Virtual Business Specialists and Virtual Assistants are the thing now, everyone has one or wants to have one.
Have you ever wondered what they can do for you and/or your business?
There are so many things us virtual business owners can do for you it’s AMAZING!
Here is a list of some of the things that your virtual business specialist can take off your plate:
THE ULTIMATE LIST OF VIRTUAL SERVICES:
Administration / Management (The most sought after skills most business owners need & use)
Business owners like you need help with these everyday to-do’s which will free up your time to make more money by growing your business and do the things you love to do and are the BEST at.
- Customer service through email, chat, or phone
- Monitoring and responding to emails
- Organizing email inboxes
- Managing blog comments
- Managing social media comments
- Live webinar assistance
- Calendar maintenance
- Creating PowerPoint presentations
- Appointment setting
- Order fulfillment
- Ordering supplies
- Ordering, packaging, and sending gifts to clients
- Sending Thank You’s
- Writing job listings
- Arranging interviews
- Answering phone calls
- Repurposing content (Example: take a clip from video and use it for a written blog post or a social media post)
- Taking meeting minutes
- Managing blog editorial calendars
- Client onboarding tasks like responding to emails and sending invoices and contracts
- Following up with leads/clients
- Guest post screening
- Making travel arrangements
- Form preparation
- Packaging and shipping products and gifts
- Creating resumes
- Monitoring YouTube content
- Uploading YouTube videos
- Managing online communities
- Assisting with teleseminars
- Creating and updating SOPs
- Updating house or land listings for realtors
- Helping launch ebooks or programs
- Optimizing blog posts with images, linking to other blog posts, and adding CTAs (Call to Actions)
- Project management
- Event planning and management
- Giveaway management
- Organizing cloud files
- Organizing G-Drive files
- Hiring and training new team members
- Personal shopping
- Translation
- Brainstorming ideas for blog posts, products, etc.
- Business strategy
Bookkeeping
These tasks are necessary to keep your business financially afloat.
- Bookkeeping
- Managing payments and invoicing
- Processing orders and refunds
- Making collections calls
- Handling payroll
- Billing and invoices
Graphic Design
Using your virtual business specialist to create beautiful graphics to use in your social media, on your website, in your blog posts, for your documentation, flyers, brochures, etc.
- Creating graphics for blog posts
- Photo editing
- Creating slides for webinars or workshops
- Designing business cards, flyers, logos, menus, signage, etc.
- Sourcing photos for blog posts, books, social media, etc.
- Creating social media graphics or pins
- Photography for websites and promotional materials
- Branding services
- Creating brand style guides
- Designing ebooks or pretty PDFs for newsletter opt-ins
Marketing
Your audience wants to form a relationship with your brand, and marketing can be used to do just that. Marketing is important because it helps you sell your products or services, builds awareness, generate leads, acquires new customers and makes a business stand out.
- Pitching brands
- Setting up sales funnels
- Lead generation
- Creating press releases
- Marketing strategy
- Blog post promotion
- Ebook promotion
- Ad management
- Promoting live events
Research
Any kind of research helps you to understand the needs of existing customers and why they chose your service over competitors. … It also helps you to make well-informed market decisions about your services and develop effective strategies as well as continued growth.
- Researching speaking opportunities
- Researching guest post opportunities
- Researching and applying to affiliate marketing programs
- Researching programs and resources
- Travel research
- Event research
- Keyword research for Etsy, Pinterest, Google, etc.
- Vendor/printer research
- Joint venture research and follow up
- Product research
- Market research
- Software and program research
- Rearching and condensing information
- Hashtag research
- Sponsorship research
- Researching and summarizing industry news
- Education research
- Researching LinkedIn groups
- Product price comparison
- Licensing research
- Patent research
- Researching publishers
- Running promotions
- Competition research
- Creating SWOT analysis
- Researching podcast guests
- Software research
- Solution research
Social Media
Social media is necessary to build your brand and increase visibility, through building relationships and communicating with potential customers. It allows your customers to connect and interact with your business on a more personal level and establishes you as an authority, as a resource users turn to because they trust you.
- Scheduling social media updates
- Creating and managing Pinterest accounts
- Creating and managing Promoted Pins
- Creating Facebook ads
- Managing Facebook groups
- Setting up and managing LinkedIn groups
- Creating social media polls
- Scheduling pins via Tailwind, Later, Hootsuite or Buffer
- Creating and managing Instagram posts
- Responding to social media messages
- Scheduling messages in ManyChat
Techy Stuff
This technical stuff is very important and ensures that your business systems run smoothly and everything happens in the appropriate flow. Most business owners do not want or know how to do these back office tasks that are very time consuming and a virtual business specialist / virtual assistant can take these off your plate.
- Formatting blog posts
- Updating websites and plugins
- Website security and backups
- Website SEO
- Data entry
- Video editing
- Podcast editing
- Webinar setup
- Analytics reporting (Google Analytics, email, social media, etc)
- Setting up goals in Google Analytics
- Setting up UTM goals to track website traffic
- Setting up or migrating email lists to a new email service provider
- Setting up newsletter opt-in forms and sequences
- Setting up secure websites (https)
- Database creation and management
- Shopping cart installation/maintenance
- Podcast submission
- Web design/maintenance
- Creating surveys and online forms
- Troubleshooting, IT support
- Creating and managing affiliate programs
- Creating landing pages and squeeze pages
- Streamlining and automating systems
- Creating digital magazines
- File conversion
- Setting up spreadsheets
- Tracking and fixing broken links
- Ecourse creation
- Website coding
- Ad management
- Setting up digital product delivery
- Formatting ebooks
- Creating online quizzes
- Managing ecommerce sites
- Managing customer databases
Writing
Many business owners want to create blog posts, courses and ebooks and don’t have the time to do it.
- Writing blog posts
- Writing ebooks, books, newsletters, email funnels, etc.
- Writing or editing audio or video transcriptions
- Writing social media posts for Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram
- Editing & proofreading blog posts, books, websites, newsletters, recipes, etc.
- Email marketing
- Website and sales page copy writing
- Ghostwriting
- Creating product descriptions for online shops like Shopify or Etsy
- Grant proposals
- Collecting/editing testimonials
- Letter writing
- Podcast scripting
Now, I am sure that something on this list is something you have struggled with doing and may need help with many of them. That is why there are Virtual Business Specialists and Virtual Assistants thriving in their businesses. We provide greatly needed services to busy business owners.
If you need help with any of these, let’s schedule a time to chat and see what solutions I can offer you and your business! You can view my services here!
To Your Success,
Danna
Virtual Business Specialist
danna@alphaoneinnovations.com
http://alphaoneinnovations.com
http://bit.ly/ChatWithDanna
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