And, come to think of it, you seem to be the perfect use case for virtual assistants-- I imagine the discrepancy between the return you get from one focused hour of attention versus the cost of one hour of a VA handling some routine task must be off the chart.

I've had huge, huge successes previously with outsourcing content creation and web design, and now that consulting has given me something of a cushion, I anticipate doing more things where I really add value to the business and less grunt work. I think it is highly likely that next year I will hire a front-end developer, which is currently showing up very high on the list of "spending lots of time for less than spectacular results" at the moment. That would be a pretty big step though.

Why not just use a contractor instead of hiring?