30 Virtual Assistant services you could offer

Another popular question from new Virtual Assistants is what services they should offer their clients. Obviously, this will depend on lots of things such as demand, your niche, your skill set, your interests, your previous career and your location, but here are 30 different services you could consider offering to start you off.

Services you could offer
Creating/updating/maintaining databases and CRMs
Collating business cards into an Excel sheet for uploading to CRMs or address books
Data entry
Basic bookkeeping (Click here to read HMRC’s money laundering regulations (AML) for VAs)
Data mining / online research
Typing up notes
Minute taking (This pays incredibly well and I have a course if you want to learn how)
Video creation/editing/uploading
Social media set up/maintenance/content research/scheduling
Facebook, Twitter or Google ads – creating, monitoring and analysing
Setting up/managing webinars and podcasts
Forum commenting/monitoring
Setting up LinkedIn groups
Photoshop work
Transcription
Marketing – creating sales pages/squeeze pages/pop up email boxes
Creating/editing/formatting templates and guides
Event coordination – venue finding and confirmation/collating attendees and documents/on-site support
Chasing outstanding invoices
Diary/calendar management – scheduling meetings, syncing with devices, adding upcoming events
Email management and detox
Writing/editing/formatting reports and presentations
Researching/making travel and accommodation arrangements
Lifestyle management – personal duties inc buying gifts, dry cleaning, booking restaurants and events, house moving, researching cheaper utility companies, paying bills etc
Blog set up/writing/SEO/editing/scheduling
Website set up/writing/SEO/editing/scheduling (Learn to build your own site)
Newsletter set up/writing/autoresponders/editing/maintenance/scheduling (remember that you and your client have to comply with data protection laws or you may be fined. It’s all covered in my email marketing course)
eBook editing/formatting/publishing
Gmail set up, importing and creating labels/filters/folders (I have a free Gmail course)
Designing/formatting infographics, logos, banners, social media profile images
Don’t offer
Call answering services. They’re a right pain in the bum and you’ll never get a minute to yourself. Suggest the client uses a call-answering service instead. You can always get the summary emails sent to you by the company so you can call them all back in one go.

Tips
Think about your niche and what tasks people in it might need doing.
Keep learning so you’re constantly honing your existing skills and adding new ones. You can find lots of free and paid courses on my Downloads and Training page.
Consider charging a retainer for ‘bitty’ tasks.
Only offer services that you actually know how to do.
Only offer services that you actually like doing.
Don’t take on anything that doesn’t fit in with other clients, existing tasks or your main business .objective such as being completely virtual or being able to work around family commitments etc.
Basically, don’t take on anything that doesn’t tie in with why you decided to become a VA in the first place – it may be money coming in now but it’ll definitely become a problem you’ll need to fix later.
Watch out for people trying to save money on a large job when they really should hire a professional Copywriter, Web Developer, Graphic Designer, Marketer etc instead.
Resources
Click here to get this article as a printable PDF to work through in your own time.
Read my blog post on How to Decide What Services to Offer for things you should take into consideration.
Go through the VA Interviews on my site and see what services they offer and to what niche.
If you’re not sure who you are, who your ideal client is and how to get them to hire you, check out my course on how to market your VA business.