Virtual Assistant Services
Whether you’ve just started your business or have been in business for a while, you’ll soon realize that you can’t do everything by yourself. And you shouldn’t! Our first priority is to help you grow a successful business. Let us provide all the administrative help you need to keep your business streamlined and running smoothly for a fraction of the cost of hiring full-time staff.
What is a Virtual Assistant and do you need one?
A virtual assistant (also known as VA) provides professional administrative or technical services to clients remotely from their home office. Because a virtual assistant is an independent contractor so you don’t have to pay for office space, employee taxes and all those other things that come with having a ‘real’ in-office assistant. You don’t have to worry about extra equipment, health insurance, vacation days, sick days, and wasted time while the office assistant chats with other employees.
There are a lot of different tasks a virtual assistant can do for you and your business. The main thing to remember is with the help of a virtual assistant, you’ll be able to stop spending so much of your time on projects that are time consuming and zap your energy, and instead focus on those things you enjoy doing.
A virtual assistant can provide services like email management, appointment scheduling, document preparation, social media management, website updates, calendar management, data entry and more.
Here are some of the basic things a VA can do for you:
- Document preparation
- Calendar management
- Data entry
- Customer support
- Schedule calls
- Maintain database of clients
- Send invoices to clients
- Internet research
- Travel planning (reserving flights, booking hotels, etc)
- Blog commenting
This is just a small list of some basic tasks a VA can do for your business. Of course there are things that require more skill that you can also hand over to a VA, such as:
- Email marketing – setting up/sending mailings for you through software like AWeber, Constant Contact, MailChimp
- Update Quickbooks
- Bookkeeping
- Content management
- Social media management
- PowerPoint
- Transcription
- Web design
- Graphic design
- Website updates
Again, this is just a small list of some of the tasks that require more of a skill set, but that can also be handed off to a trusted VA. This list is definitely not exhaustive and there are a lot of other jobs that can be outsourced as well.
One of the easiest ways to get started with outsourcing to a VA is by making a list of the top three things you know need to get done in your business, but that you don’t like doing. You know that list of tasks that you never seem to find time to do? Those are the perfect projects to get started with!
Unsure of what types of services and how much help you need? Contact us today for an evaluation conversation. We’ll discuss which of J. L. Love & Associates bookkeeping and administrative services will be the most helpful for your business!