In the
modern technological age virtual assistants or online
secretaries / personal assistants are becoming
increasingly important, functional and
international.
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Why Have a Virtual
Assistant?
If
you are reading this my guess is that you have been
thinking about how a virtual assistant might help you and
your business to achieve the anticipated goals. If
you are like most business people you are probably
finding yourself overwhelmed and over stressed. You
may even be working from dawn to day break and
beyond in to the night and still may not be able to get
through it all.
Administrative tasks
are probably getting in your way of actually
achieving your business goals. This is
where a virtual assitant comes to the fore. Virtual
assistants as online secretaries and personal assistants
are able to help you to operate your business freeing you
to do the things that you know are the real income
generating activities.
There are a number or reasons why you
should gain the assistance of an online personal
assistant. However these can be put aside by the one
major reason for taking one on. That is without an
assistant you are losing your income potential big
time. Simple arithmetic and statistics can prove
this for you.
According to the experts in the field
of small business analysis the average small business is
spending 40 per cent of its time in administrative
duties. This equates to about 832 hours a year.
Weigh this in to how much your time is worth.
Instead of being out there making money you are spending
your time with such duties as word processing, data
entry, bookkeeping, purchasing, taking phone calls,
scheduling, reporting, website maintenance and repairing
your office equipment.
You might say that you can have an online
assistant working with you however the benefits of a virtual
assistant outweighs that of an employee, especially for a
small business that really can't afford to have somebody
full time or even part time. Consider the following, with a
virtual assistant you
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Only
pay for the actual time worked not for
coffee, lunch or smoking breaks, not to
forget the time spent chatting and
spending time doing sill rediculous
things when an employee could be making
money for you instead of wasting yout
time;
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Have
no expenses to cover insurance,
association fees, vacation and sick
leave, fringe benefits, funding of
superannuation, payroll taxes
etc;
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No
overtime pay when projects need to be
done in a hurry to meet some sort of
deadline;
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No
needed additional office space,
computers, telephones, other office
equipment;
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No educational and miscellaneous
expenses. |
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