The following post will show you how cost effective it can be to hire a virtual assistant versus hiring a full time in-house employee.

What is a Virtual Assistant?

A virtual assistant or VA is an independent contractor who works remotely at home providing administrative, specialized, and technical support. Virtual assistants are generally computer savvy and good in time management.

Who Uses VA Support?

• CEO/President – C-level executives
• Business owners
• Coaches – business, executive, sales, and life
• Real Estate Agents
• Consultants – business, management
• Authors
• Professionals
• Lawyers
• Sales Representatives
• Motivational or Keynote Speakers
• CPA/Accountants/Bookkeeper

Advantages of Hiring a VA versus an Office Employee

Here’s the breakdown of costs:

Office employee working 2080 hours a year  @ $15 per hour
Virtual assistant working 520 hours a year (43-44 hrs/month) @ $8.20 per hour*

*Virtual Assistant Talent rate for experienced VA >> rates start at $7.20 – $13/hour (technical VA)

Hiring a VA compared to a full time office employee: Total Annual Savings of $46,280
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However, as a business owner, you have a huge role in your SEO efforts especially when it comes to understanding your customers’ “behavior” and how they search for your product online. The goal is to not show the visitors the same old thing, but to present your business in a new, useful, and engaging way.

What is SEO?

In the simplest definition, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a technical, analytical and creative process to fine-tune a website to increase its visibility in search engines like Google.

The whole process of SEO is to:

• Learn what relevant keywords to include
• Create useful content
• Get the attention of search engines

Its main function is to bring in more visitors to a website that will convert into sales.

Why Use SEO Marketing?

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The way you drive traffic to your website can make or break your online business. While others opt for paid advertising, a Google top organic search result is still considered the most valuable traffic to a landing page.

• SEO Helps in Crafting Your Ideal Business Description – right description and meta tags attract attention and entices consumers to stay longer on your website.

• SEO Builds Your Credibility – the primary purpose of your online presence is to provide something of value to people. SEO marketing is one of the most powerful tools for getting attention and establishing rapport.

• SEO Works Well with Other Marketing Strategies – pairing up SEO with your social networking sites can give way to extended customer reach.

• SEO Puts You Alongside Top Competition – higher placement in search results gives your product/service the chance to make a positive impression on comparison with other brands.

Best Online SEO Marketing

The art of SEO marketing lies in understanding how people search for your products and evaluating what type of results Google wants to display to its users.

You can generate highly targeted leads by optimizing your website and developing your content to be as relevant as possible for a prospect looking for your company, product or service.

Brian Dean, a top SEO specialist and a team at Backlinko analyzed 1 million Google results to see which factors are important for SEO. Below is a guide to effective white hat SEO.

Backlinks still bring far-reaching results

Backlinks are still the number one most essential ranking factor that Google uses. The study found that you need backlinks from a lot of different domains. If you get 100 backlinks from 100 different domains, you’re in good position.

Link Building Tools you can utilize:

• LinkMiner Plugin (Free)
• Moz SEO Toolbar & Majestic Backlink Analyzer Extensions (*Freemium)
• Buzzstream (Paid)

*Freemium – combination of the words ‘free’ and ‘premium’. It’s a business model in which a core product is given away for free to a large group of users and premium products is sold to a smaller fraction of this user base.

High bounce rate equals to lower rankings

The study found that sites with more bounces tended to rank lower in Google than sites with a low bounce rate.

If visitors bounce off your site more often, it sends a message to Google that people don’t like reading your content. So this makes Google downrank sites with lots of bounces.

Dean states in the report that in general, great content aids in lowering bounce rates. So, chances are, people are going to stick around longer if they find informative and interesting articles.

Long-form content ranks better in Google

According to Dean’s data, the average first page results in Google contain 1,890 words per article.  Another study by BuzzSumo found that longer content resulted in more shares on social media.

Content effectiveness tools
The tools below will help you find new ideas and optimize your current content.

• Outdated Content Finder (Free)
• Yoast WordPress Plugin (Freemium)
• BuzzSumo (Paid)

In-depth, focused content outperforms content about a variety of topics: They also discovered that an article rated as “topically relevant” ranked above an article with a low content score.

