Owning your own business and being an Entrepreneur is a lot of fun and can take you places you’ve never dreamed of – but it’s also hard work! To be successful and grow in a business, you need to put in a lot of elbow grease into your business and tackle whatever comes your way.

Just because you own your own business, doesn’t mean that you have to do it alone! This is where hiring a support team or a Virtual Assistant (VA) is essential for a business to thrive!

Virtual Assistants are handy to have in your business because it’s like having a remote helper to pull out of your pocket when you need one or for full-time help. It’s your decision how much you utilize a VA!

If you are new to using a virtual assistant, it might be difficult at first to know what a VA can take over, so below are 10 tasks you can delegate to a Virtual Assistance you hire.

Website Updates

As a business owner, it’s essential to keep your web presence up-to-date and fresh. If your blog posts are old and it’s been ages since you posted something or the headshot is not what you used to look like, it’s time to look at updating your website.

A virtual assistant can help you with publishing the new photos to the website, especially if it requires a designer or coder! You can hire a VA who is specialized in those areas and who can whip your site back into shape!

Writing Content and Editing

As a business owner, you have to do a lot of writing, editing, and posting to your website or social media platform, and it can take a ton of time! Have a virtual assistant help you write a refresh bio for your website “about” page, change up your landing page, or prepare social media content for you!

Perhaps you don’t like writing or just don’t have the time as a business – this is where hiring a VA can significantly help! Not only can they write articles and blog posts for you, but they can also edit writing content you have written up – so that you can still keep your brand intact!

Prepare some bullet points and list some topics that you’d like your VA to handle and have them do some research and create the content for your blog!

Social Media Management

VA’s are excellent for helping with managing social media accounts, as well! They can set up your accounts, engage with your followers, like and comment on your platforms, create and schedule content and posts, and more!

Hiring a VA for your social media needs can help make sure you look professional on all your social media platforms. They can share content on all of your platforms so that it looks like you have a marketing team, even if it is only one person helping to manage your social media!

Handling Your Newsletter

A newsletter is another area where a virtual assistant can help you with your marketing and can get your name and your business in front of your customers more frequently! There are free accounts called Mail Chimp and other platforms you can sign up for where you can have your contacts sign up for the email list.

Your VA can help you put together a monthly newsletter or even a more frequent newsletter depending on your industry.

Calendar Management

Another excellent task a VA can do you for is to manage your calendar, making sure that all appointments and tasks stay organized. When you have a helper handle this for you, this gives your customers the impression your business is bigger than it is and also provides professional interaction with you and your company.

It will help you a lot if you work with a virtual assistant to help with scheduling appointments, answering quick emails, or helping you filter through the ones you have to reply to. This way, you can focus on other priorities that need your attention.

Inbox Management

Ask your VA to help with inbox management with your emails. They can manage your inbox and use it as a buffer between you and your clients if you’re getting a high volume of inquiries for other things. They can also keep it neat and tidy so that you don’t feel too overwhelmed when you look in your inbox!

Email Marketing

When you have emails, you can have your virtual assistant sort through, label, and prioritize your folders and whatever else you need to take care of.

Whether high or low priority, your VA can also schedule alerts to go out to your subscriber list and sort through the spam so that you don’t have to spend time doing them by yourself.

Marketing Materials

Another task you can have your VA help with is aiding you with your marketing materials such as flyers, posters, ads, business cards, event posters, email marketing, bulletins, and more!

They can take the work off your hands by designing everything for you, and a lot of them have a ton of talent in that department! They can also create your material in a way that suits and fits your business brand so that your business doesn’t miss a beat in looking professional and taken care of!

Data Entry

There are a lot of VA’s out there that love to do data entry work for businesses, and this can be helpful for you as a business. Data entry can be a mundane task as a business, so hand it over to someone to help you instead!

If you have an email subscriber list, a list of contacts, clients, or customers, your virtual assistant can help you with data entry. They can also input numbers and tracking details into a spreadsheet for you.

Content Research

If you have a blog, website, or newsletter that your clients and customers subscribe to, a VA can help with researching the topic ideas you have. This can take a while to do in a business, and having a VA help with it can help you have more time to do other work you need to do.

Delegate Tasks and Watch Growth Happen

A virtual assistant can positively impact your business – even in more ways than mentioned in this article – so hire a VA to get the support your business needs!

There are so many jobs you can pass on to a virtual assistant, and as a business, you will need to determine what to pass on to help your business flourish.

Hiring a VA can help you breathe more and get more done in and on your business so that you can develop, grow, and succeed in your business!

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