Many companies are utilizing the tools of social media in relation to CRM. The tools of social media such
as blogs, wikis, podcasts, UGC (user generated content): comments, review, social tags, bookmarks, rankings, ratings, photos and video are used to foster social interaction, not substitutions for real CRM. No matter what the economy looks like some companies are investing more in various areas of social media tools.
Other companies need to make a change but don’t. Social media & CRM go hand in hand to some degree. But true, beneficial customer engagements are governed by trust, transperency & personal experience. Some companies try to automate their way out of dealing with the real issues by throwing social media tools at them & mix it with a little marketing, customer service & sales.
But is that really the way to go?
Some companies try to use them as an easy out from developing a true customer engagement strategy. These tools are not a substitute for anything. Social media is becoming more of a trend instead of a fad, a new way to do business. Customer service is a great focus point for launching a social CRM initiative because the strength of “social†comes from the strength of the underlying community. Services & support is a natural point where company & customer interests come together. It’s more difficult to build a vibrant community if you start by maketing or selling.
Social media tools are not a part of the traditional CRM strategy.People want to be engaged. So to be proficient & interactive with people is to get to know them first.
That way you’ll have a better explanation & understanding of how to incorporate them into your customer engagement strategy. Don’t be afraid to use them. You need to broaden your horizons & try new things to reach people. Use them with caution. Many see CRM as technology but CRM is a strategy enabled by technology. It’s possible to limit yourself by implementing CRM before developing a customer engagement strategy.
The various social media tools are just that “TOOLS.” Tools to enable you to interact more effectively with people. You may be like many other professionals who may or may not know about how social media tools are changing CRM. Don’t try to automate your way out of customer interaction by throwing social media tools at the real issues. Social media tools are meant to be enablers of beneficial customer interaction not the drivers or substitutions.
~~Author~~~
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You have to have your mind geared toward survival during the tough times in business. You want to be one
of the ones who comes out on top no matter what & you want longevity. In order to survive & obtain longevity it’s all in your mindset & actions. How do you react when times are tough? Do you let them take you under? Do figure out ways to fight back?
Once you get your mind right & redirect your thought patterns & actions then things will change and you can weather the storm. Because tough times in business can beat you down if you let them. Once you get your mind right, then you can think towards making needed improvements which lead to survival & success. In business you will have highs & lows. Are you going to stand & weather the storm?
Repeat After Me:
I WILL SURVIVE, I WILL SURVIVE, I WILL SURVIVE!!!!!
First you have to stop & think. Think about what is the 1st step in surviving the tough times. Many business owners like yourself seem to just relish over the good times in business but they don’t put much thought into the down times, tough times & how to handle them. So what’s the 1st thing that you should consider in the tough times of business? The first thing to consider is getting help.
Get beneficial support in the tough times and the up times from Virtual Assistant services. Virtual Assistant services can be the shoulder for you to lean on when times are tough, working with you to work out some of the problems that you may be facing, helping you to see things a little clearer by providing you with consulting, administrative support, business management, networking support, client management, marketing, start-up assistance etc…
Think about and learn how to spot the slow times, when they will occur & how they will affect your business. You need to know how to work around the tough times and make them work to your advantage. While others may fall apart during tough times, you’ll survive. In addition to surviving, you want to grow & prosper.
During the tough times you must find a way to supplement your income such as creating an ebook, other info products or freelancing etc… The revenue that you generate during slow times should be reinvested back into your business and also put some away for a “rainy day” savings, which is always a good idea. Even in the best industries a wise business person knows to plan for the tough times.
Aim to stay in the black during any business cycle, this entails turning to your customers for support. Adjust your business more to meet their needs. Step back and take yourself out of the mindset of what you do for a living such as being a coach, restaurant owner, accountant etc… Ask yourself ” What does the local community want & how can your business fill that need? Focus on the needs that you can fill. Do periodic checks to see that you are not straying away from your focus.
If you said no or unsure then it’s time to rethink things, restrategize & implement a new plan. It’s possible to grow outside your core focus but to be really successful never lose sight of your focus.
To help aid you in the survival of the tough times:
1 Opt for Outsourcing
Consider outsourcing so you can offload some of your tasks, which give you more time to refocus, reorganize & get back on track. Consider outsourcing to Virtual Assistant services for support. You will benefit from the support that you’d recieve from Virtual Assistance such as being able to reorganize, refocus & manage your business or projects better. VA services helps you take the load off, so you can have more time for implementing new strategies, more time to focus on your clients or other aspects of life or business. When you have more time for your core business focus then you turn your down time into a more lucrative sales period which will put your business back on top month after month.
