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What Can A VA (Virtual Assistant) do for a Business in a Hour?

May 8, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Have you heard of a virtual assistant but don’t know how hiring one would apply to your business or how you could use their services? A virtual assistant is an entrepreneur who works as an independent contractor alongside individuals and/or businesses providing a variety of different administrative, technical, and creative services. Here are some ideas of what a VA can take off your plate and do in an hour:

Ever wonder how your colleagues have time to write so much social media content? Have a VA write your social media updates for the week and send them to you for approval.

Have a VA create an email campaign so you can keep in touch with your customers and prospects on a regular basis.

Do you need help with the editing and proofreading of a report your writing for your business? Have a VA edit and proof read a 5-page report for you in a hour.

Need a rockin’ PowerPoint presentation created for an upcoming speech, virtual event, or video? Have a VA create it for you!

Do you love shooting videos for your business but don’t want the hassle of having to edit them as well? Have a VA edit 5 to 10 of your short videos.

Have you heard that online article marketing is a great way to improve your SEO and get more traffic to your site but you don’t know where to start or what sites are best for you? Have a VA distribute 2 articles online for your business in an hour and start improving your SEO!

Have a VA setup or analyze your Google Analytics and establish regular reporting for your business.

These are just a few items a virtual assistant can do to help increase the efficiency of your online business and allow you to get back to the work you love doing!

Have you worked with a virtual assistant?

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What is a Virtual Assistant (VA)?

March 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment

So you have heard the term “VA” but what does it really mean? If you are like most people you have heard of a “Virtual Assistant” before but what do these individuals really do and will they really be able to help me in my business?

A VA is an entrepreneur who works as an independent contractor alongside individuals and/or businesses providing a variety of different administrative, technical, and creative services. VA professionals generally work from their own home office and communicate over telephone, email, various web chat services and fax.

With a Virtual Assistant you only pay for the time the VA spends on the project or task at hand. So you can forget those payroll expenses, paid vacation, benefits, bonuses, and supervision.

Virtual Assistants possess a high level of training, business knowledge, and a particular skill set that allows them to offer niche services. VA’s provide much more than just administrative or office support services though. They implement and manage all online marketing campaigns from social media and Internet marketing to e-commerce support. They also provide a variety of technical support and project management. The list goes on and on! Virtually whatever your need there is a VA for you and your business.

VA’s allow businesses the support and flexibility to work on their business instead of in their business. Check out for yourself why VA’s are passionate about helping entrepreneurs who are up to cool things to get their message out to the widest possible audience!

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VA or Multi-VA Firm, What’s the Difference?

February 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment

There is no doubt about it; a good Virtual Assistant can be a great asset to your business. A VA can field your email, update your blog, manage your shopping cart, and complete just about any other online or administrative activity that you can think of. There’s almost nothing that a good Virtual Assistant can’t do – almost. When a Virtual Assistant can’t complete a specific task, often another professional needs to be hired who can get the job done. Multi-Virtual Assistant Firms are different.

How Multi-VA Firms are Different

Behind every good multi-VA Firm stands a long line of professionals. Multi-virtual assistant firms hire experts in various fields who can complete just about any project on your list. Copy writers, design professionals, social media marketers, administrative experts, shopping cart specialists, and many other specialists are all part of a good multi-virtual assistant team.
Instead of turning down a project due to a lack of expertise, a multi-virtual assistant firm will find someone on the team who can complete the project for you. When your VA has a doubt about a project, there are a team of experts behind them whom they can rely on for information and expertise.

Finding the Right Fit

As with hiring any virtual assistant, finding the right fit for you and your business is crucial. If you don’t work well with your VA, you’ll defeat the purpose of hiring them in the first place. This is another area where the multi-VA model helps. After your initial consultation, where a multi-VA team member will ask questions in order to learn about your business, a Virtual Assistant will be assigned to you. This VA is assigned based on your business needs and your work style.

While one assistant handles and manages the majority of your projects, the other team members come in to play when there is a task that your Assistant cannot complete, or that is not within their area of expertise. The result is expertly completed projects that you can check off of your “to do” list.

Achieve Business Success

Working with a VA is a great first step on the road to success, but working with a team of assistants takes it a step further. Knowing that there is a team of experts behind you on whom you can depend will not only give you piece of mind, but will free up your time to grow your business to its greatest potential.

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