Whether you’re a professional blogger or have a blog as a way to promote your business and grow your reputation as an industry expert you could probably do with a little help. That’s where a Virtual Assistant who can help with your blog would come in.
What do you want help with?
To get the most out of your relationship with a Virtual Assistant and have them successfully help with your blog, you need to think about what you want them to help you achieve. For example:
- Do you want help with the technical sides of blogging? Then make sure you hire someone who is confident and experienced with your blogging platform.
- Do you need help creating the content? Consider the specifics of what you want help with.
- Do you need someone who can do research and fact checking? Then make sure you hire someone who is an experienced researcher.
- Do you need someone who can take your bullet point notes and build them into a post? Make sure you hire someone who can write in the right voice for your business
- Do you need someone who can take your dictated notes and transcribe into a post? Then be sure you hire someone who specialises in transcription
- Do you need someone who can make sure your spelling & grammar is correct? Make sure you hire someone with excellent skills in the language your blog is written in
- Do you need someone who can help with your SEO? Then it’s important to hire someone with SEO knowledge, a little industry knowledge would probably be good as well.
- Do you need someone who can upload your posts to your blogging platform? Make sure you hire someone who has experience with your blogging platform, a knowledge of html and an eye for detail.
- Do you need someone who can share your posts on your social media accounts? Then get someone who is familiar with the social media accounts you use, and is someone you’re happy to trust with access to the accounts
- Do you need someone who can monitor and respond to comments? Make sure you hire someone who is a good communicator and can speak with the right voice for your business.
It shouldn’t be too difficult to find someone with the skills you need, but it’s vitally important that you do take the time to decide what you really want to achieve and hire a Virtual Assistant or Virtual Assistants who can help you achieve those results.
Where to find them
The best place to find a Virtual Assistant with the skills you need is from within your network. In other words, ask your colleagues, put it out there on social media, ask your networking groups and see who is recommended. If you can’t find a Virtual Assistant there, try one of the Virtual Assistant networks, ask a Virtual Assistant you know if they can help you find someone with the skills you need. Otherwise, you can check out some of the Virtual Assistant groups on LinkedIn or Facebook to see if you can find the Virtual Assistant to help with your blog.
If you’d like some more ideas, check out my previous posts on blogging.
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