Summer VA

Picture this - an August afternoon, 30 degrees C in the shade, not a cloud in the sky, and your family has gone to the beach without you... again. You’re shackled to your desk by your ready-to-collapse pile of paperwork, unread emails, and endless to-do list.

If you’re a small business owner, this picture is probably all too familiar.

Say hello to the new kid in town – the Virtual Assistant. In case you haven’t heard, Virtual Assistants, or VAs, are contracted administrative professionals that support your small business from their own offices.

Virtual Assistants help end the daily grind by putting more time back into your day, week, and summer. They specialize in the routine administrative duties that keep you from making more money, spending more time with your family, or taking a long-overdue vacation.

Here are some ways a VA can help you enjoy a much-deserved break this summer.

Keep up with your blog entries. Not only can a VA write and post your blog entries, he or she can research and compile a list of topics to write about.

Return your voicemails. Callers usually don’t mind leaving a voicemail, but they do expect calls to be returned in a timely fashion. A VA can give you a reprieve from your phone by checking your voicemail and returning calls on your behalf while you’re away.

Some VAs offer an answering service and provide a dedicated line that they use exclusively for your business.

Reply to your e-mails. You can set up an out-of-office reply message during your time away, but an email message returned by your VA will have a personal touch your clients will appreciate.

Create and distribute your monthly newsletter. You’d love to get away, but your newsletter is due next week, and you haven’t even researched the feature article. A VA can format, ghostwrite and distribute your newsletter on time.

Keep up with business correspondence. Whether it’s paying bills, sending out invoices, or writing thank you notes, a VA can get it done on time while you’re vacationing.

Now that you know how a VA can help you, how can you find one? Type “virtual assistant” into your favorite search engine. You’ll find virtual assistant businesses, directories and associations to help you find a VA that will suit your business needs.

And once you’ve found the right VA for your small business, maybe you can start taking weekends off too.

Denise Willms,a homeschooling mother of two, helps work-at-home-moms get targeted traffic to their websites through copywriting, article writing, and press releases. Subscribe to her newsletter, WAHM-Articles Ezine, and receive 105 Power Tips to Get Your Online Business Noticed and Profiting.

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