MMC Virtual Assist

The Biggest Benefits of Hiring a Virtual Assistant

One of the most advantageous aspects of hiring a VA is the opportunity to delegate them your work which is more time consuming. You can simply take your hands off from the task if you have lack of time or expertise for the same. Here are the top 7 tasks that are recommended to delegate to your VA. Let’s see how many of them come up on your list.

Task 1

Managing Appointments, Meetings and handling Calendar

Managing your Appointments and chasing individuals to have a meeting and then following it up itself takes about 12 hours a week of time, you surely wouldn’t want to waste so much of time doing that. VAs will always have your back for handling this for you. In addition to these tasks, your virtual assistant can:

  • Book appointments
  • Set reminders for upcoming appointments
  • Reschedule appointments
  • Provide updates on your schedule
  • Act as a gatekeeper for your valuable time by rejecting unnecessary meeting requests

Task 2

Data Entry on a basic level

Physical absence of an administrative assistant doesn’t mean you can’t delegate those types of tasks. This time saved after delegating such tasks is unimaginable. Such tasks are-

  • Take notes in meetings or seminars
  • Conversion of files
  • Set up projects (in your project management system)
  • File management

Task 3

Handles Customer Service Requests

This is quite the basic one. Although it can be sometimes risky to outsource customer service, but believe it or not it will save you a lot of time and headspace. The most common customer support requests that could be delegate to a VA are:

  • Password retrieval from an account
  • Setting up a new password
  • Technical assistance while trouble logging in
  • Setting up a profile on social media platforms
  • Handling subscriptions.

Task 4

Respond To All Emails

Email is mainly the last thing busy professionals would outsource. But, once you find the right person to this task, you can have even more of your time by handle off the following to your virtual assistant:

  • Reply to messages for you or as you
  • Study your past responses from your inbox to gather information and reply accordingly
  • Go through your emails and look for patterns and create a database for your replies
  • Filter all received inquiries

Task 5

Social Media Management

Social media accounts are one of the first impressions a customer encounters in their research of you and your product/service. Once you have found someone you can trust, you can hand off tasks like:

  •  Managing feeds and posts
  • Replying on social media comments, query and feedbacks
  • Building strong presence
  • Respond to feedbacks of customers with either thanks or solutions to their problems

Task 6

Content Creation

A modern virtual assistant should be able to create content that accurately reflects and adds value to the lives and build a strong customer engagement. Here are some examples of what you can outsource:

  • Social Media blogs
  • Website Newsletters

Task 7

Research

To keep up with the trends your business undoubtedly need to do a lot of research work. A virtual assistant can be the best option to do so. They can, for example:

  •  Gather information about your prospects
  • Conduct competitor analysis and come up with the conclusion
  • Compile facts and figure
  • Any other dedicated research as per your needs