What is a Virtual Assistant?
A Virtual Assistant or VA is a person who provides technical, administrative, or creative support services for other businesses from a location outside of that business's office. Virtual assistants may operate from an office building, a home office, a co-working space, or typically anywhere there is a stable Internet connection and access to the necessary tools. I’ve heard of rock star VAs working full-time from the beach!
What Does a Virtual Assistant Do?
The simple answer to that would be “Virtually anything a personal assistant can do (pun intended).” And yes, that includes bringing you coffee by ordering it from a coffee shop in your area and having it delivered to you.
Virtual Assistance tasks include Email Management, Appointment-setting and Calendar Management, Data Entry, Web Research, Transcription, Social Media Management and Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, SEO, making and taking calls, creating forms, website analysis, and many more.
Some Virtual Assistants are specially skilled in Finance and Accounting, or Content Writing, or Website Design and Development, or Technical Support, or Sales and Marketing. The possibilities are nearly endless.
Why Hire a Virtual Assistant?
Here are the top 5 reasons why you should.
1. Get the tasks done. Remember those items that have been on your task list for weeks? Hire a VA to do them for you. A growing business needs to have all the right support for its expansion. While you are looking to do more projects, come up with more products or services, acquire and care for more clients, expand your list of suppliers, etc, you will also need more minds and hands to do all the background tasks for you. This way, you increase your business productivity.
2. Enjoy the expertise you need without taking the extra time or effort . You don’t have to learn everything about website design to have an amazing and well-maintained website for your business. You can have an updated blog without having to draft or research anything. You can have leads generated on your website and social media sites without having to go online every single day. You can get your website to rank higher in search engines without having to read every single eBook on SEO. Because, guess what, your VA can do that and more for you.
3. Save Money. Yes, you read that right. Hiring a Virtual can save you money. While it may be true that hiring professional services—virtual or not—entails additional expenses for your business, it is also very true that the extra hand frees up yours to do the things that can push your sales forward. What’s more, you save money by hiring a VA since you don’t have to setup a space in your office for your new assistant. And if you’re a small business that doesn’t really have that much that needs done, hire a freelance Virtual Assistant to work for you only certain hours per week and pay only for the hours worked. Convenient!
4. Save Time. For business owners, time = money. And if you find yourself not having enough time to make the decisions that will push your business forward because you have to face the mundane and repetitive tasks needed to keep your business running, you need a VA. Let your virtual assistant sort out your emails, set appointments, respond to your clients, research and organize information, create, implement and evaluate marketing strategies, write content, do the math, take calls, and more. So now you have time to level up your game, or maybe take that much needed vacation time alone or with family.
5. Save Energy. Why stress and fuss over all the work that needs to be done for your business? Hire a VA, enjoy the benefits, reduce the stress, and be more efficient than ever. And why do we need you to be healthy and always at the top of your game? Because you are your biggest business asset.
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