Over the past few weeks I’ve been blogging about how to market your business, get in front of your clients, get free PR, etc. Although I’ve shared quite a few really great ideas about getting more exposure for your business; there are still only so many hours in the day. One person just can’t do it all!
Many great suggestions for getting in front of your prospects include utilizing sites like Twitter and Facebook. Article marketing is a great tool as well. And let’s not discount submitting press releases, doing TV and radio interviews, blogging and much, much more!
The problem is that once you’ve done all of these great things, there just isn’t any time left to actually run your business! You can have the best marketing plan in the world but if you aren’t out there rubbing shoulders with your prospects, thanking your clients and selling to the right people then you can not compete in this market.
So how can you get it all done? You have to delegate! In these tough economic times more and more people are scaling back and doing many things themselves that they would have hired someone to do in the past. They’re using family members or friends to help with some basic tasks and trying to save money.
We’re definitely for that! At Team Double-Click® and VirtualAssistingUSA we’ve done that ourselves. Everyone is scaling back right now and we’re no different! There are some things, however, that we’ve found are best left to the professionals. We save money, time and headaches in the long run when we place the right task in the hands of the right person.
The right virtual assistant is definitely the right person! Many virtual assistants are Jack’s or Jill’s of all trades, some are more specialized, but just a few of the tasks a virtual assistant can do are:
Cold calling
Sales
Accounting
Bookkeeping
Collections
Marketing
Social networking
Travel arrangements
CRM management
Research
Word processing
Appointment setting
PR
Meeting arrangements
Event planning
Letter preparation
Transcription
Manuals
Newsletters
Flyers
Data entry
Email processing
Answering phones
Customer support
Audio Editing
Setting up teleseminars
Your virtual can do follow up calls after post cards or letters have been sent (which by the way, she can also mail those post cards or letters for you). Follow up calls and outbound cold calling are essential in any business to keep touching new potential clients – your virtual can also do the cold calling for you.
Give her a simple script, tell her what you want done with the good leads, and unleash her on your prospect list! If the prospect appears to be a good lead, ask her to garner as much information for you as she can and send the good leads back to you for follow through.
Your virtual assistant can also take your inbound calls for you. Answering your inbound calls for you is as easy as forwarding your existing business line to one of our virtual assistants.
Not sure how to get started with social networking? Ask your virtual assistant! She can set up your profiles on as many sites as you’d like. Talk to her about the types of people you’d like to connect with so she knows who she should accept connections from and who she should decline. She can even research ways to get you in front of the right connections! She can send birthday greetings to your “friends” and “followers”. She can also keep you updated on the terms and conditions of each of your networking sites so you never step outside the lines of what each site permits.
A virtual assistant can free your time to do what you’re good at and what’s important to your company. Whether that’s making sales, following up on leads, attending speaking events, or doing the other meaty tasks your business requires.
Whatever the tasks may be, a good virtual assistant is as invaluable today as a good PDA. Never leave home without one!
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