Aug 04 2014 
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Sooner or later every business small or large needs a team to handle its responsibilities because a single person cannot manage everything on his own. The larger enterprises have huge budget and cash reserves hence they can afford to hire an entire team in one go and manage their work. But in the case of a small business or a single business owner, the cash reserves aren’t too much and the budget is almost touching the bottom. So, hiring a team is out of the question let alone hire a single assistant, because paying the salary is one of the biggest problem. Yet for a small business it is important to have at least one more team member other than the business owner himself. Undeniably the best resource to hire is the virtual personal assistant.
The term virtual personal assistant is nothing to be astonished at because it is not something that has come out of the blue all of a sudden. The virtual personal assistant has been there for more than a decade and now the field of virtual assistance has become very much organized and very much well maintained. Virtual assistants are no more data entry guys who would spend all day transferring data from internet sources in an excel sheet. But the VA’s of today can do almost everything related to the internet and they can even be your salesmen overseas. But that is not what every VA would do and only a very small percentage of VA’s today are involved in businesses like that.
The common services that can be expected from a VA are:
- Create websites.
- Design fabulous websites, flyers, brochures and many more.
- Develop your websites.
- Manage a website by adding content to it and even make small changes in the codes when needed.
- Optimize your website for the search engines so that your web presence is never lost.
- Manage your website’s live chat. Your visitors would never know they are talking to a virtual assistant and not the store owner.
- Complete administrative tasks to make your business run smoothly and arrange your data so that you always find it in the right place when needed.
- Answer emails and queries sent through the contact us form on your website.
- Your virtual personal assistant can also run successful email campaigns so that your news reaches every targeted inbox.
- Manage your social media pages so that your fans and followers receive regular updates and they do not start blocking you.
These are just some of the vast services a virtual personal assistant can offer. Contact one today and learn about what more can be done to promote your business in the virtual way.