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The most pressing questions on hiring a virtual assistant

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What are the benefits of hiring a Virtual Assistant?

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pressing questions on hiring a virtual assistant

 

Why it’s time to have a Virtual Assistant assist your business.

You know you do not have all the time in the world to manage all the business aspect of running a business.

You are awake feeling overwhelmed and you are afraid to tackle those aspects of the business that is just dragging you down with additional stress.

A virtual assistant can help you save your time and money.

This includes cutting the overhead cost of hiring a person physically to complete a specific task.

Also a VA will be responsible for paying all their taxes and insurance and this will allow you in cutting down your expenses because you are only responsible for paying for the completed task.

A virtual assistant has just saved you money.

Is your business really growing or are you stuck doing tasks that are not for you?

If you are spending time on let’s say on the social media aspect of your business and not focusing on the growth of the business.

One part or another of the business will be suffered and this is where a virtual assistant can save your business time.

How, is this possible? With a virtual assistant doing those time-consuming tasks such as your admin and or social media management you are better able to focus on growing your business, such as working on what you love doing best and increase your income and clientele.

A virtual assistant is there to help with any task that a business owner can think of outsourcing. Also if by any means some of my red carpet services mentioned are not within the services that you need at this time, I can also recommend other virtual assistants that I am sure will be happy to assist you with your business needs.

You can normally fill out a request for proposal by clicking here it’s also free for you to join there as well, and more than likely a virtual assistant that is matched with the skill set that you described will respond.

With A VA in the backend helping you with those tasks that you know are taking you away from focusing on what you love doing, you are better able to increase your clientele and your income.

If this sounds like you, you should definitely get the assistance of a VA.

You can get in contact with me here by scheduling your FREE consultation here

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How to create a work Life balance with a team

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Today’s guest post is all about showing you how to balance your life while building your business to include a team. What am I referring to? I will let Barbara talk some more about this.

Here we are in the second decade after the millennium. We are experiencing a shift in how women work. We have women entrepreneurs who are also balancing home life.

Let me help you with what a work-life balance looks like for you. Every entrepreneur needs to think about how they spend their days. Ultimately, creating a work-life team is about you being able to spend more time with your husband and children in a way where you are not stressed.

Work-life balance is all about recognizing you can’t do it all alone. Fortunately, for us, there are many women who are out there every day offering services to help others. Get their jobs done more efficiently. For instance, there are many women who own a variety of service oriented companies.

They allow other entrepreneurial women to decide whether they’re going to have someone else do their print, mailing, or copywriting. This allows you to better plan out what balance looks like for you and your family.

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How to achieve a Work-life balance with a Team!

A work-life team is a group of people coming together to support one another making life easier. Many times they barter services ensuring everybody gets their needs met. Then everybody gets references from people who they are working with as a work-life team.

This is a group of entrepreneurs who you seek out to help each other by doing things they struggle with or do not have time to tackle.

The group of people becomes a team by meeting together regularly to understand how each person fits into each vision.

I recommend you stay at a bartering level to avoid legal and taxation issues.

There are many options for both home and work as team options.

Figuring out who needs to be on your team really means taking a step back and looking at what your needs are. What you can handle and what you would prefer someone else’s support you in doing.

You need to build a Work-life Team.

There are three things you need to consider as you build a work-life team.

  • Shared Life Values
  • Integrity and References
  • Getting Value Beyond Cost

Shared Life Values

Find teammates who share your life values. Your home and business are the foundations of your life. How you build your team is important. You want to find people who are in agreement with you. The best way to figure this out is to ask yourself what are your top five values. As you talk with potential teammates ask them what their top five values are. Finding those folks who agree with you on 4 of the 5 is a good place to start.

Integrity and References

This is probably the one area where most entrepreneurs fail to give it their all. You are building a team to be geared towards supporting you and becoming an integral part of life for you and your family.

Step back and take the time to ask the tough questions. Be thorough. The more time you spend scoping out the members of your team, the fewer issues you will have later. Ask for references and call them.

