Benefits of Hiring a Virtual Assistant

• You pay only for the services you need at that time.  No employees sitting idle.
• You do not have to train The VA Shop.
• You avoid the expensive hiring and firing cycle associated with employees.
• You do not need to rent office space or invest in a computer, software, office supplies, and office equipment as The VA Shop works off-site.
• You can deduct the services on your tax return
• You get all the benefits of having administrative support without the burden of calculating and paying payroll taxes and health benefits.
• You spend more time running your business and less time doing paperwork.
• You do not have to pay worker's compensation insurance, federal and state unemployment taxes, vacation time, sick time and holiday time, and overtime payment.

By partnering with a virtual assistant to keep you on track and to handle some, if not all, of those daunting tasks, you can quickly save yourself as little as five hours per week - or more.  That's right, just five hours a week, one hour per day!  What could you do with that extra five hours per week?

Make a few more sales calls, take a customer out to lunch, or maybe... take a day off for yourself.  You will also save money in the process.

As a sales professional you are faced with the daunting tasks of preparing call reports, satisfying clients, meeting sales quotas, sending out literature, putting out client fires, and following up on leads.  Just to name a few.  Achieving these "To Do's" while managing your life can be challenging at times.  Achieving success in the world of sales is a challenge unto itself.

Making effective use of your time and resources is the key to overcoming these challenges and achieving success.  Effective time management can offer a substantial increase in your revenue.  Not to mention a reduction in your stress level. 

So how do you overcome these challenges and implement effective time management? Consider partnering with a Virtual Assistant. 

The cost for hiring and training an employee is something most small businesses can't afford.  First, an advertisement must be placed to announce the job opening.  Second, time must be spent reviewing applications and interviewing potential employees.  If you are lucky, you will find the perfect employee the first time around.  If you are not, the process must be repeated.  Meanwhile, the paperwork keeps piling up.  Once you find the perfect employee, you have to worry about creating work for that employee so you are not paying someone money to sit around and do nothing.  The other alternative is to perform the work yourself.  Tasks such as tracking potential business leads and clients orders, creating marketing materials such as brochures, and developing presentations for your clients take away from your main focus:  Running your business!  How many hours of your day do you spend doing paperwork?