How To GET MORE HOURS This Holiday Season

Christmas is in the air and New Year is just around the corner. Yet, you are looking at all sides – you have four meetings within the day, probably a hundred or more emails waiting to be opened and replied, couple or more business calls to make, projects to manage, payroll to get done and much more, all the while preparing for your family’s Christmas and New Year’s events. Too much on your plate, overflowing maybe, yet almost zero time — talk about a nightmare of a schedule!

Don’t raise your brows. We got the answer: get yourself a VIRTUAL ASSISTANT. Who?

Let’s just go with Wikipedia’s definition of a Virtual Assistant: A virtual assistant (typically abbreviated to VA, also called a virtual office assistant) is generally self-employed and provides professional administrative, technical, or creative (social) assistance to clients remotely from a home office. Because virtual assistants are independent contractors rather than employees, clients are not responsible for any employee-related taxes, insurance or benefits, except in the context that those indirect expenses are included in the VA’s fees. Clients also avoid the logistical problem of providing extra office space, equipment or supplies. Clients pay for 100% productive work, and can work with Virtual Assistants, individually, or in multi-VA firms to meet their exact needs. Virtual Assistants usually work for other small businesses but can also support busy executives.

Hiring a virtual assistant is an awesome way to increase your productivity, complete tasks quickly, efficiently and affordably, freeing up your time to focus on important things such as core business strategy.

1. Start with delegating your social media management. Creating and collating content is time-consuming plus scheduling if you have more than 1 social media account.
   

2. Web research is another task you can delegate. If you need to find the best tool for a project, the lowest-cost product for a task, or the top-rated freelancer for a one-time project, get your VA to do the search for you. The same goes for if you need to do some basic research for a personal travel.
   

3. Bookkeeping is highly needed at the end of the year. You probably increased the number of transactions being its the holiday season. The VA can do your books on as needed basis. You don’t have to shed out money to contract for the entire month.
   

4. Inbox Management is getting really popular with VA work. If you’re too overwhelmed by the increasing emails received everyday and it’s just piling up, you should get a VA to filter them for you. All you need is create rules and train your VA. They could even reply to some messages on your behalf.
   

5. It’s the holiday so you’re probably doing email campaigns. Don’t join the rush, get organized and have a VA who can create the email automation from scratch.

There you go. Don’t wait too long or you’ll surely run out of time. Our team is here to empower you.