You’re busy working on your business, you’re crazy busy spinning far too many plates. We get it. By tapping into the ever increasing virtual assistant market you can save a chunk of money and a massive chunk of time.
Ever since the pandemic it’s no surprise that more businesses are pivoting to home working. Not only has this saved companies a ton of money in office costs, but it’s allowed businesses to hire from anywhere in the world. This has subsequently meant that businesses no longer need to tap into local talent but can look to take on rising talent from overseas.
As businesses start to work online, so have systems, meetings and teams. Most day to day activity now happens over the internet meaning the need for a physical presence in the office is getting less and less. When was the last time your whole team sat around a table to discuss a presentation? When was the last time you collaborated on a business proposal using physical paper pages?
In the last few years, a new trend has emerged. The freelancer economy. A huge amount of outsourcing has steadily grown over the years and has been alternatively referred to as “freelancing”. Small to medium sized enterprises have been outsourcing their marketing efforts to agencies instead of building an in-house team. Why? Why not! It makes far more sense to outsource important tasks to an external team to build your own team. Not only does this save the hassle but it also saves a hell of a lot of time and money.
5 Reasons Why A Virtual Assistant Can Help Your Business
Hiring virtual help has tons of advantages. They’re usually way cheaper than having full-time employees, they offer the flexibility that your business could need in order to cross off certain to do lists. Let’s look more in detail below of advantages of hiring a virtual assistant.
- Virtual assistants are flexible and don’t have a set role. They are multi-skilled meaning they can use their multi skill set across many different areas of a business including marketing, book keeping and email management.
- Time. None of us have a great deal of it but you especially don’t when you run a business. Juggling the books, the marketing the client on-boarding, wait how do you have time for coffee? Handing a lot of the small tasks over to a competent assistant can give you the time back to do what you do best…run your business.
- Access to the worlds best talent. Think about it, you put out a recruitment post to fill one of your positions and the majority of applicants are going to live in a close proximity to where you are based. Hiring talent online opens up great access to world class talent.
- Keeping operational costs down. As we recover from the pandemic one thing we’ve learnt is that we really don’t need to be in the office so much. The introduction of hybrid / work from home working has shown us that a lot of tasks can be done online thus meaning less employees in the office. What does this mean? This means that you see those generic office costs shrink.
- 24/7 availability. Need help outside of core business hours? No problem! Hiring assistants across the globe gives you access to different time zones. This essentially means that your business can run 24/7.
“If you ever feel like there’s not enough hours in a day to take care of everything in your company, then you probably should stop trying to do everything at once by yourself. Don’t burn yourself out. Hire a virtual assistant.”
― Big Outsource Staff Leasing Co.
So there we have it, there are a million and one reasons why you should hire a virtual assistant. If you are still on the fence then feel free to contact us for a free online consultation.
