As an entrepreneur, you need to determine the number of employees required for your business and how much it will cost you to retain them on a full-time basis. If not done properly, you might experience some capital restraints which in turn might prevent you from being able to grow your business. The more successful your business, the more administrative tasks you will have; the more time you spend on such tasks, the less time you have to engage in business activities that generate income. Hiring a Virtual Assistant is an obvious solution to your staffing problems; you can avoid having to pay expensive employee taxes and benefits. No need to look for or rent additional office space for your employees. By means of a virtual assistant, you get the advantages of professional support and also get to reduce your overhead costs.
What is a Virtual Assistant (VA)? Why Choose a VA from the Philippines?
A Virtual Assistant is an independent contractor who provides proficient administrative, technical, or creative assistance to clients without having to be physically present in the client’s office. Hiring a Virtual Assistant from the Philippines make a perfect sense since Filipinos are hard workers and have an impeccable work ethic compared to other international VAs. You can find quality but less expensive workforce from the Philippines. Aside from skills, they value competence and are well versed in both spoken and written English. English language is the primary means of communication in the Philippines.
Virtual Assistant VS Full time staff
Outsourcing your company’s administrative tasks to a virtual assistant is a wise decision because of the cost savings compared to traditional employees. When hiring full-time employees you will have to consider wages, insurance benefits, health benefits, vacation pay, office equipments, office space and training. Employee benefits are one of the biggest cash drains on business. By hiring VAs, you will reduce employee turnover, reduce training costs, increase productivity and increase the bottom line of your business.
Virtual Assistants from Philippines VS Other countries (such as India and China)
Ideally, you will want to hire virtual assistants who speak English as their first language compared to those who speak English but it’s not their main language. This causes language barriers, poor comprehension, accents and communication gaps.
Philippine is known in the outsourcing industry as the “go to” country for the one of the best talent pools to meet the ever growing outsourcing needs of entrepreneurs globally. In fact there are US based companies who have opted to build institution in the Philippines and have chosen Filipinos to run their business. Filipinos are more fluent in English compared to other countries like India and China. Philippines is known for having people who value work, can easily comprehend instructions, can work lengthy hours at an affordable price and deliver results.
Owen: Why hiring a virtual assistant from the Philippines make perfect sense? Business as usual and the new ways of doing things: Well, as an entrepreneur, I mean, you need to determine the number of employees that you require for your business to run and how much it will cost to retain them on a full time basis. The thing is if this is not done properly, you might experience some capital restraints and which in turn might prevent you from growing your business. And also the most successful you get in your business, the more administrative tasks you will have and the more time you spend on those tasks, the less time you’ll have to engage in the business activity that generate the most income. So, what it might make sense for you to do is move to the new ways of doing thing and that is hiring a virtual assistant. Hiring a virtual assistant is gonna be an obvious solution because it’s gonna help you with your staffing problem. You’re not gonna have to pay expensive employee’s taxes and benefit. You don’t have to deal with having to rent additional office space for your employee. And by means of virtual assistants, you get the advantages of getting a professional support and staff that has multiple skill set and at the same time reducing your overhead cost.
So what is a virtual assistant? And why choose one from the Philippines? Well, a virtual assistant is an independent contractor who helps to provide you with proficient administrative, technical, creative and whatever assistance that you need. But the reality is that these people, independent contractors, are not physically there with you in your office. So everything is done virtually, through the internet and through the means of technology. The only thing that a virtual assistant cannot do for you is they cannot get you coffee. Well, that’s just a joke, they’re not in the same office with you, so hence they can’t get you coffee. Well, back to the topic. Well, anyways, hiring a virtual assistants from the Philippines make perfect sense because the Filipino people are hard workers and their work ethic is impeccable compared to other VA’s that I’ve used personally in different country. I think, the Philippines, they stand out.
