6 Small Business Admin Tasks You No Longer Need To Do
If you are a small business owner, you are often responsible for multiple business admin tasks. Handling this responsibility by yourself can sometimes be overwhelming. This is why it’s important to know which small business admin tasks you no longer need to do.
At Prime PA, our virtual assistants work with many small business owners who admit they get bored quickly when performing administrative tasks compared to when they do other work related to growing their business.
Business admin tasks are essential for small businesses, but as a solopreneur, you may not always have enough time to complete all of your business admin.
How often have you had to push back due dates when it comes to tasks?
There are services available to support you specifically with your small business admin. Virtual assistants provide professional virtual admin assistance; this means that you no longer have to delay completing your business admin or other projects. Your VA has the skills and experience to complete the tasks for you.
This post will discuss 6 small business admin tasks you no longer need to do because virtual support staff can do them for you.
If you don’t already follow us on social media and this is your first time visiting this blog then you may not know much about Prime PA. We are a group of virtual assistants and ‘’Prime PA’s’’ that provide virtual support to small business owners and entrepreneurs. We are experts in administrative tasks and use our expertise to help you reach your business goals. All of our virtual assistants are multi-skilled, meaning they can help you do various tasks.
‘Prime PAs’ are slightly different from multi-skilled virtual assistants; they are virtual support assistants that specialise in one main service. If you want support in one particular area of business, then we recommend hiring a Prime PA. Our Prime PA’s include web designers, SEO specialists and Writers.
- Daily administrative tasks and duties
Our virtual assistants complete your daily admin tasks from a remote location. Because our virtual assistants are multi-skilled they will be able to help you with a wide range of administrative tasks.
Common business admin goals a virtual assistant can help you achieve
- Reduce administrative tasks
- Meet specific deadlines for admin tasks
- Find new and better ways to do administrative tasks
- Be more productive with admin
- Organise business administration
- Efficiently manage business administration tasks
How a virtual assistant will achieve your admin goals
By hiring a virtual assistant you will automatically reduce the amount of business admin tasks that you need to complete. As a virtual assistant part of our job is to stay up to date with the latest admin software, because of this our clients are also kept up to date. Our clients use the information we share to make the best decisions that make business admin more efficient. Our virtual assistants also share free admin and productivity tips that you can also use to increase your productivity.
A virtual assistant can help you to complete individual admin tasks, or they can help you organise your business administration as a whole.
Having a virtual assistant complete your business admin tasks will help you efficiently manage your administrative tasks. Once you have delegated your admin tasks to a VA they will complete your tasks for you and make sure it is ready before the due date that you specify.
Schedule a consultation or download a free virtual assistant delegation sheet to start delegating tasks.
- Marketing
Has your marketing plan seen any action lately? If not, our virtual assistants are ready to start putting your plan into action. During the consultation, you and a VA can discuss exactly which steps to take to help you reach all of your marketing goals. We can help you carry out each step of the plan, so your business gets the attention and recognition it deserves.
Common small business marketing goals a virtual assistant can help you achieve
- Reach a wider audience
- Book more appointments
- Sell more products
- Sell more services
- Improve or refresh your brand
How a virtual admin assistant can help you achieve your business marketing goals.
A virtual assistant can run email, phone or online marketing campaigns for you so that your business reaches a wider audience.
If your goal is appointment setting, we will match you with a virtual assistant who already has sales skills so they can use their knowledge and experience to maximise your sales.
For those who have been trying to sell more products, your virtual assistant can create a targeted marketing campaign to reach people who are already searching for your product.
For service-based businesses, your virtual assistant will find the exact group of people that have the problem your service solves. Your VA will then make sure that your service is advertised in spaces where that target audience is present.
Want to create a new logo or business tagline?
Or is it the theme of the whole brand you want to change?
A virtual assistant with digital design experience will help you rebrand and launch your new look, and make sure you are noticed by all the right people.
2. Writing
Common writing goals a virtual assistant can help you achieve
- More subscribers to your blog
- More repeat visitors to your blog
- Increased viewer engagement with your content
You no longer have to worry about not being able to stay consistent when it comes to posting on your blog, because not only can we write and upload your blog posts, but we can publish them for you too.
If you want more people to subscribe to your blog then you need to publish more fresh relevant content. Our professional writer or one of our multi-skilled virtual assistants will create interesting blog posts that your web visitors will want to subscribe to.
If you want more subscribers to your blog but you are currently not receiving enough website traffic, then you should consider using an SEO expert to improve your website search ranking results. Further information about our SEO service can be found below.
