How Can a Virtual Assistant Help Your Business

You’ve done it. You’ve taken the plunge and decided that you really do need help with your business. You want to give it your all and the best you it can get but to do that you need help. You’ve probably seen advertisements around for virtual assistants or even met one or two at networking events and you’re thinking that’s the best route to go. However, the question remains… how can a virtual assistant help your business?

In all honesty, if you get the virtual assistant that is the right fit for you and your business, there are not many ways they can’t help!

Gift of Time

The primary outcome that entrepreneur’s notice when hiring a virtual assistant (VA) is that their amount of time and availability increases. Of course, a VA cannot physically give you the gift of time, but by taking on tasks such as typing, email management, social media or customer services to name but a few, you will have more time available to spend on the growth and development of your business.

Productivity

Leading straight on from the gift of more time to focus on the key elements of the business is obviously an increase in productivity. Two heads are better than one and many hands make light work, so having an extra pair of hands and a brain to boot means that twice the amount of work can get done which can lead to a boost in sales, income and new customers.

Team Spirit

Being an entrepreneur and owning your own business can often be a particularly lonely place. Friends and family will of course listen, but they won’t necessarily get the problem or understand the success. Having a VA who is actually part of the business, means having someone to bounce ideas around with, celebrate with and of course re-evaluate with.

The Right Balance

With increased productivity within the business and someone to share the work load, this can also release some of the pressure a business owner can feel to work all the available hours they can. This initial heavy workload when starting and maintaining a business can often mean that a personal life is either non-existent or suffers incredibly due to a lack of time and input. Hiring a VA can help you find that work/life balance both you and your loved ones have been craving.

If you’ve made the decision to hire a virtual assistant, then look around, look for someone to jump out at you.  Talk with them, be clear and straight from the beginning and don’t forget to share your overall goals with them too. Find the right virtual assistant for your business and pretty soon, your goals will become theirs as well.

Selina Johnson — Business Support Expert, solution seeker and freedom fixer — helps successful coaches, consultants, speakers and entrepreneurs from across the globe to scale their businesses, make more money and achieve faster, sustainable results without compromising their time.

Over the past 16 years, she’s supported high profile individuals like award-winning architect Dame Zaha Hadid DBE, Sunday Times Top 20 Most Influential Entrepreneurs In The UK Sháá Wasmund MBE, former Co-Director of the Serpentine Gallery Dame Julia Peyton-Jones DBE, and Russian billionaire Timur Sardarov.

Today, she teaches brilliant entrepreneurs just like you how to implement her simple methods that result in BIG wins in their businesses — including the dynamite delegation strategies, time management hacks and mindset mastery she’s used to halve her hours, double her income and ditch her commute, leaving her free to create and live the life she loves.

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