10 REASONS WHY SUCCESSFUL COMPANIES ARE HIRING A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT

Your Lucky Charm: Hire A VA and Everything else will follow.

The best thing about hiring a Virtual Assistant is its cause-and-effect nature. If you’re a startup, it is best you do not hire any fulltime in-house employees yet. Before your business officially opens, hire a virtual assistant first. They will serve as your stone for the ripple effect your business success. Here is a basic step how everything else will follow once you hire a Virtual Assistant.

• Establish And Manage A Streamlined Business Operation

Startups often don’t have systematized operation processes yet. This is reason enough to hire a Virtual Assistant. Choosing the most experienced and competent candidate is the first step to success as they can help you brainstorm how your daily operations should work. They will research for methods and the best tools you can use as well as step by step processes for tasks. Once the daily operations have been planned out, you will be able to determine how many staff and what qualifications you need.

2. Evenly Distributed Tasks

After the daily operations have been established, it will be much easier for you to delegate tasks to your team. Your inhouse staff can take care of physical tasks such as office maintenance, walk-in inquiries, physical errands, etc. Your VAs can work on with your online tasks such as accounting, scheduling, email management and so much more. You, on the other hand, can attend client meetings and closing deals.

3. Having More Time For More Important Tasks

As your business progresses, you will have more work load waiting for you. Since you have your VAs, you can throw them the task you’d rather not do and focus your time on closing more deals and researching for more creative marketing strategies to increase your sales. Once you’ve done that, you’re free to have your personal time earlier than expected. You’ll save yourself from burning out.

4. Keeping Your Sanity

Your sanity is your capital. Without your mind working properly, how would your business prosper? Having a sane mind is as important as a great business and a VA can help you maintain both. You can utilize your extra time by doing the things you love; hobbies, sports, fitness, education, and time for loved ones. All of these shall inspire you and keep your mind refreshed.

5. Business Progress

A refreshed and inspired mind is the best asset of a business owner. You will put more love to what you’re doing. You will create more, do more, and give more for your business. You will be able to think of the best strategies to advance your business and step up its game.

6. Your Eyes And Ears

One way to upgrade your business is to upgrade your services. For you to be able to identify how you would improve your services, you should know what your market wants, that means listening to your customers, immersing with them, being where they are often present. And currently, almost everyone is on social media. You can be hands on with this research however, you have your VA to do that for you. They will serve as your eyes and ears and present you the research result.

7. Online Presence

Your VA’s online presence will be crucial to crisis management  of your brand in case something unexpected comes up. They will serve as your customer service, making sure to answer as much questions as possible. This will help your customers feel they’re being heard. Quick replies online can make customers feel they are important and that you are not too busy to take time to reply to them.

This list is just a few of so many positive effects of having a virtual assistant and the list may go on. You’ll never know what more positive things your VA can bring you until you have one.