The freedom and power of being your own boss is unparalleled. But any small business owner will tell you that it does come at a cost. Going at it on your own requires hard work, grit, and resilience like you’ve never needed before.
There’s something so satisfying about building and nurturing a business all on your own. The reality, though, is that as your business grows, you will have to get some kind of help if you want to keep your business sustainable. Hiring the services of an executive virtual assistant could be the hack to propel your business forward.
Below we take a look at the ways a virtual executive assistant can take your business to new heights.
Skills sharing and a window into best practices
Most of the time, one-person-show entrepreneurs hit the ground running simply to get the business going. Before you know it, making things up as you go along, and playing off the cuff becomes the default. We agree that there’s a special thrill in doing it this way, but soon you’ll find that there are specific ways certain things need to be done.
An executive virtual assistant will come with years of experience, meaning they are familiar with how things work, which will quickly bring your small business up to speed.
Your executive virtual assistant will be in a great position to steer you and your business in the right direction when it comes to best practices. While a virtual executive assistant will no doubt learn a great deal from you, you’ll be amazed at how much you will pick up from them, too.
Increased productivity
Being busy and being productive are two very different things. Busyness is your day-to-day shallow tasks, while productivity means work that propels you toward a specific end-goal. As a small business owner, you’ll likely have to be a bit of both to keep the ball rolling.
However, having the assistance of a virtual executive is a quick solve that will allow you to delegate the ‘busyness’ (or at least add some order to it), while you free up time to refocus your energy into developing crucial parts of your business.
We aren’t being dramatic when we tell you that for this factor alone, a virtual executive assistant could be a game-changing addition to your small business.
More organised workflows and processes
If you hire a virtual executive assistant worth their salt, then ‘organised’ should be their middle name.
Having one on board will likely benefit your business in terms of getting organised.. Having worked in similar environments before, your assistant will implement tried-and-tested methods to ensure there is some semblence of process being followed. This alone is an investment in your company because once these are established, your business will be on a good footing for the foreseeable future.
Outsourcery offers fully-flexible executive virtual assistant packages that are tailored to your business’s unique needs. We can be of service to you across a range of functions, including payroll, office management, bookkeeping, HR and procurement. Our virtual assistants also have seamless access to a team of experts in digital marketing, social media, web design and much more. Try it out and see how it works for you and your business.