2. Focus & Plan
Implement a plan to supplement your income during the down times & through the  life of your business. Think about ways to augment (increase) your down time sales periods. You should be able to forcast an estimated time of when sales will be down and plan for them. You should always have a down time plan in place. Document the slow times & plan for them. Which ever season that your sales slip, you can for example: offer discounts, provide gift cards, create info products, increase networking, give a free webinar etc… That alone could pull in more business.
3. Focus On Value
Concentrate more on the value that you offer rather than products or services. When you break it down, what really matters is the value that you offer, your experience & benefits.
What do you bring to the table, besides products or services?
Focus on growth strategies & the benefits that you provide to your customers. If all else fails, value never fails. Your customers will remember your value & because of that they will remain loyal in any economy no matter what your competition is selling.
4. Be Quiet & Listen
You have got to learn to be quiet and listen to your clients. Do you have the patients to listen, think, then respond? Not jump to conclusions. Listen to what is going on & to what your customers say. You can do that by taking a survey of your clients likes & dislikes. This will give you a guide as to what your strengths & weaknesses are. For example you can probe your clients by asking them “What comes to your mind when you think of my business?” & other questions.
If the majority of them mainly talk about your products, then it’s time for a change. Time for you to do something different. If they mainly talk about the value that you bring then you are on the right track. Asking probing questions will give you a guide as to what you are doing right, wrong, what they think of your business & what they want. After that you can adjust your products or services to meet their needs & survive the tough times which will bring in year round success.
~~The Author~~
Clerical Business Solutions is a Virtual Assistant service & Business Management company. It is owned by Renee, who is the author of two successful EBooks: “Take The Fast Track To Productivity Success & “Grow A Successful Business In Any Economy” (click the purchase buttons at the top of the blog). Clerical Business Solutions services are available in the areas of administrative support, business management, start-up assistance, project work (article writing, powerpoint, thesis etc…), business or personal planning and more. You can contact Renee for services or her ebooks at renee@clericalsolutionsinc.net , www.clericalsolutionsinc.net . Have A Great Day!!
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Your business can be a thrilling adventure and being an entrepreneur you just can’t sit still because there is business to be taken care of, deals to make, places to go and people to see. With every thing that is going 
on in your business: Are You Burning The Candle At Both Ends?
You, as a business owner or entrepreneur, you are not alone if you find the wealth of tasks that you confront overwhelming. Were you up till 4 a.m. again trying to play catch-up? Do you ever wonder, how am I going to get this done on time and still get up for business tomorrow?
Sometimes the best and the brightest of us can’t get around to all of the “stuff” that we have to do. The more business that you do the more “stuff” that has to be done. The more “stuff” that has to be done the more late nights that you may encounter, yet again. You may be juggling many things at once such as being your own receptionist, administrative assistant, your own ‘PR’ person, your own salesman, marketing coordinator, web designer, client contact manager, your own tax accountant etc…all in one.
Is there an end to all of this madness?
 If you’ve been TRYING to get it to get it together, TRYING to manage you’re to-do list, TRYING to do it won’t help. Creating another to-do list to get things done won’t help but outsourcing will. That’s right outsourcing can be the outlet & resource for you. Outsourcing particularly to the Virtual Assistant Services of Clerical Business Solutions. If you have been trying to do too many things at once, spending unnecessary hours on things that can be delegated to someone else, stressing out about how you’re going to manage things; those are some signs that you need support.
Outsourcing can be a benefit for your business & projects. When you offload, outsource and delegate many non-profit making, time consuming tasks, you free up your time to concentrate on other aspects of life and business. Outsourcing to Virtual Assistant Services keeps you from burning the candle at both ends.
I know that as business owner & entrepreneur a business life can take a toll on a person, personally, professionally & financially. When you first start your business endeavors you’re high as a kite and you feel like you’re running on pure adrenalin. When you feel like that, you feel as if you could attend to your business 20 hours a day, as if you don’t need any rest. If you continue in that manner how long could you last on 4 hours of sleep a day?
You’re not a robot, you have to relieve yourself at some point. When reality hits, you have to get down to business and do what needs to be done to keep your business in business or develop new products. How can you keep it together & do what needs to be done when you have so much to do & no outlet? You have little to no plans, no system of organization or implementation in place.
