28 Sep What Can A Virtual Assistant Do For Me?
Asking “What can a virtual assistant do for me?” is the modern day equivalent of “How long is a piece of string?”. The list is long, varied and practically endless! Depending on what industry you work in and how much control you are willing to hand over to someone else.
A quick list of possible tasks could be:
- Email management
- Newsletter blasts
- Website content updating
- Website updating and backups
- Social Media management
- Community engagement/support
- Customer payments and processing
- Invoicing
- Payment of invoices
- Data entry
- CRM management
- Calendar/Diary management
- Document formatting
- Travel arrangements
Now this certainly isn’t the end of the possibilities, you need to keep in mind that “virtual assistant” is a very broad term and could encompass any number of specialists such of social media, copywriting, creative design and bookkeepers. The virtual assistant industry is unregulated, therefore there is no one “checking up” to see if those that are selling themselves as “experts” actually are, so buyer beware!
More important than a simple list of tasks, what a virtual assistant can really do for you is immeasurable. The right one will support and encourage you. They will be a second set of eyes for your business, picking up the little things that you may have missed in your crazy busy day. They should provide you unbiased feedback on ideas and have suggestions on ways to streamline your business and make things more efficient. They should be skilled in running a business in the modern world and be well versed on cloud based systems and different software. If you use a platform they’ve never seen before, they should be able to learn it by the time you next speak. Learning new technology should come naturally to them and be something they enjoy and embrace.
Like I said, asking “What can a virtual assistant do for me?” is a loaded question and there is no one simple answer. If you would like to find out exactly what I could do for you, then contact me here, otherwise, ask below and I’ll let you know if it’s something that would generally fall under the scope of a virtual assistant.
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