How a Virtual Assistant can help you as a small business owner in these uncertain times

There is one thing we can all be certain about, and that is the uncertainty of our current situation in both our personal lives and our business lives. Unemployment has risen, businesses are closing, and social distancing has become the new norm.

As a small business owner, you will have difficult decisions to make and need to adapt to change at a very fast pace to survive.

There will be many questions you are asking yourself:

  • Do you scale down your workforce or the hours they work?
  • Even if you are open as a business, social distancing has changed how we interact, how do you keep going in a remote economy
  • How do you ensure the business remains profitable while employees are furloughed, working from home, or working reduced hours?

The list is endless, but one potential answer could be hiring a Virtual Assistant.

  • If your business cannot maintain its usual staffing levels, a virtual assistant can help keep things going while you work on the more pressing and practical side of the business
  • The virtual assistant can help with marketing, administration, communication, sales, data entry, and research to help keep you afloat.
  • Adding a Virtual Assistant, even temporarily, to your workforce gives you a degree of flexibility meaning you don’t have to be spot on with your estimates of future business.

With a VA on board, you can keep things moving even with many workers at home.

Here are just some of the tasks a VA can perform for you:

  • Assist with moving to an online selling platform
  • Setting up social media accounts to reach your customers
  • Emailing customers or clients to keep them up to date and in loop with what you are doing, what your safety measures are to reassure them
  • Bookkeeping
  • Data entry
  • Communicating with your customers, answering any concerns they may have about your safety measures
  • Help with setting up apps to take online payments
  • Updating your website
  • Marketing, getting your brand, message and vital information out there to you customers

Conclusion

As you can see hiring a virtual assistant to help you during this uncertain time has many benefits.  If this is something that you feel could help you right now, we are here to help.  We have a demonstrated history of working in both the legal profession and construction industry as well as human resources with over 20 years’ experience in office administration, PA and Secretarial duties.

For an informal chat about how we can help, just get in touch with Lizie using the contact form on or website or call on 07749094859