In all businesses, time is your most valuable asset. Therefore, you must use it wisely to ensure your business reaches its full potential. Business owners often suffer from burnout by trying to cram too many things into their working day and not focusing on their well-being. Hiring a virtual assistant with excellent calendar management [...]
Businesses are increasingly hiring administrative and virtual executive assistants to manage daily tasks and help relieve the pressure off in-house staff. The virtual administrative professional you hire must meet the same high standards you set your other employees; therefore, you must set them attainable key performance indicators (KPIs) as you do for all other staff [...]
Some of the biggest businesses in the world use offshore outsourcing strategies to ensure their organisation stays ahead of the competition. It is also common for global multinational organisations to use the offshoring method, where they have factories and offices in numerous locations worldwide. Like many things in business, outsourcing and offshoring have similarities and [...]
Knowing what skills are required when hiring a virtual assistant is vital to make a suitable appointment. The same can be said if you are a freelance virtual assistant and want to learn what skills future employers seek. Like any profession, some skills are paramount to doing the role you are applying for or advertising. [...]
All business owners would love to have more time to get tasks done so that it allows them to generate more turnover, which equals more money. Hiring a virtual assistant for email management is one of the best ways you can save time and money. A successful business receives countless emails each working day and [...]
All entrepreneurs think they can do everything themselves, especially when launching their business, but they soon find out there aren’t enough hours in the day. If you want to build and maintain excellent customer relationships, you need to hire a skilled virtual assistant sooner rather than later. A virtual assistant can help with tasks such [...]
The concept of outsourcing is pretty simple: delegate or transfer tasks that do not fall under your core competence so you can increase the level of productivity; improve quality of work and generate cost savings. You might even have outsourced without knowing it. When you pay a gardener to mow your lawn or hire [...]
For budding entrepreneurs, an online business appears to be the business model of their generation. The extent to which e-commerce would redefine business was foreshadowed as early as 2012 when technology analysts predicted mobile devices would supplant the desktop PC as the primary source of online traffic. Within a few years, the battle for consumer [...]
Launching a business itself is hard work. You probably had to do everything yourself from setting up operations, marketing and promotions and establishing the work flows. But the real challenge lies in maintaining the growth trajectory of your business. Once you gain traction, it's time to think about outsource help and there are at least [...]
Entrepreneurs are taking advantage of the benefits of technology as more and more are shifting from traditional brick-and-mortar enterprise to the online business model. It only seems natural that these entrepreneurs apply the cost effectiveness of outsourcing to their online business. The online business has emerged as the ideal business model because it offers flexibility [...]
