One more option at your disposal is simple data entry or administrative work. Hire a VA to book travel plans or complete data entry, such as email addresses or mailing lists. Perhaps you have Microsoft (MS) Excel spreadsheets to keep updated — this is an excellent task for virtual assistants. You can use a VA for any work that is repetitive or extensive. For example, I have someone working for me in Google Sheets to create extensive charts for some of our tracking stats. Another project you can outsource is website development. I had a website made for an associate. If I had needed to do it myself, the time and effort would have been quite extensive, on top of my normal workload. I decided to get someone to develop it for me. I have had virtual assistants do customer support, including phone support, email support, and support for businesses I own. My personal favorite when it comes to outsourcing tasks is SEO, the process of getting your website to rank on top of Google’s search engine. This work consists of a lot of data entry, SEO article writing, and back-linking, and can become monotonous and tedious. In addition to photography work, you can also successfully outsource video editing, if that’s a task you don’t enjoy, understand, or have time for. When you shoot a video, post-production usually takes a long time, since film editing is a complex process. It’s not a process I personally want to learn. Luckily, it’s easy to find a freelancer who knows how to do it. For example, let’s assume you record a video or two every month but don’t know how to do the post-production editing. Hiring out the editing can be inexpensive and beneficial. A friend of mine sells homes and usually “walks through” the house with his video camera to create a virtual tour. This is much more effective in today’s real estate market than simply taking pictures. My friend isn’t interested in video editing either, so he hires a freelancer and pays him between $20 and $50. The job was done professionally. The freelancer put together the content my friend filmed, and it was inexpensive and fast. Since the freelancer working on it was from another country, and in a different time zone, when my friend woke up the next morning, he found that it was already done. He then reviewed the film, uploaded it to YouTube and shared with his followers.
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