Why a Virtual Assistant Can Be a Great Investment in Your Business Want the transcript? Download it here. In this episode, we take a look at the positives of bringing a Virtual Assistant into your business and how you need to look at your VA as an investment in your business rather than an expense. This episode is full of insights from Matt and Barbara into answering the common question of “Well, what can a Virtual Assistant do for me?” Some of the areas covered include:
The importance of understanding the value a Virtual Assistant can add to your business Why you need to adopt the mindset of your Virtual Assistant being an investment rather than an expense Accepting that it takes time to transition your Virtual Assistant into your business Tips on speeding up the transition process
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Resources mentioned in this show:
The Stop Doing List – www.stopdoing.com.au
In this episode:
01:30 – What can a Virtual Assistant do for me?
03:35 – The mindset of ‘Investment vs. Expense’
04:34 – Will I get a return on my investment?
07:30 – Setting your Virtual Assistant up to win
12:26 – Misconception of the super VA
14:30 – Speeding up the transition process
15:45 – A bit about Matt’s book – The Stop Doing List
19:04 – Wrapping things up
Matt: Hey everyone, welcome back to another show of the Virtual Success Show. I’m joined again by my wonderful co-host, Barbara Turley. Hey Barb!
Barbara: Hey Matt, how are you?
Matt: I’m excellent. How are you going?
Barbara: I’m good, I’m good and loving all these shows we’re doing, I’ve been this week listening back to a few of the older shows and some of the tips and stuff we’ve been talking about, because I’m actually revamping some of my own processes in my business and I just pick up such great stuff, even from the stuff that we talk about and some of the guests that we interview, so yeah it’s been a good week for that.
Matt: Excellent. Excellent. Well, I’m really excited about today’s show too, Barb, as we were talking about just before we started recording and what we find in both Barbara’s business and what I do as a coach is we’re constantly asked, well what could a VA do for me? I think a lot of people like the idea and understand the concept of having a virtual assistant, but they’re not really sure on what a VA can do for them or for their business. Barb, do you find this?
What can a VA do for me?
Barbara: Yeah. Yeah, a lot. You know we get, I’m actually to add to that one of the things that I hear quite a lot as well is, I’m not sure what a VA can do for me and then there’s also a little bit of confusion about what a VA doesn’t do. So implicit in that, sometimes people have an expectation that they can do, this superhero VA type thing, the myth of the superhero VA that they can do everything possible, from video editing to web design and all the sort of things in the middle. So it’s a very broad topic and problem right there.
Matt: Absolutely and I think what this leads into is people having a clear understanding of the value that a VA can bring to their business. Because one thing I see is people grappling with the decision on, well, okay … This is an extra cost in my business. Am I going to get my return? And I think if you start with that mindsetaround this, then in my experience you’re actually setting yourself up to fail right from the start.
Barbara: Yeah, so Matt, you know one of the things that we see as well, when people are booking calls with our ad sourcing strategy consultants at Virtual Angel Hub we ask them a series of questions because we’re trying to get an insight into where they’re at before the call and one of the questions we ask is, ‘what’s your biggest fear about hiring a VA or working with a VA?’ And often one we see, the comment is,