1. How to utilize a Virtual Assistant to benefit your Small Business By Elizabeth Debol Professional Virtual Assistant & the Owner of Business Virtual Services www.BusinessVirtualServices.com

2. The Point of this Presentation To clearly define how you can use a Virtual Assistant to assist you with small business tasks. Are you a busy business owner? Are you finding yourself staying late after work? Are you working weekends to catch up with paperwork? Are you asking family members to come in and help with tasks? Are you disorganized, trying to bring together all those projects? Are you thinking about getting help, but not sure where to start? Are you hoping to alleviate some stress during work hours? Do you want to spend more time with your customers?

3. What a Virtual Assist can do for you! Lets define a Virtual Assistants PURPOSE: #1 To personally connect with you, to get to know your needs, your business needs, and to create a lasting relationship. #2 To complete tasks in a timely manner that help your business work more efficiently and productively. #3 To assist you with small or large projects, that often take minutes, hours, or days to complete, allowing you more face-toface time with your customers.

4. The Most Popular Services The services that are most asked about by clients: 1 Assistance with designing a Website or Wordpress blog 2 Assistance with designing a Newsletter or Email Campaign 3 Assistance in emailing clients (Email Management) 4 Assistance with setting up Appointments online 5 Assistance with Blog posts and updating Content on site pages

5. Opportunities to use a Virtual Assistant (that most business owners dont think about) Some left-out services that could benefit your business: 1 Creating small projects such as: Time Sheets Weekly Schedules Meeting Agendas 2 Creating Big, Important Documents such as: Proposals Business Plans Inventory Sheets

6. Lets Dive in Deeper! Think about this situation: You are a small business owner, coming into work at 7am Monday through Friday, opening the store, taking inventory, making weekly schedules, dividing up tasks for the day, greeting customers, getting ads ready for a local flyer, creating an online coupon, finding content for your monthly newsletter, posting your daily blog,and the list goes on and on. Oh, and you dont leave the office until 7pm (on a good day)! Does any of this sound familiar? Are you wearing too many hats?

7. Saving Time & Money Compare what you make per hour to what you are doing with that time: Example: You make $50 per hour as a massage therapist. You take an hour of your time to create a weekly newsletter for your clients that a Virtual Assistant can do for $20 per hour. You just lost $30. Does this make sense? Save the smaller jobs for a Virtual Assistant. Make sure you do your job (the job you love to do) not missing any time with your customers AND getting your administrative work done too!!! Easy? Wellit can be!

8. Compare your Schedule to your VAs Schedule Your Schedule Arrive at Work Open Emails Attend Appointments Lunch Break Hold Employee Meeting Collecting ideas for a Memo Leave Work Spending time with Family Your VAs Schedule Opening your File Answering your Emails Scheduling Appointments Working on Projects Scheduling Meetings Creating that Memo Creating tomorrow Schedule Still working for YOU.

9. Create Your Virtual Assistants Schedule Tasks that you dont like, dont want, or dont have timeto do. Answer emails daily Research topics for meetings Create newsletters for customers Craft a proposal for a business partner Design marketing materials for advertising Write blog post for your social media networks Design a registration form for an upcoming event Create a survey for feedback from your customers Find fabulous gifts for your extremely loyal customers Now remember, these tasks can be completed when YOU need them to be. You can schedule your VAs work!

10. Another way a VA can save you money! Besides taking the burden off of you, your Virtual Assistant can SAVE you money. 1. You wont have to pay for Fringe Benefits (Health/Dental/Life Insurance, Retirement Plans) 2. You wont have any over-head costs (Office Space, Equipment & Office Supply Expense, UI Insurance, Workers Compensation, Overtime Pay, Administrative Costs) 3. You can have your VA work less hours than a full-time employee and get more work done at the same time.

11. Are You Ready to Outsource? Do you need to SAVE money? Successfully work with a VA to save you time and money. Replace a full-time in-house employee with a part-time VA. Do you want to effectively run your business? Outsource work to a VA so you can put your business needs first. Allow more time for the things those who really matter customer! If you answered yes to the above 2 questions, then you are ready to outsource your administrative work to a Virtual Assistant. Take that stepstart being successful today!