How to Use Virtual Assistants to Create Online Content

Writing can be a joy. A real way of expressing ourselves and what we’re all about. It can also focus on helping, inspiring and motivating people to do great things.

When I was at college I used to write a lot. I mean, I was always working on some short story, or the odd essay for school. I was, and still am a big reader, too – averaging at least one book (normally business focused) a week.

As someone who owns and operates an outsourcing company in the Philippines, I see a lot of people contacting us to outsource all types of tasks. Telemarketing, customer service, back-office work, chat support – the list is, literally, endless.

However, as a notable authority on the subject of virtual business and in particular, working with virtual assistants, as well as being a blogger myself, I am often asked the question “Can you use virtual assistants to create original content to use online..?”.

The answer is yes, of course you can.

But, what you decide to do with that content is a different ballgame, obviously.

Five Tips to Get You Started!

Here are my Top Five Tips to working with a virtual assistant to create original content that you can use online, for either personal or business purposes.

  1. Don’t get a VA to blatantly write blog posts for your personal blog. Your personal blog should be ‘your place’ (except for the odd guest post, obviously!). Having a VA write content for this outlet of yours kind of defeats the object of blogging in the first place!
  2. If you are going to use a VA to help create content for your blog minimize it as much as possible. Activities such as online research for a particular article you are planning to write, then perhaps formatting your blog post with bold and italics, and headlines, etc., to help save time on the publishing side of things.
  3. VA’s are perfect for creating online content for anything related to link building. These articles are generally easy to write in a short time, are rarely seen by your target audience and work excellently. As long as they are 100% original. Plus, most VA’s can even go ahead and submit them to specific article submission or marketing sites for you.
  4. You can also use a VA to help edit your eBooks or other types of written content. Having a VA do the first round of proof reading is huge. You can then send it onto a second source (perhaps a colleague or family member – my favorite is my wife!) to give it the final once over.
  5. Be sure to pay your content writing VA what they are worth. There are many, many good VA’s working as full-time content creators. However, the fact of the matter is that if you don’t pay them what they are worth, they will either do a bad job for you, or simply not want to work with you at all.

They’re Good, but You’re Better!

Whether you’re utilizing the services of a domestically based virtual assistant, or one from another country, the simple rule of thumb to remember is that even though their writing may be good, it probably wont be as good as if you were to write the content yourself. So, always spend some time reading over their work and making sure that its good to go – before it goes!

Using virtual assistants for creative writing and other types of written tasks, such as sales copy, website content, etc., is ultimately a great move for all us who are busy business owners, or entrepreneurs – either online or off.

Nowadays you really don’t have to do everything – the world is a much smaller place, we’re in a global economy and the skill-set’s of people from all around the world are out there for us to get our hands on.

Try it out for yourself with a simple 500-word article on whatever subject you can think of. Look at the quality, and then simply figure out if it makes sense to do it again.

The chances are, it will be.

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Chris C. Ducker

Chris C. Ducker is a full-time Virtual CEO and a sought after virtual business consultant. He blogs at VirtualBusinessLifestyle.com and is the author of the highly popular free eBook, "Saving the Day, the Virtual Way", which has been downloaded over 5,000 times to date.

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