According to marketing and business consultant, Michael Charest of Grow Your Business Grow Your Life, in order to grow your business successfully, only 10% of the hours you spend in one week should be spent on administrative tasks. So in a 40-hour work week, that only totals 4 hours! You might be thinking "How can I possibly manage my business on only 4 hours per week?" The answer is ... "you can't." It is important to take care of these tasks and projects but you don't have to personally take care of them. You can outsource your administrative work to a Virtual Assistant (VA) so you are free to concentrate on other important aspects of building and managing your business.
Virtual assistance is, by definition, executive-level, administrative support performed at a location other than the client's office. There is a new professional label that is making its way to the surface and that is "Virtual Business Manager". I predict that this label will become a new name for VAs who want to be distinguished from the many VAs who are actually operating as administrative assistants working virtually. These days, the VA name is losing its uniqueness because many people are hanging a shingle out, calling themselves virtual assistants and charging exceedingly low fees. You can discern this type of VA by looking at their business mindset. Do they appear to have an employee mindset which is characterized by being task-oriented (waiting for tasks to be given to them) and needing micro-management or do they have an entrepreneurial mindset and are proactive in approaching their clients with ideas that will help them bring their businesses to new levels of success?
A business manager is:
- Passionate about their client's business
- An independent thinker
- A great manager of projects and ideas
- Intuitive and has an entrepreneurial mindset (knowing when to outsource low level tasks)
- Willing to learn new technology
- Willing to invest in continual personal development
- Always looking for opportunities that will benefit their clients
Because of this differentiation, I consider myself a Virtual Business Manager.
I work exclusively with coaches and consultants, specializing in 1ShoppingCart - a specific online-based system that can help run, automate and grow your coaching and consulting practice by creating multiple streams of revenue. Implementing this system will efficiently run your business online and reap the benefits of additional income without having to invest your valuable time learning this system and getting bogged down with details that are not necessary for you to personally handle.
For a detailed list of 1ShoppingCart's tools and features, please visit my Services page. To discover what makes Virtually With You unique to other VAs, please visit my About VWY page.
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