Our job as a virtual assistant can be very rewarding both personally and professionally. We can work from anywhere in the world helping out as many (or few) clients as we want while also having the freedom to do what we want when we want.
You can respond to emails while you sit on the ocean or create a stunning slide deck presentation for your client’s upcoming masterclass while you sit on your bed sipping coffee. You can upload a blog post while attending your daughter’s dance practice.
That kind of freedom can bring you happiness and if you are passionate about serving your clients, you can have an endless stream of business and make a full-time income.
Here are some tasks and services you can start offering your clients to increase their productivity while increasing your portfolio and your income. Business owners and entrepreneurs alike these tasks are where you should start to outsource to virtual staff to create more freedom.
If you are not a virtual assistant yet, you can use the tasks and services below to start creating a list of services you can offer to clients. Just print out the list below and circle all the tasks and services that you love to do. You can also download a copy of the list here.
- Responding to voicemails
- Responding to emails
- Writing blog posts
- Creating blog post featured images
- Creating Infographics
- Creating Logos
- Video editing
- Transcription of videos, podcasts or interviews
- Video captioning
- Slide deck presentations
- Editing photos
- Schedule maintenance
- Answering live chats on the website
- Compiling FAQs for products and services
- Blog post best of crowdsourcing
- Project management for launches, webinars, and tutorials
- Website management (updating plugins on WP)
- Cloud file management & organization
- Competitor Research
- Customer Research
- Messenger bot scheduling
- Messenger bot flow creation
- Creating canned responses for emails and chatbots
- Compiling comments for testimonials
- Question moderator on webinars and masterclasses
- Email organization
- Updating software
- Sending out thank you letters or gifts by snail mail
- Managing other tasks for Virtual Assistants
- Paying bills
- Setting up appointments
- Scheduling meetings
- Managing/Organizing Business files and folders
- Writing email campaigns
- Editing emails
- Editing website copy
- Creating a schedule or goal achievement timeline
- Checking key performance indicators
- Tracking sales and leads
- Uploading IG TV and IG Stories
- Organizing launches of courses and webinars
- Creating images
- Researching keywords
- Tracking rank of keywords
- SEO
- Developing a posting schedule on social media channels
- Compiling case studies
- Getting referrals and testimonials from customers/clients
- Creating cheat sheets
- Scheduling reservations for lunch or dinner
- Buying gifts for clients and family
- Setting up interviews for podcasts or live streams
- Uploading videos to Dropbox
- Interviewing potential Assistants for other positions
- On-boarding and training new assistants or team members
- Designing and creating landing pages, sign up forms or other web pages
- Kajabi page designer
- Clickfunnels page designer
- Email Newsletter designer
- Pinterest pin designer
- Content repurposing
- To-do list
- Check emails
- Return email
- Manage an email contact list
- Check voicemail messages
- Make/return phone calls
- Look up and print directions
- Research background info on people for meetings
- Create a weekly reminder of upcoming events
- Create slides, PowerPoints, templates for presentations
- Create general working hours doing the work that is at the core of my career, business, service, etc.
- Sort through business mail
- Update computer software and subscriptions
- Manage phone contacts, phone updates, etc.
- Technical/digital services, in-home or office, Internet connection, cable routers, phone service, computers, printers
- Delete files from my computer
- Upload photos from my phone to Dropbox
- Upload videos from my phone to Dropbox
- Buy office supplies
- File paperwork
- Book travel arrangements
- Organize workspace
- Listen to podcasts
- Continuing education, online courses
- Reread notes from the seminar
- Schedule time to implement new techniques and advice from the seminar
- Retype notes from seminars/training
- Begin to implement key objectives from most recent training/seminar
- Schedule interviews with top leaders in the industry
- Review time spent daily on regular work activities
- Respond to customer service complaints and questions
- Follow up with prospects
- Follow up with networking opportunities
- Meet with and partner with local businesses for marketing purposes
- Network and build relationships with local businesses
- Research and join a mastermind group
- Organize and run a team training
- Post jobs on Upwork
- Manage jobs on Upwork
- Research Upwork job descriptions
- Research average pay for these types of jobs on Upwork
- Connecting with staff or key people
- Brainstorm recognition ideas for team
- Create a questionnaire so I know what my key customers or employees/staff would like for recognition (interests, sizes, hobbies, etc.)