Many business owners like yourself have too much on their plate and end up “Burning The Candle At Both Ends”, that leads to stress, chaos, fatigue and little success. You should learn to delegate & outsource. Take time for yourself & learn to use the resources of others such as this Virtual Assistant Service, to help you through this exciting but busy time. Â Virtual Assistant services help you to add balance, focus & organization to your busy life.
To avoid a lot of business mistakes that a lot of business owners make is by planning ahead & utilizing the proper resources. You can improve your business life when you outsource. Operating a business involves elements of chance & luck, in other words taking risks. It also involves proper planning,  thinking things through and being mindful of each & every detail every step of the way. When you couple that with outsourcing, it will greatly increase your odds of improving your business, pulling through, improving your productivity & achieving more success.
Outsource Today!!
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Virtual Assistant Services & Business Management
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Sometimes it’s hard to break from old habits and try new things. Could you imagine what it would be like to develop new more productive way of doing things? It can be tempting to continue business practices 
that have lasted a long time. Time is always changing and so is business. Sometimes you have to make room for change. Change can be hard but tempting. Your days at work are pretty much the same day in and day out. The monotony of many business tasks can take a toll on you leading to bad habits and stress.
To help sustain your business, sometimes you got to move forward and try new things. Yes I’m sure that many old business practices keep holding you back but some practices you have to improve on or delegate & outsource if you want to keep up in your industry. Make a change for the better by breaking old habits and chose Virtual Assistance.
You may want to catch up to speed because your competition already has in utilizing Virtual Assistance. This is the way that many business owner, professionals & entrepreneurs have broken into a new way of doing business. Many of your administrative operations can be delegated & outsource through the Virtual Assistance of Clerical Business Solutions.
When you change your habits you change your life. So make a change for the better and choose Virtual Assistance. Breaking old non-productive habits of doing business can help to propell you into the future on another level. Virtual Assistance allows you more time and room to improve on your productivity and free your time for the more profit making aspects of business which leads to better success.
When you break old negative non-productive habits, you have to develop new more productive ones to take their place or else you’ll fall back into the same pattern.
You should be out with the old way of doing business that’s keeping you from handling the more money making aspects of your business and in with newer more productive ways of doing business. Do you ever get that feeling that you may be sluggish in your productivity, sales, management etc…? Kind of like you’re just just going in circles getting the same negative results. You want help but if you are in that pattern then doing the same old thing over & over again with no positive results is called chaos. Why continue to spend your days in chaos?
Your competition has already followed suit and getting far ahead of you till you won’t be able to compete. You can’t continue in the same cycle of chaos and expect different results. Are you ready to become daring, innovate and break those old pesky habits? Break free from the chaotic bad habits and chose outsourcing, you’ll be glad that you did.
Clerical Business Solutions
“Solutions To Simplify Your Life & Business!”
Renee ~ Virtual Assistance & Business Management
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Cutting costs is a hot topic for many business owners. I had a conversation with a CEO who’s a client of mine about this serious economic crisis and how many business owners are in a cost cutting frame of 
mind. You are probably thinking of the same thing now, about how can you cut costs and still maintain your business. You enjoy your business but it seems as though while running your business, your costs are rising.
You want to maintain your business, make a profit but cut costs at the same time. Cutting costs is crucial to the survival and profitability of your small business. You may be feeling the stress and pressure of what to do now, how to effectively run you business and stay afloat. You should take into consideration and take action to outsource. Outsource to help you in the fight to cutting costs.
Consider outsourcing to a Virtual Assistant service such as Clerical Business Solutions. Many business owners have found that outsourcing has helped them to cut costs, keep their businesses afloat, more productive and profitable. Many tasks that you have done in-house could be done at a lesser cost if outsourced. Think about it as a solution to your economic woes and a stress reliever. In essence you are turning a fixed cost into a variable one.
I work with many business owners who have sought Virtual Assistance as a beneficial cost-effective solution to economic hard times in business. Some of my clients use Virtual Assistance as a permanent way of doing business. As a business owner you need all of the help that you can get and in a cost-effective, dependable way.
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“Solutions To Simplify Your Life & Business!”
Renee, renee@clericalsolutionsinc.net
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Having a business or starting a business can be exciting and scary at the same time. You’re ready to begin a business or you’ve already started a business. So now you’re ready & set to embark upon this journey of business ownership.
But are you really ready for this?
