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100+ Ways to Benefit from Virtual Assistants

By Diana Barnum

Check out the dozens of ways good virtual assistants can help with your projects. Many popular ways they can help include:

ACCOUNTING AND BOOKKEEPING

• creating and sending invoices to clients

• posting / logging monthly transactions into spreadsheets / bookkeeping software

• balancing and reconciling account statements and books (credit cards, loans, checking, savings, Paypal, eBay, etc.)

• sending payment reminders

• bill paying (for workers, contractors, suppliers, utilities, etc.)

ADMINISTRATIVE / SECRETARIAL SERVICES

• scheduling, confirming & rescheduling appointments

• backing up data regularly

• Completing daily To Do tasks

• regular reminding of important tasks and dates

• sending out the appropriate cards or gifts for special events

• managing lists of necessary office supplies and ordering refills

• coordinating and following up with travel plans

• coordinating other workers / outsource / virtual assistants and other helpers

DATABASE AND CLIENT MANAGEMENT

• keying in data into spreadsheets / database (business cards, telesales info, etc.)

• sending introductory, sales, referral, follow up and other business communications and materials (example: to new prospects, leads, clients)

• sending scheduled materials out as well (holiday promos, birthday cards, etc.)

• tracking marketing efforts and summarizing the results in a report

• contacting your leads and lists for missing contact information

• sending faxes

• emailing newsletters (ezines), announcements and broadcasts

EMAIL & MAIL SERVICES

• reviewing mail and email for sorting and deleting

• responding to help desks / support and other communications

• forwarding & tracking items to you and / or your clients

• order fulfillment, preparing packages and mailing out items

ONLINE SERVICES

• setting up and maintaining blogs, websites, forums and other means of online presence

• establishing and growing your newsletter / ezine and subscription database

• posting announcements and newsletter / ezine issues to your subscriber base / list

• completing Internet research

• writing, recording, editing, revising and submitting content to publishers online & off (articles, press releases, audio, video, podcasts, etc.)

PERSONNEL SERVICES

• writing, revising, posting online and printing out of resumes and cover / introduction letters

• reviewing candidates’ resumes and summarizing each for your review

• helping plan, create, coordinate and instruct about your products, services, business procedures, etc. with helpers / workers, staff and client training.

PRESENTATIONS

• preparing PowerPoint presentations

• preparing workshop / seminar participants beforehand with materials

• working after presentations with follow up materials

• summarizing results in a report

PRODUCT CREATION & MARKETING SERVICES (ONLINE & OFF)

• creating of private label rights (PLR) materials; i.e. ghostwritten items that you can slap your name and branding on and call your own: ebooks, reports, articles, blogging, videos, audio, podcasts, etc.

• marketing for your products, services and events keeping in your budget range for promotions online and off

• placing follow up faxes, emails, sales calls

• creating and mailing feedback and other surveys and questionnaires

• gathering testimonials, tracking the responses

• blogging, forum posting, using eBay, Craigslist, Social Networking, MySpace, Squidoo, OnlyWire and many other means to spread the word online.

• summarizing project work in reports

PRINTING AND PUBLISHING

• designing and printing brochures, matching letterhead, business cards and other marketing items

• creating designs for and ordering labels, letter head, flyers, pens, pencils and other promotional items

• crafting content & / or gathering it including interviewing, researching stats and quotes, laying out, printing and mailing newsletters / ezines (online & off)

• designing, printing and mailing out awards, certificates, handouts, CDs and more for workshop & seminar attendees

RESEARCH

• researching travel plans, destinations, hotels, car rentals and more

• researching affiliate programs, joint ventures and partners to team up with for your projects and then following up and reaching out to them to hook up.

• finding info for catering, presentations, speeches, apparel, and more

• fact finding for your reports, quotes, stats, articles, ebooks, presentations, speeches, videos, audios, podcasts and more…

• learning about decorating, entertainment, party / host gift ideas

• gathering clips of published articles (online and off)

• performing library research

TELEPHONE AND FAX SERVICES

• receiving phone calls & faxes to allow you more time to do other things

• forwarding important messages via email, text messaging or other means

• retrieving voice messages and replying and / or coordinating responses with your team so that you know that things are taken care of while you are busy elsewhere with other things

TRANSCRIPTION / WORD PROCESSING SERVICES

• using word processing to key in / type letters, articles, ebooks, memos, etc. from recordings or other note formats

• typing of reports, video and audio scripts, workshop / seminar notes and more from recordings or other note formats

• extra services like editing, proofing, spell and grammar check, conversion of documents (to Adobe PDFs, PowerPoint slides, Microsoft Word, for example.

• Just ask! Customization is our specialty.

Grow your business with plenty of help outsourcing with virtual assistants and teams.

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