How Virtual Personal Assistant Services Can Help You Manage Your Life

Whether you’re a high-flying professional at the top of your game or an entrepreneur responsible for a thriving business, your biggest challenge is going to be finding enough hours in the day to accomplish everything.

Whether it’s administrative tasks, sending invoices to suppliers, getting reliable statistics for a client report, or booking your next business trip, secondary tasks can consume a large chunk of your working hours. Secondary tasks also divert you from more strategic, high-value, and revenue-generating tasks that move the needle forward. 

By delegating secondary tasks to trusted and competent virtual personal assistants, you can free up more time to focus on high-value activities that will positively impact your career or business. 

Aside from boosting your productivity, delegating tasks to reputable virtual assistant companies also gives you access to additional benefits—namely flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. 

Managed virtual assistant companies like Sigrid give you access to as much qualified support as you need when you need it. All you have to do is subscribe to one of our subscription plans and you’ll receive dedicated support from a Sigrid Virtual Assistant (VA). Each subscription plan gives you a specific number of support hours each month, and you can top up your hours if you need more support. 

Aside from the flexibility, subscribing to one of our subscription plans also allows you to scale your business or projects more quickly without having to hire expensive in-house staff. Hiring VAs on a subscription basis is also more cost-effective than hiring permanent in-house staff since you won’t have to manage employees, shoulder their benefits, or pay other overheads.

7 Tasks That Can Be Delegated to a Sigrid Virtual Personal Assistant

Listed here are some of the tasks that your Sigrid Virtual Assistant can take off your plate, allowing you to focus on the bigger picture and your most important objectives. 

Calendar Management & Work Scheduling 

If your inbox is disorganized or you find yourself constantly chasing after clients and colleagues to book meetings, you’ll benefit greatly from having your calendar and work schedule managed by a Sigrid VA. 

Aside from managing your email inbox and meetings, your VA can also make reservations at your favorite restaurants; book conference calls using your preferred app (e.g. Zoom, Skype, and Discord); and remind you of important events (e.g. birthdays, anniversaries, and recurring meetings).

Travel Management

Your Sigrid VA can manage all aspects of your travel itinerary and bookings. Some of the travel management tasks they can handle include:

• Researching the best prices on flights, hotels, car rentals, and entertainment. 
• Booking and rebooking flights, hotels, airport shuttle services, airport parking, and rental cars.
• Managing your flight check-ins and loyalty programs.
• Assisting with travel and visa applications, as well as visa and passport renewals.

Project Management

Your Sigrid VA can streamline your projects, ensuring that stakeholders are aligned, workflow processes are followed, and projects are delivered on time. 

Other project management tasks that can be assigned to your VA include:

• Day-to-day project administration (including process management and maintaining an online project document structure).
• Specialized research (including competitor analysis, client profiling, and researching best practices). 
• Maintaining project frameworks (including setting up an MS Teams site and Workstreams for every project). 

Bookkeeping

Assisted by a professional bookkeeper, your Sigrid VA will establish solid bookkeeping practices so you can focus on growing your business and maintaining profitability. 

Some of the bookkeeping tasks your Sigrid VA can handle include:

• Preparing weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports for your accountant to review.
• Performing the year-end closing of your financial books.
• Sending invoices to clients and collecting payments.
• Filing your taxes.
• Maintaining your financial ledgers and performing cash flow management. 

 Social Media Management

Delegate your social media tasks to your Sigrid VA so you can focus on your core business objectives. 

Some of the SocMed tasks your VA can handle include:

• Executing your social media strategy.
• Maintaining your social media calendar.
• Creating and uploading content to your social media channels. 
• Reporting on the performance of your SocMed content. 
• Managing brand deals and sponsorships. 

Household Maintenance & Repairs

You can free up more time in your schedule and improve your work-life balance by delegating your household maintenance and repairs to your trustworthy Sigrid Virtual Assistant. 

Your VA can remotely schedule repairs, cleanings, and other chores (e.g. pest control, roof inspections, and carpet cleaning). Before booking contractors, your VA will perform license and background checks, as well as interview shortlisted candidates and check referrals. Finally, your VA will ensure that contractors are paid on time for the services they’ve rendered. 

