About a year ago I got a bright idea to be a Social Networking assistant. Actually, it was first thought of as a service to offer for others on Twitter where I had just started getting pretty active.

I had been told by a couple of people that I was in constant contact with that if they had more time to devote to this method of interacting, they would be as active as I was and they wished someone could find the type or category of people they would like to interact with and also maybe make some postings on topics that held their interest and I decided this was something I would like to do.

Now, a year later, I am very active on Twitter, reasonably so on FaceBook and have joined several great groups of like minded business people on Linkedin and it has seriously helped my businesses to interact with the terrific people I am connected to in these and other social mediums.

This might be something for you to consider if you are or plan on becoming a Virtual Assistant or if you are a potential client reading this post, you can send me a message detailing your social networking needs and we can explore the ways I might be able to help you.

I can search for compatible people for you to follow or connect with, welcome your new followers with a pre-written message, post your contribution at selected times, follow back the people you want to continue to be connected with and even UNfollow those you do not want to be associated with and more!

Jan Tallent
Tallent Agency Virtual Assistance

http://www.tallentagency.com

p.s. I love the interactions with MY wonderful network of intelligent, helpful and just plain NICE connections!

There are countless ways a Virtual Assistant can be of service to you and your business. Just like an assistant in a brick and mortar office, your own
Virtual Assistant can be one of the best investments you can make FOR both your business and your own peace of mind!

Among the thousands, I am sure, services a Virtual Assistant can perform, here are just a few to give you an example and help you decide if a Virtual Assistant is right for you.

Although, of course, your Virtual Assistant can be either male or female, to keep from saying “he or she” and “his or her” for every task, I will write this in the SHE and HER mode.

Your own Virtual Assistant can:

Respond to customer e-mails and phone calls

Help out with some facets of your social networking
so you can spend more time SOCIALIZING!

Schedule appointments and interviews

Do the transcriptions of your interviews, podcasts, videos, etc.

Handle your Bookkeeping chores; for example:

invoicing clients, receiving and paying bills, balancing checkbooks
and reconciling bank statements, tracking expenses and tax records,etc.

Perform internet research for various facets of your business

Plan your travel and make necessary arrangements

Maintain your ezine and customer mailing lists, manage your ezine ad sales,
do research FOR ezine content and even write and/or compile it for you

Maintain your website, for example edit when needed, make changes and updates

take customer orders, create sales reports, ship orders and products

Submit your articles to other publishers and article sites

Update, edit and maintain your blog and research content for you to use on it

Proofread your documents, advertisements, web pages, etc.

Place advertisements in print or e-publications and on websites.

Format eBooks, create PDF files, send out printing jobs or do them herself.

Perform Data Back Ups so that all of your important information,
downloads, documents, etc. are safely duplicated in case of data loss

Research, list and maintain products for your online store, eBay store, etc.

( which is one of the duties MY own Virtual Assistant will have when I get one! )

and just about anything else your own in office assistant could do for you,
without the added expenses of a fully stocked office on your premises,
insurance and other benefits you would have to provide FOR
an in house employee AND she can keep the paperwork
overload in HER office instead of yours!