- Emails and Inbox Management
One of the number one time and energy drainers for many today is the number of emails coming into the inbox. Every time we look at a new site, it’s easy to sign up to the newsletter for a freebie or regular content which we think might be useful. However, after a while, there isn’t time to look at all these emails! Once your inbox starts to become dauting, it’s time to get help and a VA is the perfect way to get support with this. A VA can support you by managing your email, i.e. answering your mails on your behalf, checking promotional messages and deleting spam mails effectively.
- Coordinating meetings and events
An experienced VA will have no trouble assuming the responsibility of organising board meetings, team meetings or larger scale events.
- Minuting
Everyone loves minuting! No, that’s a lie. Not so many people enjoy minuting, and it’s often a task that gets thrown about! So finding someone that can do this for you can save you and your team a lot of time and effort. Minutes need to be dealt with immediately whilst the notes are fresh, then someone from the team can check them over. The sooner they are sent out, the sooner all tasks can be actioned.
- Online Research
The quickest way to find information on any topic, product or event is through online research. However, we all know that conducting online research can be daunting and time-consuming.
Delegate the research work to your virtual assistant who would look for any kind of information on the web for you.
- Market Research
For an entrepreneur, market research is necessary to understand the industry, its competitors, and the customers. Without marketing knowledge, your venture will always be held back.
You can ask your VA to conduct a methodical market research to find relevant marketing information about your business.
They would do an extensive study on your competitors and their products, and send you the findings in a very organized and systematic manner for easy comprehension.
- Online & Social Media Marketing
Marketing is essential for you if you want to expand your business or want to get competitive advantage. But such virtual marketing needs implementation of efficient techniques and expertise from you which might make you think that you are just not the right person for it.
With a wide range of online marketing tools and methods, virtual assistants can do online marketing on their clients’ behalf. Moreover, they hold expertise and profound knowledge in this area which would surely reflect in the financial outcome of your business. In today’s media age, it is essential to increase brand visibility, boost sales and draw more traffic to a website. But these tasks are repetitive and need a lot of time and patience.
- Call Answering
In a business, you need to make calls either to your business associates or to your customers. Moreover, operating business activities on an international level requires you to keep your phone lines active all the time because a closed phone line might result in a loss of good business opportunities.
Share your workload and ask your VAs to make or answer calls on your behalf. They would make all the necessary calls, respond to any incoming calls and note down all the important information for you in a way which you find simple to understand.
- Content Writing
A content writer has to understand the nature of your business and develop content that supports your ideas and expounds on them. Therefore, it is a task which requires not only expertise but also dedication to the content writing process.