Delegation

Believe it or not – just before you think you can afford it!

Generally this is when you have new business coming in on a consistent basis, but haven’t quite maxed out your time yet. If you don’t start delegating at this point, a vicious cycle begins.

Here’s what happens: you’ll get really busy and you start to worry that if you get any busier, and subconsciously you worry that the quality of your work is going to suffer. So you become slower to respond to prospects, and back off your marketing a little. The result is that you create a comfortable stasis where you’re busy all the time, but not growing.

If you’re nodding and relating to this right now – it is definitely time to get a Virtual Assistant!

Believe it or not, I was asked this question recently. Twice in 24 hours, as a matter of fact.

Virtual Assistants are on the verge of becoming mainstream, but we seem to have a little way to go before everyone is clear on the concept of Virtual Assistants.

Wikipedia defines a Virtual Assistant as “an entrepreneur who provides professional administrative, technical, or creative (social) assistance to clients from a home office”.

Another site offers the definition: “A temporary worker hired as needed who performs tasks remotely”.

My definition: “A Virtual Assistant is an assistant who is hired to do administrative tasks you know you should do (but often avoid) to maintain and/or grow your business. Because a Virtual Assistant is not enmeshed in the stress and drama of your business, they complete these tasks 2 to 10 times faster than you can. VA’s work off-site, so they are neither in the way, nor do they become an excuse for distracting & unproductive chit-chat.”

You did notice that “brevity” was not in the description, right?