Setting goals for your small business is a great way to stay motivated and track your progress throughout the year. Whether it’s to be more productive, balance your time more efficiently or put more energy into a certain aspect of your business, having an achievable target makes these goals for more attainable.
Occasionally, however, goals can fall by the wayside when workload gets cranked up a notch and you find yourself juggling more and more tasks.
This is where the support of a Virtual Assistant can make things easier and keep those goals alive. If the following goals are on your list for 2024, here’s how a Virtual Assistant can support you in achieving them…
Achieving Small Business Goals with a Virtual Assistant
Enhanced Online Presence and Branding
As a small business owner, you’ll know that customers don’t just show up knocking on your door without a little (a lot!) effort on your part. Marketing, the digital type in particular, is your direct line to your customers.
If done correctly, utilising platforms like social media and your blog page as well as extras like email marketing and newsletters, allows you to get in front of your target audience and form lasting, loyal relationships with your dream customers.
But, in between running your business and everything that comes with that, it can be hard to find the time and resources to create enough content to really benefit your business.
That’s where a virtual assistant can help. If improving your content game is on your list of goals for this year, investing in a VA who specialises in marketing and content creation will provide you with someone to:
- Manage your social media accounts (including creating, scheduling and posting content, as well as engaging with your audience)
- Keep your business blog up-to-date and packed full of useful, targeted information for your customers
- Keep communication lines open with email marketing, regular newsletters and other online marketing materials all designed to keep your audience interested and engaged
Just because you may not have the time to build and enhance your online presence doesn’t mean it has to get pushed to the bottom of your to do-list. A virtual assistant out there will be mor than happy to take control of it for you and help you reach your marketing goals.
Increased Productivity
Increased productivity is likely always at the top of your goal list – it’s definitely top of ours!
As virtual assistants, we’re always looking for ways to increase efficiency, streamline processes and free up time for our clients so they can focus on the core aspects of their business. Most of the time, this involves taking on some of those niggly, time-consuming tasks that clog up your day but need to be done.
For example, we’re big on automating processes like email management, data entry and aspects of credit control. All those routine tasks that get in the way, especially when you’re trying to manage your business solo!
Not only does this free up your time to allow for more productivity on your part, but streamlining and automating these processes often means tasks are completed quicker and to a higher standard – a productivity double whammy!
Improved Time Management
Time management is one of the biggest stress-inducing culprits for our clients. Sometimes there genuinely aren’t enough hours in the day to plough through everything that comes with running a business, especially if you’re working with a small team or flying solo.
Again, if improving time management is a key goal for you this year, a virtual assistant might be able to support you.
Because of the nature of our work, we’re experts in organisation. Not only do we cut down time on tasks, but we can also support you in the day-to-day management of your work life. Whether that means organising your diary, scheduling in appointments or simply taking a few tasks off your hands, our job is to maximise your time as much as possible.
By effectively managing your calendars, emails, meetings, all of the above, you’re left being better able to concentrate on the running and growing of your business.
Financial Stability
Financial stability is a given when it comes to goal setting for your business. Not just because it feels great to have plenty of cash in your pocket, but because it gives you the freedom to grow and scale your business, taking your entrepreneurial endeavour to the next level without the burden of money hanging over you.
A virtual assistant can help support your financial stability goal in two ways:
- By Increasing Productivity
Of course, more work being completed and more of your time being freed up means more growth and sales for your business.
- By Supporting Financial Management
Many virtual assistants specialise in managing finances, including support with bookkeeping, financial data analysis and aspects of credit control like chasing late payments, automating invoicing processes and reducing aged debt. All of these elements are key to finding and maintaining financial stability for your business, and they give you peace of mind that your finances are in safe hands.
Money can be an incredibly stressful concept for small business owners, but the role of a virtual assistant is to support you in reaching your financial stability goals.
Better Work-Life Balance
Improving your work-life balance should absolutely be on your goals list for 2024 – and if it isn’t, this is your sign to add it right now!
Your business functions at its best when you’re working at your best. To do that, you need to balance your hours of hard work with some rest and relaxation, and plenty of time away from the office or your laptop. That means taking regular holidays, not working all the hours under the sun (evenings should be for watching TV and nodding off on the sofa) and ensuring you’re not putting your work life before your actual life.
But, you may be thinking, how on earth is that possible when you’ve got a small business to run?
You guessed it. A Virtual Assistant can, yet again, step into support you.
Our role as Virtual Assistants is to make your business life as easy as possible. That means taking tasks off your hands that you perhaps don’t have time for, like digital marketing or copywriting. Or tasks that are particularly time-consuming and laborious like raising invoices. Even tasks that simply aren’t in your area of expertise, like credit control. They all add up and can mean work life begins to spill into your life outside of work.
Investing in a Virtual Assistant means delegating those tasks to gain some of your time back, improving your work-life balance in the process.
It may feel daunting to delegate, but once you’ve taken the leap, you’ll realise how much of a positive impact it can have on you, and therefore your business.
Start your Virtual Assistant Journey Today
Setting goals for your small business is great, but actually achieving them feels even better – trust us.
To help you achieve those goals this year, our team of expert Virtual Assistants is ready and waiting to support you with tasks that fall under the following categories:
So, whether your goal is to up your digital marketing game or get your inbox in order, get rid of some aged debt or simply keep on top of general admin without doing it all yourself, we can help.
Get in touch with our fab team for more information or to book your service – we can’t wait so support you in achieving your small business goals this year.