Social media virtual assistant who keeps your accounts active
A social media virtual assistant keeps your channels posting on schedule, replies to comments and messages, and tells you once a week what worked. On Aides you look for ID-verified people by skill and time zone, check how their hours line up with your audience, give them a paid trial week and pay them directly with no agency markup. You stay in charge of strategy and approvals while a real person handles the daily rhythm that most owners drop after a busy week.
- Every assistant passes an ID and liveness check. No AI personas.
- You pay your assistant directly. No markup.
Social media tasks you can delegate
Consistency beats bursts of effort on every network. Your assistant turns your plan and raw material into a steady calendar and keeps the conversation going between posts.
- 01 Build a monthly content calendar from your themes, launches and events, and send it for approval.
- 02 Format and schedule posts in your scheduling tool with captions, hashtags and the right image sizes per network.
- 03 Turn long material, such as a blog post, a webinar recording or a product page, into short posts and carousels.
- 04 Reply to comments and direct messages within agreed hours, and pass sales questions or complaints to you.
- 05 Moderate spam and abusive comments according to your community rules.
- 06 Track reach, engagement and link clicks, and send a short weekly report with the three best and worst posts.
- 07 Keep a library of approved images, logos and brand colors so every post looks like yours.
Approvals and brand safety
Agree on what your assistant may post without asking, such as scheduled posts from an approved calendar, and what always needs your sign-off, such as replies to criticism or anything about pricing. Use the publishing roles your tools offer instead of sharing your main password.
Typical weekly hours and time zone overlap
Posting and reporting for two or three networks usually takes 8 to 12 hours a week. Add community management with fast replies and most brands need 15 to 25 hours a week. The overlap that matters here is with your audience, not only with you. If your followers are active in the US evening, an assistant whose working day covers those hours replies while people are still online. The Aides search shows each assistant's overlap with the hours you enter, so you can enter your audience's peak hours instead of your office hours.
How to hire a social media assistant on Aides
Follow the main steps in our guide to hire a virtual assistant, and judge each person on real drafts.
- 01 Search for social media, enter your audience's peak hours and the weekly hours you need.
- 02 Shortlist profiles with writing and design skills test results that fit your channels.
- 03 In the conversation, share one recent post of yours and ask for two alternative captions.
- 04 Pay for a trial week covering a small calendar and one round of comment replies.
- 05 Hire, give publishing access through roles in each network and agree the approval rules in writing.
The first month on your channels
Week one is an audit of your accounts, a brand asset folder and a first two-week calendar for approval. In weeks two and three the posts go out on schedule and your assistant starts answering comments within the agreed window. At the end of the month you get the first full report, with a proposal for what to post more and less of next month.
What a social media virtual assistant costs
Typical rates for social media support run from 9 to 28 USD per hour, toward the top for assistants who also design graphics or edit short video. Example monthly cost for 15 hours a week at a typical 16 USD per hour is 15 x 16 x 4.33 = 1,039 USD per month, paid straight to your assistant. A brand with one community manager fits Starter, and an agency that gives each client account its own assistant moves to Business with ten active hires. Plan details are on the virtual assistant cost page.
Why the person behind your brand voice should be verified
Whoever logs into your accounts can post in your name in seconds. Your social media assistant is a real adult whose identity Aides has confirmed, and the profile photo shows the person you hire. See the full verified virtual assistant process.
Social media virtual assistant questions
Does a social media assistant create the strategy?
Your assistant runs the calendar and community work from your goals. Many bring ideas, but positioning and campaign decisions stay with you.
Can my assistant design graphics and edit video?
Some can. Check skills test results and portfolio links on each profile, and include one graphic in the trial week.
How do I share account access safely?
Add your assistant through the team or publishing roles each network provides, and keep owner rights and recovery details with you.
How often should I review the work?
Approve the calendar once a month, read the weekly report and spot check replies during the first few weeks.
Find a social media assistant who is online when your audience is
Enter your audience's peak hours and see who covers them.