Do you want to free up your time? Hire a Virtual Assistant
Whether you’re running a department in an established business or running your own company, you’ve never got enough time. In some ways, technology has made your job harder because it’s now so easy to do so many things yourself. So even when you know your time could be better spent in terms of work, you could find yourself spending more time on admin tasks than fee-earning ones. Alternatively, you might save these tasks for later, which means you’ll be doing them in your free time, which eats into your family time, and that doesn’t seem fair at all.
A VA can take up the slack
The good news is that by hiring a Virtual Assistant (VA), you can have someone on hand at any time you need them during the working week but without the expense of employing someone on a full-time contract. A VA will take up the slack, helping you free up your time to enable you to concentrate on your core business. By handing over the tasks that someone else can do just as well as you (if not better!), you’ll also be freeing up more personal time so you’ve got more time to relax and recharge.
Indeed, research has shown that there are plenty of productivity and health benefits to not being in ‘work mode’ 24/7, so think of having more free time as an investment in your business. The more time you spend doing other things, the more energy and focus you’ll have at work.
A VA can do more than you think
A VA isn’t just there for diary management and administration. We've listed below just some of the tasks VAs can help with, and blueumbrella VAs are always willing to learn new skills so they can help their clients in any number of different ways.
Social media - Social media has become a hugely important part of doing business, and we have VAs who would be happy to take charge of your social media accounts. They’ll not only schedule regular posts that will keep you or your brand in the public eye, they’ll also check your social media accounts regularly and engage with comments and questions, which increases trust as well as exposure.
Updating your website - The best way to get your website noticed by Google and the other search engines is to keep posting new content (blogs, events, special offers, etc.). But how long has it been since you’ve had time to properly update it? Some of our VAs are familiar with content management systems and are happy to take on the task of updating your website and adding new content, including writing your blogs for you. This means they’ll not only take another task off your shoulders, their work will also hugely benefit your business.
Organising events - Organising events is a time-consuming process; indeed, it will always take up more time than you anticipate. Whether it’s a product launch, seminar, workshop, networking meeting or dinner event, outsourcing the organisation to a VA will free up a lot of your time to concentrate on the event’s content and objectives.
Taking minutes - Online meetings have become much more popular since lockdown. Not only do they save you a lot of travelling time, they also mean you can ask your VA to take the minutes, leaving you free to concentrate on running the meeting itself.
Bookkeeping - Keeping accounting records, preparing invoices and keeping on top of your expenses and receipts are things many of our VAs are happy to help with.
Ad hoc tasks - You’d be amazed at some of the feats our amazing VAs have pulled off, such as getting their client’s passport sorted out with a day’s notice or helping to furnish an apartment on the other side of the world. If they can help you with something, they will!
Our VAs are motivated, hard-working and willing to learn new skills that will help them support you and your business. So if you’d like to know more about how a blueumbrella VA can help you free up your time, contact us for a chat.