In the last article, I wrote about 3 filters you should be putting all your “to do lists” through to make sure you are doing only work that you are passionate about, good at and make good money doing. But how can you do all of that and still grow a business without hiring someone full time? Through a Virtual Assistant.
For those of you that think a Virtual Assistant is an online secretary, you will be pleasantly surprised at the VAs that are out there.
Every business needs to market online and have an online presence. Even if you don’t necessarily get your customers from the world wide wide, you customers or potential clients that you meet through networking and referrals will most likely Google you. In this techno world, not having a profile online or any expert articles to show customers how you think or operate is just as bad as having a bad one.
If you are building a business in today’s market, you need a way to stay in touch with your clients through newsletters, blogs, and figuring out how you can best serve your clients with the gifts that you have. As you transform your business and grow, your customers can stay in touch with and get to know, like and trust you through the power of newsletters and blogs.
Unfortunately, many business owners, even when they know they need to have a presence, get stumped when it comes to being online. It can get very overwhelming and it will definitely draw you away from what your true brilliance is if you don’t love the tech side of running a business. But that is not a reason to not have it a part of your business model.
In steps a Virtual Assistant.! Virtual Assistants can help you do the parts of your business you don’t like. OR the parts that you aren’t that great at doing or take up too much time.
Virtual Assistants can put up posts, write articles, submit them into websites so that you have an online presence. They can handle social media or set up shopping carts. They can figure out ways to capture email addresses, they can do keyword searches, they can do capture or sales pages, design cd covers… essentially different VAs have different strengths… you may need to hire a few of them to handle the different aspects of your business.
If you haven’t taken a seriously look at a VA, it is time to take your business to the next level and start doing only work that you love and have the rest of it be taken care of by your team of virtual assistants.
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