In this time of challenges, we understand how hard business operates nowadays. In the advent of COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, workers tend to stay at home, work from home, do business or sell online to meet ends everyday. A resilient business is a business that plans ahead and see opportunities in the middle of threat and crisis. Why not hire remote employees to reduce the cost of recruitment for instance.

Here we give you top 10 reasons why you should hire a virtual assistant now.

1. Ideal for Start-Up Business.

Starting a business is not as easy as it looks. Having a virtual assistant around can initially do your operations to move faster. Whatever tasks you need like customer support, putting your products and services to social media, and administrative works, online professionals got you covered.

2. Lower overhead costs.

While hiring employees locally cost you more dollars in full 8 hours work, virtual assistant can be paid in an hourly or project basis within your budget at an affordable price.

3. Improve your business skills.

While virtual assistant helps you accomplish tedious day-to-day operations, you also have more time to improve your business skills like attending meetings, traveling for conferences local or abroad, talking to investors and others. Here are some tasks that can be accomplished :

• scheduling appointments and meetings
• sending emails and newsletter
• handling client queries
• internet research
• data entry
• bookkeeping and accounting
• managing projects
• managing social media accounts
• administrative work

4. Improve productivity by hiring outsource.

Repetitive jobs consumes a lot of your time. Remote employees help you focus what is important to your business to grow. With the right skills that matches your needs, virtual services can do those time-consuming jobs quickly in no time.

5. More time for creative business thinking.

Repetitive tasks held you from being creative, now you have more time focusing on how to grow and improve your business. Virtual services outsourced lets you manage your time wisely to set your goals strategically.

6. Improve products and services.

Hiring virtual professionals can provide internet research and ad hoc market study to know the behavior of your customers, improve packaging and branding, and enhance service delivery.

7. Break free from admin work.

Business owners, Chief Executive Officers (CEOs), and Start Up Leaders are developed by making important and high-level business decisions. If admin tasks are dragging you behind, this is the time to have someone do it for you. Here are some administrative and technical tasks a remote professional can do for you:

• maintaining on-time communications with customers particularly loyal and long-time customers
• creating reports, spreadsheets and presentations in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• receptionist tasks like customer service, booking and ticket reservation
• organizing your documents in DropBox or Google Drive

8. Maintain customer support.

Online professionals are efficient customer support people. Customer complaints, order taking, customer ticket queing are done any timezone in the world, anytime of the day, 24/7 for your customers.

9. Flexible working hours.

As virtual assistants collaborate with your team remotely, adjustable work schedule can maximize productivity and maintain company confidentiality.

1. More time for family and loved ones.

Having a virtual assistant working at your side allows you to spend quality time for people matters most. Because we make a living for those we love and care about. How about you? Hire a virtual assistant now.

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