How To Know When You should Hire A VA
Written by Emily from New Oceans Creative.
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What is a VA?
VA stands for Virtual Assistant, but you probably already knew that! They typically work online with business owners to support them in administrative tasks.
What do they do?
Many VA’s would say.. ‘What can’t I do?’ because many are open to anything you need help with. Some specialize in social media, many VA’s love anything design, some VA’s are amazing at project management, and others are website wizzes. No matter what you need support on, there is a VA out there for you. In general a VA could be responsible for:
Administrative Tasks
Social Media Management
Website Updates
Inbox Management
Financial Tracking
Reporting
Graphics for Social Media or Website
Community Management
Here are 4 signs to know if you should hire a VA.
You have a laundry list of administrative tasks that never ends.
Have you ever spent hours on your computer going through your inbox, putting together branded materials, or even simply managing and planning your workload? These things are super important, but should be delegated to someone else if it’s taking up all your time. You didn’t start a business so you could spend all day doing administrative tasks, did you? (Unless you are a VA, of course!)
You need to level up your online presence.
VAs can help with a myriad of social media services, and can really amp up your online presence. You are the idea maker, the visionary for your business, and your content needs to be neatly organized and visually appealing online. A VA can take your content and help you schedule and plan your social media to gain more clients and credibility online!
You want more time to focus on the higher level vision of your business.
You know those inspired ideas, the next big steps you want to take in your business? Do those keep moving further down on your to-do list because you have important tasks to do that keep your business running? Hiring a VA could be revolutionary for your business so you can spend more time on those high level visions, and take action to actually move the next step in your business. This could also free up your time to take on those higher value projects that you’ve been writing off because you couldn’t imagine how you’d fit them in your schedule.
You’re sacrificing your personal time for work time.
Missing dinners, date nights, picking the kids up from school? Wish you had some more work/life balance? Adding support to your business by hiring a VA could completely change your business and mindset. With you focusing on the higher level work, and delegating the busy work that takes up all your time, you will not only have more time to work on new projects, but also take some time for yourself.
This article was written by Emily from New Oceans Creative. Emily is a virtual assistant who loves helping her clients achieve big things! If your business is in need of a VA, you can contact her here.