Grow your business faster this YEAR

Take it from Siimon Reynolds, expert and entrepreneur/co-founded two large enterprises, Photon Group and OMG. SIICOACH:

How your self image determines your wealth. You’re visualising how things will go anyway, all day long. It’s just how the brain works. So you might as well take control of the process and visualise exactly what you want. With regular daily practice you’ll find you will be more confident, more at ease, more effective. You’ll also find your economic identity will have changed. And soon after, your wealth.

Are you prepared to make 2012 your most thriving year yet?  It would be great to put the negative news of 2011 behind us and begin shaping a future that we propose!

Here are three quick steps you can use to jump-start your year:

Confirm your hypothesis
Be acquainted that you are making an assumption about and then authenticate your assumption.  Get in touch with your prospective clients to find out what it would be of significance to them, If you think a new product would be immense,  Confirm your hypothesis before you start and save the time and money that it takes to change later.

Never assume that you’re correct. If you’re initiating a new service, you will have a mass of assumptions.  Business is built on hypothesis.  investigations, statistics, surveys, etc. all exist to gather information to authenticate or contradict hypothesis.

Track your advertising/marketing
Organize your marketing thoughtfully and follow your results. Know what you’re trying to achieve with your marketing.  Not generically.  Understand who your targets are, how to reach them, what elucidation you’re offering, what results you expect, how many touches it takes to convert a prospect to a customer, how long your crusade will last, etc.

Marketing is costly in money or time (or both).  Even if you’re core effort is online and isn’t costly, it will still cost you effort and time. Never market without having a finances, goals, and a way to track your achievement.

These simple steps can help you immensely.  Not only will they assist you construct results, they will assist you save time and money that might otherwise be wasted on guesses.

Set your objective
Adjust and adapt to changing circumstances, but always with the goal in mind.  This is one of the keys of setting goals; it upholds your focal points and assists you coordinate your actions. Countless people will not bother but it has been said a couple of times. Set your goals.  Note them down.  Commit to them.  The point isn’t just noting them down and then hoping they’ll come true.  Set the goals and then plan how you’ll accomplish them. Break the goals into pieces and allocate pieces of them to dissimilar offerings your corporation has.  Track your progress towards your goals and scrutinize what works and what doesn’t work

Are Virtual Assistants Worth It?

Hiring a Virtual Assistant to handle your busy schedule or carry out tasks that don’t make a good use of your time is probably one of the most effective ways to get yourself on track and become more productive in your business.

The goal of Virtual Office Angels is to free up your time, increase your productivity, and reduce the amount of stress in your life. Most of our clients are small business owners who need extra help getting things done, need access to a wide variety of services, and are working on a budget.

Our Virtual Office Angels can help take care of those things that:

  • get neglected or procrastinated,
  • projects that are beyond your capability,
  • those things that are absorbing your time,
  • and anything that you don’t have to be doing yourself.

By delegating these things to our virtual assistants, you can focus on the truly important, high-leverage activities within your business that need your attention.

The result:

  • Increased productivity
  • Greater efficiency
  • More Time
  • Less Stress

The outcome is that your business moves forward, faster and easier.

Virtual Assistants (VA’s): To Hire or Not To Hire?

Do you want to hire a Virtual Assistant but are not sure and do not know how to do it and where to start?

If you’re like many small business owners, you have heard of outsourcing your work to virtual assistants, would like to try it but just don’t seem to know where to begin.  You are not sure whether  hiring VA’s is a viable option because either you can’t afford them or you’re afraid that they will be unable to perform the task as well as you can or just do not know how to hire a VA and it’s too much work just to start.

The challenge for you then is, if you don’t start delegating your work, how will your business grow to the next level?  Can you do everything alone in a reasonable amount of time? Have you ever known somebody who can do it all by himself and wasn’t stressed out at the end of each day?  How much is your time really worth?  Do you have time to do it all?

Nowadays a lot of very savvy entrepreneurs with multimillion dollar businesses outsource their repeititve, boring and menial tasks to personal virtual assistants from the Philippines.  They appear to be a one man show however they have a team of VA’s working for them so they can smartly do whatever they want to do.

However, if you are still not sure whether to hire a personal virtual assistant from the Philippines, let me explain further…

Competence of VA’s

VAs are like any other group of employees. Some are lazy, and others hardworking.  Some are good at what they do, and some aren’t. Your job is to find the good ones. Fortunately, once you find a good one, you can keep him or her for as long as you wish. If you are worried that a personal virtual assistant from the Philippines couldn’t match the quality of work you put out, prepare to be pleasantly surprised. Most VA’s from the Philippines are highly educated, equipped with university and college degrees and are highly trained in areas depending on where you need them most.  Most of them can handle the daily tedious tasks such as email updates, calendar and appointment scheduling, transcribing, doing research, data entry, scheduling invoices, handling delivery, billing issues, and much much more. While you are trying to balance work and managing a business, they are there only to carry out whatever time consuming work you put in front of them.

Cost of V.A.’s

Compared to hiring a local staff, you can afford a personal virtual assistant from the Philippines.  Hiring someone locally cost a lot. Hiring someone from the Philippines doesn’t.  Working virtually as well, you save on office space, insurance, office equipment, and much much more.  In addition, $1 in the Philippines goes much farther than it does here, so wages are also decreased. The monetary costs are more than compensated by the next benefit of hiring a VA.

Time

Quick, which would you rather spend your time doing: growing your business or filling out tedious paperwork? Not only is growing your business a lot more enjoyable, it’s also more profitable. While you might be saving money right now by doing your own work, you are wasting tons of time that could be better spent elsewhere. In essence, you’re sacrificing future profits and a more enjoyable day for a few extra bucks now.

Hiring a VA from the Philippines or a team of VA’s is not only affordable, it costs more and more the more you put it off! Your company can’t grow unless you delegate menial tasks, and a personal virtual assistant from the Philippines is a great way to start doing this. This leaves you with more time to do more of what you love and more of what is profitable!