World Health Day is a time to reflect on the importance of health and well-being. This year, the focus is on building a fairer, healthier world for everyone. At Virtual Office Angels, we recognize the importance of financial health in overall well-being, and we believe that businesses can benefit greatly from our Financial Planning Assistance and Administration services. Our Virtual Assistants can help businesses focus on all the time-consuming tasks and improve their financial health.
Financial planning is an essential component of running a successful business. However, it can be time-consuming and complex, especially for businesses without a dedicated finance team. This is where our Virtual Assistants can help. Equipped with the needed Australian Financial experience and knowledge, our highly skilled virtual financial assistants can provide the needed support to assist Australian Financial Planners and Mortgage Brokers thus helping them grow their businesses faster. By outsourcing the day-to-day administration tasks to our highly specialised Virtual Assistants, businesses can free up their time and focus on other aspects of their operations thus helping them grow their businesses faster and easier too.
Here are some reasons why businesses need a Virtual Assistant to focus on financial planning and administration tasks:
Expertise: Our Virtual Assistants are highly skilled and experienced in supporting Australian Financial Planners and managing their day-to-day administrative tasks. They can provide priceless support that can save a lot of time and money to help businesses grow faster.
Time savings: By outsourcing day-to-day preparation of financial documents and administration routine tasks, businesses can free up their time and focus on other areas of their operations. This can improve productivity and efficiency thus saving a lot of precious time.
Time savings: By outsourcing day-to-day preparation of financial documents and administration routine tasks, businesses can free up their time and focus on other areas of their operations. This can improve productivity and efficiency thus saving a lot of precious time.
As we celebrate World Health Day on April 7th, let us remember that financial health is an essential component of overall health and well-being. By using Virtual Office Angels’ Virtual Financial Planning Assistance, Virtual Mortgage Support and Administration services, businesses can improve their financial health and build a fairer, healthier world for everyone. Contact us today to learn more about how our Virtual Assistants can help your business achieve financial stability and success.
Outsourcing a virtual assistant brings substantial benefits for your business. Firstly, it can save you a lot of your time and a significant amount money because it is definitely more cost effective than hiring someone working with you in an expensive office. However, there are also challenges that come with hiring one and it became more apparent during the pandemic when everybody started working from home when the world of virtual assistance and outsourcing boomed.
From the lack of quality control, communication issues, cultural differences to security concerns, etc so let us provide you with tips on how to overcome the problems that come with outsourcing.
If You’re Not Reaping the Benefits of Outsourcing a Virtual Assistant Yet…
Businesses of all sizes have been reaping the benefits of outsourcing virtual assistants who can help them not only with administrative tasks, but also accounting, marketing, mortgage and loans processing support and many more.
The act of employing a third party to carry out a commercial task that is usually handled internally is known as outsourcing. It is beneficial to businesses because it could lower costs, increase efficiency, allows you to concentrate on your core skills and most especially, gives you back the needed time you need to do and create other things you love. Access to specialist resources and talents that might not be accessible internally can also be provided by outsourcing.
Working with people that have different language and cultural standards can cause miscommunications, hence it is one of the major concerns when outsourcing. This could lead to confusion, delays, and unmet expectations. Finding common ground, cultural training, and clear communication can all help to lessen these difficulties.
Time zones can be a hurdle too since it can be challenging to organize meetings and coordinate communication when the outsourced business and the client are in different time zones. This could result in miscommunication and delays in finishing the project. Also, if there is a considerable time difference, it could force people to work outside of regular business hours, which can affect both productivity and work-life balance.
Established in 2020, Virtual Office Angels is a boutique outsourcing company that manages only highly specialised virtual assistants. With hands-on expertise and experience in managing the Australian business culture and dealing with Australian clients, VA productivity is higher with tasks easily done and completed with confidence and great knowledge.
Additionally, with the Philippines only 2 – 3 hours behind, it is easier to work on fixed Australian business hours.
Quality Control and Performance Issues
When dealing with remote teams, quality control can be a concern because you are not working next to the staff and one is unable to correct mistakes that come along right away.
This risk can be reduced by creating clear expectations, keeping communication lines open, processes in place and quality assurance procedures. It’s also crucial to establish precise contractual agreements and closely examine prospective outsourcing partners.
Virtual Office Angels has a team of HR and team leaders that ensure nothing is missed out. From its VA Recruitment procedure and the VA Onboarding process, we are able to assist you in the needed support you need to ensure that tasks are done and completed to your expectation each and every day.
Lower Productivity Levels
Another problem with outsourcing is productivity, but it ultimately boils down to how well the outsourcing is handled. Setting expectations, keeping track of progress, and having open lines of communication can all assist to keep productivity on track. Also, selecting an outsourcing partner with a track record of producing high-quality work on schedule might assist reduce any productivity concerns.
Here are some tips to help make sure virtual assistants are effective during work hours:
· Thoroughly explain the role, your expectations and outcome
· Establish clear objectives and due dates
· Provide needed on boarding and the special tools, if needed
· Arrange regular progress updates or check-ins
· Promote open dialogue and feedback
· Track their work using productivity tools and software.
