Virtual Assistants: To hire or not to hire?

Do you want to hire virtual assistants (VAs) but are not sure and do not know how to do it and where to start?

If you’re like many small business owners and you have heard of outsourcing your work to VAs, you may like to try it but just don’t seem to know where to begin. You are not sure whether hiring VAs 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 repetitive, boring and menial tasks to personal VAs from the Philippines. They appear to be a one-man show, but they have a team of VAs 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 VA from the Philippines, let me explain further.

Competence of VAs

VAs are like any other group of employees. Some are lazy, whilst others are 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 VA from the Philippines couldn’t match the quality of work you put out, prepare to be pleasantly surprised. Most VAs from the Philippines are highly educated, equipped with university and college degrees and 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. Whilst 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 VAs

Compared with hiring local staff, you can afford a personal VA from the Philippines. Hiring someone locally costs a lot. Hiring someone from the Philippines doesn’t. As they work 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. Whilst 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 VAs is not only affordable; it also costs more and more the more you put it off! Your company can’t grow unless you delegate menial tasks, and hiring a personal VA 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!