Appointing a Virtual Assistant Can Change Your Business Efforts

According to the Pareto principle, more than 80 percent of results come from just investing 20 percent of your effort. However, in today’s fast paced world, business owners can’t help but end up doing just the opposite. A larger portion of time is being misused in doing things that are non-useful and doesn’t return any result for the company or add to its immediate goals. 

Business vendors are trying real hard not to be overcome by their task-list that are to be performed over a single period of time. Here drops the dull “O” word; “OUTSOURCING”, which in turn makes Virtual Assistants (VA) a highly reliable option to beat the heat in an unstable economy.

The crucial point of Virtual Assistance:-

With markets changing broadly across the world, companies accepted cost cutting to gently part way with such “overpaid” assistants. Virtual Assistance, as one might say goes on to develop on the same concept in somewhat different scenario. VA’s are basically “independent workers-on-hire” who touch base with their clients through telephone and over the Internet. However, their functioning exceeds their definition, owing to a wide range of tasks that they are skilled of performing.

Here are some of the tips to get the best from your VA for your business:-

ü Setting the expectation right

Before you start allotting tasks, it is essential that you define what you need from your Virtual Assistants. With openly defined expectations, one can avoid blocking and confusion in the later stage, when you start working with your VA on a regular basis. It’s essential that you define what kind of role you want your VA to adopt and take into attention essential factors like: - quality and value in equal measures.

ü Finding the correct one

Finding the right VA can be quite a frightening task if you don’t know where to begin. The best way to go about is asking friends and colleagues who might have used the services of a Virtual Assistants or a VA company in the past.  Alternately, you can search the web for Virtual Assistance Service providers.

ü Are you controlling your VA

VA’s are generally industry trained and brings in years of experience. Plus, they work in a team so you are lest assured to find someone with a particular skillset, if required to perform your task. Hence, controlling your VA is never a good idea unless you observe a dip in the quality of output. Accepting the performance curve of your VA is also necessary to measure one’s strengths and abilities.

ü Pet projects & VA

Pet projects often demand a certain style of working that is known to an individual or a few expert lot. Hence, assigning a pet project to your VA can be a negative approach. No matter how good a VA performs the task, you will always have your own way of doing it better. Hence, there is a high chance, the output will disappoint you. For such projects, it is advisable to implement the same on your own.

ü Knowing what to delegate

Many times people tend to overlook the real reason for appointing a VA. Virtual Assistance is meant to support you with specialized needs, tasks that eat up a big share of your time. Hence, it’s important to arrange the tasks that need to be delegated to your VA so that you can free up your routine to invest time for other things that matter to you.

So, have you ever hired a virtual assistant to perform your tasks? Please feel free to share your experience with me...