Google prefers fast-loading websites

Site speed makes a difference. Google made it clear that they use site speed as part of their algorithm.

Technical SEO tools you can utilize:
These tools can help you dig around on the ‘back-end’ of your site, getting to know how it functions and any issues with it.

• WooRank Plugin (Free)
• Screaming Frog (Freemium)
• DeepCrawl (Paid)

To sum it all up, SEO success is a long process and doesn’t just happen overnight. You should always ask, “Does my website provide a good user experience?”

If you expect to rank in Google, you’d better offer visitor satisfaction, relevance, quality content, and overall excellent user experience not based on manipulation or old school tactics.

P.S. If you need an SEO advice to help structure your online presence to reach its potential, contact us at our main number 1-866-596-9041 (510-400-8006 local). We have client representatives on standby from 8am to 9pm EST to assist you with any questions.

Resources:
www.smartinsights.com
www.hobo-web.co.uk
www.entrepreneur.com
www.business2community.com

On the other hand, we should understand that…

An increase in productivity means more prospects.
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Related: How to effectively manage your Client-Virtual Assistant time

And more prospects lead in more money. This is why smart business owners hire virtual assistants. VAs don’t just boost your productivity, but they also help your business grow in a lot of ways.

1. Re-direct your savings to other parts of the business

One of the top reasons people hire online is to reduce their business overhead cost. A VA costs less compared to a regular or full-time employee, because the business owner does not pay benefits. Not to mention office space and equipment!

 In 2015, reports show that hiring virtual executive assistants can save businesses as much as 40% in expenses. How? Well, you don’t need to allocate funds for the essentials. A VA covers his or her own expenses for Internet bandwidth, power, and rent.

These savings can then be re-channeled to other aspects of your business, such as an online marketing campaign, or an upgrade to your operating systems.

2. Bring in reliable manpower

 As your business volume begins to increase, but slows down turnaround time for outputs and deliverables, it may be time to start scaling up.

Employees are the foundation of a business. When the time comes you need to add more manpower, go for home-based staff. VAs will not only save you money but keep your business flexible as well.

• Assign the VAs to shifts that require greater attention
• You spend less time training because they already have the experience and competency level to get the job done
• Choose to go from one VA to another once a particular task is done and you need another skill set

3. No training required

Except for tasks that require specific type of training, a home-based staff is generally experienced and savvy when it comes to common tasks. They know what tools to use and how to setup a system that is workable for both of you.

Training up new employees can mean time and money down the drain. VA agencies have selected remote workers for their experience and skills. You just need to discuss the end result that you want and the VA will start right away.

Look for companies that have a VA replacement guarantee. They will provide you fully managed staff and will replace your current VA if he or she does not perform to your expectations.

4. Organize your business and delegate minor tasks

A common weakness of most entrepreneurs is their lack of organizational skill.
It’s just that…

There’s so much work to do that the need to organize is often overlooked.
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Yet, one must remember that organizing things leads to greater productivity.

Organizational skills and traits are conveniently one of the VA’s strengths. If you find yourself too stressed out and don’t even have time to organize your business, then maybe it’s time for some help.

A online employee can setup a virtual workplace where everything about project management is properly shared and tracked from start to finish. Thus, it makes it easier to delegate work, collaborate, and track performance with your virtual team.

The following are some of the minor tasks you can delegate to your remote employee:

• Inbound/outbound phone calls
• Replying/filtering email
• Customer support
• Calendar management
• Appointment setting
• CRM updates
• Ad posting
• Payroll preparation
• Bookkeeping

5. Benefit from technical or specialized skills

We all have our weaknesses. You are good at running the whole shebang but stuff like website update or social media management seems too confusing for you.

Fortunately, virtual employees keep up to date with the trends in the online marketing world. Plus, what might take you all day to work out could probably be just a two-hour task for a VA.

Personal or administrative assistant services are most requested but you can also find VAs with more specialized and technical skills. They accommodate demand across a wide scope of services such as:

• Digital marketing
• Website design and development
• Domain registration and website hosting
• SEO
• Real Estate
• Content management
• Blogging
• Audio/video transcription
• Accounting/bookkeeping
• Research

There are tons of possibilities for building a team of virtual assistants to cover different areas of your business. If properly utilized, a VA can become one of the greatest assets in growing your business, guaranteed to lower your business costs without compromising quality and productivity.

