50 Tasks You Can Outsource to a Virtual Assistant
According to a survey by call-handling service provider Penelope, business owners work on average of 52 hours a week – that’s 63% longer than the average worker.
Some of that I’m sure is because entrepreneurs are more passionate about what they do than the average worker… but let’s face it a huge amount of the day-to-day stuff that entrepreneurs do isn’t high skilled work.
We teach our clients something called the £10 an Hour Rule at coaching workshops…
“You should never be doing something that you could easily pay someone else to do for £10 an hour”
It’s amazing how much of what entrepreneurs do each day fails the £10/hour test.
How to Get More Hours in Your Day
Mark Suster, serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist at Upfront Ventures, advises every tech company he invests in to make an office manager or company wide assistant their first hire after raising capital.
“Think about it. Your single most valuable asset in the early days is your senior team and presumably nobody is more valuable than the founding team. And you’re bogged down in expense claims, booking hotel rooms, scheduling meetings, dealing with a leaky toilet, processing payroll, ordering computers, etc.”
If you’re not ready for a full time office manager a reliable virtual assistant (VA) is a more affordable and flexible solution that many businesses prefer.
(All you need to remember is stay away from dirt cheap VAs and instead go with someone with a solid work history, excellent level of English and a really proactive attitude.)
Next question: what exactly should your office assistant or VA do?
When you’re used to doing everything yourself it can be hard to see what tasks could be delegated.
So we’ve compiled the ultimate list of 50 such tasks to get you thinking. As you read through try thinking “should I be doing this myself? Or could I delegate it?”
