Virtual assistant team
Small businesses and entprepreneurs are reaping the benefits of putting a virtual assistant team in place. You would have heard how virtual teams are becoming more popular in big business, where their employees are still working together, but as a virtual team, offsite in their own homes. Well small business, even micro business doesn't miss out on this benefit, but they don't have to 'employ' staff. As a smaller business it makes even more sense not to employ staff as the administration of staff is costly and time consuming and providing space and equipment for onsite staff is money. You will be interested in visiting benefits of using a virtual assistant for detailed information. So a small business or an entrepreneur utilise the services of virtual assistant teams instead. These are all contractors and only charge you for time worked, so they merely invoice you at the end of the month and all you do is pay the invoice. No other administrative hassles involved, no super, no payroll tax, etc, etc. You may need to outsource all areas of administration to a virtual assistant, but as it's wiser to outsource to a person who specialises in a particular niche, it's wiser to outsource to a team of virtual assistants.
One virtual assistant member can handle all your marketing needs, the other can be a website designer, another is your personal assistant and yet another is your bookkeeper. So you are outsourcing all these administrative tasks, leaving you time to do what you should be doing and that is doing business and expanding your business. Spending your time on income generating work, not administrative work. You may even appoint one such virtual assistant as the overall team leader and she or he liaises with the other virtual assistants, again not taking up too much of your time, except for updates and instructions from you. The overall team leader can also be responsible for sourcing other team members for you. This forward thinking way of running your business delivers you a reliable return on investment, as opposed to you wasting hours of non income generating time running all aspects of your business yourself. It also frees up your time as running a small business can be a 7 day a week job with no breaks at all.
Some comments for virtual assistants regarding virtual assistant teams You may wish to tell a client that yes I can help you with that job, where in fact you cannot. Don't take on work that you cannot perform, instead refer it to another virtual assistant who specialises in this niche area. Yes you may have lost a client, but you are doing everyone a service by doing this. The other virtual assistant will better serve the other business and the professionalism of the VA industry is withheld. If clients don't receive optimum service from their VA they will turn their back on this industry. There is an upside though; you may also receive job referrals from that other virtual assistant, which in turn can lead to other work (clients recommend their VA to other businesses) and the initial client may have work to outsource that you specialise in, so not all is lost. So that is why I advocate the benefit of a team of virtual assistants to better service businesses.
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