6 Tasks a Virtual Assistant Can Do for Your Creative Business
Almost all creative entrepreneurs– photographers or videographers, graphic designers, florists, or even musical artists, know that running a creative business involves many moving parts.
Your daily task list is quite long, from managing your customer lead pipeline to keeping track of your expenses.
Whether you’re a one-person show or manage a team of creatives, working with a virtual assistant can help take your business to the next level by helping you stay organized and provide a consistent client experience.
6 Tasks a Virtual Assistant Can Help You Within Your Creative Business
1. Manage your email & customer inquiries
A virtual assistant can help you manage your day-to-day email inquiries from current and prospective clients, answering their questions, providing information, and serving as a filter so that you can focus on your creative work!
2. Help create a seamless new client experience
A virtual assistant can help you create and provide a seamless and engaging new client experience, both operationally and aesthetically. Depending on the services you provide, this can include anything from standardized and branded welcome emails and packets to a fully custom client portal.
3. Research & follow up on new business opportunities
A virtual assistant can help you sort and filter through leads and other new business opportunities, so that you can ensure a steady inflow of new business while you focus on providing excellent products and services to your customers. A VA can help with anything from cold calling to preparing proposals - and much more!
4. Organize Important Information & Deadlines
Running a business comes with a lot of small (and infrequent) but important considerations, such as renewing business licenses and insurance, equipment maintenance, and more. A virtual assistant can help you organize important information in one place, and remind you of deadlines, so you don’t have to worry about missing anything important.
5. Keep track of expenses, receipts, and more
Tracking and organizing business expenses is vital - but difficult to do when you are on the go! A virtual bookkeeping assistant can help you keep track of and categorize business expenses to help make tax season a breeze.
6. If you qualify, help you register as an S Corp to save on taxes
Many creative entrepreneurs start out as sole proprietors - which can be very expensive when it comes to taxes! If you qualify, a virtual bookkeeping assistant can help you register your business as an S Corporation, saving taxes and giving your business more room to grow!
Grow your creative business with a VA
When running a creative business, working with a virtual assistant can help expand your ability to grow, take on new opportunities, and create a streamlined client experience.
By delegating important tasks, you can focus on the creative work that led you to start your business in the first place with the peace of mind that comes with knowing that your business operations are taken care of.
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