administrativeallyNot being able to afford a virtual assistant is the most common issue that business owners on this topic raise. However, hiring a virtual assistant may be more affordable and viable than you realize.
Two things can help you determine whether or not you can truly afford a virtual assistant. First, look at your expenses for the last two or three months. Have you spent money on items you now consider fruitless, ones for products you have never used? Your total for this type of purchase may surprise you. Yet, you could have spent that money or hired a virtual assistant, even temporarily.
The next area to look at is your daily or monthly to-do list. For example, do you spend lots of hours trying to design your book covers? Or trying to get your membership site to look and run the way you want it to? Would your time be better off spent elsewhere? What could you have accomplished if you had hired someone to do these projects for you?
Your main accomplishment would be completing these tasks and having them permanently crossed off your list. Secondly, you could have spent the time proactively marketing or working in other business areas. Ideally, in those areas that you excel at.
Can you now see that you might have the money to hire a VA? Even if you are not convinced, you should set aside some funds for this purpose. Start with a small monthly budget and hire someone to do a few small jobs for you. This could be scheduling your social media posts for a month.
You will notice that even this one small job frees up your time. As a result, your sites will most likely start to see more interaction from regular posting, and this reflects on your primary business.
Once you see what a virtual assistant can do for your business, you will be eager to give them more tasks. However, you may also find that you don’t miss your spending money either. Instead, you are spending money on something positive for your business rather than some fruitless product that didn’t help grow your business as promised.
