Virtual assistants are cost effective by nature. You can hire a single assistant to handle all your emails, your website, your billing, and any other small office work you need for an hourly rate. Likewise, you can hire three different assistants to handle each of these – someone who specializes in CRM and will handle the entire backend of client details for you, someone else who specializes in website management, and someone else who deals with billing and collections (I mean, maybe your bookkeeper can add that service on for a low cost). Rather than paying $15/hr for an employee, you can pay a VA $600 a month to do the same work. Because she has a few clients, you save money.

Let’s face it, you’re busy as hell, right? You don’t have time to triple check the website to see that it is working well, or even looks okay. You spend all day running a business and now you have 4,000 emails, 500 calls to return, bills to send out, and you definitely don’t have time to learn that new social media site or CRM system.

You don’t understand everything, literally no one does. That new social media platform is taking off and you are still asking how to manage Facebook. Maybe your books are a hot mess and you need a bookkeeper. Maybe you want to start a YouTube channel – do you know how to edit and post all that? Virtual assistants will often specialize in one or two things that they are killing it at. That is the VA you want. You want the VA who says they can do what you need done, no problem.

Now you’re speaking my language! You’re papers are everywhere. You have thirteen calendars. You have Google Drive filled with client information, and it just isn’t working. Enter the automation assistant – now you have systems in place and all you do it enter the name of your client and GO!

Remember when you started your business and you loved it? Once that is lost, the love of your company will start to fail. Take a day off and let someone else take over for the day.