VA, Virtual Assistant, Virtual PA. You’ve heard about them but what do they do and how can they help you grow your business, exactly? Here are 6 ways a Virtual Assistant can support you in your business activity.
Manage your contacts
Networking and collecting business contacts is one thing but entering them on your database? Yawn. Surely you’ve got more important things to do. Ask your Virtual Assistant to do it.
Action your emails
It’s easy to set up a designated email address so that enquiries, bookings & registrations go directly to your Virtual Assistant for action. They can screen and forward any important messages or those that require your input, helping clear much needed space from your inbox.
Send out your newsletters
Whether you send out regular newsletters, the occasional email announcing business news, or write weekly blog posts, your Virtual Assistant can take your content and do the rest, including set-up and optimisation, distribution through social media channels and tracking the effectiveness of your campaigns.
Organise your seminars and workshops
If you run workshops or other events, your Virtual Assistant can help by handling all the enquiries and bookings. Who wants to chase payments, send out workshop information, arrange online marketing and promotion, print workbooks and liaise with venues to ensure your event is a success? Your Virtual Assistant does!
Create your documents
Need a simple registration form for your event, Powerpoint slides for your presentation or an entire workbook for your delegates? Your Virtual Assistant can turn your scribbles into a coherent document giving you one less thing to worry about. What’s more, if you need them printed professionally ask your Virtual Assistant to organise it.
Assist your social media activity
If you find that keeping up with social media is a drain on your time, your Virtual Assistant can help. They can’t pretend to be you – social media is about engaging and building your relationships, but they can optimise your profiles, find conversations to join, submit your articles and help run your groups or networks.
I’ve listed just 6 great ways a Virtual Assistant can help you and your business but there are plenty more! If there are tasks that regularly keep you from working on your business, ask a Virtual Assistant how we can help – it’s what we do.
