Remote Virtual Assistant Jobs

A virtual assistant is a person who provides expert help and services to businesses, entrepreneurs, and individuals online. It is not someone who can do your work for you, but rather someone who does the tasks you don't have time or knowledge to do yourself.

Virtual assistant offer services online such as:

• Social media management
• Managing calendars
• Simple digital marketing tasks
• Manage appointments
• Answer, monitor, and organize emails
• Answer and make phone calls
• Coordinate schedules and calendars
• Community outreach
• Transcribe documents
• Provide customer support, such as answering questions and processing orders
• Organize files and documents
• Research content
• Event management Research content
• Prepare reports, letters, and statements
• Perform Data entry
• Answer and make phone calls
• Make travel arrangements
• Order supplies
• Personal tasks like booking hotels and restaurants
• Generate sales leads
• Manage spreadsheets
• Coordinate schedules and calendars
• Community outreach
• Email marketing
• Edit and proofread documents
• Bookkeeping, billing, and accounting activities
• Screen potential clients and projects
• Manage social media and professional profiles
• Create and maintain records.

The salary for virtual assistants is highly dependent on what skills they have. Usually, this ranges anywhere from $30k to $200k per year

Top companies hiring virtual assistants in 2021 are:

• Belay
• Boldly
• Aston Carter
• Relativity
• VaVa Virtual Assistants
• Cardinal Financial
• Kelly
• Time Etc.
• Fancy Hands
• Assistant Match
• Byron
• Equivity VA

Follow this basic steps to become a virtual assistant and work remotely from home:

• Understand the essential skills
• Finalize the services you’ll offer
• Build a portfolio and an online presence
• Search for virtual assistant gigs and clients
• Understand your job priorities
• Setup all tools for managing your work
• Decide your pricing structure
• Ask for testimonials from happy clients
• Handle challenges well
• Attentive to details

The basic skills a virtual assitant should have to work remotely include:

• Oral Communication and Writing skills
• Independent and Effective Decision Making
• Quick Thinking and Execution Skills
• Basic Computer skills
• Word Processing skills
• Expert at Multitasking
• Self Motivation and Discipline.

Virtual assistants charge anywhere ranging from $10 to $100 per hour. The common average is generally between $15 and $30 per hour for executive assistant services and $40-$75 per hour for higher-level marketing or financial virtual assistant tasks.