| Virtual Assistants (also known as VAs) are | | | | but you aren't sure how to accomplish it. |
| home-based entrepreneurs who take pride in | | | | 7. Your administrative tasks have you so |
| providing fellow small business professionals with a | | | | overwhelmed that you just don't seem to have |
| wide range of office tasks, from administrative | | | | time for anything else. |
| support to web design & maintenance. VAs | | | | 8. You spend so much time working that your |
| are able to provide professional, creative | | | | family says it's like living with a stranger. |
| assistance without ever having to go into the | | | | 9. Your business is booming by you have no one |
| client's office. | | | | to share it with or draw on for support. |
| Being small business owners themselves, VAs | | | | 10. Your website looks the same as it did two |
| understand that success comes to entrepreneurs | | | | years ago, or |
| when they provide the best possible customer | | | | 11. Your website is just a figment of your |
| service. But, great customer service can | | | | imagination. |
| sometimes be hard to upkeep when you are | | | | 12. You dread looking at the piles on your desk |
| spending valuable time trying to stay on top of | | | | and wondering when you will get everything |
| the non-core tasks that are a part of running a | | | | accomplished. |
| business. | | | | 13. Running your business just doesn't have that |
| A VA works WITH their clients to help alleviate | | | | same fulfillment as it used to because you're |
| some of these tasks, allowing them to free up | | | | spending too much time doing the non-core tasks |
| some of their time to concentrate on generating | | | | and not doing what you love the most. |
| revenue and building their businesses. | | | | 14. You wonder where your 'life' has gone. |
| But, how do you know when you really need the | | | | 15. FREE TIME? ... WHAT'S THAT? |
| services of a Virtual Assistant? | | | | Operating a business should not have you |
| | | | stressed out and wondering how you are going to |
| 1. Your inbox pile just seems to be getting higher, | | | | make it a success when you are so busy doing |
| and each day you fall farther behind. | | | | everything yourself. You started your business |
| 2. Your day timer just doesn't seem to be able to | | | | because it involves what you love to do. But, the |
| keep you organized. | | | | non-core tasks that are involved with running a |
| 3. The important tasks are getting lost in amongst | | | | small business should not be a discouragement. |
| everything else and, when you do locate them, | | | | Virtual Assistants are in business to help you |
| you find yourself rushing to meet a deadline. | | | | alleviate some of that added pressure by taking |
| 4. You don't feel comfortable taking on an | | | | some of it off of your shoulders. They want you |
| administrative task that requires a specific | | | | to succeed and will do everything possible to see |
| professional appearance. | | | | that happen. |
| 5. You find you aren't delivering to your clients as | | | | From general word processing to graphic design |
| fast as you would like to as you have too many | | | | to website design. A VA's specialties can be just |
| other 'things' on the go. | | | | what you need to allow you to get back to |
| 6. You have a project that you need to get done | | | | running your business instead of it running you. |