5 BEST Tasks To Outsource To A Virtual Assistant

over the last few years I've hired a couple dozen virtual assistants to help me out in my various different businesses and the number one question that I get from other entrepreneurs or just friends of mine that want to hire their own virtual assistants and even my mom is what should I hire a virtual assistant for so in this video I'm going to show you my top five things that I have hired virtual assistants for in the past and these are going to be the areas where I see the most potential to plug a virtual assistant into your business and see the best Roi let's dive in and start with number five now this is where most people's minds go to when they think about hiring a virtual assistant and that is to administrative tasks so no matter what business you're in whether it has to do with social media or construction or fish tanks there are going to be tedious parts of your business that you do not want to spend your time doing whether it is scheduling things managing spreadsheets data entry all these different things and many more crop up in pretty much everyone's business and doing those things is not going to be a very high Roi on your time if you are an entrepreneur or business owner in general it's best to get those things off your plate as soon as possible and your two big options for this are either to automate them away or to Outsource them now in a lot of cases if possible I'll just try to automate things away using different softwares and Integrations but when it comes to having to hire an actual person I find virtual assistants are perfect for these kinds of tasks because they are highly repetitive and easily taught and these make for some of the best tasks to assign to a virtual assistant something that doesn't change very much from each time you do it it's very very standardized which then makes it much easier for you to teach someone how to do something once and then they're just off on their own doing it until maybe an irregular version comes up and they have to ask you a question from time to time now as you become a more skilled trainer a more skilled teacher then you're able to train virtual assistants for a much more complicated tasks where there's going to be a lot more variability from one time to the next but when you're just starting out administrative tasks can be one of the best ways to get your feet wet with virtual assistants because it doesn't require as much skill from you as the employer now before we get to number four which is probably my favorite I do want to mention that if you are ready to hire a virtual assistant or you want to make a job post at any point I've got the platform that I personally use Linked In the description below this is not a sponsorship but it does help out the channel if you do choose to use that link when you sign up and like I mentioned primary platform that I use and I've hired dozens and dozens of people through there including many people for this fourth role which is a video editor so believe it or not the video you're watching right now is being edited by somebody that virtually now one of the reasons why hiring a virtual assistant as a video editor can be extremely extremely beneficial for your business is because online video is just so huge right now regardless of what industry you're in whether you're doing content marketing with YouTube videos or running paid ads on Facebook or using short form videos on Tick Tock to grow your personal brand or your business any video content marketing they're going to do is going to require editing and for you the business owner the entrepreneur it's not going to be worth your time to become a proficient video editor when you could be spending that time on much higher Roi tasks and there are plenty and plenty of people out there that are very skilled at video editing which you can hire to do that for use that you can produce more videos it focus more of your time on growing your business rather than learning how to become a video editor personally I've hired at least a dozen video editors over the last couple of years for this channel various other YouTube channels and the previous business that I had so I've got a lot of experience hiring video editors virtually and I've had nothing but positive experiences throughout this process there are so many skilled people out there who who can edit amazing amazing videos and in most cases there's not going to be a massive benefit for you to have your video editor in person which is why this is one of my favorite tasks for va's now in spot number three we have a much more common task for virtual assistants which is customer service now I don't have as much experience hiring customer service virtual assistants myself just because most of the businesses that I run don't require too much customer service I think I've probably hired one or two customer service va's over the course of the last few years but the reason that this one is great is that it's highly repeatable so it's less repeatable than administrative tasks where it's literally the same thing every time but with most customer service there's like five different messages that the customer could send like five big problems that you'll run into like 80 of the tickets that come in and then the other 20 might be a little bit more confusing or specialized but if you can train someone to answer that 80 very very easily that can free up a ton of your time because with customer service somebody has to be there answering those tickets and if you are the business owner again it probably should not be you it's also very easy to train somebody to do customer service especially if they've done it before and a lot of people working as virtual assistants do have at least some experience with customer service but that's not nearly exciting as number two which is one that I have much