If you are ready to travel down the road of business ownership, you think about how great of a business idea that you have, how many great customers you’ll have and how much profit you’re going to make. You are convinced that you have a great business model and your business is your passion, pride and joy. You hit a few speed bumps that slow you down, how do you handle them? Do you just throw in the towel and just give up? Or do you find ways to help solve your problem before it gets worse and put you out of buisness?  Once you’ve been doing busness for a while or even if you are still in the start up stages :
   Has This business Become Your
                           Dream        Or          Nightmare?
                               
                   
At some point and time we all feel one way or another. Many business owners second guess themselves as to whether or not they should have started a business in the first pace. As a business owner you must look before you leap. You must thoroughly look ( as in research and educate yourself) into the type of business that you want before you just up and leap into a business. Because a wonderful dream can turn into a nightmare if you are not planned, prepared and ready for the speed bumps ahead.
Many businesses involve risk at some level and at some point in time. In business we must expect the unexpected. Also in business you just got to take the good with the bad and keep it moving. If you can’t handle it alone get some professional help.
These are a few questions that you must ask yourself and there are many more. If you know it or not education and research is imperative for you and your business growth. You must research and educate yourself about where you want to locate your business, the type of business industry, what types of services that you want to provide etc….
Should you take the plunge? Should you dig into your bank account and pull out the three month’s worth of rent (first month, month in advance and a month security) that the broker said you’ll need to close the deal?
Well it all depends on how much research that you’ve done.
Rent, loan repayments, utilities, advertising, payroll - add it all up and figure out how much money you’ll need to bring in each month. And don’t forget you’ll need to pay yourself, too.
For help estimating your costs and operating expenses, take a look at the market research and industry financial reports available from Bizminer.com and the industry data available from the US Census Bureau.
For additional real world research, talk to people who own similar businesses to the one you want to start. Go to forums on networking social websites, network outside your office, you will probably find business owners who will give you information about customers, costs and operational details you should know.
Put that information together with the rest of your real world research and review it all, carefully before making your final decision. Doing so will help you to create a more realistic picture of whether the business you’d like to start is likely to turn into your dream business or a nightmare.
To keep your business from turning into a nightmare you must educate yourself, research, plan and prepare. If you are truly serious about staying in business you need all of the help that you can get because many times you won’t be able to do it alone. It’s always good to seek outside resources for support.
So is your business a Dream or Nightmare?
Clerical Business Solutions
Virtual Assistant Services & Business Management
“Solutions To Simplify Your Life & Business!”
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Are you deciding on a new business? You’re all super charged and ready to begin your business. But do you have the drive, desire and commitment to make it work? Well, you got to have that if you have a REAL 
business that you want to pursue and if you want longevity. But wait…..could there be one thing missing? Yeah, that’s right you lack a powerful business idea.
Never fear, you are not alone there are many successful, experienced business owners who may have difficulty deciding on their next move. Well today there are 6, count ‘em 6, 6 steps that you can take to develop a powerful business idea. Â
1. It’s All About Your Attitude
When you are developing a new business or adding another business, it’s all about your attitude. A positive, optimistic attitude and forecast is the foundation for success. The foundation that you set is the ground work that sets the direction for your idea. Know and understand that research, education, asking questions, plain old creative brainstorming is necessary and worth the effort to achieve your goals.
You must be willing to learn and educate yourself on business and the type of business industry that you want to go in. YOU MUST EDUCATE YOURSELF, I CAN NEVER SAY IT ENOUGH. Just because you are out of school, the learning never stops because the business world changes all the time. Something in the business world could be changing now as you read this.  You have to stay on top of the knowledge of what’s going on in business. If you don’t you’ll fall behind. If you can afford to experiment, then do it. Always use mistakes or failures as learning opportunities.
2. Switch Places
Think about it and put yourself in the place of your customer. If you are the customer, what types of products or services fit best with your business model, what aspects of the product or service you like and dislike and what elements might add value.
3. Get A Sounding Board
Seek out someone with whom you can get some feedback from, good or bad. You can use your family and friends, those are good choices but their experience and emotions may cloud their objectivity. So choose carefully. In addition to family and friends, you should seek out expert advice from a person who will ask the right questions, tell you the upfront truth and not feel guilty about offering criticism.
Many current and budding entrepreneurs have business consultants that are Virtual Assistants (such as this one-Clerical Business Solutions), with whom they use as sounding boards who help to offer advice, guide their thinking and alert them to hidden considerations or risks.
4. Research, Education, Research, Education!!
A I said before, you must have research and educate yourself to be successful in the goals that you are trying to achieve. Get up, get going and learn EVERYTHING that you possibly can about business and the type business that you are going into. Through your education and research you’ll uncover and discover. The more that you discover it will be easier for you to spot a need or trend that your business can fill.
