Why Hire a VA from the Philippines?

Hiring A Filipino Virtual Assistant Will Benefit Your Business

So you have a business going and want to outsource some of your business processes. How do you go about it? You may look to job hiring boards for help, but might not get the perfect candidate. You’ll need to start bringing in more revenue without adding significant amounts of overhead to your budget. Overhead costs can be among the highest of business expenses, so it’s reasonable (if not necessary) to outsource some of your business processes.

On top of that, you might want to stretch the business day (assuming you work a typical 9–5 job). By hiring a Filipino virtual assistant, you can benefit your business in more ways than just the bottom line — your business processes can still operate smoothly even after normal business hours are over. On top of that, they can also fill multiple roles within your organization, depending on your business’s needs and goals.

Get Help At A Fraction Of The Cost

Filipino virtual assistants’ average salaries are far lower than that of the average U.S. worker — around $3,200 to around $10,000 annually for more experienced virtual assistants. A similar position in the U.S. might run you around $50,000 or more annually. By hiring a Filipino virtual assistant, you get not only the benefit of lower overhead, but no language barrier. Filipinos are accustomed to speaking in American English due to its history as a colony of the United States from 1898 to 1946.

Keep Business Going After Hours

The Philippines is 8 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), which places it in a very strategic location. For those located on the West Coast and assuming a regular 9-to-5 schedule, you can immediately hand off work to your Filipino virtual assistant as their workday starts after yours ends. When you get off of work, the Filipino virtual assistant’s day is just beginning. You’ll be able to overcome logistical barriers this way by virtually adding a second shift to your business no matter how small or large it is.

Fill Multiple Roles With One Filipino Virtual Assistant

It helps to know that Filipinos are very industrious and active on social media, which can help you spread the word about your business quickly. According to a recent report by the Digital Marketing Institute, Filipinos are the most active on social media, giving you the ability to delegate tasks such as social media marketing to a Filipino virtual assistant. If you use the Internet to promote your business’s products and services, you’ll feel comfortable handing the keys over to a Filipino virtual assistant when it comes to social media and digital marketing.

Filipino virtual assistants can also take care of tasks such as accounting, customer service, and other tasks as well. If you run an online store, you can outsource balancing your books to a Filipino virtual assistant. Need someone to handle customer service? Filipino virtual assistants are very friendly, making them ideal for customer-facing roles such as customer service. Does your business require someone for repetitive tasks? Filipino virtual assistants can also be useful in data entry roles.

Hire Your Filipino Virtual Assistant Today

Internet infrastructure in the Philippines is also steadily improving, which means that you can harness the power of a young and quickly-growing workforce with access to the global Internet. Hire a Filipino virtual assistant and find out more about what they can do to help your business succeed and gain the edge over the competition today.

Thanks to Jose A for putting together this post.

Daniel Meyer heads both Sonic Analytics and Sonic Virtual Staffing, sister companies that deliver both data analytics solutions and virtual staffing to businesses in the United States and the Philippines. With over 20 years in Big Data and Virtual Staffing, Dan is one of the most sought-after public speakers in Asia and offers big data coaching and analytics training seminars on both sides of the Pacific.

Sonic Analytics(www.sonicanalytics.com) brings big data analytics solutions like business intelligence, business dashboards and data storytelling to small and medium sized organizations looking to enhance their data-driven decision-making capabilities.

Sonic Virtual Staffing (www.sonicva.com) brings virtual staffing solutions like graphic design, social media management, video editing and specialized virtual assistants for authors and professional speakers to small and medium sized organizations looking to scale on a budget and looking for dynamic staffing options.

When not training current and future analysts, you can find Dan championing the use of analytics to empower data-driven citizenship by volunteering his expertise with schools and non-profits dedicated to evidence-based social progress.