Loading ...I was reading a newsletter from someone I think is a lovely, delightful person personally, but like most of the internet marketers, works with Virtual Assistants as if they were employees. And sorry to say, it’s Virtual Assistants who have trained them like this.
Here is the line that chaps my hide:
“… your Virtual Assistant decides to fly off for a spur of the moment week away, leaving you with hours of admin nightmare to deal with.”
If this client’s workload is that large and that immediate, they don’t need a Virtual Assistant, they need an employee (although I also feel for that empoyee who can’t take a week off without hearing about it like this).
And the Virtual Assistant she’s got, she’s not a business owner, not really. For all intents and purposes, she’s working as if she’s still an employee.
Business owners with workloads that large don’t make for great clients for exactly the reason indicated in that sentence. When you take on a client like that, expect to be enslaved to them by the sheer volume of the workload.
That’s not enrepreneurial freedom, and working with clients who have that kind of workload will keep you from growing your Virtual Assistance practice as a real business (and wear you out in the process).
No client should ever be so dependent upon a Virtual Assistant–who is an administrative consultant and a business independent of theirs, not an employee–to the point that their business comes to a screeching halt without them. If that’s the case, then what they need is an employee, not a Virtual Assistant. And Virtual Assistants need to stop working with clients in that capacity as if they were employees.
