If you’ve been on the internet long, you have probably heard of something called a Virtual Secretary or a Virtual Administrative Assistant. There are many companies all over the web offering to connect you with a virtual assistant of all sorts. There’s the ones that answer your phone for you or the ones that help with accounting and taxes and then there’s the ones that will do everything.
The promise of a virtual assistant is intriguing. If you use one, good for you. If you don’t, why don’t you? As a business owner, your focus should be on managing the business. A virtual secretary can do data entry, compile reports, research projects, design your stationary, business cards and envelopes and so much more.
In a previous post, I talked about cost saving on the business side. How having an engineer being paid $30/hr make copies of presenations is not the most cost effective use of his time. The same goes as a business owner. Why would you spend so much time on business cards, websites, reports and other administrative duties when you could be spending time on building your customer base, networking with other business professionals? If you are a programmer, spending your time actually doing the work your clients are paying you to do seems like a more cost effective strategy.
After all, even if you are business owner, you should still have some work-life balance. So often, I talk to small business owners who say they never have any time for a personal life. While I respect their ability to work non-stop, we all need to work smarter with our time. Work with purpose. Do the things you are good at-selling your business, programming that next program, showing that house to that next homebuyer.
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