Many times investigating one idea can lead you to another one and another one and another one etc… Then you’ll find that those ideas will lead you to more ideas that may be more promising or easier to implement.
5. Be A Daredevil
In some businesses there is plenty of risk involved and sometimes you gotta take some risks. Many, many years ago, in the early days of the airplane, daredevil men and women would perform acrobatic feats on the wings of airplanes while soaring above their amazed spectators. They had a simple rule for survival that’s just as applicable to todays entrepreneurs: don’t grab for something unless you already have a firm hold on something else.
In other words, conduct your small business exploration and development around your current career skills or responsibilities. Do not be in a rush to make hasty decisions or investments, take some time to think things through. Write down your ideas, keep a journal. That way your mind stays clear, stress-free to think things through and make the right decision.
6. Put Your Research Into A Plan & Your Plan Into Action
Once you have done your research, take what you have and put it on paper. Once you put it on paper (such as a business plan or just write it out)Â that will help you to see the direction that you want to take your business idea. It will help you to write out milestones, the steps that you need to take to reach your goals. When you incorporate your research and ideas into a business plan, it’s a good exercise that helps you to assess possibilities, contingencies, opportunities and limitations of any business idea, whether you decide to follow through or not.
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ojects? Do you need a cost-effective way to manage your business or projects? Do you want to gain more balance, organization and focus? Do you just want to get things done in a timely manner so you can get on with your life?To help alleviate your stress, strain and pain of your daily business grind is to outsource. That’s right outsource your stress. Outsource the things that keep you unorganized, confused or you don’t what to do with. Outsourcing is a great business pain reliever and stress reliever just by knowing that you have handed over your pains to this professional Business Management Co and Virtual Assistant Service~Clerical Business Solutions, just so you can get it out of the way.
With outsourcing you don’t lose control of your business or projects, you gain better control because once you get the monotonous, tedious, mundane, time-consuming things out of your way then you gain better control of your busines or projects and you can get on with your life. You can carry on with the more money-making aspects of your business.
Well you’ve come to the right place! Clerical Business Solutions is your pain reliever, stress reliever, fever reducer and business resource all wrapped up into one. The solution for your business needs starts right here. Clerical Business Solutions provides worldwide, outsourcing/ off-site services to help you manage your business or projects better, to help you to manage your school projects better (such as thesis, dissertation, manuscript etc…).
Clerical Business Solutions is in the business of
helping others to succeed in business.
“Your success is my success,
Your business is my job and my job helps your businessâ€~Renee /Owner
Email your pains to Renee: renee@clericalsolutionsinc.net
Let’s talk about it, get out in the open.
I want to know. Myself as a business owner, feel your pain and I know exactly what you’re going through. Don’t keep it bottled up inside. If you’re a new entrepreneur then you may be feeling the pain of starting a business now, you may be feeling dark and gloomy. If you are a long time or current business owner, your business doesn’t have to come to a halt just because everything is a mess now.  Well let me show you that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yes, you can see your way out of this with a little professional help.
Outsourcing is a great benefit for many projects and business operations in terms of saving money, saving time, reducing business expenses. Many business owners, professionals, budding entrepreneurs and individuals don’t have the time money or resources to hire extra employees or any employees at all for that matter. That’s why they are partnering with the worldwide, cost-effective, beneficial solution :
This Virtual Assistant Service.
STOP THE INSANITY! FREE YOUR MIND AND YOUR TIME! So you can stop being so stressed out and learn to love business again.
“YOUR TOMORROW REFLECTS THE DECISIONS THAT YOU MAKE TODAY!â€
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When you think back on how you started your business, you think about all the planning and research that
went into starting your business. You did do that right? Well many people do and many people don’t take time out to research the types of businesses that they want to start, so they will know what they are getting into. Running a business is not an easy thing.
Well if you did take the time out to research, then hopefully all of your research and planning is meeting your expectations. Now you need to put forth some action to maintain your investment in your research and analysis to take your short-term success into your long-term future. Here are 6 quick tips to manage the long-term growth of your business.
1. GO BACK AND REVISIT YOUR BUSINESS PLANS
When you start your business, your business plan does not get put up in the closet or on some dusty shelf just because your start up phase is over. You must take time out to refer to it often just to make sure that your estimates reflect your current realities.
