To grow your eCommerce business, you need help; you can’t do everything. You don’t have the time, or the skill AND your business can’t afford it. It’s by far more cost-effective to hire a virtual assistant to do some of the tasks. You need a virtual assistant (VA) to create sales funnels, take photos and edit images, build the store, set up and manage social media…and, they must manage the projects…
Wait! You couldn’t handle all these tasks, and neither will one virtual assistant be able to. You need to hire more than one VA. Here are suggestions of 11 virtual assistants you should consider.
Sales Funnels Expert
A sales funnel can be simple or as intricate as your business requires it to be. You can have a sales funnel for every target audience and for every product. Hire a sales funnel expert who can set up the sales funnels that will work for your business.
The goal is to optimize conversion at every stage of each funnel. Multiple sales funnels are intricate and require someone with experience.
Photographer and Photoshop Expert
Stand out and use brand-specific images on your website. If your products are “ordinary” everyday items, a photoshoot of your products is a great branding strategy that will separate you from the crowd.
You may not need to hire a photographer, but a Photoshop expert is necessary. How many times have you been frustrated with images that aren’t sized correctly? How many hours have you spent trying to edit an image? Delegate the task to a virtual assistant who has experience in working with Photoshop. They’ll professionally edit your images for you and quicker than you’ll ever be able to.
Website Optimizer
Buyers hate slow websites. They don’t have the patience to wait for your fancy website to load. The slow speed may be due to images or plugins or…Don’t waste time trying to figure out why. Hire a web optimizer to fix the issue so you can impress potential customers and motivate them to buy your products.
Online Store Developer
There are various platforms you can use to build an online store. Why waste time and energy to figure out how the platform works, if you can hire an expert. If you want to use the Shopify platform, hire an expert Shopify virtual assistant. There are virtual assistants who specialize in all the different platforms, Amazon, eBay, BigCommerce…
Keyword Researcher
Buyers search products using keywords. Some buyers know exactly what they want, even the model. Other buyers have sort of an idea. They use keywords to search for a certain type of product.
A virtual assistant can research relevant keywords for your business. The keywords will help your page ranking, help you target your products better, and help clients find your products easier.
Social Media Manager
After you have set up all the social networks that are relevant to your business, you need someone to manage them. Hire this expert to take care of this specialized area so you don’t have to learn it.
Creating and publishing posts daily, and sometimes 3-4 times per day, is time consuming. A social media manager has the skill to increase your followers and likes. No longer do you have to brainstorm ideas, search for the right image, edit the images, create the text, add the text…And then you also must stay active on the platform…
Social Media Graphic Artist
If your industry requires a lot of activity on social media, you may need to delegate more social media tasks. A graphic designer is a great asset to produce captivating images that people want to share.
Video Editor
Why agonize over creating professional videos if you can outsource it to professionals?
You will need lots of product videos to impress customers, especially with the new AR View feature on the Amazon app. How can you compete on your own store without stunning videos?
New Product Sourcer
To grow your business, you need a constant flow of new products. Sourcing products takes time, is sometimes frustrating, and requires consistency.
A product sourcing virtual assistant will ensure that there are always new products to add to your brand.
Suspension Appeals
When starting your eBay or Amazon ecommerce business, the last thing on your mind is a suspension. It happens. When you are suspended, don’t fret. While waiting to hear the outcome, hire an expert. There are virtual assistants with a high success rate in writing suspension appeals.
Project Manager
Some of these tasks are not everyday tasks you are hands on with or think about. Yet all are needed. Then there are obvious tasks such as managing orders, keeping your inventory up to date, bookkeeping, filing taxes, and customer service.
Before you hire anyone else, hire a project manager. Let the project manager manage all the other virtual assistants and hire the other freelancers your business needs.
Then you only have one person, the project manager, who reports to you.
Get everything you don’t need to be doing off your plate by hiring these virtual assistants to take over. Then you can focus more on business planning so you can scale faster.
