As your business expands, managing all the tasks alongside maintaining client satisfaction and any business growth can become challenging. While hiring an employee seems like the logical solution, you might hesitate due to the ongoing expenses and employer responsibilities. Outsourcing administrative tasks to a Virtual Assistant service offers the support you require without the weight of ongoing commitments.
Some of the signs that you might be ready for a Virtual Assistant include:
Feeling stressed, overwhelmed and burned out
Experiencing stress, overwhelm, and burnout? If you’re handling your entire business operations from ordering supplies, carrying out billable work and delivering sales pitches, you may feel like you’re constantly juggling it all. Seek assistance before reaching you drop the ball.
Making errors within your work
If you are finding errors in client work, this is a clear sign that you are overstretched and possibly rushing and not double checking. Rushing to get tasks finished inevitably leads to lower quality work and over time that can result in losing clients or feeling dissatisfaction with your business.
Not seeing your friends and family from one week to the next
Starting and working in your own business can be a difficult and time-consuming slog for many business owners. You do HAVE to put in the hours, especially at the beginning to get things off the ground. But if you are years in and you are still working late in the evenings and at the weekends and never take any time off, then it’s time to realise that this lifestyle isn’t healthy or sustainable any longer. Odds are – you probably started your own business for more freedom, not less!
You or your team lack a certain skill set
If I was asked to do a paint job on my vehicle, it wouldn’t be great – so you can’t be blamed if your area of strength isn’t handling your own business admin. If you and possibly your employees lack the IT skill, patience or experience to complete administrative tasks – sending these for someone else to do may be a good idea!
Doing tasks that someone else could do at the expense of tasks that only YOU can do
If too much of your time is spent doing administrative tasks that could be handled by a Virtual Assistant service, you aren’t making the best use of your business expertise. Hire a VA to handle your repetitive business tasks so you can work on the core client offer.
Get support for your business!
If you feel you’ve reached the point where you can no longer manage everything yourself, let’s chat about what you are struggling with and which tasks you could send my way.
Drop me an email at lauren@swannva.co.uk and we can discuss how I can help you!
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