5 Reasons You Need To Hire A Virtual Assistant

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Craftpreneurs often feel like they need to do everything for their business, but the truth is that their business could be more successful if they spent their time doing what they’re good at and gave the other tasks to a virtual assistant. Here are 5 reasons why you need to hire a virtual assistant to help your business be successful.

Hey, y’all! Here’s a hard truth. As Craftpreneuers, our area of expertise is crafting. Often, the tech side of our business isn’t always what we’re best at. It’s understandable because most of us don’t operate from that side of our brain!

We all have a lot on our plates to get our businesses going and, in an effort to keep our overhead costs down, we tend to do all the things ourselves. But, you need to know that sometimes outsourcing some of this work to someone else is actually what your business needs. Time is money and sometimes the small investment that it takes in hiring a virtual assistant pays for itself 10x over by allowing you to increase the productivity in your business.

I know you’ve heard me say it over and over again… TIME IS MONEY!

Hiring help can actually help you increase the bottom line revenue in your business and allow you to spend your time doing the things you love. Hiring a virtual assistant can also give you the freedom to enjoy your business again and allow you to work less on daily activities so that you can spend time doing what you love with those that you love.

(How many of you have heard the old complaint that you never leave your craft room?)

Don’t believe me? Keep reading…

What Exactly Does A Virtual Assistant Do?

A virtual assistant (also called a VA) is a self-employed worker who offers remote administrative services to clients. VA’s usually work from home. Virtual assistants can often perform a wide range of tasks. Some typical tasks they might perform can include:

• Managing email accounts
• Content creation
• Editing images
• Social media management
• Scheduling posts
• Analyzing data
• And, so much more!

5 Reasons You Need To Hire A Virtual Assistant

So, do you think you need a VA to help you with your business? If you don’t (yet), I bet after reading my reasons why hiring a virtual assistant is necessary, you’ll be ready to take the plunge yourself!

Increase Our Productivity

How many times have we run out of hours in the day? It’s like we’ve worked hard all day only to realize that we haven’t accomplished anything (or very little) on our to-do list! Hiring a virtual assistant can help increase your productivity by handling some of those day-to-day “time sucker” tasks.

With the tedious day-to-day tasks out of our hands, we’ll be able to focus on the big tasks that need to be completed so that our business can grow to the next level.

Help With A Task You Have No Desire To Do

Most people think that we’re out here being crafty folks having all the fun… and they don’t realize that we’re putting in the work and hours to run our little “hobby” like a full-blown fortune 500 company! Or, instead, maybe the thing that we lead some glamorous life and just hang out and play with glitter all day.

As you know, the truth is that nothing about self-employment is glamorous! We can’t sit down at the computer and just start an online business that runs successfully on autopilot!

In fact, there are tasks that all of us try to complete every day just to keep the business afloat on top of the actual work that we have to do to produce and sell online! Those tasks are tedious and keep us from focusing on the areas of our business that we love.

When you hire a virtual assistant, it allows us to hand off some of those mundane tasks and takes the burden off of our shoulders. And, if you happen to hand off items that are your virtual assistant’s specialty, they can usually get those mundane tasks done in a fraction of the time that we waste trying to get them done.

Win-win!

Hiring A Virtual Assistant Will Decrease Your Stress

How many times have you set down to make a plan for the day or week and just got overwhelmed by all of the tasks and just shut down? Hiring someone else to do some of those tasks allows you to reduce that stress in your business significantly and gives you the freedom to do more of what you want to do in your business.

Expand Our Expertise

More often than not, we are a Jack of all trades and master of none. Chances are all of us are missing some part of the puzzle in our business. And, I’m willing to bet we haven’t mastered every single detail needed to run it smoothly.

How can you? There’s SO much to learn and stay on top of!

Hiring a virtual assistant allows us to expand our business’s expertise as a whole by bringing in other people that complement our weaknesses to help.

You can hire a virtual assistant that specializes in your weak areas, or you can hire a virtual assistant that is really a jack of all trades and can help you with all of the tasks.

Hiring A Virtual Assistant Can Help With Marketing

Y’all, marketing alone can be a full-time job! Coming up with and executing a marketing plan can have us wasting countless hours per day, spinning our wheels, and never moving forward. How frustrating!

We’re either really good at marketing, and then end up with no product to market because we didn’t have time to make it. Or, we completely neglect our marketing and end up with a ton of products that we failed to get in front of our ideal customer. Neither scenario is ideal.

A virtual assistant can not only help us drive traffic to our site, but they can also help us review all of the analytics to help us understand what is working in our marketing plan and what is failing. This way, we know what to do more of, and what to stop wasting our time doing!