more experience hiring folks for this is going to be graphic design so similar to video editing something that is very very crucial for virtually any business I mean if you have a website you need graphic design if you have a social media account you need graphic design if you have anything you need graphic design in this day and age you've got any business that has an online presence you're going to need to have some kind of graphic designer the odds that it makes sense for you to hire somebody full-time in person 40 hours a week W-2 as graphic designer very very low unless you have a massive business with massive graphic design needs if that's not the case you could a take to canva which is great when you're just getting started but eventually you do need to graduate and one of the best places to graduate too is hiring a virtual assistant because again similar to video editing there is a ton of graphic design Talent out there and when hiring virtually it can be very very affordable to find someone to either hire part-time or full-time as a graphic design also the difference between good graphics design and bad graphic design is pretty Stark so if you are trying to take your business seriously it does make sense to graduate from canva sooner rather than later now this is typically going to be a lot more difficult to train than something like customer service or administrative tasks because you need to find somebody that's already a good graphic designer I mean unless you're a pro graphic designer yourself which is probably not the case then you're going to need to find somebody that already has a pretty solid skill set and better than that it's probably going to be best to find someone who actually has experience designing the kinds of things that you want them to design for you so if you're looking for somebody to design logos for your company then you probably want to find somebody that has a lot of experience designing logos if you want a YouTube thumbnail artist you should find someone who has a solid portfolio of Designing YouTube thumbnails in the style that you want now with things like YouTube thumbnails it is possible to teach a virtual assistant how to do the kinds of thumbnails that you want but only if you have a very clear understanding of what you're actually looking for because if you just tell them to make a thumbnail that pops that's not going to be very helpful for them in actually designing a good thumbnail for your videos and this is honestly something that I really struggle with when hiring graphic design virtual assistants is that I do not have an eye for graphic design myself at all so it makes it very difficult for me to effectively train these people but it's something that I continue to work on and I'm getting better every single time that I hire someone but now the moment you've all been waiting for task number one the absolute best thing to Outsource to a virtual assistant and this one really combines aspects from all of the previous four tasks it is social media so this is a very very broad thing that can Encompass many many different tasks from being a social media manager creating social posts data entry from social media I mean like there's so many social media related tasks that you can Outsource to a virtual assistant but this is one of the best Roi places for entrepreneurs to Outsource things because social media can take up so much of your time if you're creating posts if you're planning posts if you're scripting things all of these pieces of the process take up a lot of time and so it's really important for you as the entrepreneur to find out where your zone of Genius is and then Outsource the rest of it so if you don't like writing YouTube scripts and you're not very good at it well you could probably find someone to Outsource that piece of your social media same thing goes for actually scheduling and posting content on Instagram or Tick Tock I mean those pieces of the process are not essential for you as the business owner to be doing once you have the content completed you can just hand it off to somebody else they can do all the menial tasks that just kind of like eat away your time five minutes here 10 minutes there and allow you to spend more of your time in that zone of Genius now a quick caveat here is that just hiring a virtual assistant to like do social media for you is rarely a good idea because you need to have a very clear picture of what you're looking for from this person are you looking for someone to script YouTube videos are you looking for someone to do graphic design create posts for you and then schedule them across Instagram and Facebook and Linkedin like it's very important for you to know exactly what you want from this person and not just tell them like hey I want you to help me grow my social media because if you do that it puts them in the spot where they have to figure out all this stuff and it's probably just not going to work out very well for you compared to you instead went into it with knowing exactly what your needs are for social media and where you're looking to focus now with a position like this it's going to be a little bit harder for you to actually go through the hiring process and find the right person because in a lot of cases you're kind of looking for a jack of all trades so I actually have a full comprehensive video on how to hire your first virtual assistant which you can find on screen right now so make sure to check that out and if you want to take a stab at hiring your own virtual assistant like I said Link at the top of the description will take you to online jobs which is the platform that I've used to hire dozens of folks thank you so much for watching and I'll see you in the next one

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Length: 8min 57sec (537 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 09 2023