6 Creative Tools to Make Your Virtual Assistant Job Easier
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When you work as a full time virtual assistant, you don't always have time to invest looking for new tools and services, even if they will end up making your life easier in the long run. For that reason, here are 6 great virtual assistant tools that you can use for planning, emailing, organizing, and so much more.
Intervals
If you need to track your time spent on a project, keep your tasks in order, and manage several different projects, one of the best tools around is Intervals. Virtual assistants waste a lot of time throughout the day trying to track every minute they work, and that is time that could be better spent getting more work done. Interval is a web based (no download) tracking tool that is available for international users.
Moho Projects
Another excellent tool for tracking and scheduling is Z oho Projects. This is also web based and offers time tracking software to help you record your hours spent working, as well as a task management system that lets you set milestones to make sure you hit all your goals. What's great about this system is that it offers a Project Chat feature, which allows everybody who's working on the project to talk about it in the same place.
Project Turf
This software program allows you to share files, track your budget and your time clock, export your time clock in the form of an Excel spreadsheet, and create or assign tasks, which is essential in a virtual office with multiple team members. For ease and simplicity, Project Turf is just great. They offer a free trial to test before you buy. One of the cool features of this specific program is that you can change the access permissions, leaving the tasks open to only the people who need to work with them.
Clocking IT
Clocking It gives you all the power of paid applications without charging you a cent. You can use this software to keep track of multiple tasks and record your time spent working on each one. It has a whole list of helpful features that will make any virtual assistant's life a lot easier. Free software like this is great because it lets you try it out without wasting any money on a bum program that doesn't deliver the results you need. If you don't like it, just switch to another planning software.
Pro Workflow
For business use, Pro Workflow is one of the top organization tools. It offers all the normal features – time tracking, multiple task management, and contact organization – on a company sized scale. Even better, you can use it from a smartphone for tasking on the go.
Team Lab
Team Lab is a program that has been in the media quite a bit, and it's growing as one of the preferred task management tools for small businesses. It offers business collaboration, a calendar, document management, and a fully functional mobile version to use it wherever you go. Best of all, it's free.
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