How To Hire A Virtual Assistant

Does this idea sounds intriguing to you, but you have no idea how to do it? I have a terrific solution for you! I found a service that provides on-demand virtual assistants to help with all your business needs.

Typically, these services can be expensive. If you’re just starting out or already struggling, you may think it’s not even a possibility. Wouldn’t it be great if you could find someone just to work part-time in your business at a price you can afford?

Am I the only person that would rejoice over an extra 40 hours of help in my business every month? 10 hours of extra help per week? The 4th quarter is knocking on the door. I know many of us have business goals we want to achieve.

How about a little help putting it all in place?

Hire A Virtual Assistant From Acadium

I found a company that provides affordable VAs to fit any budget. You can pay as little as $49 per month for 40 hours of help using an INTERN. Yes, it’s legal, y’all! I have friends that have been using these services all year and they’re celebrating the wins all over the map!

They’ve used their VA interns to help with areas of their businesses such as:

• Social Media
• Content Marketing
• Email Templates & Marketing
• Brand Creation
• Graphic Design
• Website Design
• Shopify Development
• Marketing Automation
• Blogging
• Copywriting
• SEO Analysis
• Marketing Research

The company does require you to make a 3-month commitment because their intern/apprenticeship has a timeline to work and dedicate to your business! 

What’s that timeline look like?

Month 1

The first month with the company is an onboarding phase. During this phase, they’ll focus on bringing the intern into your business by helping with low function tasks. This allows the intern to learn more about you, what you sell, and about your target customer. Potential tasks for the first month include:

• Social media content planning
• Live chat website support
• Guest post outreach
• Content writing

Month 2

The second month with the company is all about execution! Your intern will be taking on more advanced tasks and executing them. By this time, your intern should be fully on board and have a great understanding of your business model and target customer.

Get them to think about the behavior of your customers, how they interact with your business, and tasks they can perform to help with that. Potential 2nd-month tasks include:

• Community management
• Landing page optimization
• Copywriting
• Media buying
• Conversion rate optimization

Month 3

The third month with the company is about growth. The company has specialized growth hacking strategies that your intern will begin to help you implement in your business. Potential 3rd-month tasks include:

• Customer segmentation
• Running ads
• Influencer marketing
• Getting to know your analytics

What’s the Catch?

I know it SOUNDS too good to be true, but it really isn’t. You hire a GenM digital marketing intern to work with you for up to 40 hours a month. And, all you pay is $100 per month. There are 0 hidden costs.

You gain 40 hours of freedom in your business and the intern gains the real-life experience that they need to land the jobs of their dreams. All of the interns are part of an intensive digital marketing curriculum taught by industry experts.

The best part: after the 3 months, you have the ability to hire your intern onto your team or you can simply just request another intern for another 3-month term. There are no limits and you can easily scale your business with multiple placements!

FAQs

I know that when I first heard about VAs, I definitely had some questions about what they do and how they could help my business. I figure you might too, so here are some questions I had and what I’ve learned through experience.

Is hiring a virtual assistant worth it?

A 1,000 times yes! Running a business requires juggling and managing so many different pieces. It’s not only unrealistic to think that you can be good at all of the pieces. But, it’s also not realistic to think that there’s enough time in the day to do it all yourself. Unless you don’t care about sleep, I guess (but that’s not me!).

Once you hire a virtual assistant, you can unload some tasks off your own proverbial plate. That will allow you to spend more time doing what you’re good at for your business. And, it will allow you more freedom in your time so you can enjoy life!

Isn’t that the entire reason we work for ourselves?

Why use a company to hire a virtual assistant?

You may hear of VAs through word of mouth, and some of them are really good. Others are not. Using an affordable company like Acadium takes the worry and guesswork out of whether you’re hiring someone good. All the VA interns have been vetted so you can focus on finding the virtual assistant who will be the biggest asset to your business.

What does mentoring an apprentice look like?

You’ll need to plan to spend about 1-2 hours a week mentoring your apprentice. You’ll answer questions, provide guidance, share tips, and tricks, etc. Even if you factor in that time, you’re still gaining 8 hours a week of time!

As business owners, we wear too many hats. We need to actively take steps to stop getting bogged down with tasks a student marketer can and WANTS to do!

Are you ready to make a positive change? Sign up for your own intern!

You Need To Hire A Virtual Assistant: Recap

In exchange for interns getting hands-on experience, you are getting some much-needed help in your business for as little as $100 per month. These interns can do the following and more:

• Set up email marketing campaigns
• Create promo graphics
• Schedule blog content
• Market Research and SEO analysis
• SAVE YOUR LIFE (okay I threw that one in there to be dramatic)

What are you waiting for? Go get your virtual assistant!

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