Virtual Assistance

100 $

Whether you’re the founder of a rapidly growing startup, an executive at a well-established firm, a first-time small business owner, or a professional service provider, hiring a virtual assistant to delegate business tasks to is a cost-effective way to boost your success.

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Benefits of Hiring a Virtual Assistant

To help you decide if it’s the right solution for you, this article will dive into the top 5 benefits of hiring a virtual assistant.

1) Focus on the Activities that Drive Your Success

The ServiceNow State of Work Report found that, on average, executives spend an average of 16 hours per week on administrative tasks and other work that doesn’t require their authority or expertise. This is a huge loss of productivity that slows down your progress on key projects.

The number one benefit of hiring a virtual assistant is that it enables you to focus on the activities that drive your success.

Offloading all of your time-consuming and tedious administrative tasks frees up tons of time for you to improve your strategic projects and build key relationships.

Virtual assistants can handle your repetitive tasks like:

  • Scheduling meetings and calendar management
  • Data entry
  • Taking phone calls
  • Travel planning
  • Managing social media accounts
  • Internet research

2) Reduce Hiring and Employee Costs

Though the average salary of virtual assistants is similar to entry-level in-house employees, you incur no hiring or incentives costs which saves your company thousands of dollars.

A study from the Society for Human Resource Management found that it costs an average of $4,129 to fill job positions. This cost includes:

  • Time spent creating job listings
  • Fees to post on job boards
  • Ads to attract candidates
  • Time spent reviewing resumes and interviewing
  • Background check fees
  • Miscellaneous employee-related expenses specific to individual company’s hiring processes

Additionally, companies spend thousands more dollars per employee on training, employee benefits, medical insurance, and perks. Hiring virtual assistants lets you escape all of those costs and pay fixed monthly salaries for the labor you’re getting.

Plus since your virtual assistants work remotely, you don’t have to worry about any of the operating costs of having them work out of a physical office such as an office space, furniture, or a computer system.

These are just a few of the ways you’ll save money over hiring full-time employees.

3) Gain Access to a Huge Pool of Knowledge

One of the benefits you can only get when you hire virtual assistants through a managed virtual assistant service like Prialto as opposed to an independent contractor is that you have access to a vast pool of knowledge that helps drive your ROI.

For example, we support clients in industries ranging from trucking to fintech to real estate which has given us knowledge of a wide variety of tools and processes.

If your virtual assistant doesn’t know how to do something that you ask them, they can reach out to their colleagues and get training internally.

You can also leverage the services collective knowledge to drive initiatives including:

  • Setting up a new CRM and training your virtual assistants to keep it updated
  • Streamlining your task admin work and task management
  • Improving your sales pipeline management
  • Creating processes so your virtual assistant can take on more complex projects
  • Designing data entry workflows

To access these benefits, all you have to do is let your Engagement Manager know what you want to achieve and they’ll drive the implementation.

4) Scale Your Support Up and Down with Your Business Needs

If your business needs ebb and flow throughout the year, hiring a virtual assistant is the most cost-effective solution since it’s easy to scale up and down as needed.

During your busy season, you can quickly double or even triple the number of hours of virtual assistant support you receive. Once your business slows down, you can lower your costs by reducing the amount of support you pay for.

5) Never Go a Business Day Without Support

When your in-house assistant is out of the office, you must cover their workload until they return. Not only is the sudden lack of support stressful, but it can also severely impact your productivity and work-life balance.

This is why one of the biggest benefits of hiring a virtual assistant for a managed provider is that you get backup support.

From the day you onboard, a backup virtual assistant is trained alongside your primary VA so that, whenever they’re sick or on vacation, you still receive the same quality of support.