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WHY SHOULD I HIRE A VA?

  1. Re-align Your Budget and Decrease Operational Costs - It's estimated that hiring a Virtual Assistant can save you as much as 78% in operating costs per year. These savings can then be re-aligned or re-channeled to other aspects of your business, such as a digital marketing campaign, upgrade to your operating systems, and reduce your capital needs as you grow.

  2. Organize Your Business - Inefficiencies cost businesses between 20-30% percent of their revenue each year. If you are not tech-savvy, a Virtual Assistant can set up a virtual workplace where everything from project management and file-sharing, to time-keeping and communication can be accomplished. Organization may be your weakness but it’s a VA’s strength. Organization encourages greater productivity, and well-documented processes and systems spell success.

  3. Delegate Non-Essential Tasks - Your time is better spent on functions that require your core competency or are directly related to generating revenues for your business.

  4. Capitalize On Specialization - Virtual Assistants are no longer limited to personal assistant "secretarial" services. As the need to streamline costs has grown, and the Internet has increased its significance in the global business environment, the virtual assistance industry has opened its doors to more specialized and technical skills to accommodate demand across a wide spectrum of services.

  5. Avoid Burn-Out And Regain A Healthy Work-Life Balance - A VA can ease your workload and stress you face in the day-to-day operations of your business. At the same time, it also allows you more leisure time with your family and friends.

  6. Statista notes that the total value of the outsourced services industry is approximately $85 billion and potentially growing.

  7. The McKinsey Global Institute found that 97% of contractors found they were much happier than full-time workers.

  8. Intuit believes that by 2020, 40% of the entire U.S. work force will be freelancers.

A Virtual Assistant is not just a person contracted to complete a project from a remote location using the Internet. Properly utilized, a VA can become your “secret weapon” in building your business and lower your business costs significantly without compromising your productivity. In fact, a Virtual Assistant will increase productivity exponentially.

WHAT ARE THE STEPS TO WORKING TOGETHER?

  1. Fill out the form on the Contact page.

  2. You will receive an e-mail within 24 business hours to schedule a complimentary 15-minute discovery call via Zoom to further discuss your needs if I feel that we’d be a great fit.

  3. If after the call it’s decided that we are a great fit for working together, you will receive a proposal, contract to sign and your first invoice.

  4. Once the contract is signed and returned and your invoice is paid, then we will schedule an onboarding meeting {up to 30 minutes} via Zoom. During this time we will discuss the specifics of our working relationship {procedures, my systems for client management, set up how I will receive work from you, passwords, etc.}.

HOW DO YOU TRACK THE HOURS USED?

I use HoneyBook to track hours on your projects/tasks. You will be given a password to access your own client portal within HoneyBook to view this information as well. I also will send you the hours used and remaining each week in an update e-mail.

WHAT HAPPENS IF I HAVE NOT USED ALL OF THE PACKAGE HOURS OR GO OVER THE PACKAGE HOURS?

Each week I will update you on the number of hours used and the hours remaining. You will also have access to this on your Honeybook client portal. If you are getting close to the end of our month and you have remaining hours, we will “get together” and discuss what extra tasks you have on your plate that I can help you with so that you utilize me to the fullest and you don’t lose any hours as there is no prorating. If it appears that you will go over the contract hours then you can add another package or upgrade to a higher package. Hours must be used or they will be lost and they cannot be rolled over to future months.