Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions With A Virtual Assistant

End of year's one busy time for entrepreneurs, but starting off the next year is one of the biggest mistakes you could do. Instead, delegate and hire a virtual assistant. Check out how a VA can help achieve your new year's resolutions.

Achieve Your New Year’s Resolutions With A Virtual Assistant

January is an exciting month, we’re refreshed from the holiday season and ready to start the year with set goals and a motivated attitude. With fresh planner slates, personal and professional resolutions starting off strong, we all know when reality hits, they’re going to go unnoticed.

In fact 80% of people who make New Year’s resolutions eventually break them, a third don’t even make it till the end of January. Now you may ask why? 40% claim that they just have too much to do.

But one thing for sure is if you’re an entrepreneur, you will always have too much to do and with limited time and cognitive bandwidth, it’s time to get some help, in short get a virtual assistant!

Here are 5 ways a VA can help you achieve your new year resolutions:

Help Achieve Your Business Objectives:

Follow up on leads

Did you know most leads go ahead with those who pick up the phone or reply quickest? Sick of following up or being constantly available? Let your virtual assistant be standing by to talk to your hottest leads fast, determine your value and add those potential customers to your database.

Lead generation whether through Inbound campaigns, social media accounts or website contact forms can be a very time consuming task- so stop wasting your time on these and get a virtual assistant instead!

Build an online presence

Do you spend hours designing a social media poster? Do you forget to post an update because of your busy schedule? Are you out of ideas on what content to upload? Well your virtual assistant can help you look sharp online with up-to-date, targeted and consistent content, they’ll not just keep your existing base but drive more business for you. So get a virtual assistant and let the social media bigots be pros in their zone while you focus on what you do best: business.

Keep better books

Dread tax season? Most entrepreneurs spend way too much time managing their books, or worse neglect it completely, why? Because it’s a tiresome task they hate. But what if we tell you someone actually likes doing that and will do that in half the time?

It's true- your virtual assistant can help you with your bookkeeping-from expense reporting to invoice generation, you won’t have to touch the books at all! Here are some benefits of a bookkeeping assistant you cannot ignore.

Better customer service

Don’t lie to yourself but there’s potentially been times you forget to reply to customer questions or get back to complaints. Had a new feature, package or offer? Get a virtual assistant and let them send perfectly crafted newsletters with the latest news of your business, respond to customer questions and follow-up efficiently, leaving your customers impressed with the service.

Find more time for family and friends

Wondering if you get a virtual assistant you’ll have more time with your family? Well if you think about it, if a VA helps you out with even one of the above listed tasks, your work schedule definitely does get more streamlined, leaving you with enough free time for your family and friends.

Not just business tasks, but a personal virtual assistant can also help you with tasks around the house, meal planning or shopping for groceries, leaving you with happy partners and kids.

Help You Focus On Yourself

Been wanting to take a baking course or learn a sport, but hadn’t got the time? Well everything’s possible if you get a virtual assistant. No more would you have to sacrifice on the skills you’ve been wanting to learn. In fact, a virtual research assistant would happily find you the most relevant yet helpful course for you based on your aims and skills.

They’ll also help you get healthier, plan and schedule your grocery pickup, monitor your eating habits through a meal plan and even sign you up for preferred yoga classes, thanks to them you’ll also get more sleep, saying hi to a healthy lifestyle.

Network Better

Sick of going to feeble and lame networking events with frigid and weak leads? While you focus on critical tasks, your virtual assistant will make a comprehensive well researched list of the best events for you to attend with the most targeted opportunities for you to create your name out there.

Not just up until then, they’ll also assist you in following up with them. Bingo, right?

Peace Of Mind

To sum it up, this might be the most priceless point for an entrepreneur. All entrepreneurs are most afraid of the debilitating disease of a burnout, and especially having that breakdown in the start of the year is one they can't afford. What better solution than delegating to a virtual assistant, a deal of a few dollars of investment in return for time, energy and solid results that keep your sanity in place, we’d say quite worth it!

Avoid the multitasking mess, because it’s always less efficient than monotasking and instead with a virtual assistant focus on the other important aspects of the business.

Final Note:

A virtual assistant can be like a cushion, one whom you can always bounce back to when you’re struggling. And they’ll always have solutions for all your problems, who doesn’t like that especially when it’s there from the start of a new year?

Dr Milkman’s research study claims that when you tell another person you’re setting a goal and ask them to hold you accountable, you’re more likely to achieve your goals, and here’s where your VA can become your partner and keep you on the right track.

So this new year while the year’s fresh and calendars are clean, get yourself a virtual assistant asap!