CONGRATULATIONS! Your business is growing and thriving and you think you *might* be ready to start outsourcing and getting some of those back end tasks off your plate – hooray!
But how do you REALLY know if you’re ready to hand off some of your business baby tasks to someone else?
Here are 8 signs you need to hire a Virtual Assistant.
YOUR BUSINESS IS HOLDING YOU HOSTAGE.
You feel like you work in or on your business 24/7/365. You’re DYING for a vacation. Your phone is tied to your hand all day, every day and your child is wondering when you’re going to make it to ANY of his baseball games this season. You go to bed at night with a to do list a mile long and when you wake up, it seems to have gotten longer.
YOUR BUSINESS NEEDS SKILLS YOU DON’T HAVE OR DON’T WANT TO LEARN.
You know you need a website, but you don’t know how to build one. You know you should have a presence on social media, but showing up online makes you want to run for the hills. You need some custom graphics made, but know nothing about design. You want to start email marketing, but have no desire to learn another platform. You want to start a YouTube channel but know nothing about video editing.
YOU NEED TWO OF YOU.
You’re launching a new product and you need to… take product photos, edit those photos, upload them to your website, send a newsletter about them, talk about them on social media, and and and… you wish you had a clone.
YOU FEEL LIKE YOU’RE SPENDING ALL YOUR TIME ON ADMIN TASKS.
You’re chained to your desk on the 1st of the month… sending invoices, chasing payments, answering emails, drafting proposals… will it ever stop??
YOU FEEL LIKE A HOT MESS.
People are asking you for things… that you don’t have ready. Things you don’t even remember being asked for because you forgot to write them down. Wait… where is my planner? Your business is running, but nowhere near as efficiently as it could.
YOU’VE GOT BIG DREAMS FOR YOUR BUSINESS.
You’ve got BIG dreams for your business – big GROWTH goals. You feel like you’re at a plateau. You want to scale, but you feel like you can’t possibly add ONE. MORE. THING. to your plate.
YOU HAVE GREAT IDEAS, BUT NONE OF THEM COME TO FRUITION.
You’ve got idea after idea. SO MANY great great IDEAS. You KNOW your clients would LOVE them, but you can’t seen to follow through and make them a reality.
YOU ARE BURNT OUT.
Your business is your BABY. You love it so much… but you are just sooooo tired. You are BURNT OUT. Your business doesn’t feel exciting anymore, you’ve lost your passion and work seems more like a chore than something you look forward to every day.
BUT… some times knowing that you NEED a VA isn’t enough though.
You need to make sure that you’re READY to hire a VA before actually hiring one.
Check out this post for the 3 signs you’re READY to hire a VA!