5 Business Benefits of Hiring a Virtual Assistant For Small Businesses

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Being a first-time business owner means wearing many hats and, often, learning as you go. But by hiring a VA, it’s possible⁠ — and easy⁠ — to offload a lot of the work. This means better focus and a more flexible schedule, among many other business benefits.

What Is A Virtual Assistant?

Virtual assistants are remote on-demand workers who occupy various roles such as executive assistants, marketing VAs, customer service reps, and many more.

What Are The Benefits Of A Virtual Assistant?

More hands make less work. Hiring a virtual assistant contributes to your work efficiency by taking over administrative, communication, and filing tasks that are often overlooked when a new startup or small business owner establishes a business.

1. Better Collaboration And Teamwork

Virtual assistants can facilitate better collaboration and teamwork. For example, they can transcribe, summarize, and organize company files so it’s easy for your team to retrieve them later for future references. This makes it easier for your team to stay on the same page when making any important decisions.

2. Better Scalability

Hiring a virtual assistant can help your business scale better. As your business grows, you’ll need to hire more VAs so you can delegate work that you need to accomplish for your operations. In the same way, you can hire virtual temp workers for your business to cope with busy seasons, and then keep your team lean during the slower times.

With Magic, you’re free to adjust hours⁠ — or the number of VAs you’re working with⁠ — according to your business needs.

3. Increased Productivity

Proper management ensures that you boost productivity. Delegate tasks so that a general virtual assistant handles administrative duties. They can do data entry jobs and others that the owner may need assistance with.

Also, your virtual assistant can help you be more productive by ensuring that you stick to your schedule, especially meetings and deadlines.

4. Pay For Work Only

One way to save money is to hire a virtual assistant, especially through an agency like Magic. Our virtual assistants are paid on an hourly basis but are not included as your in-house personnel. As such, you’re not required to provide government-mandated benefits to our assistants.

In addition, you don’t have to pay for your VA’s time off, holidays, and vacations. Lastly, Magic provides training and development to our Magic assistants so you can start working with a capable virtual assistant most suited to your business needs as soon as you need.

5. No Office Politics

Office politics are often dreaded since they involve navigating often ambiguous relationships to improve the status and advance personal gains. However, working with virtual assistants eliminates this scenario. Remote work allows VAs to do their jobs without mingling with all coworkers.

In fact, working with a team often limits your interaction with your team members only. It’s easier to cultivate good relationships in a smaller group than if you were working in the office and meeting all the employees. Plus, working remotely makes you more excited to build good relationships with your virtual co-workers.

Magic Moments — What Services Do Virtual Assistants Provide?

Aside from the benefits of a virtual assistant listed above, here are two unique services — called Magic Moments — that Magic virtual assistance services have helped realize for our clients.

However unusual a task is, Magic strives to achieve them, especially if they are to help you hit your goals.

Help land Berry client’s dream job. In August 2021, a Magic assistant was tasked to research job openings that matched the client’s credentials and apply to them. Fast forward to today, our client sent a voice message thanking Magic and their VA who helped land her dream job with a news station in Myrtle Beach, SC.

Cardboard Cutout. A Magic client previously asked for help to create a cardboard cutout of himself. It was successfully done. Two and a half years later, he came back to ask for a similar project — this time it was for a “goat cardboard”. It ended with him being known by Magicians as “the guy who bought us a goat.” This task is one of the strangest tasks a Magic assistant was asked to do, but they were able to successfully do it for the client.

Hire A Virtual Assistant At Magic

To enable easy and quick collaboration, Magic created the client portal. Plus, we have selected various tools that can boost creativity and productivity. You can have access to it as soon as you decide to hire a Magic virtual assistant. Read our hiring guide if you want to know the exact process of how to hire a virtual assistant.

Find out how you can leverage your business and get business benefits when hiring a VA. To get virtual assistants services, contact Magic today.