50 Things You Can Delegate to a Virtual Assistant
The question we always get from business owners, executives, managers, etc...who are thinking about working with a Virtual Assistant is:
What can a Virtual Assistant do for me?
The short answer to this is: almost everything
If you don’t have an assistant already, then you are the assistant.And that means, you are wasting time on things you don’t need to be doing. Your focus is too scattered to be the [Add Your Role Here] you started out to be.
I always say, any task you don’t have to do yourself, an assistant can do for you.
And a great assistant will be able to uncover these tasks for you.
To give you a practical idea of what this delegation could look like, we have compiled a list of 50 things that can be handed over to a VA.
I would say write down anything on this list that you could use support with, but I’m not in the business of adding to-do’s to business owner’s day.
Plus, I already know that you can use support in the majority of these things, even if you haven’t realized it yet.
So here we go...
1. Event Planning
2. Managing your inbox
3. Creating Itineraries
4. Transcription
5. Project Management
6. Scheduling/Calendaring >>> Protecting your time!
7. Strategic Planning
8. Writing Saved Replies
9. Research
10. Editing Podcasts
11. CRM management
12. Creating Social Graphics
13. Copywriting
14. Maintaining & Running a Website
15. Organizing & Creating Systems
16. Creating Content (blogs, podcasts, etc)
17. Community Management
18. Building relationships with other business owners
19. Data Entry
20. Answering & supporting current clients
21. Responding to emails for you/as you
22. Ordering your lunch
23. Creating meal plans
24. Daily admin tasks
25. Project Management
26. Booking travel
27. Bookkeeping
28. Recruiting
29. Social Media Management
30. Taking notes during meetings, adding actionables afterward
31. Manage Youtube channel
32. Make calls you don’t have to make yourself
33. Editing
34. Creating Forms
35. Purchasing and sending gifts
36. Writing and sending "thank you" cards or birthday cards
37. Recognizing and sending flowers for special occasions
38. Converting digital copy
39. Scan and create digital filing system
40. Narrow resumes for potential employees
41. Create HR documents
42. Create personal photo books
43. Newsletter or monthly correspondence
44. Purchasing Christmas Gifts
45. Vacation research
46. Create Amazon lists for ANYTHING
47. Run background of Zoom webinars and meetings
48. Funnel multiple email sources into one space
49. Pulling Reports
50. Sending customer appreciation gifts
The list can go on from there. The better you get a delegating, the more your VA will be able to uncover how they can support you.
But you can know ALL OF THE ways a VA can help you…
And never learn the skill of delegation.
Which is a problem. Because it only causes more frustration for you.
Which is why we teach clients how to use their assistant at Laptop + Littles. When clients come to us looking for an assistant, they have the option of working with us directly, which enables them to get relationship management from both Tianna and myself. Between us, we’ve worked with over 30 different clients, which means we’ve handled all types of personalities and delegation skill levels.
Don’t settle just because you can’t get yourself to delegate. It’s not an optional skill.
If you don’t learn to delegate, you’ll discover burn out and you’ll never experience the full potential of your business or capability in your role.
So take the first step and ask for help...getting help from a VA. :)
We can even chat today about how we can help you with this.
If you’re a business owner or executive looking for this type of support or more, let’s chat more about how we can help: