Are You Ready to Benefit from an Online Business Manager?

20 Feb

Portrait of an Online Business Manager

As a business owner, your main goal is to get paid by positively impacting your target audience. That is what it boils down to. You have a message, an idea, a product, or a service to offer and you are in constant pursuit of ways to share it faster, further and for the most profit.

No doubt in your businesses’ early stages, you learned that you can’t be Ms. All Knowing and All Doing! This may be, SHOULD be, a point of initial relief. Reaching out to a web designer, a marketing company, a copywriter, a shipping company, a virtual assistant will help you achieve more impressive results, in less time. (YAY!)

However, as they contribute to the success of your business, you become stymied in the day-to-day operations of being the only one to manage your team.

  • You spend huge chunks of your energy delegating.
  • You oversee the progression of tasks and projects.
  • You must determine what goes where, to whom, and when.
  • You are thwarted by a MIA team member and must desperately search for a replacement and (GASP!), re-teach her on the way you like things done.
  • You’re alone in keeping your ship sailing.

This is the time that you need a business manager, someone to oversee the company’s procedures, operations and team so that you can once again focus on growth.
Yes, your online business manager keeps the business bus moving! Your Online Business Manger not only understands the sum of all tasks, we are responsible for the results.

  • My job is to proactively take operations off your plate and to streamline the journey to completion.
  • I am committed to seeing the owners’ business hit higher profit margins by possessing a “marketing mindset”.
  • I make decisions to make the clients life easier.
  • I coordinate the team’s efforts in achieving the business owner’s goals.
  • I make sure there is a Standard Operating Procedure Manual in place so that everyone understands the process of tasks.
  • I establish an online system where projects are easily managed, therefore making sure all files, tasks and communications are kept in a centralized location.
  • I seek the answer to the question, “Is there a better way to do this?” when looking at your business procedures.

Knowing that an Online Business Manger will take over the day-to-day operations and allow you to continue growing your business, is no doubt a relief.  But handing over the reins to your company can seem scary, if not impossible, for you to do. It Is OK! When searching for your OBM, I suggest looking for someone that will compliment your best qualities while balancing your sub-par aptitudes.
When you do find someone that seems to be a good fit for managing your business, do a trial-run before committing! Tina Forsyth, the CEO of OnlineBusinessManager.com (and my trainer), says, “You’ll never know if it’s a match until you get into a working relationship…”

  • Do you want to launch a new product?
  • Do you need to create an effective social profile for your brand?
  • Are you needing to set-up a shopping cart that can effectively handle your internet marketing dilemmas?
  • Is your business desperate for some organization?
  • Maybe you just need an overhaul of your current customer relations procedures?

These are all great initial projects for your Online Business Manger to take on! I would love to hear about your next move as a business owner, please contact me so we can arrange a chat. :)

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