21 Different Types of Virtual Assistants

Services That are on Demand

(200+ Tasks)
1) Real Estate Assistant
Buying and selling property involves a lot of paperwork. A virtual real estate assistant
can help with those tedious tasks.

Some things you might do as a Realtor VA:

Real Estate data scraping from popular websites such as eBay and Craigslist
Posting ads on Real Estate listing websites
Scheduling home viewings
Receiving offers
Negotiating contracts
Doing Real Estate Industry and Property research
Conducting social media campaigns for Real Estate businesses
Database management
Researching home financing options and mortgage rates.
Setting and following up on the meetings with potential sellers, realtors, and investors
Being a Real Estate VA might be right for you if you like to stay current with real estate
trends or have been in the Real Estate business before.

2) General Admin Assistant

While it’s important to pick a niche for your VA business, sometimes, you might find
that being a general admin assistant is lucrative since you appeal to a wider range of
small businesses.

There are multiple administrative assistant services that these types of businesses are
looking to outsource. The key is to know where to find these clients, craft a compelling
pitch and have them sign you up.

Some things you might do as a general virtual assistant:

Managing work emails

Calendar meetings management

Projects scheduling and management
Managing business contacts
Making travel arrangements
Data entry and basic document management
Researching potential business partners.
Being a general virtual assistant can be worthwhile because it’s versatile, meaning you
will appeal to all types of small businesses.

A good way to get into this industry is by marketing yourself as an administrative

specialist or someone who specializes in data entry, research, and proofreading.

3) Website Management Assistant

Maintaining a WordPress website can be quite a hustle for many business owners. As a
website assistant, you would offer web-related services such as:

Writing web content

Updating plugins and themes
Fixing website errors
Installing and setting up certain plugins
Planning and executing social media marketing campaigns

Tracking Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube visits.

Flagging spam comments on your blog posts or other web pages.
Designing an email newsletter template for your client to use in the future

4) Public Relations Assistant

Public Relations can be great if you love networking and meeting new people. This can
also help you down the road since the connections you foster may come in handy down
the road for your other clients or new ventures.

Your primary job is to develop, maintain, and enhance your client’s perception so that
they are more appealing to the target audience.

Your job as a PR Assistant entails:

Managing press conference, events, and media appearances calendars for your client
Finding speaking or feature opportunities for your clients
Drafting or proofing PR content such as media announcements, speeches, press releases
etc.
Tracking relevant PR metrics
Maintaining PR database
Reputation management
Maintaining relationships with the media, clients, and prospects
Researching a publication

Connecting with clients and gathering their information

Creating ad campaigns and ad copy.
Your valuable skills as a virtual Public Relations assistant are perhaps the ability to
network and secure appointments for your clients through cordial relations with the key
employees in the media, as well as savvy marketing and copywriting skills.

5) Social Media Management Assistant

If you have an interest in social media, then this is a perfect position for you. Social
media managers use platforms like Facebook, Twitter to communicate with customers on
behalf

As a social media assistant, you will be:

Creating engaging social content for your client audience for each social media platform
Planning and scheduling social media posts
Engaging with the client’s audience online
Responding to social messages mostly through borrowing from canned responses
provided by your clients
Managing paid campaigns

6) Research Virtual Assistant

If you know how to research online, have the technical know-how of some technical
research tools, and can interpret data, this can be the right specification for you.

Every business relies on detailed research to scale and remain relevant in the ever-
changing and competitive marketplace. Research assistants are responsible for
collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data from different sources, such as interviewing
experts in the field of study.

Some of the tasks that you will help your clients with as a research assistant include:

Finding low competitor keywords

Finding facts and verifying figures in the industry
Researching service providers and relevant other databases
Competitor analysis research

Market research
Customer persona research
Marketing channels and distribution research
Finding contact information for business leads
Finding leads Keeping track of competitors’ products and services
Conducting interviews with industry experts and analyzing the data to find out what
customers want.
Researching and compiling information from public sources
Publishing white papers for the company’s new product launch
Keeping track of the company’s marketing campaigns
Researching and publishing articles on topics relevant to the business
You’ll then need to present your finding in ready-to-use, easy-to-understand formatting
so that your client’s teams will act on them right away. For instance, you can use Excel
or Google Docs to present datasets or visually appealing pdf to deliver market segment
or customer persona research reports.

