When Connecticut designer Mandy Riggar wanted to ease her day-to-day workload without the risk and responsibility of a full-time employee, she found success outsourcing tasks like procurement and renderings to qualified virtual assistants.
My parents owned a construction company when I was growing up, so I always joke that I’ve been in the industry since I was a baby. Around the dinner table, we’d be talking about cash flow and payroll—entrepreneurship is very much in my blood. One of the things I’ve always known is that I wanted my own company [for] creative freedom and flexibility, not to have a big firm and hire people just to hire them. But last year, there was just too much on my plate, so I started looking for help. Virtual assistants have become such a thing recently, and I thought it would be a perfect way to bring on support without committing to a full-time hire.
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