As a business owner, it’s almost guaranteed that you’ll have plenty of tasks you dislike doing in your business. Imagine being able to pass all the dull things to someone else… Well, the good news is you can outsource boring business tasks to a virtual assistant!

Taking away tedious tasks from your day will help in a variety of ways, as you’re able to focus on your skillset and idea development –

  • Get more time to focus on growing the business
  • Feel more organised and professional
  • Scale your business offering easier
  • Provide a better customer service
  • Enjoy a better work/life balance
  • Feel supported and less stressed

What’s not to like about delegating the boring things in your business?

Tedious business tasks to outsource

Although there might be plenty of things you don’t enjoy doing, it can be hard to know where it starts to delegate to a virtual assistant (VA).

When you’re so used to doing everything yourself, it takes a while to think about outsourcing boring tasks.

What do you find boring? Is there anything you actively avoid?  What do you do, over and over, that are really below your pay grade?

Boring tasks a virtual assistant would love to take off your plate include –

  • Data entry
  • File management
  • Filing receipts
  • Meeting minutes
  • Organising minutes
  • Diary management
  • Online research
  • Email list management
  • Website management
  • Inbox management
  • Replying to queries
  • Sending customer surveys
  • Transcription of audio/video files
  • Payroll and account entry
  • Creating social media content
  • Scheduling social media content
  • Replying to comments/messages
  • Repurposing/distributing content
  • Setting up CRM systems
  • Managing CRM systems
  • Automating processes
  • Creating email templates

The list goes on to include anything else that’s a repeatable task, not requiring your specialist skills.

How does outsourcing boring tasks help to grow your business?

The first reason why you should outsource tedious tasks is obvious – you find it boring, so it takes it off your plate.

When you have more fun doing your work and running a business, it will show in everything you do.

When has a more enthusiastic outlook ever been anything but good?

Another reason is the amount of headspace and additional time outsourcing tedious tasks will give you.

As a business owner, you didn’t get into business to deal with these small, unimportant things. You started a business to utilise your specific experience.

Right now, does it feel like you’re unable to reach your goals because you’re being held back?

If that’s a ‘yes’, or even a ‘sort of’, then outsourcing will benefit you.

When you have more free time, you can look at the bigger picture.

Business development will become easier, as it’s no longer a worry about how you will manage everything yourself.

Working with a VA will give you more awareness around how long things take, rather than how long you expect them to take.

Let’s face it, most of the time you start something that you think will only take you 20 minutes, and three hours later you’re pulling your hair out.

When someone else is managing the task, you will be able to track and plan easier using their experience.

A virtual assistant will likely be quicker than you at these repetitive, boring tasks, as they are great at them, and they will actually enjoy it!

Get organised to give a better customer experience

Another benefit of outsourcing the boring business tasks, is you’re always on top of your admin.

When it’s managed regularly and you have proper business systems and processes, your day to day becomes far easier.

That means when you get new customers, you have more capacity for a better, more streamlined customer service.

This will in turn grow your business and build a better reputation for your brand.

That’s a win-win!

Benefits of outsourcing a virtual assistant over hiring an employee

Sometimes, hiring a virtual assistant can be a great way to bridge the gap when you’re not quite ready to hire an employee, but you still need support.

It’s a more cost-effective and stress-free solution, as a virtual assistant is only paid for the time they use.

You can change your package as your business grows, so it’s the most efficient use of a VA’s time.

Eventually, you might find yourself ready to hire an employee to take away all the repetitive admin duties.

If you do make that move in the future, a virtual assistant can help to onboard and train a new employee for you.

But for various reasons, that’s not always the right decision for a business.

If you decide to keep running your business without staff, a helpful VA will stay by your side for as long as you need them!