You’ve started a business, and yay, it works! You’re a success!

But hold on. Ugh oh.

Now the work is coming too fast, as more people want what you offer. Your processes aren’t holding up. Your staff is stressed! How long will people love your services if you can’t run at this pace? It feels like your high-flying plane might crash any second. Mayday! Mayday!

My husband and I have enjoyed business success in multiple forms, which means we’re well acquainted with the challenges of rapid scaling.

As an entrepreneur, I quickly learned I dislike being blindsided by anything, so I dedicate considerable time to addressing problems upfront rather than at the back end. I’m quite good at planning my way out of potential issues. I’m not typically stressed because I’ve planned well enough to sit back and enjoy smooth processes.

But many businesses make the mistake of waiting until they’re in the thick of growth to start thinking about their staffing needs. They try to handle the increased workload with their existing team until the strain becomes too much, and then they scramble to hire in a reactive, often desperate mode.

Don’t let this be you!

Anne Lackey’s Company Offers a Unique Virtual Solution for Staffing Issues

This approach leads to many problems: overworked and stressed employees, rushed and subpar hires, decreased quality, and dissatisfied customers. It’s a recipe for burnout and chaos rather than sustainable growth. Your established processes will blow a tire on the fast interstate of commerce. Yikes!

The key to avoiding these pitfalls is proactive staffing — having the right resources in place before you need them. Think of it as a process for absorbing growth in a healthy, sustainable way. However, for many growing businesses, the cost and commitment of hiring full-time employees can be a barrier to proactive staffing.

This is where virtual employees come in. By leveraging high-quality, cost-effective virtual talent, you can proactively build your team to support your growth without the overhead and risk of full-time hires.

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Here’s how virtual employees can help you staff proactively for smooth scaling:

• Cost-Effective Talent: Virtual employees from the Philippines are more cost-effective than full-time local hires, as you don’t have to provide benefits, office space, or equipment. This allows you to increase your headcount and capabilities without breaking the bank. Our bill rate is $9.50 an hour, and for that, you get a full-time VE specifically vetted and matched to your office needs.

• Focus on Core Competencies: By delegating routine tasks to virtual employees, your in-house team can focus on core business activities and strategic initiatives that drive growth.

• Improved Work-Life Balance: By distributing workload to virtual employees, you can prevent burnout among your core team and maintain a healthier work-life balance.

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• Data Management and Analysis: Managing and analyzing data becomes increasingly important as your business scales. Virtual employees can help handle these tasks efficiently.
• Customer Support Scaling: Virtual employees can provide excellent customer support, allowing you to maintain high service standards as your customer base grows.

• Project Management Support: Virtual employees can assist with project tracking, deadline management, and coordination between team members, ensuring smoother execution of initiatives as your business grows.

• Social Media Management: As your audience expands, virtual employees can help maintain a consistent and engaging social media presence across multiple platforms, which is crucial for brand growth and customer engagement.

• Content Creation and Management: Virtual employees can produce blog posts, newsletters, and other content to support your marketing efforts and help you maintain thought leadership in your industry as you scale.

• Financial Administration: Virtual employees can handle routine financial tasks from bookkeeping to invoice processing, allowing your finance team to focus on strategic financial planning for growth.

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Our VEs can help you grow and boost your profits in so many ways. Think of it as a new power source in your staffing arsenal. You can’t use VEs to replace your key onsite people, but you can use quality online assistance to absorb the strains of scaling and empower everyone on your team.

Over the past decade, I’ve helped hundreds of business owners find new worlds of efficiencies that open possibilities they hadn’t considered. This means all those “wouldn’t it be cool if we were able to X” moments turn into “isn’t it cool that we’re now doing Y?” triumphs.

Fun!

I want this for all in my realm. I want them to see that we do our homework on finding VEs specifically suited to your needs. We talk with you, then we search for options. We study the prospects, talk to them, and find out what they’re passionate about and why they will or won’t be suitable specifically for your role. We put them through tests. We introduce three qualified candidates to you, and then you choose one. After that, we spend a week training them about what they’ll do for you. It’s a rigorous process for potential VEs, but it helps ensure quality and a smooth onboarding process.

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All of this gives us a 98+-percent successful placement rate. If there’s anyone with a higher rate, I’d love to meet them and shake their hand. But I don’t think I’d have many hands to shake, if any.

If you’re thrilled with your success but feel apprehensive about how you’re going to deal with all this rapid growth, I can help you manage your staffing so that you can sleep well and truly rest when you need it.

Click here to schedule a meeting at your convenience.

We’ll turn that “Uh oh” into an “Oh yeah! Bring on the business!”