Virtual Assistants 101

By Coco Clayman-Cook

Virtual assistants are people you hire to work from a location other than your office. I use virtual assistants for any task that I can benefit from hiring someone else to do. If I don't like a task, I hire a virtual assistant. I don't like posting blogs, it's time consuming and not a good use of my time. So I have a virtual assistant post the blogs for me. That way I have more time to write the blogs, which is a better use of my time.

I also hire virtual assistants to do things I am not good at and have no interest in getting better at. I'm not good at updating databases, it's boring! I have no desire to be better at it either, so I hire virtual assistants to update my database for me. With all the hours that frees up I give my clients better customer service.

Mostly, I hire virtual assistants to do any work that saves me time and money. If I can pay someone between $10 to $20 an hour to do something, it makes no sense for me to do it myself. This includes proofreading, SEO, research and even gift buying.
We live in a great age which allows us to easily delegate work without having to provide equipment or even space. How do you use virtual assistants?