Desk

Marketing & content desk

A marketing support virtual assistant on the Marketing & content desk runs your channels on a weekly calendar. Social posts scheduled a week ahead, newsletters out on time, blogs drafted and edited, graphics designed, videos cut for shorts, ads monitored and a report in your inbox every Monday.

Twelve services, one named person or a small pod, in your hours.

Why this desk is different at AssistBPO

Marketing in a small business dies of interruption: the newsletter slips, the posts stop, the report never gets built. The Marketing & content desk fixes the rhythm first. Your assistant owns a weekly calendar across channels, drafts in your voice, designs on your templates and publishes on schedule, with everything approved by you before it goes live. Content is human-written and edited, with AI used for drafts and research where it helps and never shipped unread. A team lead reviews output weekly and scores it monthly on a QA scorecard. Start with social and email, add a writer, designer, video editor or ads assistant as a pod, and keep one report that tells you what worked.

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  • Social, email, content, design, video, SEO, ads and reporting on one desk
  • A weekly content calendar you approve, then executed without reminders
  • Named assistant or a pod with a lead, working in your tools and your brand voice

Which roles can you hire for marketing & content?

Marketing & content

Social media manager

Dedicated social media manager
  • Short-form copy that sounds like your brand rather than a template
  • Platform fluency: what works on LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok this quarter
  • Canva design to brand guidelines
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Content writer

Dedicated writer
  • Clear, plain-English writing in US, UK, Canadian or Australian spelling as your market needs
  • Research discipline: named sources, dates, no invented figures
  • Interviewing subject-matter experts and turning notes into structure
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Marketing & content

Graphic designer

Dedicated designer
  • Canva Pro and at least one of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign
  • Typography, spacing and hierarchy that hold up at phone size
  • Working inside a brand system without making everything look the same
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Video editor

Dedicated editor
  • Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve or Final Cut, plus CapCut for fast vertical cuts
  • Pacing and hook judgment for short-form, with an understanding of what holds attention
  • Caption accuracy, timing and styling that survives on mute
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Email marketing specialist

Dedicated email specialist
  • Hands-on Klaviyo, Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign and HubSpot Marketing
  • Segmentation logic and flow building with triggers, delays and splits
  • Subject line and preview text writing that earns the open
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Podcast producer

Dedicated producer
  • Audio editing in Descript, Adobe Audition, Audacity or Hindenburg, plus video basics in Premiere or CapCut
  • Sound judgment: pacing, noise, levels and when a bad take needs a re-record
  • Guest outreach writing that gets a yes from busy people
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All roles

What does a week on the marketing & content desk look like?

The same five days run whether the desk is one person or a pod with a lead. Friday ends with the weekly review.

  1. Monday

    • Weekly report in your inbox by 9am: reach, clicks, leads, spend
    • This week's content calendar confirmed and scheduled across channels
    • Comments and DMs from the weekend answered in your voice
  2. Tuesday

    • Newsletter drafted, designed and sent for approval in Mailchimp or Klaviyo
    • Two blog drafts edited and formatted with headings, images and internal links
    • Ad campaigns checked for spend pacing and disapprovals
  3. Wednesday

    • Five social graphics designed on your Canva templates
    • Podcast episode edited, show notes written and scheduled to publish
    • Keyword research delivered for next month's articles
  4. Thursday

    • Three short videos cut and captioned for Reels, TikTok and Shorts
    • Website updates published: new page, plugin update, form fix
    • Influencer and partner shortlist sent with contact status
  5. Friday

    • Next week's calendar drafted for your approval
    • Weekly review with the team lead: what performed, what to change
    • End-of-week report: published, scheduled, waiting on you

KPIs we report

KPIWhy it matters
On-time publishing rateConsistency beats brilliance in small-business marketing. We report scheduled versus published every week, by channel.
Engagement and reachComments, shares, saves, opens and clicks per channel, compared with the previous four weeks so trends show before they become problems.
Leads and conversions attributedForm fills, calls and purchases traced to a channel in GA4 or your CRM, so the desk is judged on business results, not just activity.
Email list healthOpen rate, click rate, unsubscribes and bounces, with list hygiene run monthly so deliverability does not quietly decay.
Ad spend efficiencyCost per lead and cost per click by campaign, checked daily for pacing and reported weekly with recommendations you approve.
QA scorecardThe team lead scores a sample of posts, emails and designs each month on brand voice, accuracy, links and formatting.

Frequently asked questions

Will the content sound like us?

Yes, because it starts with a tone guide we build from your best existing content, your words for your customers and the things you would never say. The assistant drafts in that voice, you approve before anything goes live, and the team lead scores voice on the monthly QA scorecard. Over the first month the approval loop gets shorter as the assistant learns what you change.

How much does a marketing support virtual assistant cost?

Plans depend on hours, desks and coverage. Get a staffing plan within 1 business day. For orientation, managed offshore assistants are published at $7 to $15 an hour or $640 to $2,400 a month full-time, and admin and marketing tasks together make up more than 62 percent of virtual assistant workloads (Wishup 2026 Industry Report). We price per person or per pod for a block of hours, not per post.

Do you use AI to write content?

For drafts, outlines, research and captions, yes, where it helps and where you allow it. Nothing ships unread: a person edits every draft for accuracy, voice and facts, adds the sources and the examples only you have, and checks links and formatting. You can ask for fully human-written content on any service, and we tell you which is which. Facts, statistics and quotes are always checked against a named source before publishing.

Which tools does the desk work in?

Canva for design; Mailchimp, Klaviyo and ActiveCampaign for email; HubSpot for CRM and marketing automation; WordPress, Shopify, Wix and Squarespace for website updates; native schedulers and the major social platforms; GA4 and ad platforms for reporting; Notion or Asana for the calendar. Access is through your own accounts with the roles you choose. If you use a scheduler or design tool we have not listed, we learn it during onboarding.

Can one assistant do everything on this desk?

A generalist marketing assistant can run social, email, light design and the weekly report for a small business. Blog writing at volume, video editing, ads management and SEO usually need a specialist, so growing clients build a small pod: a coordinator who owns the calendar plus a writer, designer or editor, under one team lead. The pod shares one calendar and one report, so you still brief one person.

Do you run our ads?

The ads assistant supports your Google, Meta or Amazon campaigns: setup from your brief, daily monitoring for spend and disapprovals, audience and creative changes you approve, and weekly reports. Strategy and budget decisions stay with you or your agency; the desk keeps the campaigns tidy, on pace and reported. Landing page changes and new creative are produced by the same desk, so a test does not wait a week for a designer.

How do you handle reporting?

One report, every Monday, in your inbox: reach, engagement, email performance, ad spend and cost per lead, website traffic and conversions from GA4, and what changed since last week with a recommendation. The marketing analytics service builds the dashboard; the coordinator keeps it honest. No vanity metrics without the business number next to them. Monthly, the report adds a page on what to stop, start and continue.

Can you work with our agency or freelancers?

Yes. Many clients keep an agency for strategy and creative and use the desk for execution, scheduling, community management and reporting. The assistant follows the agency's brand guidelines, works from the same calendar and reports to both, so nothing falls between the two. Handoffs are written down: who briefs, who approves, who publishes and who reports, so accountability is clear when something slips.

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