Ask them to be very specific with you regarding their work ethic, efficiency, and dependability. Sometimes people are reluctant to be open. The one question most people will answer. Given the opportunity– Would you use their services again? A no answer speaks volumes. Take the time to build your team carefully and deliberately. This includes any new members.

Getting Value Beyond Cost

There are things every person needs beyond getting a particular job done. A housekeeper who is kind to your kids is a value beyond the cost of the price of getting the house cleaned.

As you are thinking about the roles other people will play on your team consider what kind of person you need. What kind of attitude, aptitude, and personality type is going to work?

The ultimate reason to build your work-life team is to free yourself up to be more present in both your personal and work life. No person becomes successful on their own.

Search out business directories where you can get in touch with others, use online groups to ask for references or put out a request for help.

When does a team become necessary?

There are four factors which will let you know it is time for a team.

  • Your workload has become too much.
  • You find yourself working instead of spending time with your family.
  • You are tired and stressed.
  • You have little time or inclination to take care of yourself.

As you move toward more growth and success, be sure to consider building a work-life team.

Good luck building your team.

Barbara guest post on life balanceBio: Barbara Harvey is an expert in parenting and early childhood education. She is nationally certified through Temple University and Strengthening Families Worker. She is Executive Director of a parenting development group called Parents, Teachers, and Advocates in Atlanta Georgia. It is her passion to do group and individual sessions with parents that are dedicated to training parents to inspire, motivate, and empower their children to become remarkable adults.

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Asana: How to love using & managing a project in seconds!

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You might be wondering to yourself, what is it and how can it help your business improve productivity? I blogged earlier about scheduling your days, you can check this out HERE

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managing your project

When scheduling your days, Asana will come in handy, and did I tell you that I love using it and it does help manage my personal task for the week. Asana also sends me reminders when I need to complete a project/task. A little bit more about that later.

Say what now! What is Asana?

Asana is a project based software and, as stated on their website, it keeps track of teamwork, as well as projects that each individual member is assigned to complete.

When you first go on the site, the visuals and how it is laid out is what caught my eyes to use this beautiful tool. Even though it’s beautiful, it’s even more effective than what meets the eye.

When you create your account, you will first get a step by step guide on what you need to do to fill out your business information, such as your company name, your teams information if you have any, as well as uploading files, sharing specific tasks with others via email and access to certain tasks, depending on how your settings are set. You also have the option on how you would prefer to see each task to be completed.

Why you should love Asana too!

Now, why do I love it? First of all, when I log in my dashboard, I have the option of creating my list of tasks for each day of the week. This is where I start first. I add a task and set the date that I want to have it completed. I also have a reminder that can be set for a week notice, to let me know that I have until a week to complete such a task, or I can set this to be a periodic task that will be happening every week or monthly.

You have two options to see your scheduled tasks; the list version, which I prefer, as well as the calendar version. I do love that the layout shows out each list of tasks to be completed, which is under the new task option, you also see the upcoming tasks for the week and later tasks are also shown.

How to make Asana work for you?

Now, for putting this project management tool to work. I know you are busy with your days, so reminders do come in handy when you have to remember a task to be completed.

Each time a new task is added automatically. When it’s set, a reminder is sent to the email provider that you have signed with to remind you to complete a task. You also have the option of delegating such a task to a member of your team.

This can be done by allowing, them access to that task and keeping track of what is being done for such a task. This includes inviting that team member by email for that team member to access the task to be completed, and this is where uploading a file will come in handy.

Status updates anyone?

Team conversations are a benefit because you can post what you need to be done, review what’s been happening with such a task and see for yourself the progress of your task.

You choose what the team member is able to see and what should be done, and this can be in the form of sharing a project with that team member who is assigned to complete that task.

So why not try Asana for yourself? You know you want to because it will make such a huge difference in your business and team members do not physically have to be there for you to see the progress of a task to be completed.

Try it out and share with me how Asana has helped you with managing your task better in the comments below. I look forward to seeing your wins until next time.

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