Reference:
www.entrepreneur.com
www.adpulp.com

Now, you can focus on your core, income-generating functions and leave all of the repetitive work to your VA.

But wait. You need some planning in advance in order to totally leverage your virtual assistant’s time and talents. Simplifying tasks through tools, templates and systems are some of the ways to smoothly transition to working with a virtual admin assistant and enable them to succeed.

Here are some pointers on how professionals like you can work best with your chosen outsourced staff.

#1. Establish your kind of workflow

Since you will be meeting with your assistant virtually, the first thing to consider is your online availability. Discuss with your virtual assistant as to when you want to be online and available so you can reach them when you need them the most.

• Do you expect him or her to be available at certain hours of the day, everyday?
• Or can they mostly work on longer tasks and just give weekly updates?

Give a potential task list. Go through the list again after you’ve hired them.

Ask them to send you a daily (or weekly or monthly, depending on the number of hours you’ve booked) task report and the time they spent doing each task.

#2. Make communication a priority

Give your contact information and tell your virtual personal assistant how you prefer to be reached. It can be by phone or IM, email, Skype, or whatever communication you prefer.

Once you have a good workflow going with your online employee, and you’re confident they understand your needs, you can have less detailed instructions and throw in faster communication methods into your workflow.

“When Dorie and I started working together, for the first week or two, we would check in by phone each day to go over assignments. Feeling comfortable on the phone with Dorie meant I could more readily suggest time-saving systems or flag potential issues. – Sue Williams

For longer project-like tasks, written instructions are better in terms of reference.

#3. Try different tasks in the beginning

Gauge your assistant’s strengths and weaknesses by trying different tasks. You may find that he or she can accomplish more than you expected. If that’s the case, you may assign higher level tasks that require some thinking, and choose to hire a lower cost one to do data entry or admin work.

Virtual personal assistants can basically do any repetitive task but there are also tasks that they specialize in like blogging, SEO, or web design. Make sure you clarify the different skill sets that you require before choosing which VA to hire.

#4. Share your expectations

Knowing your virtual office assistant’s hours each week can help keep you both focused, and it also establishes expectations in terms of contact times.

“Dorie always knew when I’d be available to have a quick phone conversation or to complete tasks that arrived out of the blue. Shared expectations are also helpful in terms of overall goals and priorities. A skilled assistant will be smart about prioritizing, but it helps if you communicate your vision explicitly.”

If you have an overall goal, sharing this to your VA can help her prioritize accordingly. – Sue Williams
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#5. Create shared records

At the start of your working relationship, it pays to create shared records. Keeping all your passwords and log in details in a shared Google Drive spreadsheet or Dropbox folder can save time and stress.

Your virtual executive assistant can also store new passwords in the same document when they open new accounts. A shared, ongoing project list is a good idea, providing a spot where updates and feedback can be gathered for reference.

As the project advances, you can indicate what tasks need to be done, and the deadline for each, and he or she can note the ones that have been completed or are in process.

#6. Give very detailed instructions or create a system

Make it a point to give instructions that contain step-by-step explanations. One of our clients here at Virtual Assistant Talent developed an “assistant’s manual” prior to his virtual employee starting the job.

He wrote down a step-by-step guide for the most common tasks he needed done and he put all the relevant information, such as social media logins and website passwords.

You can also instruct your remote worker to write up the procedure and include it in the manual, so that it could become an ongoing reference tool for both of you. Show an example of the finished task if possible. Or give them an example to follow.

Making templates is good too. The goal is to enable an easy transition and avoid having to reinvent the wheel when there’s been a long gap in between performing a particular task.

#7. Ask the VA to verify that he or she understands the task

Asking for a confirmation that your online worker understands your instructions up-front lessens the chances of wasting the time you’ve paid for doing the wrong thing.

Make sure he or she acknowledges and understands the task before they start working on it.

