Get my free Virtual Assistant Jumpstart Kit!<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nReason 5: VAs extend your business hours.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The fifth reason why you should hire a virtual assistant is because virtual assistants extend your business hours. What I mean by that is my virtual assistants are working when I’m in off hours. And so I’m spending the bulk of my on hours thinking about how to position my virtual assistants for success so that they are working in my off hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What this allows me to do is it allows me to build a flywheel effect of my business in which we are never just stopping our work for the day when I stopped, my VA start. And when my VA stop, I start and so on. I want you to think for yourself, what could this mean for you? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If your VA’s could extend your work hours, if you could get a virtual assistant team to scrape a hundred leads for you every single day and queue it up into a template for a prospecting campaign. What could that mean for you in terms of the hours that you save every single day, knowing that you have email campaigns queued up and ready to go for prospecting, it would probably be in that you can spend your work hours securing more meetings and closing more deals while not having to worry about your pipeline running dry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
After awhile, you could even potentially train your virtual assistants to do some of the initial qualification for you to cut down on the number of discovery calls you need to do whatever the case may be, businesses that thrive today are the ones that over deliver on customer service and your VA’s can help you immensely in this area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reason 6: Hiring VAs forces you to adapt your communication and management styles.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The sixth reason why it’s important to hire a virtual assistant is because virtual assistants force you to grow and adapt your management style. Virtual assistants often communicate via text or email so if you’re not already good at one of these two mediums, you’ll have to get really good at it and be really good at explicit communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This forces you to always be clear as to whether or not you are explaining the why and the how behind every task you’re giving your virtual assistant. Messing up in your instructions could mean an entire day goes by before your virtual assistant gets back to you and starts working on it again, which ultimately slows down your business growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And so, by learning how to be explicit in your communication styles, it actually is a highly transferable skill that can be applied not only with your virtual assistants, but also with your in house team that you may be leading. If you need help on learning how to manage or train your virtual assistants, be sure to check out my prior article on that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reason 7: VAs are cost-effective.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
And the last reason why you should hire a virtual assistant is because virtual assistants are cost effective. In many cases, hiring a virtual assistant is actually cheaper than bringing on multiple full time employees. The reality is that you can hire a highly educated and highly competent virtual assistant to work for more than 40 hours a week for just a couple of hundred dollars a week to get that same talent in the States, you’d have to pay three to four times that in salary, not to mention health insurance, as well as employee benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Aside from that virtual assistants are super flexible. You can give them a couple hours of work every single week, and they’ll just work with other clients in the time that they’re not working for you. On the flip side, if you were to hire a full time employee, they would potentially just be sitting idle for hours on end waiting for you to give them the next task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So instead of hiring a full time employee, you could literally hire three to five virtual assistants to get three to five times the work done to help you accelerate your business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Let’s take a simple example. If we were to look for somebody with just an associate’s degree, not even a bachelor’s degree, that would run us about 42 grand a year. 42 grand a year is the equivalent of paying somebody $21 an hour. So with that $21 an hour, where we could also do in an alternate case is we could hire four Filipino virtual assistants at $5 an hour or. Seven at $3 an hour and get so much more work done. And we wouldn’t have to pay the employee benefits as well as health insurance for those virtual assistants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
So as you can tell, it’s a clear difference in terms of cost savings when it comes to hiring and bringing on a virtual assistant team. So as you can tell, it’s super hard to beat this, and there are a ton of reasons to bring on a virtual assistant as opposed to a full time employee, even major corporations do this. Back when I was a consultant, we had a team over in India that would help us with the design updates to certain slide decks that we would then send in client presentations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Big takeaways<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
There are two things that I want you to remember when it comes to reasons why you should hire a virtual assistant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
- The first reason is because virtual assistants help you learn how to let go. As an entrepreneur or a startup employee, you will always feel like you are the best person to do something, but that is not always the case and it’s often a limiting factor that’s preventing you from reaching your next major milestone. <\/li>
- The second reason is because virtual assistants introduce discipline into your business. They force you to document your processes, learn how to teach as well as implement and give feedback to your virtual assistants, which ultimately allow you to work on your business as opposed to being stuck, working in your business.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n
That’s it for this time though. In my next article, I will go over, when is the best time to hire a virtual assistant five signs to look out for?<\/p>\n\n\n\n