How Can I Make the Most Out of My Virtual Assistant?
If you’ve decided that the time has come to outsource some of your work to a virtual assistant (VA), you’ll be sure to want to make the most out of your investment! Whether you’re hoping that a VA can help you reduce the amount of time you spend on admin, or help you organise your diary to make your days more efficient, our tips will help you achieve the outcomes that you hoped to achieve when you began the search for your VA.
Here are our top tips for making the most out of outsourcing!
1. Set up effective communication channels
Whether you prefer to communicate via Teams, WhatsApp, Slack or something entirely different, communication is key to helping your VA understand what it is that you want. It will also increase the chances of work being completed to a great standard as they have an easy way to speak to you if they need any support or have a question to ask you about your business! Without being able to communicate with you, or someone within your business, the VA may complete work incorrectly or to a poor standard as they are basing their work off limited resources.
2. Be clear on what you want to achieve
It’s 99% certain that you have an idea of what you want a VA to help you achieve within your business. That may be reducing the time you or your team spend on your social media, helping to manage your inbox and client requests in a professional way, or simply being another member of the team who can answer your incoming calls for you, and provide great support to your clients! The truth is, if your VA has a clear idea on what you are hoping to achieve by working with them, then they have stronger understanding on how they can support you.
3. Be honest
Honesty is the best policy. If you have some feedback for your VA which you feel that they may benefit from – share it with them! When you share your feedback, the VA will be able to adjust, accordingly, helping to keep them in the loop about what you want, and helping to make sure your needs are perfectly met! Great feedback is also always nice to hear too!
4. Educate them on your business
The more information that a VA has about your business, the better! This is even more so the case when you outsource to a VA agency as they can place you with an assistant that is best suited to your business and can add the greatest value! What makes your business unique, who is your target audience, why do your clients/customers use you, what challenges is your business facing. These are all helpful questions that you can provide your VA with the answers to.
Find a VA which is a good fit for your business, and who you can trust! As we’ve just mentioned above, finding a VA which is well suited to your business is crucial! Not only in terms of their experiences and industry insights, but also someone that you can trust implicitly and feel comfortable communicating with.
Get to know us…
To ensure that all our clients feel that we are a good fit for their business, we offer a ‘get to know you’ package whereby you can use us for 10 or 20 hours, after which you can decide whether we are suited to your business, or not. Either way, you’re in control!
If you’d like to discuss this service further with one of our team, why not book in for a consultation call?
