10 Tasks to Outsource to a Virtual Assistant to Save 10+ Hours This Week

It’s 10 pm on Wednesday and you are trying to manage all of the things on your list that need to get done for your business. You have already worked about 20 hours, not only running your actual business but doing the nitty gritty, not so fun, but totally necessary tasks, to ensure that you hit your business goals for the day, week, month and year! That’s a lot of pressure.

If you are here, chances are you are looking for a way to buy your time back. Here is the exact list of what you can offload today to get 10 hours back this week.

The Tasks You Can Delegate to Get Your Time Back

Click each section to see what a VA can take off your plate

• Shopify & Store Management

  • 1. New Product Listings: Uploading new arrivals, choosing variants, organizing categories, and writing clean, SEO-friendly product descriptions.

  • 2. Inventory Tracking: Auditing stock levels across collections, flagging low-inventory items, and making sure the digital storefront matches reality.

  • 3. Order & Return Operations: Handling customer refunds, processing gift cards, and tracking down missing or delayed packages.

• Email Marketing & Admin

  • 4. Broadcast Newsletter Scheduling: Taking your promotional graphics and text, turning them into clean templates, and scheduling weekly newsletters.

  • 5. E-commerce Flow Maintenance: Monitoring and testing your automated sequences—like abandoned carts or welcome series—to ensure they are capturing sales flawlessly.

  • 6. Inbox Control: Clearing the clutter from your primary inbox, answering standard vendor emails, and highlighting only the most critical messages for you.

• Social Media Growth

  • 7. Multi-Platform Content Scheduling: Uploading your raw videos and graphics into scheduling tools (like Later or Metricool) so your brand stays consistent without you logging on daily.

  • 8. Caption Writing & Hashtag Research: Crafting high-converting, punchy captions that match your brand voice and utilizing targeted SEO tags.

• Community & Customer Love

  • 9. Instagram/TikTok DM & Comment Monitoring: Answering pricing, sizing, and shipping questions directly in your social media inbox before potential buyers lose interest.

  • 10. Online Group Moderation: Managing incoming member requests, enforcing rules, and sparking conversation inside your private customer Facebook groups or digital communities.

Why Use a VA vs. Hiring Full-Time

So why hire a VA instead of a full-time employee?

When you hire a VA you are saving time AND money. And as a business owner time is money and money is time. 

With a VA you are saving both.  

When considering a full-time employee you have to budget for salary and benefits.

However, if you hire a VA you are only budgeting for the hours you need or the deliverables you agreed on in your customized package.

So why hire a VA instead of a full-time employee?

When you hire a VA you are saving time AND money. And as a business owner time is money and money is time. 

With a VA you are saving both.  

When considering a full-time employee you have to budget for salary and benefits.

However, if you hire a VA you are only budgeting for the hours you need or the deliverables you agreed on in your customized package.

Imagine Next Wednesday Night Looking Totally Different...

Close your eyes for a second and think back to that 10:00 PM slump on Wednesday night.

Imagine instead of sitting at your laptop, bleary-eyed and drowning in inventory sheets, you are actually logged off. Your Shopify store is fully updated, your weekly newsletter is already scheduled, and your social media comments are completely taken care of.

You are resting. Your business is still running. And you didn't have to sacrifice your evening to make it happen.

Hiring a Virtual Assistant isn’t just about outsourcing tasks—it’s about buying back your sanity, your evenings, and your capacity to actually lead your brand instead of just managing it.

Ready to Reclaim Your 10 Hours This Week?

I specialize in taking the weight of Shopify management, social media scheduling, and community engagement off the shoulders of busy e-commerce owners and creators just like you. You don’t need an expensive, full-time employee to scale, you just need a reliable virtual partner who knows your systems inside and out.

Let’s get those tedious, time-sucking tasks off your plate so you can focus on your zone of genius.

Here is how we can get started today:

Click the link below to send an inquiry to book a free, no-pressure 30-minute discovery call where we can audit your current workflow and see what to offload first.