Why Direct Sales Reps should hire a VA
Direct Sales Reps know that in order to maximize their sales they need to tell more people about what they offer. But a Direct Sales Rep is only one person, with only so many hours in the day.
When you go through your company offered training a Direct Sales Rep often learns about duplicating your efforts by signing up other reps and that is all fine and dandy but who has time to sell a product, sign up reps , and manage a team? Soon, your business that is supposed to lead you to ultimate freedom is draining your time. The money is great, but you want a vacation, you want more time in your day.
The answer is right in front of you. Hire a Virtual Assistant. A good virtual assistant can do a variety of things for you so that you can do whatever it is in your organization that you do best, whether it is recruiting or selling product.
Some tasks to delegate to your VA:
Post Card writing and mailing ( since they say these should be hand written why should you get a hand cramp?)
Website/Blog Creation and Maintenance
Client Thank You notes
Scheduling and Follow Ups
Ghost Writing
Newsletter Creation and Maintenance
Auto Responder Creation and Maintenance
Customer Service email and calls
Database Management
PR and Marketing
Team Meeting Planning, Scheduling and so much more.
I’m sure these ideas sparked some more ideas in your mind about what you would like your virtual assistant to do. Ideally you will find a Virtual Assistant who has worked in a Direct Sales Business previously so that they understand the general idea. However, someone with skills that you do not have, are more important in this matter – because you need someone to help you cast a wider net – thus duplicating your efforts by essentially cloning yourself, but with additional skills.
Most Virtual Assistants will offer a trial period to see if you like working with her. I suggest you get together a list of things that you want done before hiring someone.
The initial work involved in hiring your Virtual Assistant will be more than worth it if you can form a long term relationship with your Virtual Assistant, so take your time.
You won’t regret it.