You can ask one of these:

• Explain the task back to you
• How long the task will take in estimate
• If there’s anything unclear at all or if he/she has any questions

#8. Roll in about 10-20% on the task

If you expect a task to take 10-20 hours, ask them to come back after 1-2 hours with their progress. This will allow you to:

• Check their work to make sure they are on the same page with you
• Update instructions if needed, or
• Cancel the task if it turns out to be a bad idea

#9. Allocate more time for the task

If you can do the task in an hour, expect your remote employee to take 2-3 hours.

At the start, when you are just getting used to each other, it might take 3-4 hours. But once you’ve gotten into a good working relationship, it may only take the 1-2 hours depending on the task.

But regardless, they will never be as fast as you. Don’t expect miracles. Even if you hired locally, the smartest college student you pay minimum wage won’t be able to complete your tasks to your specs at your speed.

The benefits of outsourcing come once you’ve found the right remote worker to do the tasks you assign. Keep the long-term benefits in mind, and don’t ever give up after the first few tasks.

If you stick it out, you’ll see significant cost savings over the next 10,000+ hours. Take our tips for working effectively with your VA and don’t forget to share!

And for those who are having second thoughts about outsourcing, take it from jennyblake.me:
“For those of you considering hiring a virtual assistant, I cannot recommend it highly enough — this is easily one of the best things I did for my life and business.” – Jenny Blake

References:
www.americanexpress.com
www.forbes.com
www.entrepreneur.com
jennyblake.me

A virtual assistant (VA) can help you seek the right speaking engagement opportunities by researching call for speakers and submitting for call for speakers.
If you are just starting out, read our article about benefits to using speaking engagements and where to find them online and offline.

The following are the sought after virtual assistance services offered online that the VA can utilize to help you make the most of this brand-building opportunity.

1. Search for speaking engagements

• First, the virtual assistant will look for speaking gigs using keywords that are often used
• Second, the VA will then check if the searched event is still OPEN
• Then, the VA will take note of the web link, name of the event, date of the event, location, other IMPORTANT details of the event, and DEADLINE of submission
  (Important details may include guidelines and protocols for speaking submissions, contact information, and a bit of background information about the event)
• Next, the VA will find information on HOW TO APPLY (in some cases, he or she would be asked to sign up to submit a proposal)
• Finally, the VA will track all the details in one master tracker or dashboard so you can choose an event/s in your convenient time

If you need to refine your search, you can ask your virtual personal assistant to do so by using filters—by industry, date, location, keyword, venue, etc.

2. Do background research

Public speaking Tip #1: Get in front of the right people.
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For example, if you are a business coach, your goal may be to identify small business owners, solopreneurs, executives, and similar professionals.

The VA can figure out where these people gather and help you pitch yourself as a guest speaker to event organizers.

3. Assemble materials and promote your speech

The virtual assistant can also collect materials that you can distribute to emphasize the top benefits of your message. These marketing materials can be a press release, email broadcasts, brochures, or anything that can help establish your credibility.

The VA can also share details of your speaking engagements on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media sites.

Additionally, the VA can join LinkedIn groups that target your area, take note of local events, and connect you with the people organizing them.

4. Create Powerpoint/slide presentation

If a slide-show is part of your presentation and you don’t think you are savvy enough or don’t have time to do it, your VA can put up some slides for you.

He or she can include a slide showing contact information about your business. You can display this while you answer questions during the event. It’s up to you. The VA could also include a special offer or giveaway on your last slide.

5. Add a page to your website

The VA team can assign a technical VA to add a page to your website exclusive only for promoting you as a speaker.

You can provide a demo reel like a few clips from previous speaking engagements, your YouTube videos, your credentials, a list of topics you can talk about, etc.

6. Keep track with a database

The VA can create a quality database using a spreadsheet or Google docs to keep track of monthly or annual conferences and all of their important details. He or she can then call or email the organizers of the events you want to do.

After a Speaking Engagement

7. Do some post-event promotions

Your virtual assistant can make use of online tools to promote your speech after the event. The VA can post slides on SlideShare, write about the event on your blog, or upload the video to YouTube and Vimeo.

He or she can also share your speaking engagement on social media sites to increase visibility.

8. Set up alerts

Finally, your VA can set up alerts for speaking opportunities and keep a steady stream coming your way. Setting up alerts on “call for speakers” or “call for presenters” will get you regular notices of organizations that are looking for presenters with your expertise.

