10 Tasks Your VA Can Do To Save You Hours Each Week

With 60% of small business owners working 40-60 hours a week and 19% working more than 60 hours1, it's no surprise that 63% are suffering from burnout2. Running a small business provides flexibility and freedom, but also brings the pressure and commitment to generate and maintain an income for you and your employees.

The aim of a virtual assistant is to enable business owners to regain control by helping them manage their time. We encourage our clients to offload the work they can’t do, don’t have the time for, or just don’t want to!

Here are 10 tasks a Virtual Assistant can help you with

1. Email Management – Sorting through enquiries, opportunities and junk mail can take up a large amount of your admin time each week. Asking a VA to organise your mailbox can help you to easily target the messages you need to respond to, whilst allowing them to respond to common enquiries and escalate important messages, can have a real impact your time each week.

2. Calendar Management – Are you having to sit down at the end of your working week and use your personal time to set reminders, schedule appointments, meetings, next week's work, travel and more? It’s not what you want to be doing when you should be relaxing! Tasks like these can be easily offloaded to a virtual assistant.

3. Social Media Management – With social media becoming a leading way to market your business, a VA can help with the day to day running of your pages. This can include creating content, scheduling regular posts, replying to enquiries and even providing analytics into what works and what doesn’t.

4. Customer Support – A virtual assistant can be one of the first lines of communication for your customers, replying to initial enquiries, dealing with basic trouble shooting and filtering enquiries that need to come to you.

5. Research – Do you need some market research? Do you need to gather information or data for your company? This is a task a VA can take on for you, saving you valuable time.

6. Transcription – A VA can transcribe meetings or interviews to turn video or audio files into written text for review or to create a to-do list. They can also extract and summarise key points.

7. Data Entry – Many find entering data into spreadsheets, CRM systems or other databases a tedious but necessary task. Outsourcing this to your virtual assistant and asking them to organise information or highlight any key, significant data can save you time and give you valuable insights.

8. Invoicing and bookkeeping – Virtual assistants can help you keep your finances on track to save you the end of year panic. They can help track payments and save you time on your finance related workload.

9. Content creation – You already have deep expertise in your field—why not leverage that? Ask a VA to help transform your knowledge into engaging blog posts and social media content. By sharing insights in this way, you’ll position yourself as an industry leader.

10. Friendly Reminders & Task Tracking – Feeling overwhelmed by a million things? A VA can send you gentle reminders, follow up on important emails, and keep track of deadlines and appointments. That means you can relax—no more sleepless nights worrying you’ve forgotten something.

Each Virtual Assistant will have their own specialism so it's good to know what you need from a VA before you decide on who to employ. By taking on an assistant tailored to your business (and personal) needs, you will be able to break free from the cycle of entrepreneur burn-out. It's worth looking into, surely?