Thus, besides research and analytical tools, you also need to know how to use
presentation and visualization tools such as PowerPoint and Canva to design great
presentations.

7) Sales Administration Assistant

While most companies have their own internal sales team in place, some still prefer to
outsource some aspects of their sales process. For solopreneurs, sales assistants are more
critical since they do not have the capacity to hire their own salespersons.

As a virtual sales administration assistant, your tasks will revolve around:

Managing sales calendars

Updating and maintaining sales CRM

Researching prospects
Creating and sending proposals that are pre-approved by your clients
Invoicing customers and following up on overdue invoices
Updating sales records such as leads, prospects, customers, and orders
Pipeline management
Advising and updating the marketing team, especially during launch periods.
A great sales assistant knows how to work major CRM and Sales tools such as
Salesforce, HubSpot and Email Service Providers

8) Content Marketing Assistant

You’re cut out for marketing assistance if you love creating sales copy and enjoy writing
marketing content. To make this even more lucrative, niche down to industry. For
instance, marketing assistant for SaaS companies.
As a Virtual Assistant, you’ll be tasked at:

Researching topics for blog posts

Keyword research
Coming up with article briefs
Writing web content
Website and content proofing
Writing sales emails
Creating a company marketing strategy

Implementing a marketing strategy

Since your focus pretty much revolves around content, you need a good knowledge of
Keyword research, SEO, and copywriting

9) Outsourcing Assistant
Many small businesses, startups, and solopreneurs rely on the power of outsourcing for
their marketing and fulfillment needs. The problem is that, without a proper outsourcing
structure and process, this simple task that was meant to help businesses do more
without expensive overheads can prove ineffective.

This is where you come in as an Outsourcing assistant or manager. Your tasks will
revolve around:

Following up on daily or weekly deliverables

Recruiting and managing freelancers
Tracking projects progress
Managing the outsourcing account and platform, e.g., Fiverr for Business
Ensuring that deliverables meet the standard quality
Establishing and advising on budgets for projects
Determining what to outsource and who to outsource to

Creation of the projects to be outsourced

Monitoring outsourced projects and updating status as they change
Negotiating contracts with freelancers

10) eCommerce Virtual Assistant

eCommerce is an industry that is currently exploding as many brick and mortar
businesses adopt eStores frontends. This, therefore, means that the demand for virtual
assistants who are knowledgeable in eCommerce platforms management is on the rise.
Some of the services you’ll provide as an eCommerce assistant include:

Products listing and management

eCommerce platform development and maintenance
Inventory management
Setting up systems for easier store management
Apps integration
Creation and management of promotional discount codes
Writing product descriptions
Taxonomy strategy and management

Product classification
To be effective as an eCommerce VA and serve diverse clients, you need to have the
technical know-how of how major eCommerce platforms such as Shopify,
WooCommerce, Magento, BigCommerce etc. function

11) Virtual Booking Assistant

Every business needs to have its books in order. However, for many small businesses
hiring a full-time accountant is not viable. Instead, many such businesses delegate
bookkeeping tasks to a virtual assistant who is knowledgeable about taxes, bookkeeping
and accounting software such as QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, and FreshBooks.

As a Bookkeeping VA, your tasks will include:

Managing inventory
Following record keeping and bookkeeping procedures
Doing year-end bookkeeping
Account reconciliations
Managing Revenue expenditure
Payroll processing
Bank and credit card reconciliation
Entering data into Excel or an accounting software

12) Product Launch Assistant

Launching a product or a program successfully is a monumental task, and often
solopreneurs get overwhelmed during their launch week. While one may get a general
VA to help, having one specialized in launching products will yield more returns and
ensure a smoother launch.

