You are a woman entrepreneur that has reached a level of successful business activity when suddenly you find yourself hitting the wall.
You don't seem to be growing as fast because you are spending all of your time dealing with low level activities like getting domain names, paying the bills and scheduling travel.
Sound familiar? You know you don't want to go out and hire full time staff because you can't yet afford it.
The solution is the ever-growing world of Virtual Assistants.
Virtual Assistants (VAs) bridge the gap between a growing entrepreneurial business and a full blown dedicated staff.
They are personnel that operate remotely from your physical business but help you get stuff accomplished, thereby freeing you up to work on more productive tasks.
A Virtual Assistant delivers several critical benefits to the Woman Entrepreneur: Pay-As-You-Go - A major benefit of VAs is that you only use them when you need them.
They are not physically on site so they are not hanging around waiting for you to direct them while you run up expensive consulting fees.
You set up your arrangement with them ahead of time and estimate the amount of weekly work you expect to be feeding them.
The VAs submit their invoices for hourly work at the end of each week and you settle up.
No Benefits and Other Expensive Fees - VAs are the ultimate part time laborers.
No need to provide health benefits, vacation time or other ultra expensive pay features.
You retain a professional willing to work on a contingency basis for you as you need them.
No more complicated than that.
Talented Support Staff - Good VAs understand the quid pro quo.
They get to work for you from home while you get to use them only as you need them.
They get to spread their work out over several entrepreneurs and you get laser-like talent focus on the activities where you need the most help.
Efficient Work Production - VAs oftentimes are not in the same time zone as you, so you can schedule their support activities to maximize your own productivity.
For instance, they can have certain tasks completed well before you are up and ready for your day to begin thus allowing you to hit the ground running.
All it takes is a bit of managerial effort on your part to properly schedule things.
Sharing with Other Entrepreneurs - You may find that particularly good VAs will want some commitment of time to soak up their own work week.
It makes for a good opportunity to share a VA with other entrepreneurs who are your friends or that have businesses that compliment your own.
This way, each entrepreneur can assure continued access to VA talent.
Virtual Assistants are a relatively new phenomenon to the entrepreneurial world.
They solve a huge problem that has historically plagued the entrepreneur.
Experiment with a Virtual Assistant to see how your own business can benefit.