Many entrepreneurs are new to e-commerce and find early success with building brand and niche e-commerce stores. But the day-to-day operations eventually become overwhelming. Some burn out from all of the work. Eventually, their sales will slowly decline as they are buried deeper in administrative tasks instead of focusing on growth.
There is another way.
Giving up some control can free up a lot of time spent on mundane tasks. After years of working with hundreds of e-commerce store owners, we have identified a few easily outsourced roles to Online Filipino Specialists.
Customer Service
This is the most obvious role to outsource because this takes up the most time. Answering emails, telephone calls, and live chat messages can interrupt your workflow. Handing it over to an OFS frees up a ton of time to work on other things.
Social Media
Keeping up with social media posts, engagements, and messages is a time-consuming task. Just like with customer service, an OFS can do your social media. They can make content, respond to messages, run ads, even create marketing campaigns so your social accounts can contribute more to your business.
Order Processing & Management
If you’re working with dropshipping vendors, print-on-demand vendors, or third-party logistics, an OFS can easily take over the tasks like:
- Placing orders on time with suppliers,
- Managing the progress of the sales,
- Communicating with customers, and
- Notifying you if there’s a problem.
Suppose you’re manually exporting orders and modifying CSV files or spreadsheets to send to a supplier. In that case, an OFS will likely do a better job because they can focus on it.
Photo Editing
In this day and age, unless you are a Photoshop expert, there’s no reason you can’t hire a part or full-time graphic designer to manage your photo editing. This person can also create social media images and advertising images for your business. You can also have a graphic designer assist with product and packaging design.
Website and Marketplace Listings (Including Amazon)
If you’ve ever said something like, “I’ve been meaning to list my products on Amazon/Etsy, but I just haven’t had the time,” you should hire an OFS. Migrating products from an e-commerce platform to Amazon is a tedious process, and while there are many tools to automate the cross-posting, they don’t write the descriptions for you.
Selling on third-party marketplaces often requires adjusting product descriptions and sales copy to match the marketplace’s format, getting a better ranking in the search/browse results, and getting a better sell-through. An Online Filipino Specialist can do all of this for you.
While this is only a list of five roles you can outsource, you can easily outsource more once you’re experienced working with Online Filipino Specialists.
Start small, and grow from there. You’ll be happy you did.
About John Jonas
John Jonas is a long-time outsourcing expert and the creator of OnlineJobs.ph.
Since 2005, John has taught hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs how to profitably delegate to VAs in the Philippines (and get their lives back in the process).
With help from his own VAs based in the Philippines, John has created an outsourcing empire that allows him to work 17 hours/week and to spend most of his time with his wife and 5 kids.
Find John at JohnJonas.com and Facebook.
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Looking at prices for virtual assistant for ecoommerce.we are based in bew zealand.
Website
Aocial media
Ebay content
Hi Amani!
You can check them here: https://www.onlinejobs.ph/blog/philippines-skills
Please send me more information.I would like to start
Hi
I want this service pls sent me more details.
Regards
For information on how to hire Filipino workers and how our website works, please check out our employers FAQ: http://www.onlinejobs.ph/how/employer
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Hi Amani,
I’m currently handling our several e-commerce in Dubai. I am interested to the position.
I look forward to hear from you.
Thanks,
Jaycel
I need someone with experience in shopify playform. How much is the rate per hour?
I am in Australia.
Hi Jennifer!
You can search for them and their rates here: https://www.onlinejobs.ph/blog/philippines-skills
Pls.train your VA’s to be more professional and have good ethics. In US and Canada we pay after the expected goals are reached and done. Va’s should have communicated with the customer what he/she is currently doing according to what we told them to do not what they wanted to do.Whatis not good in some of your VA’s, they wanted money even if they have not done anything and telling that they needed money for their families needs. They should earn the money doing their job and be paid for their services not for what their needs.
@Destiny – You should think of these VA’s more like local employees rather than as someone you only pay when they get a job done. A local employee would get paid regardless of how much they accomplished. If you train them better, they’ll accomplish more.
These people in the Philippines are just a more affordable version of a local employee.
PS. we don’t train them at all. We have 300,000+ resumes of workers who want jobs. they have all kinds of varied skill sets. Recruit someone and train them to do what you want them to do.
I’d like to know more please. I’m in the process of listing my first product on Amazon/ Ebay etc and would like support to push my DJ page on facebook/Insta etc
Thanks
Jay
Hi Jay!
Just email support@onlinejobs.ph for more information
Hi I am looking at someone who will be able to transfer products from my suppliers portal and either transfer manually which I have been doing or simplifying this process for me. I am an Australian website but am based in New Zealand. Please advise as I over the manual process of this. Thanks
Hi Cody! For more information on how to hire Filipino VAs for our business, please check the link: https://www.onlinejobs.ph/how/employer
hello cody i can help you with these type of job as i have prior experience as a virtual assistant.
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Thank you for your interest in Onlinejobs.ph. Unfortunately, at the moment we’re focusing in providing jobs mainly for Filipinos based in the Philippines. For online jobs within your country, you can try signing up for UpWork or Freelancer.
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I think a BIG skill missed in this excellent blog post (and one that is very underrated) is researching. It takes a long time to research a new business venture but if you have a VA find and collate the necessary information because they have 8 hours a day and 5 days a week, you get all the information you need without wasting time, to make the decisions you need.
Looking to outsource account receivables. Calling customer to find out status of payment.email me if interested .
Also loooking for help with social media postings
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You can also email support@onlinejobs.ph for more information.
Im currently working here in hongkong, post graduate of business administration major in financial management, i have read your ad on my fb account while browsing my news feed ,im interested to have a part time ,can you help me to get into it.thanks!
Even Filipinos based outside the Philippines may apply but they must agree to be paid in the Philippine peso and the salaries will be based on Philippine salaries.
Can you recruit people within Abuja or Lagos in Nigeria?
Thank you for your interest in Onlinejobs.ph. Unfortunately, at the moment we’re focusing in providing jobs mainly for Filipinos based in the Philippines. For online jobs within your country, you can try signing up for UpWork or Freelancer.
I looking for a good paying job under customer care service here in Ghana.
Any relevant information.
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I would like to join
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Hello. I see there are VAs for amazon listing, but is there any knowledge about amazon sales channel in shopify…? Because in my opinion it’s more complex… Is it something known for VAs in you experience ?
Hi, I am currently looking for an online jobs. I have 6 years background in customer service. Hoping to be one of your list of employees.
I totally agree with you. In fact there are many other tasks that a VA can perform for you. some of them are product listing & uploading, data entry, checking the mails, social media management, article and blog writings and many more. I am really glad to tell yopu that i have hired a VA for my business and he performs all these tasks.