As a product launch assistant, your services include:

Pre-launch planning and advising the team
Run through opt-in and sales pages to ensure that they are working as expected
Run through pre-launch and launch funnels to ensure that everything is okay and that the
messaging is right.

Managing and testing the launch processes

Training the launch support team
Attending launch webinars and interacting with the attendees
Recruiting affiliates and communicating with them about the launch and associated
offers
To be an effective launch assistant, you need to have launched your own products before
and run a similar sort of a business as your clienteles’. For example, if you help bloggers
launch their online courses, then currently running a blog ensures that you are familiar
with most aspects of blogging and how to work some popular tools.

13) Affiliate Management Assistant

With this specialization, you will be targeting small business owners and solopreneurs
who want to grow the sales of their digital products with an affiliate program. As an
affiliate manager, you will be helping your clients with:

Setting up affiliate application and registration forms

Improving affiliate registration page copy and design
Inviting relevant content producers to join your clients’ affiliate programs.
Managing affiliates
Researching ways to grow the affiliate programs
Report on the effectiveness of the program and growth potential

Relaying concerns from the affiliates to your client

Coordinating with the payroll team to ensure that affiliates are paid on time.
Advising on the best affiliate management software that reduces lots of manual work
Manually approving affiliate sales
Being conversant with affiliate marketing is a necessary skill, and it’s one that clients
will enquire about before hiring you. So, sign up if you haven’t already with popular
affiliate networks such as Amazon Associates, CJ, Rakuten, and Impact.

14) Graphics Design Assistant

If you love designing graphics using Photoshop, InDesign, and Canva, you can decide to
make extra income as a Design Assistant. You’ll be helping your clients with:

Creating graphics templates for various needs such as blog post banners, social media
posts, posters, announcements, etc.
Using the created templates to create graphics for new blog posts and social media
content.
Designing product graphics and mockups
Creating custom illustrations for website and social media posts
Improving and editing images for use on the website
Designing presentation decks
You can price your services per project or on a periodic basis, with or without a retainer.
However, even with a monthly basis, you may need to put a cap on how many design
projects you can commit to for that set amount and how extra requests will be billed.

15) Community Manager Assistant

We all agree that managing a community can be a ton of work, but it may be a fit if you
like interacting on social media and love helping others out. As a community manager,
you’ll be involved in the day-to-day management of the groups, including:

Planning content for the community

Encouraging members to participate

Responding to Q&As
Leaving comments in the posts left by other members
Rallying for activities such as community discussions around a topic
Planning and scheduling live appearances
Combating spammers
Approving new members

16) Amazon Seller Assistant

Some people have been working with Amazon and understand the platform and its
programs in and out. If that’s you, you can start a viable business helping new sellers
jumpstart their businesses on Amazon.

As an Amazon virtual assistant, you will be helping your clients with:

FBA inventory management:

Variation listings, management, and merging
Preparing and executing a product launch strategy
Optimizing product listings
Basic photo editing/ photo sourcing
Keyword research
Creating and managing PPC campaigns
Order management
Customer assistance
Note that if you want to charge even premium pricing for established businesses, you can
leverage the skills you have with data analysis tools such as Jungle Scout, Helium 10,
Viral Launch and Merchant Words to help clients better understand their reports so as to
make informed decisions.

17) LinkedIn Virtual Assistants

Many entrepreneurs and career enthusiasts still find it hard to better leverage the
platform to meet their objectives. But, as a veteran LinkedIn user, you know what
content professionals respond to and how the LinkedIn algorithm works, plus your years
of figuring it out on your own. So now, why not leverage your experience to help people
grow their influence and better position themselves to landing opportunities?