Here are 3 tools to start with:

• Google Alerts
• Talkwalker
• Mention

If you’re an author, leader, consultant, coach, financial expert—the list goes—who use speaking engagements to grow your business, contact us today so we can help free up your time and reduce your workload.

References:
www.content-loop.com
quickbooks.intuit.com

This takes a lot of planning, time, effort, and resources. Many of us are faced with so much work to do, but not enough time to achieve these goals. In some cases, we really need extra help, but don’t have the budget to hire additional resources and so we are stuck working 50-60 hours a week, with no time for relaxation or family.

As an entrepreneur, I know what it is like to work long hours to achieve my dreams. I remember a time when I was satisfied with and felt fortunate when I was regularly getting just 3.5-4 hours of sleep per day.

I was thinking, well, that’s better than 2 hours of sleep I had just yesterday! I was trying to do everything on my own.

Sometimes we nearly kill ourselves to achieve aggressive goals.
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Outsourcing Repetitive Admin Tasks to Virtual Executive Assistants

When all the work falls upon us, our family life suffers, our health suffers, and our productivity and effectiveness declines.

However, it doesn’t have to be that way. As a first step, think about all the repetitive and busy work that you have to do on a daily or weekly basis. This is work that may be necessary, but keeps you from the higher end and strategic work that will really help you expand your business and generate revenue.

Commit to documenting the steps you take to complete that work by creating process maps or standardized work that outlines how to do this. In many Fortune 500 companies that I worked for, one of the main requirements my managers insisted upon was that as soon as we learned a job task, we needed to create a standardized work for that job task.

That way, later on, if we were on vacation, or were promoted to another job, or if we quit that employer, the next person can more easily fill in for us and take over our work.

This year, as soon as possible, commit to creating standardized work for your busy tasks that you don’t like doing or are just too busy to do. Once you do that, guess what? You can then outsource it to a remote assistant!

Yes, this takes some time and effort up front to create the standardized work, but in the long run, will free up so much of your time. Then, welcome to getting plenty of sleep and waking up without an alarm clock, well rested and ready to take on the day, doing what you want to do!

Related: What is a Virtual Assistant

The virtual assistant (VA) can do the busy work that you don’t want to do or don’t have time to do, and the best part about it is it can be inexpensive – up to 76%+ cheaper than hiring an office based worker.

In addition, you may have aggressive goals and project plans to grow your business this year.
However, you may not have the staff or the talent you need to achieve these goals according to your timeline.

If you expand your search for talent into the virtual workforce (home-based/remote workers), you have expanded your talent pool exponentially, and opened yourself to a wide variety of talent, experience, and skill workers from all over the world (whether locally or overseas) and at a price point according to your budget.

There are different types of virtual assistant services. VAs can do things both that you may not want to do or do not have the technical expertise to do (i.e. web design, graphics design, accounting/bookkeeping, programming, online marketing, SEO, content creation/copywriting, etc.)

Consider hiring a virtual personal assistant to achieve your goals for 2016, all while helping reduce your workload and providing the talent you need at a lower cost. Imagine assigning a multitude of tasks to your VA at night before you go to sleep and in the morning, all of those tasks are done.

Or, imagine having the flexibility to spend time during a good part of the day with your family (such as going on an afternoon excursion to the park or beach while everyone else is at work) all while the VA covers for you, handling certain aspects of your business (such as customer service, answering calls, etc).

If your interested in learning more or exploring the possibilities of how a online employee can help you, feel free to give us a no obligation call at 1-866-596-9041 or and fill out our no obligation form on our website.

We specialize in helping you find solutions to outsourcing your busy work or staffing needs for expansion. We are here to help you achieve better work life balance and help you achieve your goals/dreams as a successful entrepreneur/business owner.

Wishing you much success in 2016!

Sincerely,

John Davern, President & CEO
Virtual Assistant Talent, LLC

The number of online shoppers has increased to 793 million to 1.12 billion from 2011 – 2014. More than 280% of online population has used Internet to purchase anything from books to home appliances to computers to cars to real estate to — you name it. A website has no geographical limitation. It’s like having a super dynamic, well organized sales force available to your customers or clients 24/7.

