To Hire a Virtual Assistant or Not to Hire a Virtual Assistant

As a business owner do you feel you can’t afford to add a Virtual Assistant to your team? If you feel this way, you’re not the only one. Thousands of business owners feel this way, but you need to know something very important. It’s possible you can’t afford not to hire one.

Step back from your business for a minute and look at what you need to do each day to grow your business and see success. Now look at your business to-do list and compare the two. Are you getting everything done in a day or is your to-do list a rolling list that contains that same items day in and day out that aren’t being completed?

It doesn’t really matter if you’re a small home based business or if you’re a larger business, more than likely, you have a rolling to-do list and you’re continually not getting things done. If you were to hire a Virtual Assistant she could handle those tasks that don’t require your direct attention and you’d be able to wipe them off the list.

One thing that makes business owners feel they can’t afford to hire a Virtual Assistant is the hourly rate. One thing to remember is a Virtual Assistant only charges for time worked. You don’t pay for lag time and you don’t pay for her to sit and wait for you to give her work. That right there is a huge money saver.

When you have a regular employee you pay them regardless of what they’re doing. They could be sitting at the computer playing a game because they don’t have any work to do. That’s not good, so it’s best to hire a Virtual Assistant and stop paying for those unproductive hours.

Virtual Assistants usually charge by the hour and that’s what you’d pay a regular employee, but here’s something you can’t do with a regular employee. Most Virtual Assistants offer retainer packages giving you discounts for a certain number of hours. There isn’t an employee out there that’s willing to drop their hourly rate for multiple hours, but a Virtual Assistant will do that for you.

Now that the thought of hiring a Virtual Assistant has been placed in your mind it’s time to consider hiring one. Think about the tasks you do or don’t get to that could be outsourced to a Virtual Assistant. These tasks could include email management, blog post scheduling, social media scheduling, newsletter/ezine management, and data entry just to name a few.

Take those ideas and think about your business and how a Virtual Assistant could help you reach your goals and help you achieve success. Once you’ve made that list start searching for the right one. Ask for referrals from your friends and business acquaintances. Interview ones you find and hire the one that meets your needs. Once you find the right Virtual Assistant you’ll wonder how you ever managed your business before she came along.

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Corrie Petersen runs a successful Virtual Assistant business. She enjoys helping business owners reach success through the services she offers. If you’re ready to take back your to-do list and start reaching success click here.

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