What Can A Virtual Assistant Do For Me?

I get asked this question a lot.
The short answer is that a virtual assistant can help you with almost any administrative task.
Of course, it’s a little more complicated than that.
Ideal tasks for virtual assistants are those that don’t require deep knowledge about your business, don’t need a lot of explanation or training, do need [...]

Need Marketing Project Ideas?

This week’s free template is a checklist of marketing projects that you can outsource to a virtual assistant or marketing freelancer.
Some are simple and easy to outsource; others require a fair bit of knowledge about your business and would be more suitable for someone who has been working for you for awhile.
If you’re working on [...]

Creative Brief - free this week

When I first started doing marketing for other companies, it took a long time for me to come up to speed with a new client.
A company would hire me to do a brochure or a mailing piece or a new website, and I would have a huge learning curve ahead of me as I [...]

Free this week - Checklist of what to give a new virtual assistant

Continuing in our year-long crusade to make outsourcing easier for everyone…
This week the template we are giving away for free is one we call “First Project.”
This is a checklist of the things you need to give someone BEFORE they do their first project for you.
It also includes a list of questions you should ask AFTER [...]

This week’s free template: Social Media Marketing


Help Without Hiring Toolkit - Free Template - Social Media Marketing
As I mentioned last week, to promote the Help Without Hiring Toolkit, we’re making one of the 50 templates available for free each week.

This week’s template is one of the Easy Projects: Social Media Marketing.

This is a great project to give a virtual assistant - you can get a lot of value out of doing social media marketing but it’s time-consuming, so having someone else do the work for you gives you really good leverage.

Here’s the trick…

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Outsourcing Toolkit Launches!

Today we’re officially launching our newest way to help people outsource work more effectively to freelancers and virtual assistants. It’s called the Help Without Hiring Toolkit.
We have created a set of 50 templates, checklists and worksheets to help you:

Decide what to outsource,
Find a qualified person to do the work,
Get that person up to [...]