3 Things to Know About Virtual Assistants So You Don’t Have a Virtual Mess

I have been on the ground floor of three startups, and the number-one position that I often suggest small business owners fill as soon as possible is a highly skilled assistant who is passionate about their business. 

You can’t do everything by yourself. And before you hire your entire family, consider death.  If every position in your business is filled by somebody in your family, then what happens when Grandma dies and the entire clan needs to disappear and recover for a few days? Life happens.
You can call a temp service, but in the final analysis that’s nothing more than a glorified answering machine. They won’t have time to learn your business and will be left taking messages, not solving problems.

Who hires Virtual Assistant?

How much of your day do you get to spend on growing your core business? How much is wasted on essential, but time-eating tasks that aren’t your strength or your passion? 

How much could you improve your bottom line with more time to focus on your real work? But how can you afford an assistant? Easy! Choose one you can hire and fire by the hour!

A Virtual Assistant can handle a huge variety of tasks. Contracting allows you to take back the time you spend on those tasks while staying within your budget. And a virtual assistant doesn’t have to be virtual! If you hire a local contractor, he or she can come to your office when necessary.

Who hires virtual assistants? You might need some help if…

WHY YOU NEED A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT?

If you're looking for ways to grow your business and your team online to start getting more things done in less time, or if you're someone who's tired of your routine cubicle worklife, perhaps outsourcing and hiring Virtual Assistant is the answer to your problems.

• Focus On Growing Your Business. When you hire a Virtual Assistant from us you will be able to “work on your business instead of in it”. You will have more time to focus on marketing for new customers, delivering more “WOW” to your current customers and growing your company.
  
  
• Cut Costs and Save Money. When you hire a Virtual Assistant from us, you will get to avoid the additional expenses that comes with hiring employees and lower your labor costs. This means you get to save more money!
  
  
  

PHILIPPINES: World’s best country in business English

Well, people will now have to think twice before mocking Pinoys’ use of the English language.

The Philippines was named the world’s best country in business English proficiency, even beating the United States, according to a recent study by GlobalEnglish Corporation.

GlobalEnglish has released early this month the results of its annual Business English Index (BEI), the only index that measures business English proficiency in the workplace.

How to Stay Focused at Work?

Do you need to learn how to stay focused at work? This article provides seven efficient tips to get you on track when you’re on the job.

How do your colleagues stay focused at work? Seems like they can get a lot more done in a day than you can. Why, you wonder?
Sometimes, without you noticing, you have a lot of time-wasting habits that takes your focus off work. You may unknowingly tend to stray and end up doing less. So, how do you keep your focus at work?

VA on Social Media - Facebook

Do you have a VA? If you do, is s/he helping you with your Facebook business/fan page? If not then you are missing out on a huge opportunity to free yourself up some time that is otherwise consumed by social media.

Have you seen the changes over on Facebook? 

Facebook has granted access for 5 administrative roles on Facebook business/fan pages.

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I have found that there are still very many people who think that they have to do everything themselves to make their business run. Very often they cannot afford to employ others on a part or full time basis and their business is not growing as they hope or they are not meeting their objectives.

They are trying to complete all the tasks by themselves to save money and therefore they don't have enough time to expand their business and to find new/ideal clients. And they wonder WHY!?

Why Hire a Filipino Virtual Assistant?

 

If you’re like most business owners (and I’m guessing you are) you have at one time or another said to yourself:

When outsourcing to the Philippines, you can benefit by taking advantage of the difference in “buying power” between the American dollar and the Philippine peso. Let me demonstrate by asking a question:

“How am I ever going to grow my business? I barely have time to take care of the day-to-day routine of running a business — and sometimes not even that!”