I think it’s funny that my entire work-life is spent helping other business people add more hours to their days and outsource all the minutia that keeps them from focusing on the goal at hand…yet, I’m pretty bad at it with my own business. Granted, being too busy in a small business owner’s life is both a constant and certainly nothing to complain about! I’m just saying, a few more month’s and I may need a virtual assistant myself.
In all seriousness, I had been considering (long-term) the possibility of transitioning DW Office Solutions into more of a virtual staffing agency or job placement type of thing. Really just an idea at this point, but I am getting so many new clients and new prospects and at the same time so many e-mails from people looking for VA work that its nearly impossible to keep up. Throw into the mix that for me personally, I’m finding my website design work much more enjoyable and profitable as well.
Kathie Thomas over at Virtual Assistant - The Blog just had a post discussing virtual workers vs. virtual assistants. She makes some really valid points about distinguishing between the two. I would have to agree with her, and that is where a lot of my struggles come in. I would probably never hire a virtual staffing agency over a qualified VA for a job, so why would I want to go that route?
Here’s the thing, as I said my off-shoot website design business is doing great. I don’t want to completely abandon my other VA work. But I tell people all the time, do what you love, do what makes you money and outsource the rest to me! And in all honesty, I have put so much work into climbing up in the VA related search rankings and publicizing this business, that I find myself at a loss.
I am getting a good number of VA inquiries purely through organic searches. I would hate to throw all of that work away.
Any ideas from any of the talented VA’s and other Small Biz Gurus I’ve come to respect online including and any new friends I’ve yet to have the pleasure would be greatly appreciated. As you might have guessed, I’ve been trolling through a few of my trusted blogs on topic during this stream of consciousness blog. As usual, Cristina over at the Savvy entrepreneur as a number of great posts on point. And I’m hoping for an update to Becky McRay’s Simplified Business Plans for the Real World…something along the lines of when your business plan does a 180! As you can tell, I’m extremely open to ideas or comments on this subject!
Wow, this really just started out as a post to announce that I am doing a little better at my time management and have actually finally written a new article…The Lindsay Lohan Approach to Website Management. Instead it seems to have morphed into a long range business planning strategy session and a half hour therapy session in one…don’t you love it when that happens!
) I discussed my latest marketing plan.