“A Personal Assistant? In this financial climate? Well, that’d be lovely, but it’s an expense I really can’t justify.”

This is most people’s attitude to the idea of hiring a PA these days. Most small business owners and self-employed people are working their fingers to the bone at the moment to keep above the economic decline, and the idea of spending money on someone else to do work that they could do themselves seems ridiculous. But is it?

Consider the self-employed Graphic Designer. Now this person has worked for years and has a great reputation so despite the downturn she (lets say ’she’) still has plenty of work coming in. She spends 2 hours per week managing her finances, dealing with paperwork and invoicing clients, that’s 2 hours of time where she isn’t working on her paid projects. Her day rate is in excess of £500, so her hourly rate is around £80. You do the maths! For around a quarter of her hourly rate she could have a personal assistant do that work for her and she could do the work that she gets paid to do!

Robert Kiyosaki, the author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad says that before investing in someone’s company, he would always look at how much they were spending on outside assistance – if it wasn’t enough he didn’t invest.

Now I am not suggesting that everyone needs a full time PA, but part time or from time to time can revolutionise your everyday life. With Your Personal Assistant, you can have an assistant available all the time and with pricing to suit everybody from the infrequent user to someone requiring a task completed every day. More details? Check out our company site.