Virtual Assistant For Small And Medium Enterprises
(SME)
Excess workload, looking to cut down your overhead cost and need extended business
hours?
Relax – time to forget your worries. Hire a virtual assistant to manage your daily
tasks. We understand the fact that you know running your business better than anyone
else, know how to unlock your full potential you need to develop your business, and
how to spend your time with your loved ones or at your workplace. Its lack of time,
fixed infrastructure and business operating costs sometimes push you back and you
cannot do it all alone.
With the growing number of solo professionals, the need for marketing,
administrative, social media, web and graphic services is increasing and the process
of finding assistance for your business in this area can be overwhelming. Most solo
professionals feel like they have to find a service provider in each of these task
areas but what they may not know is that there are virtual assistance firms out
there that offer all of these services and more.
Your business needs extra hour of time and you need to delegate some of your mundane
or routine tasks to free-up your time and focus on important areas to develop your
business.
How can a Virtual Assistant help SME’s?
There are many ways that you can utilize the services of a virtual assistant in your
business.
Here are just a few of the services virtual assistant offers to SME’s:
• Administrative Items – From scheduling to e-mail management to time
tracking to
invoicing, your virtual assistant can help you with many, many administrative items.
The beauty is that you can turn over all of the day-to-day management to your VA and
focus on what is important – your clients!
• Marketing Assistance – If you are responsible for marketing your own
practice and
finding clients, your virtual assistant can help, you setup different marketing
channels and monitor their success rates.
• Social Media Support – As more and more businesses take to Twitter,
Facebook and
LinkedIn, you can have your virtual assistant manage your contacts and your
communication via the social media networks. Although it is best to have messages
come from your voice, you can utilize the power of these tools even when you are
pressed for time.
• Blogging – You may have heard that you should be blogging but if you are
not yet,
now is the perfect time! Your VA can not only write blog posts that are keyword rich
(to help drive traffic to your website) but they can add appropriate images,
keywords and categories to create an excellent resource center for your clients.
• Website Management – A virtual assistant, with the right skill set, can
help you
to keep your website up-to-date and fresh with new content.
• Accounting – Professionally managed accounting services are always an added
advantage to your firm. Virtual Office Assistant supplies the best accounting
convenience like QuickBooks and MYOB.
• Others – We offer a host of other services for your convenience and profit
like
web research, data entry, word processing, collection of contact information, social
media and networking, event planning, travel research etc.
There are literally hundreds of options available for outsourcing to a virtual
assistant. One thing to keep in mind, however, that is every virtual assistant and
virtual assistance firm will have different skill abilities and will provide
different services.
How Do I Determine What to Delegate?
The best place to start is to look at your daily workload. What is taking you away
from working on client work? What is taking you away from the billable time?
Make a list and prioritize them into the biggest time wasters. These top-level items
are the first things you should look at outsourcing to a virtual assistant.
