Become a Virtual Assistant – 4 Reasons Small Business Owners Need Virtual Assistants

Thinking you might like to become a virtual assistant? Having trouble finding new clients? Let’s face it, the economy is affecting everyone. Small business owners in particular are hard hit in tight times. It doesn’t mean they don’t need help – just means they need different help. They need the help of a work force that they can:

Pay Per Project
It’s far more affordable to pay a virtual assistant by the project than it is to keep someone on payroll. You get to work from home and they get to pay for contract work.

Deduct Work Invoices
Every thing that you bill out to your small business clients can be claimed as a business expense. Also, there’s no more paying a bookkeeper to tend to payroll.

Rent Less Office Space
The small business owner doesn’t have to maintain a larger office or buy extra equipment to keep things flowing. This is a savings not only in rent/purchases but also in insurance premiums.

Depend on During Unusual Business Hours
With time differences from country to country, there’s always the option to work with someone who can be completing or reviewing projects while you sleep.

While these may seem like points that are all about the business owner & it does make sense because it allows them to focus on the tasks that will keep the company in the profit zone … but this really isn’t about them.

This is actually a list of selling points that you can bring to the table when you become a virtual assistant and are looking for your first clients. These points are the value that you can make your case with when putting together your business website or taking on a new client who doesn’t want to pay you what you’re worth.

Becoming a virtual assistant in this economy could turn out to be one of the smartest moves a person can make. Small business owners need your services now more than ever. And now you have ammunition to take to the negotiation table.

You can make a living online, by working from the comfort of your own home for just a few hours each week, and writing 7- 15 page reports. Then use those reports to start building a loyal list of future customers.  

Here are Seven reasons why small reports will change your business and be highly profitable for you.  

*  Its Easy – Creating a small report is easy  to do, its much easier than writing an eBook since all you  need is  7-15 pages of content to create a report    

*  Its fast – You can start with nothing and within a short time have a large number of money making reports.  

* Its Very Profitable – There are no costs except your time and since the reports are digital your clients can download them to their computer.  

*  Huge Potential – If you wish you can have another stream of income by selling your reports..  

*  Choose your own hours – You have the flexibility to work whenever you want from wherever you want, anywhere in the world.  

*  Build a massive list –  of prospects and clients by giving your reports away for free.  

*  Use other authors articles –  to create the report. But you must leave their bio in resource box..   

The number one mistake –  made by affiliates, is not having a list. The fact is, in today’s internet world, you need to build a relationship with your clients, so that you can drive them to your sales pages and encourage repeat business. You also need to have a web page  to be a able  build up your list (so people can subscribe) and have  a way to send  traffic to your website.  

The days are well and truly gone when all you had to do was put up a website add a bit of AdSense, then sit back and wait for the business to roll in.  I remember the days when I was in sales and we collected peoples business cards in order to build a data base of clients and prospects,t oday we do exactly the same thing, but now we collect names and email addresses.