Virtual Research Assistant

Virtual research assistant services for surveys and market data

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A virtual research assistant from Oneresource can help keep your finger on the pulse of industry developments, the competition, market trends or customer feedback.

We can make a significant difference helping to find out what you need to know, which can be challenging when you’re trying to grow your business. Research is an ongoing task and a vital business component that can help evolve strategies, explore new opportunities or provide marketing content.

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We can:

Research your specific topic using a pre-agreed mixture of desk research, online surveys or interviews

Gather regular information on industry trends or the competition tailored to your needs and crucial to your business strategy.

Find new clients, establishing who they are, where they can be found and what they are looking for

Evaluate new software tools or systems to establish what would work best for your business

Conduct customer satisfaction surveys

Find content for blogs and social media

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Research – direct to your desk

Running your own business means a lot of demands on your time. So it makes sense to see where you can pull in additional help to give you the support you need. There are tasks that you need to concentrate on, and tasks that others can do for you. One of those is keeping up-to-date with trends, changes in your industry or just finding out what you need to know.

Why is this important?

Whatever business you’re in, you’ll need to be able to give advice to your customers and keep up – or ahead of – the latest trends. That usually involves a lot of reading, whether it’s online or from your industry’s trade journals, or people in the industry who lead opinion and thought. New ideas help to influence the way you do things and the service you give to your customers, so it’s important to keep up with what’s happening.

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Making the most of your time

There will be some things that you want to read and digest yourself – lots of business owners catch up on the commute home, or read trade journals over breakfast or whilst travelling – but it’s also a good idea to have a regular digest of what’s going on across your industry. That’s where a virtual research assistant can come in useful. It’s an affordable, reliable option that means you know you’re going to get a complete, intelligent overview of what’s happening in your sector. Then you can read further if you choose, getting all the details you need.

Independent market research

Keeping up with trends is important, but it’s equally important to keep your finger on the pulse of your own customers and potential customers. Customer surveys, general market research and competitor research are all ways of gathering valuable data that can help you with your business strategy, or allow you to develop new product strands or service options.

Again, this is a time-consuming activity, and good market research really needs to be done in a professional way to get the most accurate and useful data. Virtual assistant research services can really come into their own here, gathering information that you can use to plan your next steps.

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No time for research, why not use a virtual research assistant?

Virtual assistant internet research can help gathering information that you can use to plan your next steps – while you spend your time on the key tasks you need to do.

FAQs

Need answers to your most burning questions? You’ll find them covered in plenty of detail below.

What are virtual assistant research services?

Virtual assistant research services are provided remotely by Oneresource. We employ experienced virtual assistants to support a small number of clients each with a range of day-to-day tasks. These tasks may include researching your specific topic using mixture of desk research, surveys and interviews or gathering regular information on industry trends and the competition.

What does a virtual research assistant do?

A Oneresource virtual research assistant can cover a whole range of tasks but typically these include:

Evaluating new software tools or systems to establish what would work best for your business.
Gathering regular information on industry trends or the competition tailored to your needs and crucial to your business strategy.
Researching your specific topic using a pre-agreed mixture of desk research, online surveys or interviews.
Finding new clients, establishing who they are, where they can be found and what they are looking for.
Conducting customer satisfaction surveys or finding content for blogs and social media.

Of course, there are many other tasks, in addition to this, that a Oneresource virtual research assistant can support clients with!

Why hire a virtual research assistant versus an office based employee?

Oneresource’s virtual assistant research services can provide benefits that a traditional in-house employee could struggle to achieve. For example:

Oneresource employs a very rigorous recruitment process on your behalf so there is no need for you to spend time and money doing it.
With a virtual assistant research service, you can access better talent that might not normally have been available if you were to employ directly.
All our virtual assistants are employed so there’s no need to deal with employment regulations and paperwork yourself and we log time to the minute, so you are only charged for productive working time.
Oneresource’s virtual assistant internet research services can keep providing cover when your dedicated employee is on holiday.