You are super busy and wearing a dozen different hats in your business, so it might be time to hire a virtual assistant. But, what exactly can a virtual assistant help you with? The term virtual assistant is a broad term, and many virtual assistants have different skills and services that they offer. For the most part, these 10 tasks are things that many virtual assistants can help you with; you’ll just need to find the right virtual assistant who enjoys the type of tasks you want to outsource.

How a Virtual Assistant Can Help You

1) Answering Emails

A virtual assistant can take email management and customer service off your plate. If you have emails falling through the cracks or not answering as quickly as you would like, this is an excellent task to hand off to a virtual assistant. Your virtual assistant can even help you create canned email responses that fit your brand voice to make answering emails less time-consuming.

2) Market Research

Market research is a great way to brainstorm your offers, products, and audience, but it takes a lot of time. There’s no need for a CEO to spend all of the time doing the time-intensive research. Market research-type tasks can be handed off to your virtual assistant, who can put all of the research into a handy Google Doc for your review.

3) Member and Student Support

If you have a lot of clients or students, your virtual assistant can easily help out with this. If you have a membership or a lot of courses, this can become a more significant part of your day. It’s also one of the most important tasks because we always want to ensure our clients, members, and students get the attention and support they need.

4) Social Media

Most virtual assistants can help with scheduling or creating social media content. This is great for someone who doesn’t want to hand their social media over entirely to a social media manager but still needs some help.

5) Website Updates

Updating plugins, changing links, adding countdown timers, etc. Minor website updates may not take a lot of time, but if you have a lot of them needing to be done throughout the month, it can add up.

6) Creating Graphics

A virtual assistant can help you create graphics for your business. While your virtual assistant might not be skilled in graphic design, you can still assign these tasks by providing easy-to-use Canva Templates.

7) Calendar Management

If you have a lot of meetings, calls, and speaking engagements, having someone else manage your calendar might be beneficial for you.

8) Event Support

Event support is a specialized service, but most virtual assistants can help you with a large chunk of the tasks involved in running an event, whether an in-person retreat or a virtual summit.

9) Data Entry

Your virtual assistant can handle data entry and almost all administrative tasks. From spreadsheets to organizing student feedback, anything that includes essential data needs to be set up and organized.

10) Marketing

If you aren’t ready to hire a marketing manager, a virtual assistant can usually help with some marketing-related tasks.

Are you ready for a virtual assistant? Check out my services page to see how we can work together and what I can take off your plate right now!