5 Tasks You Can Outsource Today

How much time each day do you spend actually making money? Now how much time do you spend answering emails, posting to social media, writing this weeks' blog post or doing other unpaid admin tasks?

You can save yourself money today by outsourcing one or more of these tasks that take up more time than you think:

1.  Social Media - Social media can be exceptionally time consuming; finding and posting relevant content, sharing news and new products and responding to re-tweets, comments and enquiries can take up a lot of your day. Outsourcing your social media can be a really quick and hassle-free way to free up a huge chunk of your time.
2. Customer Emails - Are you replying to customer emails promptly? Customers who don't receive a prompt reply will often look elsewhere and so you should aim to reply to customer emails as quickly as possible, even if it's just to send a holding email until you can answer the email in detail. Outsourcing this task will save you a great deal of time and will improve overall customer satisfaction by ensuring that your customers know that you have time for them. 
3. Blog Articles - How regularly do you post content to your blog? You should be aiming to post at least one article per week to keep your website content current and your audience engaged. If you don't have the time to write blog articles yourself, a virtual assistant can take care of this for you, ensuring that you have regular, quality content that be can shared via your social media channels to attract a greater audience.
4. Newsletters - Regular newsletters help you to reconnect with your customers by sharing your latest products/services, blog posts and other news. Newsletters can take an hour or two to create and send, time that you could better spend making money! 
5. Live Chat - Similar to answering customer emails, live chat support is a great way to deal with customer enquiries, with many customers preferring this instant contact option. A live chat operative can be easily trained to solve simple customer queries or log an issue to be followed up in the near future, which will provide a greater sense of comfort and satisfaction for your customers.

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Now that you've started, what else can you think of to save you time for more important things? Consider things like help desk support, data entry, website creation, SEO and graphic design. If there's something you need done, chances are there's an expert out there who can help you.