The world is a very different place in 2015 than when I first started in business 25 years ago. I remember my young son asking me last year “how old were you when you got your first USB?” and looking incredulously at me when I answered “hmm, 35 I think”.
Technology has come so far allowing us an enormous amount of flexibility not only in the type work we do but how we manage that work. The phone has now become a computer and the centre of our universe, just try taking mine away for half an hour and watch me sweat!
One of the biggest steps forward utilising that technology and the internet in particular is the fact that we don’t actually, physically have to be in one place to carry out a lot of the work we do and neither do our staff. The world of virtual reality is suddenly very real nowadays.
The first time I went on an extended business trip my personal assistant had to keep the balls in the air while I was gone and make sure everything kept moving forward in my absence. I was pretty anxious about the whole thing let me tell you! But as the time went on I realised that we’d streamlined our systems and communication to a point where I didn’t really need to be sitting in the next office to get things done.
There was nothing a phone call, email, screen share or Skype call couldn’t fix. That was a defining moment for me, realising I wasn’t trapped in the office anymore, I could do business anywhere. An extension of that has now become the Virtual Assistant whereby I can even choose what time zone I want to be operating in. The hours I want to work and have someone working for me virtually every hour of the day if I want without ever stepping foot into my office.
For more information on how to do the same for your business and get you out there doing what you do best call the Virtual Assistants Australia, let us help you expand your business without blowing your budget.
