I have given a lot of though to the possibility of hiring a Virtual Assistant to help me out next year in my business. In have been told by friends and colleagues that hiring a virtual assistant could help me streamline my business, and help me stay organized. Goodness knows I could use the help!
In order to make a well-thought out decision, I decided to make a list of all of the things my virtual assistant could help me with. Here is what I came up with:
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There isn’t a business that couldn’t gain economically by leveraging the advantages of a “virtual office“. It seems that some businesses and entire market segments implement innovative solutions before others. The real estate industry, hardest hit by the economic downturn, is reinventing itself and migrating to “virtual offices” followed by the legal industry.
Successful Realtors, Gary Behnke, Myrna Evans , Timothy Breslin and Kathy Foley joined Abacus Properties, Inc. Seasoned, consistent producing real estate agents, they left a North County national franchise to join the Abacus Team. Long time San Diego North County residents with proven tract records, they will be a great addition to our growing real estate Team.
Lawrence Perry writes: Even if success in business requires hard work, life was not meant to be spent in the office and you know it. Sometimes even when it was not how you intended your life to be, you just find yourself spending more time at work than at home. Maybe when you started your business your goal was to get it off the ground and then spend equal amounts of time at home and in the office. Maybe you even fancied actually spending more time on the things that you love than at work. If it seemed possible in your mind then, you should know that it really is perfectly possible now that you have already established your business.
How is it possible to spend less time in the office when you are up to your neck in paper work and other tasks? It’s simple, hire a virtual assistant to get some of the load of your shoulders.
I was looking online this morning and I found a statistics website that lists out the average cost of office spaces in California and Oregon. On average, businesses are paying anywhere between $1.57 – $2.09 per sq. foot, per month, so a business operates in a 1,900 sq. foot office (like my own) you would be paying on average anywhere from $2,983 – $3,971 per month on office rent, and that is for a relatively small office. Wow! That is a lot of money to spend each month, not to mention the utility bill, insurance costs, and other operational costs that come with running an office.
One alternative to running a physical office, is to open up a Virtual Office, an online service that gives businesses an “office” with all of the necessary equipment and services when they need it without the hassles of actually running an office full time. With a virtual office, you can work from home or on the road, and then use the office space for client or business meetings.
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