Role

Marketing VA

Marketing VAs execute on the plan you already have — publishing content, scheduling social, sending email campaigns, and reporting on what worked. They give you consistent output without the cost of an in-house marketing hire.

What they handle

  • Social scheduling
  • Email campaigns
  • Content production
  • Reporting

Best for

  • Founders running marketing themselves
  • Solo marketers needing execution help
  • Coaches and creators with a content engine

Tools they use

HubSpotMailchimpKlaviyoBufferLaterCanvaFigma

What a Marketing VA does (and doesn't) do

A Marketing VA is execution capacity, not strategy. The strategy lives with you (or your fractional CMO). What the VA owns is the weekly drumbeat — scheduled posts, email sends, content briefs, simple graphics, reporting, and the dozens of small tasks that turn a marketing plan into actual output. That distinction matters because it's the most common reason marketing VAs underperform: they're hired to 'do marketing' instead of to ship a defined set of recurring assets.

When the role is scoped correctly, a part-time Marketing VA can ship 8–12 social posts a week, 1–2 email campaigns, content briefs for a writer or AI tool, simple graphics in Canva or Figma, and a clean weekly performance report. That's a meaningful operational lift for any small team and a fraction of the cost of an in-house marketer.

Tools, hand-offs, and review

Most of our Marketing VAs are fluent in Canva, ConvertKit/Klaviyo/Mailchimp, Buffer/Later/Hootsuite, Google Analytics 4, and the major social platforms' native schedulers. They work directly inside your existing stack — there's no migration. A weekly 30-minute review with you (or your account manager) is enough to keep priorities aligned and quality consistent.

A typical week with a Marketing VA

Monday is planning: your VA reviews last week's performance report with you, confirms the content calendar for the next 7 days, and surfaces anything that needs a creative decision. Tuesday and Wednesday are production: posts written, designed in Canva or Figma, scheduled in Buffer or Later, email campaigns drafted in Klaviyo or Mailchimp. Thursday is sends and engagement: campaigns go out, comments and DMs get responded to in your tone of voice, and any reactive content (a competitor launch, a trending topic) gets shipped same-day.

Friday is reporting and prep: a 1-page weekly report with reach, engagement, and conversion across channels, plus next week's draft calendar. By the time you check Slack on Monday morning, the next week is already 80% queued. That predictability is the entire point of the role — your marketing engine stops being a thing you have to babysit.

Avoiding the 'random acts of marketing' trap

The most common reason small-business marketing underperforms isn't the channel mix — it's the inconsistency. A Marketing VA's job is to convert your strategy into a reliable weekly cadence: same number of posts, same email send rhythm, same review cycle. Once that cadence is in place, every other optimization (testing subject lines, refining offers, leaning into channels that work) becomes possible. Without it, you're stuck doing 'random acts of marketing' — bursts of activity followed by long quiet stretches that never give you enough data to learn anything.

Sample responsibilities

A snapshot of the work a Marketing VA ships day-to-day. Your SOPs and priorities shape the actual mix.

Schedule and publish social content across LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and X
Build, send, and A/B test email campaigns and automated flows
Repurpose long-form content into clips, carousels, and newsletter snippets
Source and edit graphics in Canva or Figma against your brand guidelines
Engage with comments and DMs in your tone of voice
Pull weekly performance reports across channels with takeaways

Example deliverables

Concrete artifacts your Marketing VA ships on a recurring cadence — so you always know what's coming and when.

Content calendar

Weekly

Next week's posts written, designed, scheduled, and approved across every channel you publish on.

Email campaign send

Weekly

Campaign or newsletter built, A/B tested where useful, sent on schedule, with a same-day performance recap.

Repurposed content pack

Per long-form

Each long-form asset (podcast, blog, video) repurposed into 5–10 short-form pieces ready to publish.

Channel performance report

Weekly

One dashboard with reach, engagement, and conversion across channels — plus 3 takeaways for next week.

What "done" looks like

Measurable success criteria we hold the work to — reviewed weekly with your account manager.

  • Posting calendar always full 7+ days ahead
  • Email campaigns sent on schedule with zero broken links
  • Every asset published on-brand against your style guide
  • Weekly report includes at least one tested optimization
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