Welcome to Day 10 of our 5th Anniversary Blog Tour!
There are many wonderful reasons to outsource some of your daily tasks to a Virtual Assistant.
If you are thinking you would like to free up some of your time take these some of these benefits into consideration.
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First of all, if you are unfamiliar with the acronym VA, it stands for virtual assistant. A virtual assistant is a contractor that works virtually or online.
This is a perfect career choice for many, especially for those who want to have a career but prefer not to work in a corporate environment. So what are some benefits of becoming a VA?
As you can imagine there are a multitude of tools a Virtual Assistant can use to stay organized and on top of that growing to-do list.
Email is a major area of distraction. While there are many options out there, we have favoured Gmail or Microsoft Outlook. Gmail has multiple add-ons that can assist with your inbox organization. You can colour code emails, file them in folders, label them, make notes on emails and even mark them according to importance. Outlook has similar features but not quite as many options. You can create rules in Outlook to apply categories, split emails into folders and flag emails for follow up.
Subcontracting with a VA firm is one of the greatest ways to gain experience. I was lucky to get introduced to a great VA firm through a mentor I worked with through the Canadian Virtual Assistant Connection (CVAC). Through them I was able to gain a lot of experience and knowledge about many of the things I didn’t even know existed when I first started.
Subcontracting allows you to work with many other VAs with many different skill sets. The team is usually very supportive of each other. I was fortunate that when I started with the firm I’m still with today, I worked with an experienced Online Business Manager (OBM) who would explain how to do something and let me run with it. This is certainly a huge perk if you can work with someone that is so willing to teach you the things you don’t know.
