How A Virtual Assistant Could Help… Implement Your Ideas

There’s a lot to be done between having an idea and seeing it come to life.  Being able to implement your ideas can be such a long and arduous process that it’s often tempting to give up or water down the idea to make implementation easier.

With that in mind, here are 25 things a Virtual Assistant can do to help you implement your ideas:

Research

1. Costs – a Virtual Assistant can help you research the costs involved with implementing your ideas and then put them into documents, spreadsheets and your accounting package so you can easily track expenses, provide your accountant, bank or business partners with financials and even decide if a project is financially viable.
2. Market saturation – A Virtual Assistant can research competitor products and similar products to see if there are already a number of similar products or services on the market so you can determine exactly what your point of difference is.
3. Demand – Your Virtual Assistant can make sure there is actually a demand for your product or service before you invest too heavily in implementation. If the demand is low, a Virtual Assistant can help you decide whether to tweak the product or service in some way, or to abandon the idea altogether.
4. Pricing – A Virtual Assistant can help you to research others pricing, but more importantly they can help you develop reasonably accurate costings to develop and produce the product or provide the service so that you can price it accordingly.
5. Legislative requirements – There are legislative requirements for pretty much everything these days and a Virtual Assistant can help you to contact all relevant departments to make sure that you’re compliant from day one.

Documents

6. Proposals – A Virtual Assistant can type up and format your proposals. They can also find statistics, case studies and other content required in the proposal.
7. Business plan – A Virtual Assistant can type your business plan, collate statistics and financials and make sure it’s distributed to all stakeholders.
8. Process and procedure – it’s easiest to document processes and procedures when they’re being created. Your Virtual Assistant can make sure that everything gets written down in the early stages and filed in an easily accessible place.
9. Stationery – A Virtual Assistant can create new stationery such as letterheads, email, signature blocks, fax templates and any other documents that you need.
10. Promotional materials – A Virtual Assistant can create promotional materials such as brochures, flyers, business cards, posters etc.

Sourcing Assistance

11. Graphic designer – If you’re launching a new product or service you’ll probably need a few graphics created for social media, as well as possibly a new logo. A Virtual Assistant can find a graphic designer who can take care of the lot and then project manage the process.
12. Copywriter – Similarly, it’s a good idea to get your marketing copy written by a professional to have the most impact. Your Virtual Assistant can find a copywriter who can create compelling & SEO optimised copy and then project manage the process
13. Staff – Often you’ll need some new staff to implement your idea. Whether it’s casual, temporary or permanent your Virtual Assistant can take care of placing the ads, screening applicants and organising interviews.
14. New hardware – A Virtual Assistant can help research and source any new hardware, office equipment or supplies you might need to get your idea off the ground. Whether it’s purchasing supplies to manufacture your product or additional computers to allow for more staff, your Virtual Assistant can do the research, sourcing and order samples to be delivered to your office.
15. New software – A Virtual Assistant can research options for new software as well as purchasing it and entering or transferring data as necessary.

Marketing

16. Brochures – A Virtual Assistant can create, or organise the creation of brochures for new products and services.
17. Blog posts – If you create an outline of a blog post, whether it’s dot points, a verbal summary or some facts and ideas that need to be organised and edited, your Virtual Assistant can make it into a blog post that’s interesting, entertaining and helps with your sites SEO.
18. Posters – A Virtual Assistant can create posters, or project manage their creation via graphic designers and printers
19. Social media – A Virtual Assistant can craft social media posts using information you’ve supplied. They can also respond to questions or comments from customers or supporters and monitor social media for mentions of your business, competitors or industry and advise you as necessary.
20. Newspaper ads – A Virtual Assistant help create newspaper ads and liaise with the papers marketing department to ensure that the ads run in appropriate sections.

Launch

21. Organise press coverage – A Virtual Assistant can help craft press releases and distribute them to websites and media outlets.
22. Manage invitations – A Virtual Assistant can help create the invitation list and make sure that all VIPs receive special invitations and that other invitations are sent as necessary (on social media, via your email list, snail mail etc.)
23. Manage RSVPs and payments – Your Virtual Assistant can track RSVPs, troubleshoot any problems attendees are having with the RSVP & payment programs and help with the reconciliation of payments that come in separate to the RSVP. They can also follow-up with people who’ve RSVP’d yes but not yet paid.
24. Organise venue – A Virtual Assistant can help you find a suitable venue, then liaise with the venue to organise setup, catering, equipment and any other details that need to be handled before, during and after the event.
25. Create program, name tags, sample/gift bags – If you’re going to provide name tags, a program for the event and sample or gift bags for attendees your Virtual Assistant can make sure they all look professional and are ready on time for the event.

So that’s 25 things that a Virtual Assistant could do to help implement your ideas and make sure that you go from thought to thing without too much drama.  It will give you time to fine tune your offering and do the networking and content creation that can only be done by you but keep you looking professional and on top of everything the entire time.