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Today’s small business owners have so much to do to run their business while trying to grow it and make more money. Most of them are trying to do it all alone. They don’t think they can afford help.

The reality is that they can’t afford NOT to get help. One way to get help while minimizing expenses and overhead is to hire a Virtual Assistant. 

A VA is not an employee. They are an independent contractor working from their own home office with their own equipment. There are no benefits to pay, no sick pay or paid vacations, and you only pay for the time they work. They are not on the clock from 9 to 5 waiting for work to come to them. They work on what you assign them and only bill for that time.

In order to be more productive with the tasks that bring in more clients, sales and income, business owners need more time to do those tasks. When they’re spending their time answering emails, marketing on social media and doing other daily management work, they have less time for anything else. Here are 10 tasks business owners can and should delegate to a Virtual Assistant to make their day more productive.

1.Social Media Set Up & Management

2.Email Management

3.Scheduling

4.Bookkeeping

5.Customer Service

6.Blog Management

7.Website Maintenance

8.Newsletter Management

9.Shopping Cart Management

10.Phone/Voicemail Management

These 10 tasks are only a small portion of what VAs can do for business owners. Some VAs specialize in only a few areas. Other VAs perform a multitude of tasks. Still other Virtual Assistants actually have a team of VAs they subcontract to in order to provide as many services as possible.

If you want your entire back end taken over, you can hire an Online Business Manager. That person would take the place of an executive assistant and an office manager. They would manage everything and everyone working on the back end of your business. This frees you up even more to be as productive as you can be on the things that require your attention.

If you’re a struggling, small business owner looking for ways to be more productive, contact a Virtual Assistant or Online Business Manager. Get the day-to-day workload off your plate or turn the entire back end over to an OBM. Then you can be more productive in growing the business, making more money and doing more of what you love.

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