How Can I Afford to Hire a Virtual Assistant?

You want help for you business.  You need help.  You haven’t had a break in weeks and you’re just about to hide out in the basement for a day or two to have some quiet time and evaluate this whole “be my own boss” thing.  How can you possibly hire a virtual assistant? You’re not in “millionaire” status yet. Heck, you’re not really even in “thousandaire” status. But you just can’t do it alone any more.  How can it all work out?

Virtual Assistants Aren’t Full Time
They can be, but most virtual assistants have a book of clients just like you who are just getting help when they need it.  And truly, that is the best part about hiring a virtual assistant.  You don’t have to have someone sitting there, getting paid, waiting for work to show up.

Hire on a Per Project Basis
There is no requirement to hire a VA at an hourly rate.  Start with one project. Set limits for the time, the dollar amount, the task.  If you tell someone you want them to do as much research as she can for $200, then you don’t have to worry about what the project will cost.  It’s already there, and you can plan your budget accordingly.

Hire for a Set Amount of Time
Another way to keep within a budget you can afford is to hire a virtual assistant for a certain amount of hours per month.  Plenty of assistants provide package deals. This way you know that every month it is going to cost you X dollars. Once it’s built into your budget, it becomes part of your regular expenses.

The key to being able to afford a virtual assistant is understanding the financial benefit you can achieve from it.  Would you rather be trying to cobble together social media posts, or researching leads, or would you rather be trying to talk with and sell to potential clients?  

If a virtual assistant could free up one hour of your time each week to allow you to sell to potential clients, what would that be worth to you?  If one sale was $500 and one hour of a virtual assistant’s time cost $25, I’d say that’s an amazing ROI.

It’s scary to invest when you’re counting every penny, but when you look at the big financial picture, you’ll see that you can’t afford not to hire a virtual assistant.  (And you won’t need to hide out in your basement!)

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