Top 10 Tasks A VA Can Do For Any Business
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In this episode, Barbara and Matt share with listeners the virtual assistant tasks that they feel a VA can do to help you in your business.
During this episode, we take a look at how every minute you can save in your business and put into a direct income generating task, or something else important in your life, is a minute that is valuable to you.
                                                                                       
Some of the areas covered include:
 

Calendar management – whilst this may seem like a simple task that you can do yourself, if you had your VA managing this for you, you gain valuable ‘minutes’ to spend on your business.
Newsletter creation – this can be a timely exercise, so passing this task over allows you to focus on other important tasks, whilst making sure you have the ‘final sign-off’ on the newsletter
Managing social media channels – this task can be quite tedious as different channels have different specs for text limits and image sizes.

Let us know in the comments below what your key takeout has been from this episode or why not join the continuing conversation over in the Virtual Success Facebook Group.
In this episode:
02:37 - Task #1 – Research

04:10 - Task #2 – Calendar Management

05:54 - Task #3 – Formatting documents

08:27 - Task #4 – File management

09:16 - Task #5 – Create and send newsletters

11:37 - Task #6 - Blog posting

12:57 - Task #7 – Audio transcription

14:35 - Task #8 – Manage social media channels

16:56 - Task #9 - Reporting

21:09 - Task #10 - Invoicing

24:21 - Task #11 – Travel arrangements

27:15 - Task #12 – Appointment confirmations

29:04 - Wrapping things up

 

Matt Malouf:  Hey everyone, welcome to another show of the Virtual Success Show where I'm joined by my co-host Barbara Turley. Good morning Barb.

Barbara Turley:  Hey Matt, how are you today?

Matt: I'm excellent. Yourself?

Barbara:  I'm pretty good. I'm happy that my voice isn't sounding as husky as it was earlier because I have a bit of a cough at the moment, but yeah, good radio voice, good radio voice for today.

Matt: Very good, very good. Well, I'm really excited about this show today for no other reason than its simplicity. And as Barb and I were preparing for today's show, we sort of were talking about various different topics and I sort of suggested why don't we just share…what are the top 10, or 10 easiest tasks that you could have a virtual assistant do for you. One of the regular questions I get asked as a business coach is, "Okay, you've given me this concept of a virtual assistant, but what would I have them do?" And so, what we wanted to do today was put a very simple show together just highlighting what Barb and I believe is the 10 easiest tasks you could have a virtual assistant do. And this can apply to any business.

Barbara:  Absolutely. Yeah. I mean, I hear that a lot too, Matt. And I think sometimes it's sort of... I get a bit thrown off by that question because I'm so deep into the virtual assistant thing that I'm almost too far into it to kind of be able to get back to that simplicity again. So, when we were running through the list, it was actually you coming up with more of the top 10 simplest tasks than it was me. So, I'm even excited because I can now talk to other people about this when they ask me that question.

Matt:  Yeah. I know, I know. And it's going to sound sometimes over simplistic when we go through this today. But honestly, these top 10 that we're going to give you, if you have somebody else do that, the time you'll save and be able to invest into other areas of your business, or in your life, for that matter, is just going to be phenomenal for you. So, let's rip into this. So, Barb, I think we had number one as getting a virtual assistant to do research for us.
Task #1 – Research
Barbara:  Yeah, that's such a great one because it can span so many different are...