Why Hire A Virtual Assistant? The Question Is Really: What Are You Waiting For?

The latest thing in cost effective investments in your small business today is the Virtual Assistant.

Like the employee who works remotely, via computer, phone, and fax, Virtual Assistants (also known as VAs) work for you, performing any or all of several tasks necessary to your business. They do the work of any number of clerical and administrative staff, receptionists, human resources, accounting, and tech services, often even functioning as your own personal assistant, and all at a fraction of the cost of hiring "real" employees to do these jobs in the "real" world.

The best part is: your VA can do the stuff that you don't enjoy doing, and usually better and more efficiently because they do. Take accounting, for instance. Who understands people who like doing accounting, who get excited by rows and columns of numbers that they have to make tally? Well, there are people who do. Seriously.

It takes all kinds of people to make a world, they say. So why not make the most of the veritable rainbow of skills and talents available to you when you hire a virtual assistant? They get paid to do something they enjoy doing, and you don't have to do something you don't. It's a win-win situation, the work gets done, and everyone is happy.

As an added benefit, hiring a VA not only costs less than what it would to employ someone in the "real" world to do the same work, it also usually costs less than the time it would take you to perform that task.

For instance: everyone knows it takes longer to do something you dislike doing, regardless of what it is. You dread doing it so your energy is low going in, or you procrastinate until there's even more to do when you do finally get to it, and you end up spending much more time on something you didn't want to do in the first place.

Now, acting on the premise that time is money, suppose you figure out how much your time is worth and see how much "money" you're wasting on doing this task yourself. You could quite likely hire a VA who would do the job in half the time and at a much lower cost than the value of your time. So, in delegating the task you save both time and money. Like I said: win-win.

Additionally, your Virtual Assistant can do much more than just the tasks you dislike. The same VA who does your accounts payable and receivable for instance, could handle processing orders, sending out invoices, arranging shipping, or any number of related tasks.

You can even have multiple VAs. One to do the above tasks, for instance; another to respond to correspondence and act as a receptionist, taking and returning phone calls and so on; and maybe another to handle your calendar, schedule your appointments, make travel arrangements. In fact, once you have tried it, you may find yourself delegating to your Virtual Assistant(s), a whole lot of tasks you never even thought twice about before.

"And where will that leave me?" you may be asking yourself. Perhaps the answer is: "free to do what you created your business to be able to do in the first place."

by: Sachin K Airan

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