Do Virtual Assistants Know Everything?
The Virtual Assistant profession has come a long way in the last few years. More and more business owners are not only familiar with the term Virtual Assistant but they have a general idea of what we do. However, there seems to be a misconception that us VAs can do everything!
I was speaking with a business owners this week who was interested in hiring a Virtual Assistant. During our discussion, she indicated she wanted to hire only one person to join her team and they needed to have extensive experience in areas ranging from writing and editing, web design, bookkeeping, blog customization and managing the shopping cart. Wow!
I encouraged this business owner to consider hiring a Virtual Assistant to look after the ‘general’ tasks such as the shopping cart management, blog posting, broadcasting etc. and to have someone with specialized skills to come in and assist with specific projects. This way she would benefit from working with an expert in a particular area - therefore saving time, energy and money over all.
There are many skilled VAs out there, however I don’t know many that would consider themselves as “experts” in all areas indicated above. Many may consider themselves as ‘generalists’ where they offer a wide range of services. If you were an expert in web design, would you also be fully experienced and an ‘expert’ in bookkeeping - most likely not.
Virtual Assistants - don’t feel you need to know how to do anything and everything. You will do yourself (and your client) a favor by helping them find an expert to help with a specific project and manage the process then if you took the task on yourself with limited expertise. Consider the areas that you excel in and enjoy … specialize in those and you will attract those that require that speciality.
