Common Tasks to Outsource to a Virtual Assistant

As for some who are running a business, you know that tons of tasks need to be completed each day, just for you to start on the next day with more task. Sounds stressful, isn’t it? Of course, you need to try hard to be ahead of your competitors and still manage to operate your business orderly. Hiring employees is an obvious solution there, but there is a more cost-effective way to deal with it; hire a virtual assistant (VA).

Why Virtual Assistant?

Like what I said, it’s all about cost-effective. Hiring VAs you do not have to pay for the office space and no need for additional computers and the internet connections that they use to get your work done. And the best part is you just pay them for every task they have completed.

They are committed professionals who undergo proper training so they can provide the best administrative and business services to the offshore clients and meet their demands regardless of their location. And finding VAs isn’t that hard, the Philippines rank first invoiced services and second on non-voice services in the whole world. Just check my previous post of Best Virtual Assistant Sites in the Philippines to find the perfect VAs for your business.

Listed below are common tasks that you can outsource to your virtual assistant.

Answering Calls

Communication is always vital to any business; you need to make calls either to your business associates or your customers all the time. Keeping your phone lines active all the time is a must because a closed phone line might result in a loss of good business opportunities.

VAs can make or answer calls on your behalf. They would make all the necessary calls, respond to any calls and note down all the important information for you.

Content Writing.

Writing contents for your business with understanding its nature and supports your ideas is a task which requires not only expertise but also a dedication to the content writing process. A skilled VA who has good skills in content writing can write articles, websites, blogs and social media sites after doing broad research on the topics and deliver results which meet your satisfaction.

Data Entry

The task involves gathering data and entering into spreadsheets which require sitting in front of a computer for an extended period. It is one of the most laborious administrative tasks which can be handled by the VAs. They would shoulder the responsibility of updating your database entries for a prolonged period.

Data Presentations

Making a power point presentation is vital and essential for any business meeting and conferences but making a corporate style presentation takes long hours to prepare which mean a waste of productive for you. Assign these tasks to data presentations to a virtual assistant and utilize your valuable time for enhancing the prospect of your business.

Just provide clear instructions to the VA about how to perform the presentation task.

Email Management

With all the spam and advertising mail that hog your email, managing it is such stressful task. In such a case, why not task it to a VA. Answering your emails on your behalf, checking promotional messages and deleting spam emails effectively. And surprisingly VA can do it all even without giving them the email password so you won’t worry about sensitive information being seen by them.

Market Research

You can assign your VA to conduct logical market research to find related marketing information about your business, and they would do an extensive study on your competitors and their products, and send you their results.

Online Marketing

With an extensive range of online marketing tools and methods, VAs can do online marketing for your business. They will study and gather knowledge about your target market which in turn greatly help in achieving the favorable financial outcome of your business.

Online Research

The fastest way to find information on any given topic, product or event is through online research. They look for any information on the web for you. Easy? No, conducting online research can be tedious and time-consuming just to find the right information to satisfy the client’s needs.

Search Engine Optimization

Drawing in more traffic to your site from the search engine through search results is the main task of a VA who can provide effective SEO services. They would search the relevant keywords for your articles and blog content and assess the search engine analytics so you would know the virtual status of your business.

Social Media Marketing

From generating leads, posting promotional posters and video files. Many VAs has the skill to properly and sensitively do social media marketing for your business with minimum supervision.