Starting Your Business Successfully with a Virtual Assistant

• 13th Monday 2012
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Starting a new business takes a lot of work and money.  First, there are the major investments of setting up your website, if you deal in products – licensing and registration, and of course the cost of advertising.  Aside from that, you also need to work on the different marketing aspects of your business like e-mail campaigns, promoting online, managing your website, planning your marketing strategies, etc. With all of these tasks and costs to consider, the shine of starting a business can sometimes lose its luster when you find yourself too stressed, yet not producing enough.

 

If you want to start a new business successfully, it helps to have a reliable assistant to do some of the time-consuming administrative work for you, so you can work on the more important aspects of your business like planning and product development. However, many new business owners are reluctant to hire an employee, given that they have no office yet, they have no budget for an office, and they have already exhausted their capital, which means hiring someone on a fixed pay schedule is unfeasible.

 

A virtual assistant is the perfect solution for these situations. First of all, virtual assistants work online, so that eliminates the dilemma of providing a physical work space for them because they don’t require having an office to report to.  In addition, virtual assistants work freelance, and they are paid based on the hours they work, not on a fixed rate. So, business owners can maximize their investment, while obtaining excellent work output.
What makes a virtual assistant ideal for a new business owner is the fact that they can work effectively at a reasonable cost. For instance, a regular employee reports for eight hours each day in a physical office at a fixed rate. Within that working time, there is a lunch break, a coffee break, down time waiting for work to be assigned, and talking with co-workers instead of working on assignments.

 

Virtual assistants, on the other hand, are paid based on the hours they have actually worked for you. That means that even if they do take a lunch break or a coffee break, talk with their friends, or go out for a while, you only pay them on the time they have worked for you.

 

In addition, virtual assistants do not require employee benefits like health insurance or retirement plans. They already cover their own benefits, so a new business owner does not need to invest additional money in that area.  They just pay their assistant for the work they have done for the company.

 

Virtual assistants also tend to work more effectively. Since they are paid by the hour versus a fixed salary, they make sure that they are working efficiently and providing you with quality output. They are also flexible in their work, you can assign them different kinds of tasks whenever you need to. This eliminates the need to hire more workers and have one employee for every specific task because you can have one person do many things simultaneously.

 

So, once you decide to start your own business, leave the administrative work for your virtual assistant and focus your time on how to make your business great.