Thinking of hiring a remote virtual assistant for your growing company?

by: Carmencita Villa Gaborni / March 5, 2022

This article wrote by Sue Andrey Ong, also a freelancer and my batchmate in Surge Digital Agency online Course, will help business owners/SMEs in their daily business operations and eventually in their business goals.

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Even before pandemic hit in the early 2020, remote working or virtual assistant services began in the 1990s providing tech support and secretarial services through phone calls. Indeed, virtual assistant has open up new doors for offering accessible needed services and manpower. However, with the pandemic not going away any time soon, a rising trend dubbed as "the Great Resignation" wherein a wave of resignations from workers even in global companies across US and around the world are happening. How do we combat this surge of resignations?

Remote working or work from home setting has became the "new normal" for the working force. As companies and even small business have adapted to this new working set-up, the work load is now even more overwhelming (regardless of time zone difference) with transactions and marketing promotions coming in are now brought in the digital platform and catching up to the latest trend to increase consumer reach.

Why hire a virtual assistant?

Presently, there is now a growing demand of general virtual assistants and other types of virtual freelancers, especially ones who specializes in a specific niche (i.e. customer support, social media marketing, data entry and transcription, etc.) in order to fill the needs of the company and offload some of the overwhelming work the business owners want to take off from their plate. For small business owners who are planning to take up their very first virtual assistant (VA), I would recommend to consider what are the pros and cons of hiring your own VA to optimize your brand's presence, consumer growth and success. One of the benefits for sure with hiring a VA is the goal to provide support in assisting your business by taking some of the manual and time consuming tasks off from your plate and let you have more time to focus on your passion and other interests.

If you are looking for a VA or social media manager to help manage your growing business, my services enumerate some of the tasks I offer as a virtual freelance assistant and social media manager to my clients. You can also post a job in online hiring platforms such as Upwork, Onlinejobs.ph and Surge Marketplace

May this article aid our readers especially business owners in finding their VAs that fits to their requirement/s. Thank you for this article Sue! If you are interested in the services that Sue offers, feel free to check out her website.