If you're stuck doing day-to-day administrative work, you have no time for the few activities that move the needle, and you slowly lose the freedom you started the business for. An executive assistant is the highest-leverage fix for this issue.
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Malloy Industries Masterclass: Get Unleashed With an Executive Assistant
The Hidden Cost of Doing It Yourself
The NFIB found small-business owners spend nearly a third of their day on email and the web, leaving only about 15% for the big priorities. Do the math: if you assume 30% of your time goes to admin, and your comp is $200K (about $100 an hour), you're effectively paying yourself $100 an hour, roughly $1,200 a week, $60,000 a year, to do administrative work. That's the real price of not delegating.
The New Way to Operate
First, delegate and empower a team: give them a clear mission and values so they can make decisions without funneling everything back to you.
Second, automate (tools like Zapier are now cheap and accessible; see our automation tools guide).
Third, and the focus here, leverage an assistant. Not sure what to hand off first? Our guide on how to delegate walks through the Delegation Matrix. Our Delegation Matrix Worksheet helps you sort it.
What an Assistant Takes Off Your Plate
- Calendar and scheduling (this alone can save 10 to 15 hours a week).
- Making calls, travel arrangements, and personal tasks that eat your day.
- Business development support: research and initial outreach.
- Email triage.
- Tracking operations and following up.
Many CEOs start with one assistant and end up with several as they discover how much capable help can carry (social media, project management, support, billing).
Get an assistant, get the administrative work off your plate, and spend the reclaimed time on strategy, customers, and the priorities that grow the business.
Work With Work Better Now
This masterclass was led by Rob of Work Better Now, which provides full-time dedicated assistants from Latin America and the Caribbean for a flat monthly rate, with no long-term commitment and a dedicated success coach. Mention Malloy Industries when you book a consult for a discount on your first three months.
If the admin load is a symptom of a bigger operations gap, Talk to our Team about a fractional operations executive.
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