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What can a virtual assistant do for your business

This list by no means covers every base.  In fact, I bet together we could think up many more great ways that a virtual assistance could be of assistance to your business.

I think this is a good start though…wouldn’t you agree?

• Document Preparation, Desktop Publishing and Form Creation for all correspondence
• Maintain calendar and schedule appointments, reminders & ticklers
• Schedule and confirm meetings, events or personal dates
• Initiate and return client phone calls, faxes and e-mails and set up online collaboration meetings
• Prepare and send out offline or online Christmas Cards, Thank You Cards, etc
• Send flowers or gifts to family, friends or romantic interests
• Respond to email/ticket support requests
• Follow up on business leads
• Manage and interact on social media sites for your business or brand
• Managing, tagging, and updating photo or media sharing sites
• Update your websites
• Manage your facebook fan page and interact with your fanbase
• Respond and retweet interesting things on your Twitter account when you’re too busy
• Schedule medical, dental and personal appointments for you or your family
• Provide reminder services for birthdays, anniversaries, appointments etc.
• Plan and coordinate business and personal travel, book and confirm reservations
• Research top places to visit, eat and stay
• Create and maintain databases for event attendees and vendors
• Send out confirmations, reminders and collect registration fees
• Assist Event Planner and oversee implementation of details
• Research and coordinate with the best catering company in your area for special events
• Set up, Create and design your email campaigns
• Add content and follow up messages to your autoresponder
• Design, create and order offline materials such as business cards, flyers, brochures, car decals, etc.
• Create and design newsletters, manuals, other publications
• Internet research blog posts, press releases or newsletters
• Assist in organizing and sending out marketing materials
• Create and maintain blogs, newsletters and promotional materials
• Proofread your work, edit your website, documents or important emails for proper grammar
• Produce articles and submit online
• Comparative research to find you the best deal on any purchase large or small
• Turn a PDF into an amazing power point presentation
• Update your address and contact lists
• Transcribe voice memos you record on your phone, and then email them to you
• Keyword research for your website, blog posts or articles
• Organize your email & delete
• Data entry
• Create charts and graphs out of your spreadsheets
• Fulfill electronic product orders
• Organize your ideas and thoughts into actionable lists using current online software
• Organize your day and week using something like Google Calendars and then sending you an email/text
• Write and submit articles and press releases