Should You Hire a Virtual Assistant?

If you had to slap a monetary value on every hour you spend on doing your business, you could actually find it. You will be pleasantly surprised that you are worth more per hour than you think you are. If you already did this little value introspection for yourself, it’s great. If you haven’t you should do it as soon as possible.

The point here is that apart from that one thing you do that actually fetches you this $X per hour, everything else you do loses you money. For example, if you are a writer or freelance designer the actual writing or designing is the act that actually earns you money. However, you spend enormous amount of time invoicing clients, talking to them and managing your business. Often, time can be best utilized by having any aspect of business that doesn’t directly contribute much for your profits.

But who would do these things for you? Uploading your posts on your blog, finding relevant images, doing some number-crunching on spreadsheets, managing a rapid influx of customer emails, doing things like customer support, invoicing and managing accounts – you could bring in a Virtual Assistant to do all of these tasks for you and save enormous amount of time.

However, the issue of cost is something you will need to battle with: inexperienced Virtual assistants won’t charge you much but will eat your time in terms of training them. Experienced Virtual assistants would be expensive but can hit the ground running. If you are prepared to train new, competent people to do this for you, you are sitting on a goldmine.

It’s really a matter of affordability and time availability. It’s been highly recommended by experts and also makes tremendous sense if you pick up your Virtual Assistants on a rain-check and start with small projects. If you see a great working relationship working out, it is time for you to go full steam ahead.

What do you think of virtual assistants? Do you think they make a great fit for your  business?