Get Things Done with Your Dream Support Team
It’s not only about the money - it’s about the lifestyle!
Congratulations! You’re on the way to doubling your profits, and your free time, using strategic outsourcing. Let me show you how easy it is to do that- without working harder and without employees! Outsourcing is the secret weapon of prosperous solo entrepreneurs.
Prosperous entrepreneurs focus their valuable time and energy doing ONLY the things that they’re brilliant at and enjoy the most. These activities make them the most money and creates the most value for their business.
Did you know there’s a hidden fortune in your business?
Successful entrepreneurs dump the dreary details and their never-ending to-do lists by outsourcing to expert professionals:
- Things they don’t like doing
- Things they don’t know how to do
- Things they don’t have time to do
- Things they don’t want to do
They invest their time wisely and leverage other people’s time to get more done with less effort. There’s only so much one person can do – it takes a village to operate and grow a successful business!
The very first team member you should hire is a Virtual Assistant (VA). A VA is an entrepreneur who provides professional administrative, creative (including internet marketing) or technical services from a home office. A VA’ s primary clients are home-based entrepreneurs, small business owners and independent service professionals.
You’d never guess that there are over 107 tasks you can outsource in these areas of your business:
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Administration (often tedious and mundane)
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Customer Service
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Marketing
A common entrepreneurial challenge has always been how to juggle the pursuit of new opportunities while maintaining your commitments to existing clients. In order to be consistent with marketing and make more money, you will need the expertise of your virtual support team to get things done. -
Sales
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Product Development
Although most entrepreneurs recognize that outsourcing is the key to making real money and achieving more freedom, many don’t reach out for help because of one or more of the following reasons:
- fear of the unknown
- bad past experience
- think they can’t afford to
- not sure what to delegate
- don’t know where to start
- not sure how to choose the right person
- don’t have the time to find help
- don’t know how to communicate to get the results they want
In addition, they often have mindsets and natural tendencies that sabotage their success. A common belief of entrepreneurs is that they can and must do everything themselves (even in the face of statistics that show this is precisely how most small businesses fail).
What are you giving up when you don’t outsource?
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Time
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Money
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Energy
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Your Health
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Your Freedom
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Missed Deadlines
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Missed Opportunities
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Your Personal or Family Life?
The GOOD NEWS is that help has never been closer!
It has been my passion for years to help entrepreneurs who are stuck or who want to take their business to next level, leverage their brilliance with a virtual support team.
You see, I was once a Virtual Assistant. For over 5 years I helped entrepreneurs just like you with administrative and marketing tasks. I built a team of VAs to service my clients and quickly learned to delegate, often through trial and error. I also learned delegation techniques from clients with 6-figure businesses who successfully built virtual teams. Prior to becoming a Virtual Assistant, I was a Human Resources Manager.
In the years that followed, I became a Virtual Business Manager, where I successfully helped to grow and manage six-figure online businesses, building and managing virtual teams and implementing systems to put their business on autopilot.
Who better to help you build your team than someone who’s been there and done that, not only from a client’s perspective but from a VA’s as well? This gives me the unique ability to understand what clients as well as Virtual Assistants need in order to build successful virtual teams.
I’ve seen the mistakes people can make building a team first hand, and they can be very costly indeed!
Dr. Bradford Smart, author of Avoid Costly Mis-Hires – quotes his research in over 50 companies in 2008. The average cost of a mis-hire of a sales rep earning $100,000 costs over $560,000!
How about the cost of peace of mind, stress, negative consequences for your business and the inability to achieve your goals? Priceless! Plus, a survey of 500 managers estimated they “waste” 150 hours on each mis-hire themselves.
There are many other factors that contribute to the success or failure of a relationship with a virtual team member including:
- Niche
- Skills/services
- Technical abilities
- Personality type – this is a big one!
- Work Styles
- Training/qualifications
- Experience
- Availability
- What matters most to you!
If you’re not careful, you can ruin your business. If you’re thinking you can put together a dynamic support team just by posting a few ads, you’re setting yourself up for disaster. I don’t want anyone to go through that. With my years of experience and my first-hand knowledge of what can go wrong, I can steer you right.
Is this You?
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“I would love to delegate things and grow my business. I already know that is the key. The real problem I have is that most people I could hire are too slow, or they make a mess of it. Sometimes the only way to maintain control is to do it yourself. What I want is to find someone who can follow instructions and get it done my way.”
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“I really need to delegate. I’m forever finding that I can’t get my great ideas finished. I have a new idea before I completed the last one. But every time I want to delegate a task, an Assistant wants me to break it all down and give them all the details. That just isn’t my strong point. I get frustrated because I just want someone to understand what I need and DO IT. I’d like to hire someone that really gets me and can be a partner in my business.”
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“I’m not sure I really want to delegate . I like things done in a certain way, and I don’t like to be pushed too fast. I want to check on the results until I’m sure that I can trust my Assistant to follow my process. I know it would help me to delegate, but I want a partner who will help me set a good foundation for my business to build upon.”
- “It is hard for me to delegate because I want things done RIGHT. Sometimes I don’t understand why others don’t pay as much attention to detail. I have been called a perfectionist – but frankly I believe that my reputation is on the line. Whatever leaves my desk has to be representative of me. I can only delegate to someone that cares about the details as much as I do.”
Ok, I admit it, I’m a perfectionist. This would sometimes get in the way of delegating effectively. Many of us have natural tendencies that can keep us stuck and unable to delegate and let go.
If you procrastinate, micromanage or you’re a perfectionist like me, I can teach you how to communicate your needs more effectively so that you get the results you want with delegating. I can teach you strategies for any behaviors you want to modify so it helps rather than hinders your business .
As a DISC PeopleSmart tm Certified Specialist, you will receive a DISC Personality Profile and consultation with me where I’ll help you gain a clear understanding of your gifts and weaknesses so that you will team up with the right partners the first time, and teach others how to best interact with you to achieve your goals. It is highly recommened to do Personality Profiles of your top candidates to ensure you have the best fit possible.
Reality Check – Here’s the cold, hard truth: You can keep doing business the way you’ve been doing it, but unless you are totally satisfied with the results you are getting and how much time you are investing … why not take an easier route? If you want results you have never achieved, you need to do something you have never done. Don’t wait another minute!
You have 2 Options to Work Smarter, Not Harder!
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