What can a virtual assistant help you with?

What is a virtual assistant?

A virtual assistant is generally self-employed and provides professional administrative, technical, or creative assistance to clients remotely from a home office.

What kind of tasks can virtual assistants help me with?

Virtual assistants do a variety of tasks that help entrepreneurs and business owners manage their business. One thing they pride themselves on is the ability to wear many hats.

Below is a list of some of the tasks virtual assistants can help business owners with. However it will all depend on the specific client and their needs at the given time. An hourly rate is usually agreed on and they will bill them on the time spent completing each task.

  • DATA ENTRY

  • LEAD GENERATION

  • INTERNET RESEARCH

  • CUSTOMER SERVICE

  • BLOG MANAGEMENT

  • VIDEO EDITING

  • POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS

  • CREATING INFOGRAPHICS

  • SOCIAL MEDIA GRAPHIC DESIGN

  • PAYMENTS AND INVOICING

  • ACCOUNTING / BOOKKEEPING SERVICES

  • EMAIL REMINDERS

  • CALENDAR MANAGEMENT

  • CREATING / MANAGING DATABASES & CRM’S

  • SCHEDULING SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS

  • BRANDING SERVICES

  • PRESS RELEASES

  • PR MANAGEMENT

  • TRAVEL RESEARCH & BOOKING

  • NEWSLETTER DESIGN

  • EMAIL AUTOMATION

  • CONTENT CREATION

  • LANDING PAGE CREATION

  • WORDPRESS UPDATES

  • SEO SERVICES

  • EDITING

  • RESUME WRITING

  • PROOFREADING

  • PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Benefits of hiring a virtual assistant over hiring an employee:

“Having a virtual assistant can offer a few great benefits such as saving on the expense of hiring a full-time employee. You don't have to worry about the paperwork that goes along with a new hire as well. Virtual assistants are independent contractors, so they are responsible for their own taxes and bookkeeping.”

Those are just a few of the MANY benefits that come along with hiring a virtual assistant. Along with it saving money on hiring a new employee it also saves the time it would take for you to find the right candidate. Most virtual assistants already have most of the skills required to get the job done because they are already assisting multiple businesses with similar tasks.

Your virtual assistant can also go beyond following your lead and actually lead you through tasks that you may not be familiar with on how to do. Virtual Assistants (depending on their experience level) are real professionals in business and when utilized correctly can xpand your business quickly, efficiently, and for the least amount of cost.

You pay them zero employee benefits, taxes, or the rent space to manage them. These individuals are self starters and self motivators so you can feel confident that they will get the job done in a timely manner. Not only that, but you are only paying them for the time they are actually working not the 12 trips they took to the bathroom, or talked to their friend at their desk for a while, or anything else salary paid employees may do to kill time throughout the day.

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