One of my most enjoyable tasks as a Virtual Assistant is setting up new accounts for submissions sites for article writers.

I do quite a bit of this for a Virtual Assistant whose team I am a member of and also do these assignments on my own. I can take this undertaking on from doing the research to find the sites to post to, to setting up the accounts for the writers and on to posting their writings when they have them ready to be shared.

I would proofread your article before submitting and make any necessary changes, or if you prefer, show you the changes that need made so that you could approve them and then send the edited document back to me. Obviously, just having me make the changes is a timesaver, but it is totally up to the client on how the proofreading and editing phase is handled.

Most article sites have categories for you to choose from in order to have your articles found and read. As your posting Virtual Assistant I would need a few items of information to set up your account and then to be able to log in later and post your articles for you.

If this is something you are interested in considering as a timesaver so that you can concentrate your skills on your writing and other duties, here is a list of the most commonly needed information for posting to article sites.

1. Of course, I would need your name or preferred user name if this is not your actual name.
2. I would need your email address.
3. Most sites want a password from between 7 and 11 characters so I would need your preferred password.

Most, though not all, also require:

4. Physical Address
5. Phone number

Most want a 6. headshot and a 7. bio

The most time consuming task for your Virtual Assistant to do is the first time setting up of your accounts with the article sites.

This takes, on average, an hour to open 5 accounts for you to regularly post on.
Once this is done, I find that with proofing AND posting I average about 5 in 30 minutes or so.

So, if you have 10 sites that you want to post articles to, you would be looking at 2 hours
to set it up originally and then only an hour to post each article to all 10 sites!

This is a great time saver for YOU, and if you rely on article marketing or rely on your articles to help with your traffic, credibility and to get your thoughts out there, this just might be the right time for YOU to try a Virtual Assistant to assist you with this endeavor.

Remember, I am a Virtual Assistant who LOVES to do editing and proofreading assignments along with research, blog posts, article submissions and social media maintenance!

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I was an eBay power seller until I moved from my little country town of Steelville, MO to Ellisville in St. Louis County in November of 2011.

I packed my most precious valuables and the things I absolutely had to have and downsized from a big, old 5 bedroom house to a sweet but small 2 bedroom apartment.

The movies and books and memorabilia from my retired store which were the things I was selling so well on eBay got left “for later”. Sadly, in June of 2012, my old house was burned to the ground by arson and I had never gotten around to making the trip to get these items.

For 2 years prior to moving, I had been listing and selling the great content I took home with me from retiring my brick and mortar store. I had an eBay store with over 2,000 items at one time. As I reduced my stock I eventually closed the eBay store to save the fee because you can literally list thousands of items on eBay without having to have “a store”.

It is more work to sell on eBay and get and retain power seller status than you might think. It literally took hours to list each item, find the image or images I wanted and to write descriptions to help them appeal and sell. Yes, there are ready-made templates on eBay IF the item is listed already, but I wanted mine to be more original and stand out from the crowd, and though a rare occurrence, there ARE mistakes in those cookie cutter descriptions and if you are not careful, you will have a misleading listing and this can cost you time, reputation and also money if you have to give a refund because the item was not what you stated it was.

Gotta toot my own horn a bit here, I have 100% positive feedback I have maintained for over 6 years on Jan’s eBay page. This is 1663 perfect transactions – both as a seller and a buyer

Anyway, enough rambling! I can take your list of items along with pictures that you supply or those I can research and find and not only set you up in your own eBay store or listings but can maintain it all for you. If it is something as easy as movies or books, I can even use wikopedia or google and get informative descriptions to add to that area for you and make your offers stand out from the others.

Or I can just simply list your items and use the standard images that are on eBay for that purpose. This is a time consuming task that may be keeping your from selling on eBay yourself and being able to outsource the things you do not want to do or do not have time to do can make all the difference in moving forward to getting rid of things you no longer want or need and getting some income from it.

If this sounds like something you would like to check into more, just drop me a line at jantallent at gmail.com and we can chat about the possibilities.

Remember, I am a Virtual Assistant who LOVES to do editing and proofreading assignments along with research, blog posts, article submissions and social media maintenance!

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There is an endless number of work related tasks that your Virtual Assistant can do to ease your own work load. Not to mention, she can help with your personal and family plans like booking your transportation, lodging, rental vehicle, places to eat and shop and so much more.

But, you do some fun stuff online that might take away from the duties you personally feel you need to perform for your business and your Virtual Assistant can help with these things as well.

For my own enjoyment, I collect images of Betty Boop. There is no monetary value to doing this; it just relaxes me and makes me happy to amass every image I can find that I want to save. To ME, this is like someone else’s “break” from work where he or she plays video games or watches videos or reads joke sites.

I have quite a bit of time during the day where I can not really DO any concentrated or serious “work”. I babysit my now 18 month old and just turned 4 year old grandsons. I am actually training them that when Grandma says “timed assignment” or “quiet work” that this is absolutely time I have to have to do the work I am talking about. I do this as little as possible so as not to rob the importance from the statements or to make them apt to ignore me during these needed peaceful moments and it is SO nice to be able to honestly say it is working quite well considering the ages of these two little boys.

I did this with my own kids when I was building and then running my online businesses and the same principles still seem to work.

During this “down time” I am constantly checking on clients and watching for important emails but to just sit at my computer with nothing REAL to do just does not work for me. Thus my free time to search for and save my precious Betty Boop images where it does not really matter if I am constantly interrupted or how much time I might spend idle.

If you have not done anything like this it might shock to you to learn that it really CAN be “work”. I have a folder on my computer desktop called, “Pics”. In it are several sub-folders. One is, of course, Betty Boop. But also in this folder are several sub-folders. I have categories that make sense to ME for what each pic represents and I file them in these folders. Somedays I have the patience to file as I download, but most often, I file them into a folder called “sort” and then when I get extra mindless time I start filing those a few at a time.

This would and does also work for my RECIPES folder where I have sub-folders for “Make ASAP”, “Holidays”, “Cooking Outside” and many more.

Maybe you either do something like this, or want to but do not have the time or do not want to take time away from your work day to do it – well, why not have your Virtual Assistant do this for you? With DropBox and so many other ways to share folders of goodies, she can even make you folders and sub-folders, add content as you specify and get them back to you ready to download to your own computer.

If you DO collect Betty or automobile or sports figures or other fun images or even trivia facts from doing searches and compiling documents of them, why not drop me a comment and let me know I am not alone here in my odd hobby. Or, hey, maybe we can talk about how I can help you pursue your wishes to have some fun and not have to do all of the work involved.

Remember, I am a Virtual Assistant who LOVES to do editing and proofreading assignments along with research, blog posts, article submissions and social media maintenance!

Why not Schedule a Project now?

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