Hiring a Virtual Assistant could transform your business, your brand and your selling power 10 fold, starting from the inside out. Here, I explore the benefits of hiring a Virtual Assistant.
What is a Virtual Assistant?
A Virtual Assistant is an independent contractor (freelancer) who provides administrative support and services to clients; typically working remotely or outside of the client’s office.
Virtual Assistant services tend to encompass the following tasks:
- Booking and managing appointments
- Updating and managing a CRM/contact list
- Updating a website and/or populating pages
- Prepare customer spreadsheets and keep online records
- Create, edit and prepare presentations
- Make and manage phone calls
- Perform market research
Benefits of hiring a Virtual Assistant
Keep overhead costs down: Virtual Assistants are skilled freelancers and are typically hired on a contract basis – often providing teams and/or executives with support on a short term basis – and, as such, hiring a Virtual Assistant is a great way to keep employee overhead and HR costs down; an effective option for small teams, startups and short term projects.
Scale up or down your support as needed: depending on the nature of your business, you’ll probably require different levels of VA support at different times – around Christmas, for example, you may find that you require much more support than throughout January and February, as the new year sets in. Hiring a freelance Virtual Assistant allows you to up or down scale your support as and when you need it, so you’re only paying for what you need, when you need it!
Free up your existing team for hirer value tasks: another one of many benefits of hiring a Virtual Assistant is the ability to offload repetitive or administrative tasks to your freelancer in order to free up the time of your existing team, allowing them to devote more time and energy to higher value tasks such as launching a brand new project, warming up exciting new leads or enhancing the customer journey.
Unlock a breadth in knowledge: Due to the nature of the job, Virtual Assistant are highly skilled, extremely organised and independent workers who possess a wide range of knowledge and expertise, and can therefore bring exciting new ideas and ways of working to the team; improving and streamlining otherwise lengthy processes.
I’m extremely excited to be expanding my online offerings to ambitious businesses and sole traders looking for a wide range of content and marketing services; now offering Virtual Assistant services.
Interested? Contact me to find out more about what I can offer and how I can help you.
Sophie Porter: Content Specialist 