December 11, 2009

28 Tasks For An Internet Virtual Assistant

What if you could get an internet virtual assistant for pennies on the dollar, and they did all of the tedious, time consuming tasks in your business that you currently do? This would free up your time to spend on high income producing activities, so your business would grow faster and you’d actually make more money. You would also have more free time to spend on your family, friends, and hobbies.

What tasks should you be doing? You should be doing things that you do best and that are a good use of your time. These are typically tasks that are critical to the success of your business. Tasks that produce $100-$1,000 in income per hour. What tasks should you outsource to an internet virtual assistant? Tasks that are tedious and repetitive, and tasks that require a skill you don’t currently have.

Outsource as many tasks as possible to an internet virtual assistant, and you’ll maximize the time you can spend on the most important, income producing tasks. The faster your business will explode.

What are specific examples of tasks you can outsource to an internet virtual assistant? Here is a list of 28 tasks you should consider outsourcing, depending on your interests, skills, time, and budget:

1. Submitting articles to online article directory sites

2. Submitting videos to online video sites

3. Creating social content on sites such as Squidoo and HubPages.

4. Cold calling leads

5. Graphics tasks

6. Creating websites

7. Setting up Adwords campaigns

8. Creating and customizing blogs

9. Posting article content to blogs

10. Maintaining social media accounts on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc.

11. Link building

12. Scheduling your appointments

13. Creating and formatting slide presentations

14. Generating web page templates

15. Marketing and product research

16. Finding images for blog entries

17. Writing copy for landing pages, sales pages, and opt-in pages

18. Craigs list ad posting

19. Creating email campaigns and maintaining autoresponders

20. Opt-in page and landing page creation

21. Bookkeeping and accounting

22. Generating content for blogs, websites, articles, presentations, etc.

23. Publishing ezine newsletters

24. Researching and evaluating software tools

25. Writing tweets for Twitter

26. Search ENgine Optimization (SEO)

27. List items on eBay

28. Moderating blog and forum comments

If you would like to find an excellent virtual assistant there are many services that can help you. Some services specialize, such as 99designs.com for graphics work and rentacoder.com for programmers. My favorite is elance.com where I can find just about any type of assistant I need.

Don’t wait. Get started today looking for an excellent virtual assistant. When you see how much more you can accomplish with the right assistant you will wish you had known about this sooner.

And now I would like to share with you more of my strategies and tactics for using an internet virtual assistant without making the common but costly mistakes most people make. These strategies have accelerated my autopilot online success and income and they can work for you too. From Karen Sielski, your ardent online marketer at http://AutopilotOnlineSuccess.com.