Make sure that you have everything written down so you can always have a record of it and refer back to it. You should even save a copy of it on your computer. You should have goals, plans and milestones that you follow through on to help your business to grow. Even small changes in your business market may require you to alter existing contingencies and develop new ones.
2.KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE NUMBERS
Your financial statements provide insight into the health of your business. Forecast your cash flow ahead of time by several months (just to give you an outline) base it on reasonable expectations for sales and income, demand for your products and services, regular payments (loan payments, rent etc…) and other factors. When you compare actual cash flow projections, you can spot changes that will help improve your performance.
3. DEVELOP RELATIONSHIPS
Broaden your horizons and build partnerships with like-minded business people in your field or other consultants who have your best interest at heart. Even highly experienced entrepreneurs can benefit from the perspectives of others. You never know when they may call on you when they need help; it may be at a time when you need the work.
4. DELEGATE/Â OUTSOURCEÂ TIME-CONSUMING TASKS
If you are a budding entrepreneur or currently operating a business or several businesses; a growing business will surely demand a lot of your time. You and your staff have to deal with a lot of things that may keep you from focusing on your core business operations.
Outsourcing is a viable option for your business or projects. It can relieve you of tasks that consume too much of your time from the more profit making aspects of your business.
You can identify staff members who can take on different, routine or managerial tasks then you can outsource the rest. Many of your staff members will enjoy the opportunity to grow personally and professionally. Then you’ll be free to focus on the road ahead.
5. LOOK AT THE BIGGER PICTURE
Think about it, what issues or trends affect your business? Could it be something as far as a change in foreign policy or something minor as a street light near your store? Keep up to date with your community, study your sales records and communicate more often with your customers, suppliers and colleagues. Your awareness of this will make you less susceptible to surprises and better prepared to capitalize on and even anticipate changes.
6. KEEP UP YOUR EDUCATION
As your business grows you will gain more knowledge, awareness and instincts. You must continue to educate yourself on the ups and downs of business, your business market, the changing times in business etc… Business changes all the times and you must continue to research and educate yourself.
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Have you just wondered how you could save more in your business expenses this year and every year? Well there’s a beneficial way that you can start saving today, at this very moment. Managing a business can be a costly and time-consuming process. You don’t want to add more costs to what you already have, you want to save more. You want to save in every way that you can. The more that you can save, the better.
Save Over $60,000 In Business Expenses This Year And Every Year,
Just By Outsourcing.
That’s right! You can save more by outsourcing. You can save over $60,000 in business expenses by outsourcing to this Virtual Assistant Service and Business Management Co~ Clerical Business Solutions. You can reduce your work hours, your workload and save money at the same time. Your 8-15 hour work day can be reduced to 4-5 hours a day just by outsourcing. That’s a true benefit and stress reliever.
You don’t pay employee expenses when you outsource. You don’t pay additional in-house business expenses when you outsource.  Outsourcing saves you money in the long run, just read the chart below.
When you compare the rate and expenses of hiring additional in-house employees, it can get very expensive. Well that’s not the case when you outsource. Employee related expenses can get very costly and not to mention workers compensation insurance.
So try outsourcing to reduce your expenses and help lighten your load. Once you do, you’ll be glad that you did. Outsourcing can benefit you and your current staff. Look below to see how you can save.
COST COMPARISON
FULL- TIME EMPLOYEE
VIRTUAL Â ASSISTANT
Hourly Rate Of Pay
$20.00
$35.00
Fringe Benefits @ 35%
(Health/ dental/ life insurance, retirement etc…)
$7.00
NONE
Overhead Rate @ 50%
(Office space, equipment, office supplies, UI insurance, workers comp, Over-time pay, Administration costs)
$10.00
NONE
TOTAL RATE OF PAY
$37.00
$35.00
HOURS PER YEAR
2080
480
TOTALÂ LABOR COSTS
$76,960.00
$16,800.00
THE DIFFERENCE IS $60,160.00 IN LABOR COSTS
YOU SAVE OVER $60,000 IN LABOR COSTS
With a Virtual Assistant you only pay for time on task, not for long employee lunch breaks, extended employee socializing etc…Â A Virtual Assistant get right to the task and doesn’t stop until completion. Unlike most company employees who waste company time and money by surfing the internet and other things.
Basically to sum it up, you should just contract with this Virtual Assistant service because it’s more cost-effective, a great business resource and a wise business move. Even if you only have 1 hour of work per week or per month, still outsource it.
Make Your Next Move Your Best Move And Outsource Today!!
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