Remember when the key to a company's success was its size?
The largest possessed the greatest amount of power and thus crushed the smallest. It seemed kind of unfair.
Luckily, the world is changing and - as Rupert Murdoch says - the new key to success is speed. And this gives us some balance, since not all companies are big, but all YES can be fast.
The biggest limitation of any company and generally the most ignored is usually the lack of time. This is the neck of our bottle and where all the performance and growth of our business is stuck. Therefore, solving this problem as a first priority would represent the most efficient option; Only after solving this limitation would it be productive to address the remaining problems.
“The world is changing at great speed. It will no longer be the greatest who defeats the smallest. The fastest will beat the slowest ”Rupert Murdoch.
The goal of a company is to produce or sell, and the faster these activities can be carried out, the more money will be earned in less time.
With these data, we can deduce that time is money. By the way, the smaller a company is, the easier it will be to accelerate its activities.
What steps can I take to streamline and accelerate my business?
Perfect: now we can take steps to make concrete changes.
Naturally, by adopting a mindset that appreciates speed, you will be more receptive to taking the opportunities that come your way - for example, conducting meetings virtually rather than personally. But this is not all, and it is not enough either.
The most valuable thing you can do is delegate and outsource help. Ideally, the tasks that you execute today and that do not require your “know-how” or constitute your specialty. You could delegate those to a person on your team, or if you don't have a virtual team yet, you can start putting it together by hiring trained people who specialize in helping people like you who run an internet business.
Virtual Assistants play a fundamental role today in the growth of internet businesses. Some examples of tasks you can delegate to a VA are:
- customer service via email. Complete administration of your blog: maintenance of plugins, moderation of comments, preparation of each post - search for images, put it in draft and publish it, etc. -, search for valuable material to comment on your blog or to inspire you for your next article, even the writing of your articles. search and prepare valuable content to increase your participation in social networks (Twitter, Facebook, etc.). prepare shopping carts, payment links, and integrate them into your pages. help you with the technical and administrative details of the launch of your digital products (updating your website, payment settings, email marketing, transcription of your audios and / or videos, etc.). management of all administrative matters (billing, customer service, etc.).management of all the matters that you are delegating to different people in your team or external providers (to centralize all communications and coordination of work in one person). Internet research to solve doubts or problems (for example: one of the most recent cases that my VA solved for me was finding out how to convert my online training videos conducted from GoToWebinar to a format that could be edited with Camtasia). claims management that you usually do yourself (call the bank to claim xx issue, contact technical support of a product that is giving us problems or do not know how to use, etc. the idea is understood, right?).
If you invest time recruiting efficient and trained Virtual Assistants, you will free up a lot of high-value time and in turn that will allow you to focus on the actions that will generate income, as just to mention an example: create digital products to sell online.
This will happen not only because your business will flow faster and more efficiently, but also because what you pay an assistant per hour will be less than what you earn per hour, so that task will now cost you much less money.
So you can achieve goals more quickly - through delegation to people who take care of tasks that are wasting your time and money.
With this professional help, you will be free to focus on your business priorities without being distracted by minor details that may take days, weeks, or more to resolve or complete.
Have you already delegated tasks this way? In what way (s) has your business improved?
