Top 3 Benefits of Hiring a Virtual Assistant

There are many wonderful reasons to outsource some of your daily tasks to a Virtual Assistant. If you are thinking you would like to free up some of your time take these some of these benefits into consideration.

1. Financial Savings

While Virtual Assistants are not cheap, you can hire one in North America for a decent hourly rate.  However, keep in mind “you get what you pay for”.  This saying most definitely applies here. Regardless of the hourly rate there are other costs savings as well such as health benefits, unemployment insurance, equipment and much more.  Prior to hiring a contractor it is always advisable to check the laws in your country, state or province.

Another cost savings feature of a Virtual Assistant is that you only pay for the time the VA has worked on your tasks.  And you can hire a VA or VA team that meets your specific needs, that could be administrative or even web design and development.  It’s most beneficial to hire someone to do the things in your business that you dislike or that you’re just not good at.

And a final bonus – everything you pay your VA is a deductible business expense!

2. Take your business to the next level.

It’s impossible for a business owner to do every task, especially as the business grows and expands.

If you love creating and coming up with the ideas but hate implementing and putting plans into place hiring a VA would be perfect.  You can concentrate on the money making area of your business and pass off tasks like blogging, customer service or bookkeeping to someone with that expertise.  These are all essential tasks for running a business but can easily be contracted out – it’s the power of the internet!  By doing these tasks yourself you may even be holding your business back.  By letting go of some of these activities you could be opening up the space you need to grow your business and your bottom line.

3. Free up your time for the things you love!

This is a big one.  By delegating tasks to a VA you will have more time to do the things you enjoy the most, whether it’s quality time with your family, travelling or maybe a round of golf.

With the right VA or team in place, whatever it is, you will find you have more time to enjoy these pleasures.  Isn’t this why you became an entrepreneur?

A Virtual Assistant will care about your business as much as you do because if you’re successful they are successful.

 

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