Top 30 Virtual Assistant Jobs for Clients to Outsource

Every virtual assistant has their own expertise and best skill to offer to their clients. You are probably wondering the kind of jobs that virtual assistants actually do being called the superman or wonder woman they are. Or could ask any of these questions, “When I hire a virtual assistant and work with a virtual assistant company, are they going to give me the list of choices of jobs that virtual assistants can offer?”, “Can I choose and hire a virtual assistant who can best cater to my needs and the needs of my business?”, “Are Virtual Assistants flexible on my business needs?” or “Can I trust Virtual Assistants with my business?”. The answer to all these questions is YES. There are several jobs that you can choose from and only hire the best virtual assistant for your business.

Here are the top 30 virtual Assistant jobs and services for clients to choose from, starting with the top 10 services that our team offer.

1. SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING and MANAGEMENT. This tops our list since most of our clients require help in managing their Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIN and You Tube accounts. We help clients setup their accounts from scratch, create content, schedule them and if the client wishes, can also delegate engagement to us. 2. GENERAL VIRTUAL ASSISTANCE. Need an all-rounder? You got it! A GVA does everything an “office assistant” or “office clerk” does in an everyday setting the office, that includes occasionally answer the telephone! 3. WEB RESEARCH. This has been the entry-level hire for most clients now. Basically going over the world wide web searching for information and competitors analytics that your business requires. Time consuming and at times trying if pulling personal details of private citizens but someone honed for the job will surely find a workaround. 4. GRAPHIC DESIGNS. Every business needs images for marketing their products or services. We do have fixed or project based and hourly paid GDs to suit your needs. While there are now easy to use graphic apps in the internet, that creativity is the reason most clients outsource this job. 5. TRANSCRIPTION. Oh this is really time consuming and most clients would rather outsource. Who does? Mostly those who ran a podcast and wishes to convert content to blogs or social media snippets. 6. CONTENT WRITING. From product or services descriptions to social media ads to email marketing campaigns to newsletters, we have a ready person to write them for you. Tailored to your business brand, all you need is give a go and topic! 7. BOOKKEEPING. Another tedious job that if you’re not a Bookkeeper or an Accounting person, is not just your thing. For a rising business, the transactions definitely increases thus it needs a Bookkeeper – either daily, weekly, monthly – depends on the volume. But what exactly we offer? Quickbooks, Wave Apps, Freshbooks, Xero and MYOB are the popular tools being outsourced to us. 8. LEAD GENERATION. A challenging job for every Virtual Assistant but is fun for the right fit. Every business requires presence especially in the online world. Top generators are blog posts, coupons, live events, online content and freebies. 9. EDITING and PROOFREADING. This service is very popular to clients who are authors, bloggers and who regularly release newsletters. Others just want an extra pair of eyes to check on their work before sending out their written content to followers or readers. 10. CUSTOMER SERVICE. This was then the most popular outsourced job since 2009. Phone and email were the most popular way back but since the boom of the social media, customers just seem to find it easier to take their concerns to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or even You Tube. So every business needs someone to provide solution and “face” the client needing assistance, especially for inquiries that could turn to sales.

Interested for more? We definitely have more services available to you!

11. WEBSITE MAINTENANCE. Web developers generally start the job for you but there are now easy-to-build website tools available designed for the solopreneurs who just wanted to create a simple website showcasing what they offer. If you go with either of them, you’d surely need someone to constantly update your website. This is a VA thing especially if you’re not too technical. 12. DATA ENTRY and MANAGEMENT. The most popular job for Virtual Assistants since they only need to key the information in your systems. This may be a very simple task but it requires a keen VA to get the job done over time. 13. EMAIL MANAGEMENT and FILTERING. Very popular with clients using GSuite since it allows email delegation. Most CEOs and Directors hire us to clean their inbox and maintain their focus on the priority emails. 14. EMAIL MARKETING. What’s the difference with the above? This task is for creating email campaigns and newsletter from scratch that involves setting up Autoresponders. Popular to our clients are ActiveCampaign, Mailchimp, Ontraport and GetResponse. 15. CALENDAR MANAGEMENT or APPOINTMENT SETTER. Yes, this is outsourced! For a busy entrepreneur, tracking everything in their calendar becomes a hard task. Thus, a VA helps you show up on time and never miss a client! 16. BLOG ASSISTANCE. Posting your content or scheduling for a certain day. Or blog commenting too. If you’re a blogger, you surely need a VA to help you increase the blog reach! 17. POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS. While this may be simple to others, busy entrepreneurs and speakers struggle sitting down and creating the many slides for their presentations. Where as if you just email the content to us even on a rough draft, we’ll return it to you on your branding colors and font, ready for your presentation. 18. MINUTES TAKING. Surprised with this being in the list? This can fall in transcription but since this is a recorded meeting via Zoom, Google Hangouts or Meet or Skype, and not really word-for-word, this is listed separately. Clients usually need the Minutes of Meeting to be distributed within the next 12 hours so rather than spending time on it, they prefer to send us the recording and we do the rest. 19. TRAVEL ARRANGEMENT. Traveling entrepreneurs top requirement! Someone who wants to always be on the go also needs someone to organize their trips from ticket purchasing, itinerary including tours, accommodation and activities. 20. DATA ORGANIZATION. What? Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, the Cloud! Yes we get tasks to organize their files.

Below completes the list of what we know are the popular Virtual Assistant jobs to date.

21. PROJECT MANAGEMENT. For a busy entrepreneur with lots going on, a Project Manager is a must to help them execute their plans.

22. SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION. Getting a VA who specializes in SEO will help your business boost your web traffic and eventually converting them to sales.

23. CREATING LANDING PAGES. Essential to drive traffic to your specific marketing campaign goal, creating landing pages are occasional tasks outsourced to VAs since most campaigns run on holidays or special days.

24. PAY PER CLICK (PPC) MANAGEMENT. This type of internet marketing and advertising requires analytical skills but is very popular to Virtual Assistants.

25. TELEMARKETING. Better know these days as cold calling. VAs usually get paid extra monies or a commission when they convert.

26. RUNNING AD CAMPAIGNS. Although this usually refers to Facebook ads. A VA doing this creates the content and target market for the ad.

27. SHOPIFY ASSISTANT. This has become a popular job with VAs for dropshipping clients. Task involves finding products, adding to Shopify, monitoring the sales and order fulfillment.

28. SETTING UP SALES FUNNELS. For entrepreneurs using online tools for their sales, the

VA could help in writing compelling ads, create the images, research keywords and integrate in social media. 29. RECRUITMENT. Human resources is very important part of the business. Businesses

usually outsource the sorting of candidates and sending out invitations to applicants.

30. EVENT MANAGEMENT. Oh yes this is very popular! From event planning to marketing, the VAs actively take part to helping you and the event be a success. There are a lot of jobs that the virtual world can offer. Whether you are just starting your business or big enough that you are overwhelmed by the jobs, Virtual Assistants can help you on your journey to fulfilling your goals.

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