Benefits of a hiring a Virtual Employee

Are your days an endless succession of tasks upon tasks?

Are your hours spent just on keeping the daily operations of your business going, rather than growing it through strategic planning?

There is no point in doing the same thing day-in and day-out just to keep your business in stable operations. To grow a company successfully, you need to be spending your time wisely, on developing a business expansion strategy, rather than focusing on operations.

But how will you find the time to do so? You start by looking into hiring a virtual assistant. Virtual assistants, or virtual employees, are a lifeline for businesses big and small. They can be your right-hand (wo)man and be the support you need to focus on strategically growing your business.

So who are virtual employees and what do they do? Read on to find out how having a virtual employee join your team will help you boost your business profitably!

What can a virtual employee do?

Essentially, virtual employees are just like local employees; however, they could be working in a different location and time zone from you. In all other aspects, they are similar to local employees - they are dedicated personnel of your company; they are invested in the success of your company; they want to establish a long-term relationship with you to enjoy job stability; and they are highly qualified and highly skilled. So, most of the tasks that you can delegate out to a local employee, you can do the same with a virtual employee.

Some of these tasks include:

• Database management
• Project schedule/marketing schedule management
• Calendar management
• Communication & liaison
• Bill payments
• Payroll management
• Industry and competition research
• Customer support
• Copywriting
• SEO research
• Social media accounts management
• Website design and maintenance
• Online forms design and set-up
• Payment gateway integration
• Graphic design
• Video and audio editing
• Facebook and Google advertising
• And the list goes on….

When should I start to hire a virtual employee?

As long as you have the desire and will to grow your business, any time is a good time to hire virtual assistants. Once you’ve decided on expansion and growth as a goal to achieve, then you need to start thinking about what you should be doing that is good for the company. There are endless virtual assistant services out there, and you need to know exactly what you want to hire a virtual personal assistant for. This ensures that you are making good use of the time that you’ve gained from expanding your company. 

How will a virtual employee benefit my business?

In multiple ways!

Here are the top reasons to hire virtual assistants:

• Free up your time

Let someone else manage your calendar, or respond to simple customer enquiries, or do research on your competition. Let someone else process new orders, organise your social media accounts, handle your payroll. You don’t need to be doing these things. As the business owner, when you are able to delegate out these tasks (and more), you immediately free yourself up for the important things. What are the important things? Devising a strategic growth plan for your business. Connecting deeply with your clients and potential leads. Spending time with your family. Closing your eyes and focusing on “me time”! Freeing up your time is the most valuable benefit you can attain from hiring a virtual assistant! 

• Administrative gurus

It takes an organised, meticulous and detail-oriented person to undertake administrative tasks. Not everyone enjoys it, and not everyone is good at it. Entrepreneurs tend to be more dynamic, focused on the bigger picture, and with highly honed networking skills. Making them work on administrative tasks all day long is just too draining. You need to be free to be creative! On the other hand, virtual assistants are highly dependable, very organised, extremely down-to-earth and are very meticulous. This makes it a perfect partnership! 

• Cost savings

It is significantly cheaper to hire a virtual assistant when you are looking to expand your team. The cheaper labour costs also translates into a lower risk for you as you grow your company. A virtual assistant from the Philippines will cost you a fraction of employing a local staff - and they are just as skilled and qualified to do the job. Other cost savings areas include savings from providing more office space and other overheads as your team grows in size.

• Improved customer service 

When you have a virtual assistant that is able to handle all enquiries from your customers, you can be sure that your customers will never have to wait long for a response. Quick response time translates into a more satisfied customer, one that believes that there will always be someone there to answer their queries.

• Better productivity

A virtual assistant can help you set in place systems and processes that will help your business operate much more smoothly and efficiently. Virtual assistants also tend to work independently and in an environment that has less distractions than an office. This translates into a more productive employee and a more efficient workplace environment. And we all know that improved efficiency means increased profits!

• Flexible work arrangements

Virtual assistants can come from anywhere in the world. This means that your effective operational business hours can be flexible and can even run for 24hours! You are not limited by a 9-5 work day, nor are you limited to your own working hours. You can arrange with a virtual employee on your schedule, adjusting it to suit your requirements or for when your business is most busy. This flexibility is also something that you can enjoy - morning breakfast with the kids, an early start at the gym or blocked-out times for you to concentrate on strategic growth. 

• Skill-set expansion in your team

Not everyone will be equally skilled in all areas. But managing a business means you need to wear multiple hats; rather than wear a hat and carry out a task that you are not good in, by hiring a qualified virtual employee, you can be sure that the skill set of your team grows exponentially, allowing you to grow in expertise and competence. For example, website designs, creating online forms, ensuring that your website has gone through search engine optimisation requires specific technical skills. If you don’t have those skills, then you need to employ someone else to make sure you are not losing out. Don’t try and do everything yourself! Let someone skilled do the work for you and you can just sit back and enjoy the benefits of increased lead generation.

• Lead generation

One of the most important tasks for any online business - lead generation. To bring in eyes, to make people want to turn to you, to stand out from the endless chatter - that is a difficult and time-consuming task. But with a virtual employee that is dedicated with managing your social media accounts, with managing and optimising your websites, with taking care that no form is missed, you can be sure that every lead is well taken care of, every opportunity is grasped!

• Become an educator/thought leader in your field

Having a virtual assistant to help you do research, write content and schedule publication of educational content means you will have the opportunity to become a thought leader in your field. Becoming a thought leader is very important as it builds trust in people that you know what you are talking about. This is not easy to accomplish, but when you have someone to help you out, to help manage your calendar, to help manage your social media accounts, then you will be able to extend your reach and connect with more people on a deeper level. 

Let’s start this journey of growing your business!

Don’t hesitate any longer! Join the ranks of multiple other companies that have turned to building up a remote team to scale their business. From day 1, we guarantee you will notice the difference. In no time, you will be wondering, how did I ever survive without my virtual assistant??