Wednesday, 12 March 2014

Which Social Media Tasks Should You Delegate To A Virtual Assistant Part 2



If you don’t enjoy certain admin tasks, the likelihood is you will probably not be that good at them

For most people these are the activities you dread, like itemising your travel receipts and submitting your expenses.  By hanging on to tasks like this, you are holding yourself back and wasting time which could otherwise be spent on generating revenue for your business. The sooner you delegate them, the better.
Even if you are good are certain tasks, you can still delegate them. Tasks such as posting to Twitter or Facebook may be delaying you and preventing you from completing more high profile work you know deep down will benefit your business.
On the other hand, if you love certain tasks, but you aren’t particularly good at them, you need to ask yourself whether or not you could become competent with the right training.  If you’re prepared to put in the effort and have the time to do the training, get good at these tasks, otherwise delegate them!
If you don’t think about taking on a Virtual Assistant because you think you can’t afford one, remember that “resources always follow vision.”  Also, to be an effective leader you have to be good at delegation.
Here are some more examples of just some tasks you can start to delegate to a VA to save you time in your busy day:

Cleaning up email address books of duplicates

Often, due to device syncing problems, you might end up with several versions of the same contact. Your VA can easily trawl through them to ensure the details are amalgamated and therefore easily uploaded to your newsletter program.


Sorting through Linked In digests


We all know that LinkedIn can be a great tool to help you to connect with like-minded people to get ahead in business.  In order for you to participate in conversations you want to participate in your VA can identify these for you.



Regular Research


Tell your VA which products you want to promote this month and ask him or her to carry out some online research and to draft a blog to be linked to your website and other social media profiles.

Calendar Appointments


It can take many phonecalls and emails to finally confirm an appointment, particularly if more than two people are involved. Ask your Virtual PA to take the headache away and advise you of the date and time when all parties have confirmed they can make the meeting. 

Spice up your Tweets


Your VA can take photos of products or items which can enhance your Pinterest pages and Tweets. If he or she uses Hoot Suite too your posts can be pre-programmed, a double whammy time-saver for both of you!

Online Grocery Shopping


Once your VA gets to know you and how you like to live, he or she can even organise your online grocery shopping via companies like Ocado


Check back soon for more time-saving tips from Virtual Assistant CJ VirtualPA

2 comments:

  1. Great ideas. Some entrepreneurs are still doing tasks that can actually be delegated, in order for them to focus on the things that could improve their organization/business. Hopefully, once they bumped into this article, they'd rethink and hire their own Virtual Assistant.

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