25 Tasks You Can Outsource to a General Virtual Assistant (GVA)

Know Several Things Your Virtual Assistants Can Do For You

Your tasks are starting to pile up and you realized it’s time to get help. You are considering hiring virtual assistants to help you lighten up your load but you are yet to figure out your assistant’s job description. So before you hire one you might need to know what your VAs can do for you.

There are VAs who are experts in different fields such as web development, graphic design, SEO, etc. but in this article you are going to get to know what general VAs can do as there are tasks only general VAs can pull off.

1. Lead Generation

One way to boost your sales is to get your customers yourselves. Just give them the qualifications of a potential client and your general VAs can look them up for you and list them down.

1. Email Management

Since your VA made their lists of leads, they can also take on sending emails to your leads, and follow up emails in case they do not reply the first time.

1. Customer Relations

Once your leads already become your clients, your VA can also assist you in communicating with them. They can answer questions and concerns and then update your clients’ records.

1. Scheduling

Your VAs can also schedule meetings for you, book flights and hotels and arrange your activities. They will check your calendar for you and make sure your activities are set in place. You will not have to worry about schedule conflict because your virtual assistant will take care of it for you.

1. Organizational tasks

In case you need files organized, your VA can set look for a tool in which your files will be kept. Most of the time they use dropbox. Virtual assistants are organized enough to give you a less harder time looking for specific files.

1. Research

Since your assistants can do almost anything, they can also do your research for you. Planning on upgrading your business? They can research ideas, literature and so much more. They can get you the things you need so you can just get on with what you need to do.

1. Personal errands

One good thing about having general VAs is that they can do personal errands for you. Your daughter’s quincañera is coming up next month and you hardly have time to purchase the stuff you need for the party. Let your VA take care of it for you. Give your assistant ample time to research and you’ll be presented with the best options. Give them any personal errands and they’ll do it for you virtually.

1. Take down minutes of meetings

Sometimes your clients may be located thousands of miles away. Meeting personally would be inconvenient so you need to use Skype to talk. Your virtual assistant can join the meeting to take down notes of all the important details so you won’t have to.

1. Transcriptions

Oftentimes, your VAs will take the initiative to record the meeting and they will transcribe the conversation, in case you need them. They can do all kinds if transcriptions: interviews, short clips, even full movies.

1. Creating basic reports

Basic reports are a no brainer for general VAs. Sales reports? Time sheets? They can have it done in minutes.

1. Preparing Slideshows

Who can do better at organizing a presentation slideshow? Virtual assistants! Never worry about a presentation again. Just make sure your VAs know what you want and how you want to present.

1. Recruitment

Though you may already have your VA, sometimes you need more workforce. With still much load in your hands, you may not have enough time to recruit additional members of your team. Let your trusted VA do the recruitment for you. However this is only recommended for VAs who you really trust, those who have worked for you in atleast a year.

1. Page management

Social media management is such a mundane task no business owner should endure doing. But then it’s still necessary. Have your VAs post contents and blogs in your web and social media pages or filter and respond to comments so you can proceed with more important tasks.

1. Blog commenting

Now that your VAs have posted content on your social media pages, you can also task them to create fake accounts to comment positive reviews on your company or products. They can share like and promote your products with the fake accounts they created. This technique is best when you work with a virtual assistance agency. The agency can require their staff to create fake social media accounts and promote your company for you.

Now that you know what general virtual assistants can do, you can be able to identify what tasks you will have them perform and make sure to maximize the services they can offer so you will have more time on most important business work.