What Is a Virtual Assistant?
A Virtual Assistant (VA) can also be known as Freelance Personal Assistant, they are professionals who offer a wide range of tasks in their services. In this article, we explain in more detail what a virtual assistant is and some of the different profiles you can find online.
They usually operate remotely -that’s where the ‘virtual’ comes from- so they can work from their own home anywhere in the world, form a co-working, or while traveling.
Their tasks can vary from VA to VA, it depends on their academic background, work experience, and specialisation. As any Freelancer, they either work per hour, per task, or project completed.
Virtual Assistants really can be an entrepreneur’s right-hand who provides a vital service to any business. That’s why it’s important to research what kind of virtual assistance profile makes the best fit for your personal or business needs.
What are the different profiles of Virtual Assistants?
Professionals are very different from the other, it depends on their skill set and specialisation. Is no different for any virtual assistant. Despite this, we can usually differentiate two profiles:
Some virtual assistants are more administrative-focused, they are good at managing schedules, meetings, documentation, editing, proofreading, word processing, file organisation, event management, and basic bookkeeping. They usually have experience dealing with clients or customers either face-to-face or over the phone or by email. That makes them empathetic and usually have a great soft-skill repertoire they can put to work very easily.
Other virtual assistants have a more creative and marketing side and they are able to deal with content media creatives, designs for advertising products, managing social media content and posting, audience engagement, some of them do have basic skills in video or audio editing.
The above are just two types of profiles and that can be considered only a very little fraction of the type of assistance you can get from a freelancer online.
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