How to Work From Home as a Virtual Assistant

Let Your Virtual Assistants Do The Work You Don’t Like

You have set your goals for your business to achieve. As you hustle to reach those goals, it is inevitable to have tasks you might not know how to handle or just simply don’t like doing. Full-time employees may be helpful but they’re too costly so you’re stuck in a dilemma. Don’t be. Hire a Virtual Assistant. We’ve made a list of skills a VA has that can help you with tasks you don’t like.

 1. Email Management

Emails are an essential tool for businesses and every day, hundreds, even thousands, of important emails are sent and received by a small company. Business emails are very important but do you like to be stuck with that? Of course not! Let your VA check your mails for you. Depending on your agreement, they can read, send, organize, delete and draft emails in your behalf. When you have at least one VA who can do this, it would be one less task for you to take care of.

 2. Sales

From market research to lead generation, your sales team can handle it all. They will do the selling for you. They’re determined and hardworking enough to make sure they hit the sales target. Be sure to work with VA’s who are comfortable with this as it can be a monotonous task. You would not want to do lead generation because it just doesn’t end there. Those leads need to be contacted one by one and then sent a follow up individually. Talk about mind numbing. This task may be too dragging for you so make sure to have a VA who is dedicated and efficient.

 3. Internet Research

If you want to upgrade your business, make sure it wouldn’t be too risky to be given a shot. Or if you have a presentation coming up, make sure you have the right data and the correct information. If you’re confused on how and where to start off, you might need support. Hiring the right VA with the most relevant experiences and needed expertise can absolutely do this for you. Just take note first of what kind of research needed to be done for you to determine what expertise your researcher should have. The global market has enough freelancers and companies with various expertise you can choose from. You’ll just have to know where to look. Later in this article you will see a list of sites where you can find virtual assistants.

 4. Admin Support

Got several tasks coming up? Admin support is what you need. It can be a team or one person. With the right training, they can help with orders, schedule meetings, book flights, organize minor activities and so much more. You’ll finally have more time to do the more awesome stuff.

 5. Content Creation

Almost every company has its website but it can be time consuming for the manager or the owner to regularly update its content from time to time. Content creators take care of your blogs and make sure the contents posted are enticing and engaging. You won’t have to worry about keeping your website alive.

 6. IT Support/ Web developer

In speaking of website, having one would need maintenance that you would possibly have no idea how. Having an IT support or web developers can handle your website for you. They can take care with the back end and front end maintenance such as glitches, organization, programming, repair, etc. They can even set up and build your website from scratch. It’s very important to have a team like this if you have a website or else you’ll end up abandoning the site.

 7. Project Management

Project managers are useful if you have team to be managed. For example, if you own a design firm, you would have a team of designers. Having a project manager VA can help manage your team and organize projects remotely. They can make arrangements with your clients for you, assign tasks to your team, review outputs, collect payments and so much more. You’ll now have a reason to take several days off.

 8. Graphic Design

Graphic designers can help increase sales and visitors by improving the visuals of your brand. They can work with your web development team to set up the visuals of your site by designing your logo, brand, graphics and branding. They can also help with packaging and photoshoots. A brand that’s professionally design shall help you reach your target audiences and create the right impression.

 9. Social Media Management

You may be uncomfortable with social media but you need to keep in mind that social media presence is a must for any business. It helps you reach your target, update them with your events and let them know you more. Social media presence is one way of saying your business is reachable. To keep your business active on social media without having to do it yourself, hire a VA that is 100% comfortable to do the job. They must know a thing or two about public relations to be able to create the right content that would engage more customers.

 10. Transcriber

Transcribers can assist researchers who do interviews. Transcribing takes time and doing so would make you lose it for another minute. Let the transcribers do the boring stuff for you so you can proceed with the more fun stuff.

These tasks are just a few of the hundreds that several would not want to do except the experts and if you want to find the right candidate who would love to do the things you hate, you need to find them in the right places. As promised, here is a list of sites you can check to search for virtual assistants.

• 24/7 Virtual Assistant
• Assistant Match
• Belay
• Fancy Hands
• Freelancer
• FlexJobs
• People Per Hour
• Red Butler
• Time Etc.
• Uassist.Me
• Upwork
• VaVa Virtual Assistants
• Virtual Assistant USA
• Virtual Staff Finder
• Worldwide 101
• Ziptask
• Zirtual