Hiring a virtual assistant (VA) is an important way for a small business to take care of their non-money-making tasks. VAs typically perform administrative and technical tasks that you can’t or don’t have time to do, or that aren’t your main source of income.

Here are ten reasons why you might need a VA for your business.

1. Your workload is too high

If you find yourself working day after day, you need to find someone to help you. Do you remember why you started your own business? You started it because you wanted freedom. Now you probably feel chained to your desk. You are starting to experience success, but it is starting to take over your life.

2. You postpone important administrative tasks

You’re so busy doing billable work that important administrative tasks like customer service and accounting are put off until it’s so overwhelming you don’t even want to do it. This is dangerous because you can’t know how well your business is doing without doing the books and paperwork.

3. You are spending too much time on tasks that do not generate money

He keeps up with administrative work, but spends more than 10 hours a week doing it. These hours could be spent doing tasks that earn you money.

4. You are stressed

You find your business like a slave and you no longer have fun. You find yourself looking at classified ads and fantasizing about not having so much responsibility. Your health is suffering and you don’t have time to exercise or eat right.

5. You are working more than 40 hours a week

As a business owner, I knew I would have to work long hours at first. However, if he works more than 40 hours a week, he needs to find someone to help him. He calculates how many hours of his work are billable and non-billable. The unbillable amount is how much help you need from a VA.

6. You don’t want to train people

Hiring an employee comes with training, but hiring a VA does not. You hire one or more virtual assistants who are experienced and specialize in the things you don’t know how to do. You will get their experience once you hire them.

7. You don’t want an employee

Hiring an employee involves a lot of paperwork and government regulations. When you hire a contractor, you do your job without training, use your own tools, and meet deadlines on your own time.

8. You don’t know how to do something

If you need to do a job that you really don’t know how to do, and it will take longer because you have to learn it, it’s better to have someone else who is an expert do it for you. They will do it much faster than you, and during the time you spend trying to learn, you could be making money.

9. Your business is growing

You are building your business and it is growing fast and steadily. Every week you have more work to do than last week. You are reaching the overflow point. Contracting with a VA will help you manage growth more easily.

10. You realize that others can do the tasks

Once you realize that others can do the task you struggle to do, both at your skill level and in the time you have to work on it, you can let go and let someone else help you.