Security Threats and Concerns
Concerns about intellectual property rights, confidentiality, security lapses, and compliance with local laws and regulations can arise as a result of outsourcing. For instance, outsourcing could entail disclosing private data to independent suppliers, raising the danger of security lapses and the potential loss of intellectual property. Also, there may be differences in how local rules and regulations are followed between countries, which can lead to moral and legal conundrums. When outsourcing, it’s crucial for businesses to carefully weigh these potential dangers and take the necessary precautions to reduce them.
Here are some guidelines to help you protect your company’s papers when outsourcing:
Carefully identify and communicate to the outsourcing provider your expectations and requirements for data security.
Make use of secure file-sharing and communication methods, such virtual data rooms or encrypted email.
Use security tools like firewalls, antivirus software, and data encryption to safeguard the devices and network of your business.
Choosing a highly reputable Australian outsourcing company such as Virtual Office Angels Pty Ltd with a proven track record can help mitigate or completely avoid the above challenges of outsourcing virtual assistants in Australia. More importantly, you can work less, earn more and save a lot of your precious time to help you grow your business faster, easily.
Have you been stressing out and feeling so overwhelmed lately that you’ve
Have you been stressing out and feeling so overwhelmed lately that you’ve missed out on special family gatherings and had to refuse invites from friends? Have you been spending long hours at work and at the end of the day feel like so little has been done and more tasks are still left in your inbox? When was the last time you took a holiday? As the saying goes, if your business can’t survive and grow without you, then it’s not a sustainable business. You just got yourself a demanding job. If your goal this year is to continuously expand and bring higher returns to your business while maintaining a work-life balance, outsourcing and hiring the right fit Virtual Assistant support (or a team of VAs) for your business is the best solution.
What’s a Virtual Assistant and How Can It Help You Maintain a Work-Life Balance?
A virtual assistant is an online worker who provides a variety of virtual services to businesses and entrepreneurs. Not physically working in your office, virtual assistants have the needed skills, knowledge and are equipped with tools to perform their duties. But not all Virtual Assistants are the same and created equal. While some VAs jump into the online world straight from uni with no experience at all, some of them perform their tasks by reading templates provided to them by their employers which means a lot of time, energy, money and resources are needed (and wasted) in their training and development. At Virtual Office Angels, we can help you delegate and offload the time-consuming tasks that takes all your time and energy. With decades of HR experience, we can assist you in the search of only highly qualified Virtual Assistants (or a team of VAs) for your specific needs. With the right virtual assistant that matches your specific needs, you can have peace of mind in offloading all your workload to free yourself from all the time consuming tasks that bogs you down.
Here are some of the services a virtual office assistant from Virtual Office Angels can help you with:
Key Reasons Why Hire a Virtual Assistant for Your Business
Running a business includes a wide range of various, time consuming and meticulous tasks that can take so much of one’s time if not effectively delegated. If you want to maintain a better lifestyle, then stop working harder, and instead, you have to work smarter.
But there’s more to hiring a virtual assistant than getting things done faster. If you are still on the fence on hiring a virtual office assistant for your business, here’s a list of the main reasons why your business needs it now more than ever.
Reduced expenses without compromising the service quality
Any medium firm or small business owner can minimize overhead costs by employing only highly qualified and professional Virtual Assistants. Cost is the obvious reason to outsource. You can save – around 50% – 60% on labour cost, NO additional expensive infrastructure to pay, NO electricity bill, NO computer hardware and software expenses, NO superannuation cost, NO payroll tax and more importantly, without the hassles of a traditional employee (i.e. No Unfair dismissal issue, No harassment issues, No bullying, etc). As one of our clients agan said, “Same quality, fraction of the costs”.
Scale your business operations quickly
Delegate, delegate and delegate more so you can offload all the time consuming and repetitive tasks in your inbox to a highly qualified Virtual Assistant. With this in place, you will have more time, can breathe better and focus to attending to the more important aspect of your business – getting more clients – Your client who also needs your time and attention to provide them the outstanding customer service that they deserve.
Avoid burnout
Hiring a virtual assistant will lower your workload significantly (and your blood pressure too). Repetitive tasks like responding to emails, scheduling meetings, calendar management consume a lot more time than individuals believe. Besides, you’ll need more mental space for more important things. A virtual assistant can do these administrative and repetitive tasks and more. By learning how to delegate these time consuming workload and reducing repetitive tasks from your plate, you have more time to achieve a healthy work-life balance.
Work-life balance is often overlooked because it is easier to stick to old habits. However, we can’t expect the same results by doing the same thing every day. Maximise outsourcing and let it grow your business faster and change your life for the better.
As we celebrate International Women’s Day, it’s important to take a moment to recognize and honor the amazing women of Virtual Office Angels. We have women in our organization in all different functions – from our talented and highly qualified Virtual Assistants who are making a significant impact in the world of business, helping small to large businesses grow faster, to our Team Leaders and Managers who mentor and guide our team, and our very own founder, Anne Villavieja.
Virtual Office Angels is a trusted partner for Australian businesses looking to leverage their time, money, and resources. Their expertise in the industry and their knowledge of the Australian business environment, combined with their understanding of the local Philippine talent, make them an invaluable resource for companies searching for the perfect match to help their businesses grow sustainably and ethically.
At Virtual Office Angels, women are at the forefront of everything they do, and they believe in empowering women by providing opportunities for professional growth and success.
On this International Women’s Day, let’s celebrate the incredible women of Virtual Office Angels and all the amazing women who are making a difference in the world of business.
