VIRTUAL ASSISTANT, ALLY TO YOUR BUSINESS
- rizaiperez4
- Mar 3, 2019
- 3 min read
Updated: Mar 5, 2019
Most owners and entrepreneurs of businesses are hesitant to take the jump into getting a virtual assistant.
What is a Virtual Assistant?
A virtual assistant (typically abbreviated to VA, also called a virtual office assistant) is generally self-employed and provides professional administrative, technical, or creative (social) assistance to clients remotely from a home office. A virtual assistant or intelligent personal assistant is a software agent that can perform tasks or services for an individual based on verbal commands. Virtual assistants usually work for other small businesses, but can also support busy executives, this is according to Wikipedia.
The most common problems of small and medium-sized enterprises.
Excessive data compilation
Managing the increasing amount of data the company produces.
Customer Satisfaction
Customers expect instant customer service. Because customers can voice any deception more openly and loudly than ever before, companies must monitor their online reputations and maintain them.
Skills and hiring the qualified talent.
Finding the right people and developing the right skills are key to a sustainable future during peak growth periods. It would be a wise investment to bring in a consultant with the expertise to find exactly the workers you need.
WHY A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT,
ALLY TO YOUR BUSINESS ?
How a virtual assistant boosts your business growth?
Important benefits of hiring a virtual assistant in your business?
Having a virtual assistant enhances your productivity and helps prevent exhaustion.
When you run a business you are being responsible for such a wide variety of tasks that slow your productivity down when you do them yourself as a business owner. So hiring a virtual assistant to concentrate on time - consuming, repetitive tasks such as email management, data entry, research, to booking travel arrangements, is needed. Having someone else to do the small initial steps of bigger tasks enables you to focus on the big picture and save you from tired decision making so you can feel more productive and less stressed.
Save your time.
Spending 2 hours a day at all times - consuming, repetitive tasks such as email management, data entry, research, booking travel arrangements, cutting down on finding new customers or working with partners on new revenue streams. Delegating the small things enables you to select the best use of your valuable time. And you can now have time with your family and friends.
Save money.
The annual salary of a virtual assistant is lesser than the average annual salary of a personal assistant, plus there is no need to pay for additional office space, insurance, taxes or any other associated costs for employees.
Skills of a virtual assistant that helps you grow your business
This is just a short list of services and specialization of a general virtual assistant:
Data Entry in Word, or Google Docs
Transcription (transcribing voicemail, video or audio, podcasts etc.)
Typing
Forms Creation
Executive Assistance
Making Reports (Creating basic reports (reports on weekly tasks, deliverables, sales)
Sending Invoices
Project Management & Training Tasks
Email Management/Filtering
Booking appointments with clients
Following up with clients/customers (sending thank you and other reminder emails)
Receptionist duties (answering occasional calls)
Calendar Management
File Management (organizing files using Dropbox etc)
Database building (eg. updating email or contact lists on your CRM)
Research on certain topics for blog posts, newsletters or others
Personal errands (purchasing gifts for loved ones / family members online)
Hotel and Flight Booking
Bookkeeping and Accounting Tasks
Taking down minutes of meetings
Preparing Slideshows (Powerpoint Presentations
Other Freelance Services:
Social Media Management and Marketing task
Manage and update Social Media Accounts
Tracking of Social Media Accounts
Facebook Ads
Marketing Plan
Posting and Scheduling Facebook Insights
Promotions and marketing
Content planning
Collating and Interpreting Insights
Managing and Increasing Your Twitter Following
Uploading Videos on YouTube
YouTube Optimization
Moderating YouTube Comments
Uploading Videos to other Video Sharing Sites / Social Media
Answer inquiries and Messages on All Channel & Profiles
Create Slideshare Presentations
Joining SMM groups and interacting
Increasing followers
Simple Web Design Task
Keyword Research for a website
Website Creation
Website Design
Website Optimization
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