The world gets smaller and smaller every day, thanks to the constant creep of technology. Yet despite our lack of digital borders, some still find it hard to trust what we cannot see, feel or touch face to face. We understand this mental barrier completely. After all, it’s the same attitude we used to have about vinyl records and paperback novels despite eBooks and MP3s being more convenient and affordable.
The fact is outsourcing is already occurring at a pace and level few of us stop to consider. Yet, we trust these processes unthinkingly, every single day. Research shows that a significant portion of business process outsourcing already occurs in the Australia with everything from websites to large scale infrastructures being built by those outside the country.
These essential systems include the ones that govern communication, travel as well as banking and finance. If you have interacted with any of these systems, there’s a strong chance you have ‘trusted’ the process of outsourcing without even knowing it. Companies that have already been outsourcing for many years include the National Australian Bank, Qantas, Westpac and Telstra.
You also may not know that many of your favourite Australian brands directly name outsourcing as the key to their success. Take for example Bondi Chai – a business that has just celebrated 10 successful years in the industry and is Australia’s most awarded Chai Latte. Founders Martin Buggy and Melissa Edyvean are both in Marketing and had no experience in the beverage industry.
Deciding very early on that they wanted to create a business that worked around their lifestyles and not the other way around, they decided to outsource most of their operations, enjoying the added benefit of knowing their business would be running 24/7 even while they were asleep. This decision was unheard of at the time and few thought that the business would last operating as it did. That was a decade ago, and the product is currently so popular that they estimate that a cup is sold every three seconds in Australia.
It is time to start en
joying the benefits of outsourcing yourself by using a Virtual Assistant that many businesses like yours already do. The first step is recognising that the only thing keeping you back is your mental perception of the process. Our clients who took a leap of faith hiring a Virtual Assistant, have never looked back. One of our clients runs a flower arrangement business with his wife, and he openly admits that without his Virtual Assistant they would never have been able to start a second branch less than 2 years after founding their first. And all it took was a little faith.
