How much time do you spend booking a flight?

A virtual assistant can help you with your travel planning and booking.

It's easy to book a flight. However, over 50% of people spend more than an hour booking a simple flight. That's a lot of time. In fact, according to a study by Expedia, travel package bookers visited 38 travel websites 45 days prior to booking travel. That's a lot more than an hour.

Save time booking travel

You don't have to be a corporate executive to enjoy the benefits of a travel manager. A virtual assistant can manage your travel instead and save you time. She can research, plan, price and book your flight. Whether you're traveling for business or pleasure, your assistant can take care of the details. She can also have your rental car waiting at your destination airport, reserve your hotel, and plan your itinerary.

Get the best prices

How many times have you researched a flight to find the price has gone up significantly by the time you book it? Most of us don't have time to monitor the prices in real time, so let your virtual assistant do this for you. She can work with your preferred travel agency, book it online, or deal directly with your preferred airline. Plus, your assistant can manage your frequent flyer account to ensure you get the seat and meal options you want, ensure you get credit for miles flown, and even request the coveted upgrade!

Support while traveling

Unlike travel agencies that simply give you options on trips, a virtual assistant knows you. Not only can she handle the booking details, she's also behind the scenes for your entire trip. If anything goes awry, she can make on the spot changes and get you back on schedule. Want to make a change during the trip? Done. Book restaurant reservations on the fly — a virtual assistant can do that too!

Leave your travel details to a virtual assistant and enjoy your trip. Call My BTLR today to find out how easy it is.

What is a Virtual Assistant?

A virtual assistant can help your get your business up and running.

Entrepreneurs start with a lofty dream. You're going to mix things up, change the business world as we know it. However, once you get started you begin to realize how many seemingly mundane, boring things you have to do to actually get the business up and running. There are a lot of administrative tasks a business requires that may keep you from making your dream come to life. Why deal with the daily drudgery when you could hire a virtual assistant?

What exactly is a virtual assistant?

A virtual assistant is someone who takes cares of administrative duties for you remotely. They can reply to emails, do data entry, do website administrative work, and even handle your social media channels. Many of these people work on a contract or freelance basis, meaning you get to take advantage of the flexibility by only hiring them for as long as you need them.

Are you still unsure of whether your business could benefit from a virtual assistant? Read on to learn more about what a virtual assistant can offer.

You’ll have more time to do other things

Most entrepreneurs hate the lengthy meetings, drawn-out phone calls, and mundane emails piling up in their inboxes. It can easily take up a lot of your time, meaning you don’t have as much time to focus on your core business activities. A virtual assistant frees up your time, allowing you to do so.

They’ve got expertise

Virtual assistants are becoming more and more widespread and the field is becoming more competitive. As a result, many have developed other skills — social media management, marketing, copywriting, or maybe even basic accounting. If your business has yet to require full-time employees for these tasks, you may find that a virtual assistant is just what you need. Plus, you won’t have to think about tax, employee benefits, or yearly contracts.

You’ll be able to entrust more tasks to them as time goes on

In the beginning, you’ll probably have your virtual assistant carry out simple duties — email management, customer service management, or bookkeeping. If they perform well, you’ll find that as time goes on, you’ll be able to entrust more complex and important duties to them, further freeing up your time to do other things.

You can strategize and grow your business

Chances are you started your business doing everything yourself, maybe with a person or two by your side. This is a great way to cut costs, but it also can be stressful and leave less time for long-term thinking. Having a virtual assistant take care of time-consuming but otherwise mundane tasks gives you time and energy to put some thought into where you want your business to go, and how you can take it there.

Ready to hire a virtual assistant? My BTLR can help. Contact us today to learn more about our USA based virtual assistants and how to get started.

Jack of all tasks, master of none?

We all can't be great at everything. Delegate the tasks your not good at and get more done.

Do you constantly find yourself saying, “I can do it,” or even, “it’s easier if I just do it myself?” While it may seem noble to do it all, you are ultimately decreasing productivity and increasing stress by taking on every task, big and small. Instead, consider adopting the habit of delegation.

Why delegate?

It forces you to prioritize

Before starting a task, ask yourself, “is this the highest and best use of my time?” If the answer is no, delegate the task to your assistant. Your time is valuable. Once it’s spent, there are no refunds! Focus on what you specialize in and allow your assistant to focus on more generic tasks.

It increases efficiency

By delegating your to-do list, you are able to spread the weight of the day. No matter what you think, you cannot do it all. With everyone taking a piece of the pie, one person is not burdened with all the stress, pressure, and headaches of an overcrowded calendar and pressing deadlines. You can be more effective and efficient in your work.

You can work on your business instead of in your business

Whether you are a business owner, a manager, or busy parent, your time is best spent on planning and strategy related tasks that will promote growth and efficiency. Focus on what is most pressing and allow others to focus on the rest.

Today is a great day to practice delegating! Consider a virtual assistant from to help you tackle your to-dos and take a load off your plate. Do what only you can do and delegate the rest.