As a LinkedIn VA, you will be helping your clients to:

Reword their bio copy to speak to their particular target audience in a way that convinces
them to take the desired action

Map out a content strategy to help clients grow their influence on the platform
Researching and creating the content
Optimize all the other areas of the profile, including profile picture, cover and past
experiences (outside their account… client will need to login and post the edited photos
and experience descriptions, themselves)
Finding the right people to connect with and providing your client with a list
Creating messaging copy that clients can edit and use to initiate a conversation with new
connections

Recommending groups that your client can benefit from

Finding potential hires for your client’s projects
Creating job posts descriptions (no posting)
Researching and writing thoughtful articles that your clients can publish on LinkedIn
Pulse
To promote yourself as a virtual assistant, create content on your website around topics
such as, ‘How a virtual assistant can grow your LinkedIn profile, tips to get clients on
LinkedIn, how to get hired on LinkedIn etc.

Keep in mind that legal LinkedIn virtual assistance demand that you only help your
clients outside the accounts. In other words, while you can create optimized profile
description copy, articles, post content, and articles, you still need the client to log in to
their accounts and make the changes themselves. Your client shouldn’t grant you access
to their platform as this is against LinkedIn terms.
18) Shopify Virtual Assistant
Shopify, being the go-to eCommerce solution for most brands, presents a great
opportunity for freelancers to cash in. Figuring the platform out isn’t that hard, but you
do need knowledge around Digital marketing and description writing if you need to
command better pay.

As a freelance Shopify assistant, your responsibilities include:

Designing product images

Setting up store from scratch
Sourcing hot selling products
Product research
Competitor research and analysis
Setting up Shopify Apps
Store maintenance
Customer service
Order processing and fulfillment

When working with a client, they can set up a limited staff account for you and grant you
the permissions that you need to carry out the tasks required.

19) YouTube Virtual Assistant

Creators love what they do and would do anything to keep creating. However, when it
comes to running a YouTube channel, content creation is just one part. As a virtual
assistant, you can help your clients with the other moving parts. For example, you can
ensure that their videos have a better reach by:

Editing videos to make them more fun and engaging or professionally appealing
Doing keyword research to find less competitive keywords to optimize the video content
for using tools such as Semrush and TubeBuddy
Finding trending topics that are relevant to your client’s channel
Crafting optimized SEO title and descriptions for the videos to increase visibility.’
Creating simple lead magnets for each video to build an email list for your client.
Designing and assigning YouTube End Screen for your client’s videos
Scheduling videos to other social media platforms
Embedding videos on your client’s website
Designing custom video thumbnails

Uploading the videos to YouTube following all the necessary steps from choosing the
category, adding the title and description to assigning End Screens or linking to other
videos within the video.
Responding to comments left by viewers
As you can tell, the two most important skills in order to be a successful YouTube virtual
assistant are YouTube SEO and Video editing. You also do need to know how to work the
YouTube studio interface

20) Help a Reporter (Haro) Virtual Assistant

Link building is a powerful way to boost rankings and dominate Google search. There
are several ways to go about link building, but there are two that are rather prominent.
Guest posting and Link outreach.

Help a Reporter, Haro changes the dynamics of link-building outreach. Instead of doing
cold outreach. You can actually respond to a query from somebody who is just ready to
link to a good source. While Haro can be effective, not everyone has the time to respond
to queries that come at different times a day.

As a Haro Virtual assistant, you will be tasked at:

Checking Haro queries to find relevant ones to respond to

Research every relevant query to make sure that you cover all the bases
Drafting thoughtful responses to increases chances of hearing back from the reporter

21) List Building Assistant

Having a functional, healthy email list is a vital business strategy for sustainability.
However, building a list is demanding since, like many aspects of Digital Marketing,
there are just too many moving parts.

As a list building assistant, you’ll help your clients with:

Profiling different customer personas

Creating different lead magnets for different personas
Mapping out their customer journeys
Creating welcome sequences
Creating exit sequences
Drafting or proofreading the weekly newsletter
Creating and improving landing pages for the lead magnets
Creating and showing subscription forms on the clients’ websites
Integrating subscriptions forms with email service providers