Every business owner can empathise with the feeling of spending too much time doing and not enough time leading. 

When you started your business, you were in the thick of it, leading, motivating, managing, selling, marketing, administrating, accounting, recruiting – you name it, you’ve done it! 

It is great that you can turn your hand to anything, but is it okay to still be doing everything?

When your business is growing, the team, the administration, and management tasks grow with it, until it becomes impossible to manage all these tasks yourself. 

If you carry on, you will become tired, overwhelmed, despondent, burned out, and business is bound to suffer as some tasks inevitably slip through the net. 

Your focus should be on growing your business (maybe even selling it someday), not on manager roles and responsibilities, so it makes complete business sense to hand over the running of your business to someone else with the skills needed for business management. 

Why not let them sort out the problems, onboard new starters, hire freelancers, balance the books, handle the social media strategy, and all those other daily tasks?

The good news is that there is help out there. 

An online business manager (OBM), can take over the running of your business for you, managing day-to-day operations, projects, employees, and remote team members. 

In fact, they can manage every aspect of your business for you while you focus on growth and winning more business. 

If you want to take your business to the next level or make it commercially viable so you can put an exit strategy in place, why not start the conversation with Elaine at Spero Solutions to find out how our online business manager service can help you to achieve your vision?

What is an online business manager?

According to Indeed, an online business manager is:

“A virtual support professional that helps organizations manage daily projects, processes and team members. They’re in charge of maintaining the operations of the company by tracking key performance indicators, establishing goals and measuring their progress.”

Although every business is different and duties and responsibilities may vary from day to day, there are some core competencies that are common to business management. 

The critical skills needed for business managers are:

  • Time management skills
  • Organisational skills
  • Communications skills
  • People management skills
  • Leadership skills
  • IT skills
  • Understanding business accounts/finance
  • Commercial skills i.e. sales and marketing knowledge or experience

What does a business manager do? 

They will use these skills to provide your business with a strong structure and a solid foundation that you can build on. 

They will bring calm to the storm, enabling you to stand back and assess the possibilities. 

You will have time to evaluate and develop the business strategy the OBM can implement for sustainable growth, driving your business forward towards your vision.

What’s more, you don’t need to keep track of progress yourself. 

Your business manager will identify and track KPIs for business areas, individual departments, even specific contracts, or projects. 

They will put together a report for you, so you can see how the business is performing and whether it is meeting its growth targets, without having to track these parameters yourself.

Save money with an online business manager

As well as the expertise an OBM can bring to your business and the time they can save you personally, you will also save money:

  • No in-house salary, pension, other on-costs, or benefits package
  • No training expenses – they are trained and highly skilled professionals
  • How much is your time worth? Free up your time from daily tasks and spend it on business growth instead
  • No equipment or workplace costs 
  • All meetings are online, saving travelling and room costs

Spending too much time doing and not enough time leading? - Wish you had time to grow your business?

If you feel that there aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything finished, but you have forgotten about steering the ship, then it is time to think about hiring an online business manager. 

They can give you back some of that precious commodity we all take for granted – time. 

When you first started out, what was your main driver? 

Here at Spero Solutions we can take an educated guess that it was to get a better work/life balance, spend more time with your family, earn more money and have more freedom. 

Are we right?

This business is your baby, and you should be focusing your efforts 100% on growth, seizing new opportunities, moving in new directions, bidding for new contracts, mixing with the movers and shakers.

An online business manager will do all the managing for you, leaving you free to innovate and bring in more business. 

When you are time poor, you just don’t have enough time to learn properly or dedicate the time to certain tasks that they demand. 

Online business managers are skilled in implementing time-saving systems and procedures, time management and delegation. 

And what about those tasks that are just not your forte? 

The ones you always leave until last, or just procrastinate because you have no affinity with them? 

An OBM will easily handle all those tasks that you hate, don’t have time to learn, or haven’t got the patience for, leaving you a free schedule for important meetings that will grow your customer base and your business.

In addition, they will be your right-hand person, understanding your business goals, sharing in your vision, ideas, and plans for strategic growth. 

You will have more time to focus on you, your health, your family and friends, finally reaching that work/life balance that you promised yourself at the beginning of your journey.

At Spero Solutions, our online business manager service has a proven track record of increasing profitability for businesses like yours. 

We offer a bespoke approach that is completely unique to your business that is both realistic and affordable. 

So, if you are spending too much time doing and not enough time leading and would like more time to see the big picture, call Elaine of Spero Solutions on 07846 754 747 today, to find out how an online business manager package can give you that time back, improve your mindset and help you to reach those all important goals.