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1000 Ways to Use a Filipino VA


Are you stuck on ways that you or your business could use a virtual assistant from The Philippines? Well there are literally thousands of ways that you could use a virtual assistant for your business and in this post I am going to mention every single one of them! :) ……….. its a big list

Before we do that let’s do something, let’s pause for a minute and think! Think about every task you have to do online every single day. All those tasks that make your day stressful, boring, never ending; any task you really wish someone else could do because you either don’t have the time or you don’t have the skills. So just stop and think……………………..

Boom! Ok so now that you have had the chance to think and already have an idea or two, be sure to do this again at the end of the post. Maybe, just maybe you will be able to think of another 10 more tasks you really should not be doing.

So without further delay I will present to you 1000 Ways To Use A Filipino VA

Personal Assistant

  • Jack of all trades
  • Blog support
  • Customer service
  • Email management
  • SEO/marketing

Virtual receptionists

  • Reply emails
  • Live chat support
  • Manage Phone calls
  • Talk to customers
  • Customer service
  • Billing/Invoicing
  • Set Appointments

HR Assistant

  • Send performance reviews
  • Update and create resumes
  • Create introduction letters
  • Review resumes
  • Sort resumes
  • Set appointments with new candidates
  • Negotiates Salary
  • Deal with staff grievances
  • Update staff on company special events
  • Manage orders for office supplies
  • Payroll stuff
  • Confirm screenshots of staff
  • Making sure all staff are working

Project manager

  • Assist staff with projects
  • Track projects
  • Update clients on projects
  • Manage client-staff relationships
  • Keep projects on track
  • Checks screenshots of staff

Transcriber

  • Create documents from recordings
  • Create blog posts from recordings
  • Edit recordings
  • Create summary of recordings

Travel Arrangements

  • Booking your flights
  • Booking your hotels
  • Creating itineraries
  • Confirming all dates/bookings

Graphic Designer

  • Designs brochures and business cards
  • Create flyers
  • Laying out client newsletters
  • Creating logos
  • Basic web design
  • General designs
  • Creating Advertisements
  • Infographics
  • Updating wordpress

Email Management

  • Retrieving email
  • Sorting emails
  • Deleting Junk mail
  • Responding to routine email requests
  • Forward important items
  • Assessing urgent issues

Blog Management

  • Researching for blogs
  • Contacting people for guest posts
  • Formatting Posts
  • SEO for your blog
  • Writing/editing posts

Research

  • Researching competitors
  • Researches where your potential online clients are
  • Relative companies
  • Research for blog posts/press releases
  • Research potential advertising opportunities
  • Market trends
  • General research

Meeting arrangements

  • Set up meetings with clients
  • Set up interviews with staff/clients

Marketing

  • PPC
  • SEM
  • SEO

Linkbuilding

  • Social Media Management
  • Social Media Marketing
  • Forum posting
  • Web 2.0’s
  • Using SEO softwares (SEnukeX, BlogBlueprint, Onlywire etc)
  • Blog commenting

Presentations

  • Making PowerPoint slides
  • Send questions to participants before presentations
  • Following up on questionnaires and customers
  • Making a summary of the presentation

Internet Marketing

  • Act as you, online
  • Comment on blogs as you
  • Write blog posts as you
  • Get in forums
  • Use your social media accounts

Social Media

  • Using your twitter account to create a larger followers
  • Set you up with a social networking web service that allows you to post to many social networks instantly, hassle free
  • Use your Facebook/fanpage account
  • Use your Linkedin account to connect with like-minded people
  • Follows websites related to your business
  • Contacts/follows related blogs/people
  • Looking where potential clients are online in social media

Event planning

  • Setting up Teleseminar
  • Setting Up Webinar
  • Getting a venue for conferences
  • Setting up events
  • Planning company meetings
  • Planning company staff parties
  • Finds equipment/location for events

Mobile App development

  • Mobile App Blueprint
  • Creating the app
  • Modifying App

Bookkeeping

  • Preparing Invoices
  • Sending invoices to clients
  • Tracking all transactions
  • Enter data into bookkeeping software
  • Reconciling credit card and bank statements
  • Pay bills
  • Track payments
  • Make monthly reports

Data Entry

  • Data entered into excel spreadsheets
  • Account creation
  • Important info quality checks
  • Any repetitive simple task

Web development

  • Creating websites from scratch
  • Editing websites
  • Creating web aps
  • Create a theme

Research

  • Researching potential locations for an upcoming seminar
  • Finding which locations have the appropriate dates available
  • Finding which can accommodate the size and type of event
  • Researching the services available (decorating, food, entertainment)
  • Obtaining written quotes and specifications from each location
  • Monitoring periodicals and clipping articles of interest
  • Visiting the library to copy specific articles

Customer support

  • Live chat support
  • Technical support
  • Email support
  • Sales
  • Customer calling
  • Customer follow ups

