growing his/her business. When an entrepreneur is going through the business development phase, he/she has different and specific goals, objectives, and risks that they need to take care of. An entrepreneur may not have the financial ability to take bigger risks at this development stage and hence must be more strategic and steadfast in his or her business approach. An entrepreneur can incorporate virtual assistants into his/her business development strategy to achieve several advantages through this effective plan.
The most important reason why you need to hire a virtual assistant is to reduce the cost of your business. When you compare virtual assistant to having a full-time employee, you will notice the difference of how virtual assistants cost less because of the leeway of not paying additional benefits. Virtual assistant are sole proprietors too, hence they cover all the additional expenses like Internet bandwidth, power, and rent. Now, when you save all these additional expenses, then you can realign that money towards other aspects of your business that actually requires more attention for your business to grow.
At times, proper organization of things becomes a tad difficult, and sometimes, the entrepreneurs might lack the organizational skills. You can hire a virtual assistant in such cases and let them assist you to find the best frameworks for your system that will help you organize your business. If you aren't tech-savvy, then the virtual assistants will come to your rescue as they can set up a virtual workplace for you where your business needs, from project management and file-sharing, to timekeeping and communication will be efficiently organized and accomplished. A virtual assistant makes your job of assigning work, tracking performance, and collaboration easier, which will help you in getting more work done and reducing the risks of unnecessary blunders and oversights.
Another good reason, to hire a virtual assistant is to liberate you from the less essential tasks such as phone call coverage, email filtering, calendar management, setting of appointments, social media management, payroll preparation, book-keeping, customer relationship management (CRM) updates. You do have the skills to do all these tasks, but what you might lack is time. And even if you do have time, you will want to focus your time and energy on other important business things that require your core competency and directly help in generating more revenue for your business.
Virtual assistants are no longer just restricted to virtual personal assistant 'secretarial' services. The virtual assistant industry has gone through a transformation and now virtual assistant companies provide more specialized and technical skills services. You can get specialized and skilled virtual assistant services for website design and development, software development, SEO, digital marketing, email marketing, blogging, data protection & security, market research, translation services, content management, administrative work, customer service, and more.
There is a common misconception among people that virtual assistants are just “hired guns or hired professionals.” Their job is done, once the assignment is complete. Therefore, it is in their best interest to consistently provide you with services above and beyond expectations in order to maintain the client. Because you have shared interests it leads to strategic partnership. A virtual assistant can be an asset to you; you can collaborate and allow them to share ideas. They can help you in increasing your productivity by saving your business costs. Like it? Share it! |