Turn your skills into a Virtual Assistant career in under 30 days

The truth is that there is no universal set of activities that a virtual assistant does since virtual assistants can pretty much do any online business tasks that companies can outsource.

The simplest way to determine tasks that can be outsourced by a business is finding repetitive tasks that do not directly impact business revenues. For example, a website development company can hire a virtual assistant to create social media posts for the company social media pages because, although a good social media presence helps the company in marketing, the main goal of the company is to make and develop websites.

So any task that is not integral to the main mission of the business can be delegated to a VA. The best thing about having a VA on the team is that they usually will have more knowledge about that specific task than your team so instead of your team barely doing it right, you can hire a VA to do it right while your team does what it is best at.

It is very crucial to know what a company should outsource so that you can explain to them why you need to take that off their hands. For example, while it is okay to pitch a website development company to take care of their social media, it might not be the best idea to pitch a social media agency to take care of their social media since a website development might not need to hire a full-time social media manager while a social media agency should have full-time social media managers onsite. This is what makes virtual assistant services very diverse.

Here is a list of some common VA services to help you understand some of the business tasks VAs do

• Social Media Management
• Email Management
• Content creation for blogs and ghostwriting
• Content research
• Editing and proofreading
• Transcription
• Customer support
• Online inventory management
• Graphic design and layout
• Calendar management
• Travel arrangements
• Keyword research
• Data entry
• Bookkeeping
• Performing outreach
• Community management and moderation

The list goes on and on!

Depending upon your skills and interests, you’re almost guaranteed to find one thing in this list that you can do that will appeal to potential clients. For most businesses, the greater the amount and variety of tasks you can take on, the better the chances of getting hired.