Entrepreneurs (including me), when they start their business usually work 7/24. They forget about weekends and holidays.
It is true that if we want to grow our business, being a solo preneur is difficult to go on vacation.
As I said it’s difficult, but not impossible.
Imagine yourself running your business while you have dinner in Rome, for example.
Plan ahead
- Plan your business activities while you’re on vacation
- Find out what you can do in advance
- Decide the tasks you can delegate
- Automate all tasks than can be automated
- Decide what projects you can leave on standby
- Set days and times to communicate via Skype with your team.
Hire and train a trustworthy team of Virtual Assistants
You can create a business that works while you’re away from office.
Delegate to Virtual Assistants is the key to ensuring that things work while you’re on vacation.
You need someone to answer your e-mails, customer inquiries, answer your phone calls and maintain day-to-day operations running smoothly.
A Virtual Assistant can clean your inbox and convert hundreds of emails each day in a 20-minute phone call via Skype to talk about those messages that only you can answer.
If you already have an Assistant to perform these tasks presumably she is already trained.
If you hire her before your holiday, you must train her to perform the task. My advice is to hire and train her at least a month before your holiday.
Take a test before going on vacation. This helps your team to overcome challenges and give solutions so that they can be successful when you’re not available to answer their questions.
Once you’ve created your Virtual Assistants team,
Let your customers know when you will be on holiday.
Tell them that even when you’re not working your Virtual Assistant will answer to their urgent requests.
In this way, they don’t feel neglected but also feel less inclined to contact for queries that are not really urgent.
Create a to-do list.
A list of daily tasks each Virtual Assistant should perform and must be marked as completed at the end of each task.
You should also indicate the priority of each task to better organize their work.
Automate tasks cleverly.
One of the things you should not ignore when you go on vacation, is social networks.
You can schedule your posts on social networks using platforms like Hootsuite or another automation tool, but you should make sure that your team can respond to questions, comments or requests.
Schedule weekly meetings via Skype.
Ideally, make a weekly meeting with the entire team so that they can inform you about news, the tasks done and answer the questions that may have raised throughout the week.
Your business can be handled in two ways: you do everything yourself and never take vacations or hire a team, you establish methodologies and delegate all possible work.
You’re the boss and you decide.
But I suggest you to take the time to build your team so that you can take that vacation you need.
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