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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Ten Virtual Assistant Tasks

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If you are thinking of hiring a virtual assistant but do not know exactly how you can take full advantage of their time, here is a simple list of tasks that a virtual assistant can do for you
by Lawrence Perry

LONDON, ENGLAND -- (NewsPR.us and OfficialWire) -- 12/22/09 --

Search Engine Optimization- the virtual assistant can really help a business in its search engine optimization. Link building and article marketing and the other tasks involved in SEO are very time-consuming. A virtual assistant can make it easier for your business to improve your search ranking by putting in all the necessary work for SEO.

Marketing research- there is wealth of information available online about a wide range of topics. While in the past, people needed to go to the field to get the information they need on certain topics, today patient research online can already help individuals and businesses gain good information. You can have your virtual assistant do different kinds of online research for your business. If you need competitive intelligence, your VA can do the work for you.

Copywriting- some virtual assistants specialize in copywriting. You can hire them to create blogs, articles and other contents for your social media accounts. You can even have your virtual assistant write tweets, scripts and other texts for your business.

Appointment setting- if you are a busy business executive, the best way you can manage your time is if you have an assistant that carefully manages your appointments.

Trip planning- many business executives have their assistants plan their trips from booking plane tickets and hotels to planning the whole itinerary. The virtual assistant can plan not just business trips but vacations as well.

Event Planning- a company that is into organizing events can hire virtual assistants to help out. The virtual assistant can help in the different aspects of event planning from finding and booking locations, making invites, and booking suppliers for the event.

Social Marketing- social media marketing takes a lot of time. Hiring a virtual assistant to do all or most of the tasks means you can really focus on your social media tasks without the need to invest the time yourself.

Get important information and report on them- there is so much information being shared online and companies could really gain benefits from having someone collate important pieces of information and summarizing them.

Hiring employees- companies can use social media to get applicants and screen applicants for a job.

Monitor public perception- monitor how the public perceives your business and what you can do to manage public perception and company image.

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