- Plan a team-building event (even if just online)
- Check-in with key customers weekly
- Create videos/screen flows to teach staff key responsibilities
- Create screen flows for every activity that can be outsourced
- Create a video or audio recording of the training that the client can regularly repeat
- Research best virtual staff/team management platform
- Conduct team-building activities
- Schedule team meetings/training
- Send daily check-in messages with key people
- Schedule time to connect with top customers, key people in social media
- Pay employees or consultants
- Review hours of employees or consultants
- Performance reviews of employees or consultants
- Review health benefits for employees
- Find inspiration for content for social media posts
- Research top accounts in social media
- Create a social media calendar
- Research “cliff notes” on recent changes/practices in social media
- Transcribe videos into blog/social media content
- Organize photos and video files for use on social media
- Create free content (articles, videos, tutorials, reports, etc. to attract new email subscribers)
- Proofread free reports/ebooks
- Create monthly newsletters
- Proofread newsletters
- Manage the collection of new subscribers to newsletters
- Schedule live webinars
- Create content for live webinars
- Research topics for e-book or free reports
- Schedule photoshoots
- Select photos to use
- Submit articles regarding e-books or free reports to other websites
- Rewrite email sequences
- Create slideshow and presentation for webinars
- Download images and stock photos for webinars and infographics
- Add Google+ link to an email signature
- Add Facebook Like Page to an email signature
- Add Twitter profile to the email signature
- Add Pinterest profile to the email signature
- Add YouTube profile to the email signature
- Write Facebook updates
- Manage their Facebook inbox
- Click “like” when anyone responds to my posts on Facebook
- Create Facebook banner art that changes weekly or more often
- Interact with new Facebook followers, research to see if appropriate
- Create videos on Facebook
- Check stats on Facebook Like Page
- Create a Facebook ad
- Monitor Facebook ads
- Review other Facebook pages for a client
- Interact and comment on Facebook
- Create dark posts on Facebook
- Create Canva type images for Facebook
- Analyze the best time to post on Facebook
- Post daily photos/videos to Instagram
- Like and interact with Instagrammers in the client’s target market
- Find content to feature on Instagram feature pages
- Mange Instagram DMs
- Interact with new Instagram followers, research to see if appropriate
- Create Canva type images for Instagram
- Analyze the best time to post on Instagram
- Research top hashtags to use on Instagram
- Write tweets
- Schedule tweets
- Manage Twitter DMs
- Interact with new Twitter followers
- Create short videos 30 seconds long for Twitter
- Download and categorize all previously tweeted content
- Upload all previously tweeted content into an Excel document
- Upload all previously tweeted videos/images to Dropbox
- Create Canva type images for Twitter
- Change cover art on Twitter
- Favorite tweets
- Unfollow irrelevant people on Twitter
- Analyze tweets
- Create similar tweets
- Analyze the best time to post on Twitter
- Research top hashtags to use on Twitter
- Edit videos for YouTube
- Interact with new YouTube followers, research to see if appropriate
- Change cover art on YouTube
- Schedule YouTube video collaboration with people in my industry (celebrities or guests)
- Clean up their YouTube channel
- Research key terms for titles on YouTube videos
- Analyze top-performing videos on YouTube
- Create a plan for repurposing YouTube content
- Analyze the best time to post on YouTube
- Create Pinterest photos
- Update my Pinterest page
- Pin other photos on Pinterest
- Interact with new Pinterest followers
- Manage Pinterest messages
- Go through old blog posts and make sure all photos link to Pinterest
- Upload all photos and videos that relate to blog posts to Pinterest and link back to the blog
- Create Pinterest boards that relate to my varied interests and brands
- Cultivate/curate additional content for future Pinterest posts related to the client’s target market
- Learn more about using Pinterest for business/watch Academy/videos
- Create Canva type images for Pinterest
- Clean up a Pinterest account
- Research key terms for content on Pinterest
- Analyze the best time to post on Pinterest
- Research top hashtags to use on Pinterest
- Interact with new LinkedIn followers
- Update photos on LinkedIn
- Rewrite descriptive headlines for LinkedIn
- Upload content to LinkedIn
- Import Outlook contacts to LinkedIn
- Import webmail contacts to LinkedIn
- Check for people who affiliate with the client on LinkedIn
- Sort through business cards and contacts and invite them on LinkedIn
- Join relevant groups on LinkedIn
- Conduct relevant people searches on LinkedIn and invite to the client’s network
- Brainstorm content to post to LinkedIn
- Review results on LinkedIn
- Research additional domain names I should reserve
- Go through every page of the website looking for broken links, outdated info
- Research podcast topics
- Research podcast names
- Edit audio for podcasts
- Upload completed/edited audio for a podcast show
- Write podcast show notes
- Write a description of each podcast episode
- Search engine optimization and key term research for each podcast episode
- Research guests and topics for each podcast episode
- Analyze Libsyn stat numbers
- Upload episode to iTunes, Stitcher, and Soundcloud
- Promote podcast on Twitter
- Promote podcast on YouTube
- Promote podcast on Pinterest
- Promote podcast on Facebook
Choices are everything but don’t get overloaded with what you can offer. Pick three main topics you want to help your clients with. Be sure to specify and focus on a few things you do very well.
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