Why Consumers Prefer Shopping Online:

• time saving
• more variety
• easy to compare prices
• no crowd
• less prices
• spend less on gas
• less taxes

So, have you ever asked yourself: Do I really need a website? What are the ways that a website can help my business?

7 ways how having a website can help improve your business.

1. Open All Day, Every Day
   Your website is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week so your customers can conveniently interact with your business. Buyers really appreciate the ease of finding what they need without having to stop, call, and ask. They can fill in a form, sign up for a newsletter, browse your products or services, read your blog, book online, download e-book, all in their OWN time!
2. Expand Customer or Client Base
   Your website puts your business out there to be seen by everyone. But the goal is to be found by anyone anywhere who is already looking for what you offer. There is definitely no other way to maximize your geographic reach, and internet usage continues to increase year after year. If you don’t have a well placed website someone else will get your business.
3. Interact and Communicate with Your Customers Regularly
   People tend to keep you in mind if you keep in touch. It’s proven that customers who already know and trust you will more likely buy from you again. Regular email newsletters and updates to your website will help you better communicate with your them. Set up your online profiles on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, etc – these are a low cost way to get more of YOU online
4. Opportunity for Lead Generation and Feedback
   A webpage can help you generate the right kinds of leads that will turn into customers, rather than to just a large group of people. Those who are interested in your product or service will go the extra mile for your updates and sign up for a newsletter. Now you have a handful of great leads you can follow up.
5. Share Your Expertise
   It’s not enough to provide just sales information about your products and services. Your expert advice may give you an advantage over the competition and even make the sale. Presenting your customers with help and knowledge about your company’s area of expertise is a plus.
6. Strengthen Your Credibility
   Showcase yourself and your message online. A simple and professional web design will add credibility to your business and strengthen your brand. By providing customers with information in an organized manner, you can set an excellent impression for all transactions to follow.
7. Save on Marketing Spend
   With website content, you don’t have to spend money on printing, shipping, or postage expenses. Updates are quick and easy. Every web design can be tailored to suit the size of your business and your budget.

Having said that, your website needs to be:

• Engaging
• User-friendly
• Search Engine Optimized (SEO) for Google page ranking
• Connected with your social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc)

Abundant, fun to read content is the key to success. It is important to create a compelling site that can help convert visitors to followers, customers and clients. Taking your business online can help buyers, clients, potential employees, business partners and even investors quickly and easily find out more about your business and the products or services you have to offer.

Reference:
statistica.com
cpcstrategy.com

Benefits of Outsourcing IT

Are you overwhelmed with different IT projects? Your company may be one of the best in your field and you may be nervous about outsourcing your work. You don’t want to take the risk with having others work your IT projects for you.

However, there is a great advantage with outsourcing and it outweighs the risks that you may be concerned about. We only have twenty four hours in a day and if you want to achieve all that you need in a day then you would need to get more work force.

These are the advantages of outsourcing your IT

Save Time

Each person has different skills and capacities. It would be important for every internal employee to do the core duties. If they would work on time consuming and lease important IT related tasks that may not be the core and vital tasks that your company would need to accomplish then you would lose both time and money. If you would be able to outsource you would be able to save your staff’s time to prioritize the most important thing that your company would need to reach for that day.

Save Money

The great thing about outsourcing  is being cost effective. You would be able to pay for the specialty of each of your employee. Your internal staff’s time may be too precious to work on IT tasks.

Aside from that you would be able to save from the cost with training your staff and recruiting them since most outsourcing company have a lower price.

IT Outsource Service

Now that you have outsourced the minor tasks that are time consuming within your company. You would be able to concentrate more on your core duties. Thus, it would be easier for your company to grow and implement strategies.

It would be important for your internal staff to go forward with making your company or your business succeed. When they have adequate time to focus on their most important duties then you will be assured that productivity would be improved.

Efficiency

When you have both internal and outsourced staff you will be able to get more results and profit on your investment. Therefore your company’s process would be more efficient since you would only spend or invest lesser money and would generate more income and productivity from your work force.

So you should decide today about outsourcing your IT Work. So that you will start growing your business right away!

