Does your small business need big help? Are you spending more time on administrative tasks than you are on what's most important, GROWING YOUR BUSINESS? If you answered "Yes," ASN Virtual Services can help.
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What is a Virtual Assistant?
A Virtual Assistant (VA) is a highly-trained independent entrepreneur who provides a myriad of business support services virtually via phone, fax and internet based technology to support and meet the growing needs of businesses worldwide.Partnering with a VA reduces stress, protects cash flow, eliminates administrative hassles, and enables business people to find the success they originally set out to achieve.
A VA is your right hand person helping you to succeed in your business. The irony is you may never meet your VA as odds are they live nowhere near you!
Benefits to using a Virtual Assistant?
A cost comparison for a full-time employee versus a Virtual Assistant
| COST COMPARISON | Full-time Employee |
Virtual
Assistant |
| Hourly Rate of Pay | $20.00 |
$35.00 |
| Fringe Benefits @ 35% (Health/Dental/Life Insurance, Retirement Plans) |
7.00 |
None |
| Overhead Rate @ 50% (Office Space, Equipment & Office Supply expense, UI Insurance, Worker's Compensation, Overtime Pay, Administration Costs) |
$10.00 |
None |
| Total Effective Rate of Pay | $37.00 |
$35.00 |
| **Hours Per Year | 2,080 hrs. |
480 hrs. |
| TOTAL Annual Labour Cost | $76,960.00 |
$16,800.00 |
Although the Virtual Assistant's hourly rate is more than the employee's rate in the first place, you save the cost of benefits and overhead that would have to be applied to the new employee's wage. And, because Virtual Assistant's are usually more experienced, more efficient, and better connected than the employee, you'll need to devote far less time to the project to get the same results, only 480 hours a year versus 2,080 for the new employee.
**Remember, with a Virtual Assistant, you only pay for the time on task by the minute! No more paying for socializing, hour long lunches or frequent trips to the washroom.
Your employee's 8 hour day can be crunched into 3-4 hours with a Virtual Assistant.
Simply put, you should contract with a Virtual Assistant because it's more cost-effective and Virtual Assistants go above and beyond the normal assistant's duties to impact your own productivity. No task is too big or small for a Virtual Assistant to handle. Even if you only have 1 hour of work a month for a Virtual Assistant to do, a VA can (and will) do it.
*Souce: Virtual
Assistant Networking Association Cost Comparison
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