Virtual Assistant
How hiring the right virtual assistant can benefit you and your business
Why you should get a VA
A VA will free up your time so that you can work on other important business matters. It doesn't matter if you currently spend two hours a week or 50 hours a week doing repetitive tasks, you should not be doing it. There are much more important matters you should be tending to if you truly want to grow your business. Hiring a good virtual assistant will make this possible and will help prevent you from getting burnout.
A VA can take care if small repetitive tasks that can be time consuming. This will free up time for you to focus on things that bring long term benefits to your business and increase your effectiveness.
Where to go to get a good virtual assistant?
You will find general virtual assistant at Elance, Workaholics4Hire and BizReef. For a VA who is more technically minded go to Scriptlance and Rentacoder.
Give yourself more time!
20 jobs a VA could do for you.
1. Blogs set up a free blog at Wordpress or blogger, post comment on your blog, and find other relevant blogs to post comments on to get links back to your site.
2. Articles write articles, proofread your articles, and submit your articles to article sites.
Your writing is a great way to spread the word about your site. Put your VA in charge of submitting your writing to article site. These sites could include
Go Articles
Ehow
Ezine Articles
On some of these article sites there is a resource box at the bottom containing your name, and link to your website. This is a repetitive task that a VA will do for you. Giving you more time to write more articles.
3. Products Research researching for suitable products,signing up to free offers, affiliate programs,
4. Product Development & Delivery help in the development of your written and audio products, research copywriters, book editors, book publishers, graphic designers.
5. Product delivery set up electronic products to be delivered electronically, setting up of your thank you page, put in place autoresponders for each product available for sale.
6. Market research research affiliate products, research target market for your niche, research keywords to target, research information for your product, website and blog.
7. Customer Service answering emails, organizing refunds, answering client questions, This is important because customers always remember your customer service. Even if they don't like your product, they will remember if you have good customer service. And if you do have good customer service, this will greatly increase the chances they will buy something else from you in the future.
8. SEO Link Building Commenting on relevant blogs, answering questions on yahoo answers, linking strategies to your site. Join discussion groups at YahooGroups.com or GoogleGroups.com participate in the discussion and include links to your site.
9. Transcribing transcribing audio into articles, newsletters, mini ebooks, which will create new content or products for you.
10. Translation Need content written in another language?
11. Affiliate Program Do you have an affiliate program for your online products and services? Put your virtual assistant 'in charge' of your affiliate program, to answer question, emails and keep in touch with your affiliates.
12. Autoresponders Put your VA in charge of loading up your autoresponder with all the emails that need to go out to your list. Create sign up forms to place on your website.
13. Website Maintenance make simple updates to your website, upload content, monitor website traffic and conversion
14. Social Bookmarking A time consuming and repetitive task that can easily be done by a VA with very little training from you. Get the VA to bookmark your sites, blog posts and articles using onlywire, social poster or social marker through the major site like digg, stumbleupon, reddit, propeller etc.
15. Shopping Cart Maintenance set up your shopping cart system and maintain it, set up new products in your shopping cart and link them appropriately to your website. Keep those product flying out the door!
16. Graphic Design connect with graphic designer to create appropriate image for product (ebook cover etc.) or if they have the skills add graphics to your website.
17. Teleconference Support schedule teleconferences, send out email announcements, reminders, follow ups, post audio recordings to website
18. Content Writing Write or proofread content for website, blog and articles.
19. Website Building A VA with technical background will have a website up and running for you in no time.
20. Ebook Writing Research content and resources for your ebook, hire a ghostwriter, help edit and find graphics, photos etc.
Please leave a comment on how you would use or are using a VA.
This is a great list! I should mention that if you are looking for an Internet Marketing Savvy VA, then, you might consider our Profile Directory at VAClassroom.com (http://www.vaclassroom.com/Marketplace.aspx).
We currently offer an Internet Marketing VA Certification that trains VAs in about half of the services listed on your list such as Managing Autoreponders, Affiliate Research and Recruitment, Keyword Research and Link-building activities, Google Analytics tracking and Social Media. Check it out!
Craig
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