Well, you also have the situation where in the Philippines, the amount of money that’s gonna cost for you to hire someone from the Philippines compared to hiring someone here in the U.S., it’s gonna be a lot cheaper for you because the value of their money, the dollar obviously has higher weight. So, you can get someone from the Philippines to work for you for relatively cheap. Aside from the skills that they bring to the table, one other thing that makes the people from the Philippines stand out is that they are well versed in spoken and written English because English is one of their primary means of communication. So, you have a situation now why you hire them, most likely, they gonna have very good English and sometimes they also gonna have good written English too.
So, virtual assistant versus the full time staff. You can outsource your company’s administrative tasks to a virtual assistant. And it will be a wise decision for you especially if you’re a small business owner because now you’re saving cost compared to having to hire traditional employee. Now, when hiring full time employee you have to consider the wage that you pay them, you have to consider the insurance benefits, the health benefits, vacation pays, office space, office equipment and training and all that. Sometimes, employee’s benefits can be one of the biggest drains on your business and your profit. So, by hiring a virtual assistant, you will reduce those costs, you can reduce employee turnover, reduce training cost and you can also increase your productivity. And essentially what all business wants is to increase profit so you will increase the bottom line of your business.
Virtual assistants from the Philippines versus other countries such as India and China. Well, ideally you want to hire a virtual assistant who speaks English as their first language compared to someone who doesn’t speak English as their main language. So that’s the situation you face when you compare the virtual assistants from the Philippines to virtual assistants from India and China. The reality is besides that too, the way they pronounce the words, they have better comprehension and the accent too, sometimes not as visible from the accent you hear from those other assistants from other countries. Philippines right now is the outsourcing industry, they are one of the go to country to get one of the best talent pools of people who are looking to work for you. And they have a lot of people there who can help to meet the needs of the ever growing population of entrepreneurs globally.
Right now, we have a lot of U.S. based companies who actually have gone there to the Philippines and built facilities where they’re now having a Filipinos working for them and doing a lot of outsourcing over there. Filipinos are more fluent in English, like I said, compared to other countries like India and China. They are more fluent in English and sometimes some of them have little or no accent. The people there like to work. They value their work and they have high work ethics. And they can work long hours too and all this at affordable price and also delivers results for you.
So, if you like the content of this video and you found it helpful, please go to my blog post by using the redirect link above and post your comments and suggestions. If you own a business and you need assistance with the time consuming tasks of the business so that you can focus on the income generating tasks, please send me an email to oenaohwo@hireyourvirtualassistant.com.
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By hiring a virtual assistant it will save cost especially in compensating additional employees instead. There is an increase in company's revenue. One of the factors to consider in choosing a virtual assistant is the language so that there is no problem in communicating and comprehension. You can get professional support in the Philippines.
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Many virtual assistants nowadays caters team collaboration as well on behalf of their clients requirements. Thus, making it easier for most clients and lessening the burden of going through several outsourcing sites.
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Going to kick the hornet’s nest – in today’s economy off-shoring is not good business practice. Why? Let’s take a look at a recent scenario: Customer phones Customer Support regarding issues with their service. Customer Support call is routed to a call center based off-shore (sic India, Philippines, etc.) Representative follows script but does not ‘listen’ to Customer. The same questions are rephrased and repeated while the Customer again attempts to explain the issue they are having with their service. Representative puts Customer on hold (count 12 minutes or more) returns and repeats the same questions. Customer becomes very frustrated demands to speak to a supervisor, Representative “plays dumb” then oh dear the line is disconnected. Customer calls back, very angry yells at new Representative and the cycle repeats until at last the Customer is bewildered, fed up and now is probably going to cancel service. My point to the rambling is that you get what you pay for. If a company want to pay cheap prices, you get cheap work and poor customer services. The lack of proper Customer and Client care, the language barrier, lack of quality control and major security issues! Hello, do you really want to give access to your information to someone you can’t even take to court? Before you all get your knickers in a bunch, yes I realized that many of you attended university and probably have a business degree. BUT do you actually have the real world experience of working with US clientele, effectively communicating? What are your personal standards of quality control. Do you actually invest yourself in the job or is it just a minimum wage job and who cares?.
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