Save Time and Money by Hiring a Virtual Assistant

Are you looking for an assistant but cannot afford an employee, well luck and technology is on your side, help is just a mouse click away.One of the fastest growing home-based operations helps other home-based businesses, entrepreneurs, medical practitioners and other SMBs grow in their business. Virtual assistants (VA) function literally, as the lifesaver for these offices and individuals.VAs are entrepreneurs, they are certified and trained to do the different tasks like bookkeeping, documentation, email support, customer call services, web design, article writers, and a whole lot of other tasks, all from their homes and computer systems that only need a high speed internet connection. They can basically work from anywhere around the globe to help others somewhere else in the world.

Statistics support the benefits of hiring a virtual assistant: (thanks to Elance, a virtual assistance site)

• 6% of entrepreneurs like the idea of outsourcing a wide range of tasks which bosses dread doing themselves
• 55% know that hiring a VA could allow bosses to focus on more important tasks (income producing tasks)
• 34% of entrepreneurs feel that they can improve on their job performance

First off, VAs cost from $15 to $40 an hour, they are contractual, they work only the number of hours that you assign to them, they do not need to be given fringe benefits like a regular employee, the SMBs don’t need to pay taxes or pensions or bonuses, no need to worry about medical insurances, there is no need to deal with payrolls, and you do not need to worry about providing the equipment needed to support the communications and tasks. (Note: There are offshore companies that can offer much lower rates of $3/hour.)

When it comes to number of work hours, the VA will not normally charge for any over time they do if they go beyond the number of hours agreed upon, that is the reason behind the setting of deadlines. Virtual assistants are the perfect choice for periodical projects or seasonal ones that your business may have. Again, a saving in time, money and resources.One of the most obvious benefits is that the VA does not go on sick leave, vacations, time offs and others. Unless that you agreed on a no work on Sundays, again depending on what your agreed upon.

VAs have their own personal equipment to provide their services. This is one huge savings on the part of the SMBs and there will be no worries on the costs and worries of dealing with maintenance of the said equipment.VAs depend on your good word that is why they are dedicated to their work and they will complete tasks assigned them as speedily and effectively as possible. With the good word of the hiring company or individual, they could gain more clients.Last benefit? If you need to have a special project done that requires a technical skill, then you just hire one with the special skills again on a contractual basis. A full time or new in office employee may not be as skilled and their training would need a lot of time and money.