43 Real Tasks Your Virtual Assistant can do for you

Do you need more time to focus on making money in your business?  What if you are spending time on administrative tasks and your competition isn’t?

These are real tasks that real Virtual Assistants are doing for clients today.   This is by no means an exhaustive list, just ask your VA…

In alphabetical order, your VA can:

1. Convert an old contact database to new software.
2. Convert your manuals to Word or PDF documents.
3. Coordinate air travel, car rental and hotel reservations.
4. Create and send surveys to your contacts, collect responses, and consolidate results. 
5. Create dynamic presentations for your next meeting.
6. Create Excel reports to monitor your key indicators of success.
7. Digitize your receipts & documents.
8. Enter prospects into your contact management software for your marketing campaigns.
9. Fill out forms, applications and other documents (on-line and off-line).
10. Follow up with a personalized e-mail using the business cards you collect at a Trade Show.
11. Gather questions and answers from a webinar and create an FAQ document.
12. Keep you accountable in completing your daily to-do list.
13. Locate a hard to find item on the Internet.
14. Mail or e-mail past due notices or follow-up via telephone to collect on past due invoices.
15. Manage your calendar, confirm appointments, and send reminders to you .
16. Manage your company’s e-zine or newsletter.
17. Manage your e-mail while you’re on vacation & call you with a summary at the end of each day.
18. Order your office supplies & arrange for delivery to your location.
19. Organize your e-mail rules so that you get to the most important e-mails first.
20. Organize your inbox and voicemail box.
21. Prepare a PowerPoint presentation for your on-line webinars.
22. Prepare manuals, flyers and mailings.
23. Prepare PowerPoint slides from sketches of diagrams and charts.
24. Repurpose your existing content and convert to e-books and blog posts.
25. Research & find unique gifts for clients.
26. Research summer activities for children, showing costs, events & locations
27. Resize, group and upload photos to your website.
28. Send cards to your clients, friends and family members for birthdays and holidays.
29. Send thank you notes to your clients immediately after they use your services.
30. Set up and manage your Facebook Business pages.
31. Set up a new blog.
32. Sort, route and answer routine e-mail messages.
33. Take minutes during tele-conferences and summarize take-aways for you.
34. Take your box of business cards and create a distribution list for your e-newsletter.
35. Track projects and deadlines.
36. Track special dates & order flowers on your behalf.
37. Transcribe your voice mails into a succinct e-mail document easy to review.
38. Type up handwritten notes from a meeting or seminar.
39. Type, edit, format, proofread & grammar check your documents.
40. Typing letters, print on stationery, address, and mail.
41. Update Twitter, Facebook and your blog.
42. Update your to-do list.
43. Verify information in your database.

So stop the madness, find a VA who specializes in this arena, and take your business to the next level.