This seems like to be good news to many of the tax filers as this gives them enough time to prepare all the necessary documents and hopefully get things done – right, but for most of the busy business owners, this is the season that can add up to their stress level, becoming cumbersome and not to mention time consuming too. There are those who thought they can do all the donkey work by themselves and file tax on their own so as to save on tax preparer’s fee. But then again, there are those business owners who contract the service of a highly qualified Accountant and or Bookkeeper from an Accounting firm.

Instead of securing the service from these companies who are most likely to be costly and an added charge to your budget, why not get the service of a virtual assistant where the service is generally the same as those from an accounting firm but at a fraction of the cost.

An Accountant or Bookkeeper’s responsibilities are but not limited to:

1)    Bookkeeping

2)    Tax records

3)    Prepare documents for tax filing

4)    Profit shares

5)    Reconciling accounts

6)    Payroll

7)    Monthly-end closing reports

8)    Preparing financial reports

9)    Business financial advice

10)   Accounting Data Entry

11)   Accounts receivable management

12)   Accounts payable management

13)   Bank and credit card reconciliation

14)   Trial balance

15)   Year-end accounting

16)   Fixed asset management

17)   Cash flow projections

18)   Budgeting

19)   Inventory control

20)   Inventory analysis

21)   And other accounting tasks

All you have to do is to find the right virtual assistant that will help you with your accounting and bookkeeping needs. Keep in mind that these virtual assistants are professional and most of them are even Certified Public Accountants who are doing home based job on the side. That means you can trust them with your financial records and your business.

You can focus more on growing your business, increase your income and profit, and have it on the right track with less excruciating paper works and overwhelming receipts and payables.

Outsourcing your virtual assistant can be very tricky but when you find the right one, you will thank your VA for lightening up your work load. Tax time is no sweat with the support of your accountant / bookkeeper virtual assistant.

Hire your virtual assistant from Virtual Assistant Talent,LLC and see the difference. We have all the services you are looking for and the best and experts in their field Virtual Assistants in town.

We are proud to be a Better Business Bureau Accredited Company (bbb.org).

What a virtual assistant can do for you this holiday season?

1. Taking online orders from customers – If you are selling online and can’t catch up with the holiday orders, a VA can help you take and dispatch orders.
2. Manage year-end inventory – Companies are busy with their year-end inventories. Many companies outsource third parties to help them out with the records.
3. Product marketing and promotion – Businesses are turning to social media to promote their product and service. A social media marketing VA is one who knows the ins and outs of promoting a product or service in various platforms. The VA can help you reach your target market in no time.
4. Newsletter campaign – One of the ways a business can be visible is through newsletter. Newsletter is not only an avenue to promote your products and service but to educate on how to use the products and what your service is all about.
5. Buying gifts for family and friends – You may be too pre-occupied with work that you don’t have time to look out for gifts for family and friends. A VA can assist you find that perfect gift you want to give to your special someone and even reserve or buy said items for you. Just be extra careful in giving out your credit card information to your VA. If you don’t know him or her very well, just have the items reserved and personally pay the stuffs.
6. Travel planner – Yes, you are busy as a bee and have no time to search the internet on where to go, avail of cheap deals from airlines and hotels. Your travel VA can help you find the perfect place to go, find the cheapest deals for airlines, hotels, attractions or anything according to your preference. You just have to give all the details of your travel and you will be in good hands.
7. Email responder – you can hire a VA just to sort out your tons of incoming emails. Respond to tickets and enquiries on your behalf but of course you should educate and guide your VA prior to giving the task of answering inquiries on your behalf as it may do more harm than good to your business.
8. General tasks – In this case, you need a general VA to multi-task for you either for personal or business. All of the above-mentioned tasks and more can be done by a VA but may require more number of hours or a full-time home-base assistant.

There’s a lot more a virtual assistant can do for you and your business. Hiring a virtual assistant this Yuletide season will not break your wallet because you will only have to pay for the hours rendered. By shelling out few dollars, you are giving yourself the luxury of extra time for yourself to spend with family and friends.

Hire your virtual assistant from Virtual Assistant Talent, LLC and see the difference. We have all the services you are looking for and the best and experts in their field Virtual Assistants in town.

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