People are getting busier and busier every passing day. Recognizing the value of taking time to rejuvenate and connect with the important people in their lives, executives are turning to virtual assistants to free up their time so they can do the things they care about.

Before the internet, executives relied on personal assistants who would work in their presence and whose remuneration costs would at times be unjustifiable given the amount and kind of work they did.

With the internet, these executives found an avenue to hire assistants to take care of some of their tasks without having to onboard them onto the company or hire them on long-term contracts. You can be one of these virtual assistants. The beauty of this arrangement is that you don’t have to work with just one executive. You can work with several businesspeople and still have the freedom to choose your hours.

Here are some of the things you can do today as a virtual assistant:

Manage Email Inboxes

Most people work from their inboxes. The problem is that organizing an email inbox and separating the important from the unimportant can be a job of its own. For a business person that receives tons of emails, having someone do this for them can be a lifesaver. You sorting out their inbox and annotating their to-dos can help them a great deal.

Content Creation and Scheduling

Internet entrepreneurs are in constant need of fresh content. If you can create great content in a specific niche, you will always find a business that can hire you. You will be creating the content and putting it out on their website. You need to have a great understanding of a given niche to know the type of content that will connect with that particular audience.

Shopping

Online shopping can be tedious and time consuming for a busy business person. Some businesspeople hire virtual assistants to do online shopping for them. They will just send you a shopping list and you will scour the net for whatever they need and send the items to their address. Also, they can send you a list of the items they need on a regular basis and give you a weekly shopping schedule.

Taking Calls

Some successful internet entrepreneurs who run one-man operations but who want to communicate that they are indeed big operations will have a dedicated phone line being handled by a virtual assistant who takes orders, complaints and inquiries. Occasionally, they will put a caller through to the internet entrepreneur if the occasion demands it. You can be the virtual assistant who receives such calls.

Customer Support

Small businesses are outsourcing their customer support needs to outsiders. Not all outsourced customer support functions are handled in India. You can help a small business with customer service from any place in the world as long as you have a reliable internet connection.

Most businesses will start you off with small tasks are increase the responsibilities as you prove that you are indeed reliable and dependable. With greater responsibility, comes higher pay.