If your goal is to get your website visitors to come back and visit your website again, then you need to give them an amazing experience the first time so that they won’t forget you. There are various ways we can help you get repeat web visitors; one is by producing amazing content that your web visitors can’t forget, or by incorporating your content into your marketing so they always receive your latest blog post.
If your web visitors are not engaging with your content and increased engagement is one of your marketing goals, your VA will focus on making your content more interactive; this will prompt your audience to engage because they will have a good reason to.
3. Social media marketing
Social media goals for small business owners
- To get a specific amount of followers or subscribers on social media
- Gain more visibility on your social media posts
- Receive more comments
- Get more shares
- More views to your posts
As virtual assistants, we provide support in all stages of your business social media.
This means we can research what to post about, review your social media analytics data, create new social media posts, schedule posts, network with customers on your behalf and manage the overall growth of your social media.
When we get social media followers and subscribers for you the type of followers we connect you with are social media users who are specifically looking for the type of information you post about. Whatever the number of subscribers you have in mind, our virtual assistant can create a strategy for you to increase your social media following, or they can follow a plan you already have. If you want to receive more comments when you post on social media then you need to create a reason for people to comment. One of the reasons people comment on social media posts is because within the post was a question and the answer is then written as a comment. Your VA will create social media content that people want to comment on and get involved with because it’s interesting, fun and benefits them.
To get your posts shared more frequently on social media, sometimes you just have to ask. Other times completing a review of what posts have been shared the most in your social media history and within your industry’s social media as a whole, will give you the best idea of what posts to create. Your VA can do a social media review and then create new posts for you based on successful posts within your industry. If you want a virtual assistant to support you with the creation of your social media content. Check out our ready-made social media posting packages here.
4. Web Design + SEO
Common website goals for small businesses
- Get more traffic
- More email sign-ups
- Sell more
- Capture information
Do you want a new look for your website?
Would you prefer a new website altogether?
Or is a landing page what you need so you can capture more leads?
Whatever you need when it comes to designing your website our professional web designer can make those changes for you.
What are your goals for your website?
If your goal is to get more organic traffic to your website, we will create an SEO plan for you. If you opt for paid ads, we will create a targeted Google Ads plan to get more traffic from your target audience to your website faster. If you want to capture information from your web visitors, your virtual assistant will create an irresistible lead magnet that your audience needs. Our professional web designer can incorporate your lead magnet into your website by creating a landing page. Most of your audience will sign up for your lead magnet because it solves their problem.
When it comes to increasing sales from your website, our professional copywriter can create new website content using their sales and copywriting experience; you will reduce your website bounce rate and increase your sales. Using our SEO service, we can create an SEO plan for your products and services to help increase your visibility in Google so that you can sell more.
Our web designer can create a fully customised, professional, responsive website for your business.
If you already have a website, book a free website review; our website designer will give you free professional feedback that will help achieve your website goals.
5. Research
As a small business owner, research is never something you just do once; there is always something new that you are going to need to research and find out. This could be the latest information about the best business admin tools, or information regarding your competitors. A virtual assistant can help you do extensive research on any topic.
What do you currently need researched?
Schedule a chat with a virtual assistant to discuss.
6. Email management
Are you overwhelmed with your inbox? Well, you don’t have to be!
Admin virtual assistants can filter through your emails and organise them following your instructions.
Our virtual assistants use a system that keeps inboxes tidy, and we use business admin tools that help us respond to and deal with your business emails more quickly and efficiently.
You no longer have to do all of your business admin tasks by yourself.
Whenever we work with clients, the majority of them wish they had hired virtual support sooner. Here is some of the feedback that we have received from our clients.
Business consultant – Claire Delaney
Prime Personal Assistant really helped me get my business sorted out. They helped me create documents and helped with other aspects of my admin that just got too much for me to handle myself.
Author – Sadiq Shah
I have heard of hiring virtual assistants from other people online, but I never tried it. Then I fell behind on targets and had no choice but to find someone to help me proofread.
Personal trainer – Dan Cooley
I needed someone to help me with online stuff that I don’t understand, and that I don’t even want to understand, best decision I ever made! Now I’m free to do what I do best, which is training.
To become stress-free like our other clients, get a virtual assistant to do your business admin tasks. Either schedule a consultation or join us for the VA Introduction + LIVE Q&A Event where you can meet virtual assistants, ask questions and learn more about what it would be like to have a virtual assistant to do your business admin. Register here.
