As a small business owner, you can often find yourself wearing lots of hats to keep everything moving smoothly. You know you need to tackle your admin but there just aren’t enough hours in the day. Are you working evenings and weekends to stay on top of your paperwork?
A virtual assistant (VA) can help with those tasks that you don’t have time for or aren’t your cup of tea. With no office overheads, no holiday pay, no sick pay or no pension scheme you only pay for the time your VA spend on your tasks. There’s no lunchtime or coffee breaks to pay for, as you only pay for the time spent on your tasks.
Working ‘virtually’ from my home office, the tasks can be big or small. Some clients use my services occasionally and seasonally depending on the nature of their business. Others have larger projects or ongoing daily and weekly tasks so work on a retainer basis where they book a number of hours on a regular basis.
Here are the top outsourced tasks that I did for clients in 2017:
- Creating Facebook & Instagram posts and tweets for Twitter;
- Setting up Twitter & Facebook Business pages
- Online research for projects – logistics alternatives; marketing;
- Creating email marketing newsletters using MailChimp;
- Facebook advertising campaigns;
- Follow up phone calls for sales campaigns;
- 1:2:1 training on social media platforms;
- WordPress website updates;
- Email Management – filtering messages, responding to sales orders;
- Database entries: client records and business cards added to an existing CRM database;
If you could lose a few of those hats what could that mean? Freer weekends, time to focus on marketing, more time to develop new products?
There are so many benefits to hiring a Virtual Assistant that can help businesses just like yours. If you had more time on your hands, what would you do with it?
There are so many benefits to hiring a Virtual Assistant that can help businesses just like yours. If you had more time on your hands, what would you do with it?
For more information about outsourcing to a virtual assistant call 01608 612233 or email nicki@cotswoldcolleague.co.uk