Writing

  • Content Creation
  • Research topics
  • Editing Content
  • Ordering content
  • Content management
  • Blog posting/editing
  • Adding links to Blog posts

General Telephone services

  • Receive phone calls when you out or busy
  • Send important messages asap
  • Get voice messages and respond

Web site design

  • Create a completely new design
  • Modify current design
  • Work in wordpress
  • Change the layout
  • Optimize for conversions

Web site set up

  • Create data bases
  • Install wordpress
  • Install any CMS

Data Base Management

  • Enter business card data into a database for future reference
  • Organising data base
  • Summary of data base
  • Create reports

Tracking support

  • Tracking all marketing efforts
  • Summaries reports
  • Sending follow-ups to clients
  • Sending reminders to clients
  • Sending out email and fax broadcasts

Telemarketing

  • Lead generation
  • Follow up sales
  • Sales generation

Word Processing

  • Typing out all handwritten notes from meetings
  • Checking spelling
  • Making sure all grammar is correct
  • Laying out all larger documents
  • Creating letters
  • Proofreading
  • Editing
  • Adding links

Video Creation

  • Creating content for videos
  • Creating promotional videos
  • Editing
  • Formatting
  • Promoting Videos (youtube, Vimeo)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is 1000 ways you could use a virtual assistant from The Philippines. Well we didn’t quite hit 1000 but we got close right!? So now you really don’t have an excuse to get started working with a virtual assistant because you “don’t have enough work for them.” You can see there are so many ways you can use a VA in your business which you really are missing out if you’re not using any at all.

By the way…..are you currenly running a blog? here are just a few things you could get a VA to do for your blog-

  • Warrior forum posting- connecting with people in there regular commenting
  • Social media- using facebook twitter linked in to get connections and or posting
  • Promoting your new offers
  • Yahoo answers getting a VA to connect with people there
  • Video marketing
  • Web 2.0′s Creating blogs link back to your site and getting them indexed
  • Any type of link building
  • Using myguestpost to get guest posts
  • blog commenting- commenting on related blogs in your name (quality comments not spam)
  • Editing your posts, adding pictures outbound links, in putting internal links in posts
  • Research for new posts
  • Contacting bloggers for guest post opportunities/ questions

So there you go! Now you have had the idea on how you will use a VA in your business either your first one or possibly the second or third. Now, stop everything again and think for a minute about every task you have to do online every single day. Think of all those tasks we just talked about and how any of them are even closely related to you and your business…………………… Finally, create a process and a clear outline of every single task you want your new VA to do before you get started and then you’re in business. Of course if you need any help to get started to find your very own VA, hit us up!

We will be more than happy to help and will offer you 3 qualified resumes for free yeahhh!

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About mcanty

Matt Canty is a co-founder of LifestyleBusinessDesign.com, he has a passion for lifestyle business, he creates freedom from building businesses so he can live life to the extreme and have a new crazy adventure everyday. Matt is the co-founder of several Philippines outsourcing related businesses ... a Philippines Remote Staffing Company, a Philippines Remote Staff Recruitment Agency , a Home Based Jobs Board For Filipinos. Follow him on twitter @MattJohnCanty Join me on Google+
  • http://www.adsenseflippers.com Joseph Magnotti

    Way #1001 — have your A collect a list of 1,000 way to be used. ;-)

    • http://www.lifestylebusinessdesign.com/ Matt John Canty

      haha dam I should have got one our VA’s to do that, it would have saved 6hours research lol

  • http://www.mobileapptycoon.com/ Thomas @ Mobile App Tycoon

    This list is awesome – looking at all the different ways to use VAs is making my mind race with new business ideas that I could use them for :)

    • http://www.lifestylebusinessdesign.com/ Matt John Canty

      Yeah I think everyone with a blog (if they are serious about it) should have a VA even if its part time. They can save you so much time and get so much done for you. Good luck with getting started mate

  • James Rick

    This is a broad definition of a VA :)

    • http://www.lifestylebusinessdesign.com/ Matt John Canty

      Hey James thanks for dropping by. lol yeah very broad….. But I think most people think a VA can just do research or data entry but its not true at all. If you get a virtual assistant from The Philippines the set of skills you have access to is really never ending.

  • http://clickwp.com/ David Wang

    Great list, but it kind of gives the impression that VAs are superhuman ;)

    • http://www.lifestylebusinessdesign.com/ Matt John Canty

      Hey David, haha but some of the guys on our team i sometimes think are superhuman they do such a good job for us. yeah I actually forgot to mention everyone of these VA’s or “skill sets” would basically need to be a different person. There is no VA in the world who could do everything on this list and if there was they would cost you so much $$$. Its better to go really specific like if you want to get a graphic designer JUST get a graphic designer don’t try to get an SEO expert with some graphic design skills or they will end up doing a terrible job.