Child & Family Logistics

Regain the hours spent on family administration and logistics by outsourcing such tasks to your remote Sigrid Family Assistant (FA).

Some of the tasks your FA can handle include: 

• Scheduling doctors’ appointments, extracurricular activities for the family, and PTA meetings, etc.
• Booking venues, catering, and entertainment for family celebrations and birthday parties.
• Ordering groceries, multivitamins, clothing, household items, and other supplies for the family.
• Performing specialized research (e.g. finding the best summer camps, tutors, and child-friendly resorts).

  Listed here are some of the tasks that your Sigrid Virtual Assistant can take off your plate, allowing you to focus on the bigger picture and your most important objectives.

Calendar Management & Work Scheduling 

If your inbox is disorganized or you find yourself constantly chasing after clients and colleagues to book meetings, you’ll benefit greatly from having your calendar and work schedule managed by a Sigrid VA. 

Aside from managing your email inbox and meetings, your VA can also make reservations at your favorite restaurants; book conference calls using your preferred app (e.g. Zoom, Skype, and Discord); and remind you of important events (e.g. birthdays, anniversaries, and recurring meetings).

Travel Management

Your Sigrid VA can manage all aspects of your travel itinerary and bookings. Some of the travel management tasks they can handle include:

• Researching the best prices on flights, hotels, car rentals, and entertainment. 
• Booking and rebooking flights, hotels, airport shuttle services, airport parking, and rental cars.
• Managing your flight check-ins and loyalty programs.
• Assisting with travel and visa applications, as well as visa and passport renewals.

Project Management

Your Sigrid VA can streamline your projects, ensuring that stakeholders are aligned, workflow processes are followed, and projects are delivered on time. 

Other project management tasks that can be assigned to your VA include:

• Day-to-day project administration (including process management and maintaining an online project document structure).
• Specialized research (including competitor analysis, client profiling, and researching best practices). 
• Maintaining project frameworks (including setting up an MS Teams site and Workstreams for every project). 

Bookkeeping

Assisted by a professional bookkeeper, your Sigrid VA will establish solid bookkeeping practices so you can focus on growing your business and maintaining profitability. 

Some of the bookkeeping tasks your Sigrid VA can handle include:

• Preparing weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports for your accountant to review.
• Performing the year-end closing of your financial books.
• Sending invoices to clients and collecting payments.
• Filing your taxes.
• Maintaining your financial ledgers and performing cash flow management. 

Social Media Management

Delegate your social media tasks to your Sigrid VA so you can focus on your core business objectives. Some of the SocMed tasks your VA can handle include:

• Executing your social media strategy.
• Maintaining your social media calendar.
• Creating and uploading content to your social media channels. 
• Reporting on the performance of your SocMed content. 
• Managing brand deals and sponsorships. 

Household Maintenance & Repairs

You can free up more time in your schedule and improve your work-life balance by delegating your household maintenance and repairs to your trustworthy Sigrid Virtual Assistant. 

Your VA can remotely schedule repairs, cleanings, and other chores (e.g. pest control, roof inspections, and carpet cleaning). Before booking contractors, your VA will perform license and background checks, as well as interview shortlisted candidates and check referrals. Finally, your VA will ensure that contractors are paid on time for the services they’ve rendered. 

Child & Family Logistics

Regain the hours spent on family administration and logistics by outsourcing such tasks to your remote Sigrid Family Assistant (FA). Some of the tasks your FA can handle include: 

• Scheduling doctors’ appointments, extracurricular activities for the family, and PTA meetings, etc.
• Booking venues, catering, and entertainment for family celebrations and birthday parties.
• Ordering groceries, multivitamins, clothing, household items, and other supplies for the family.
• Performing specialized research (e.g. finding the best summer camps, tutors, and child-friendly resorts).

Manage Your Personal & Professional Life More Efficiently with Sigrid

If you’re serious about accomplishing more without suffering from burnout, then consider delegating all of your secondary responsibilities to your dedicated Sigrid Virtual Personal Assistant. 

We can help you achieve your most important objectives without compromising your work-life balance, your health, or time spent with your loved ones. You’ll have more free time to think creatively, solve problems, and make serious progress on high-value tasks.

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