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To give a naturally personable and approachable feel to your marketing efforts, it can be valuable to make use of cartoons and cartoon-like visuals. This can be very effective both online and offline, making good use of humor and caricacture to lighten the mood. However, most people are not very skilled in this style of illustration.

Thankfully, just as there are freelance writers who specialize in different types of written content, there are artists who are cartooning experts. They can be great for the creation of mascots, single-frame comics, and…

If you’ve got a design project in mind, going directly to a freelancer is often the best choice. While other options, such as crowdsourcing, are available, a good freelancer will be able to work with the ideas you have for your project and can meet the exact specifications you need. Furthermore, the act of choosing a freelance designer and the tasks that go with it can help you clarify what you want from you project — just looking through a portfolio can offer a wealth of ideas.…

Whether you creating a social media campaign to promote your own business or you’re helping out someone else, there are a surprising number of steps that you can outsource to both individuals — and trusty online tools. While some don’t advocate outsourcing your social media networking activities, we don’t wholly agree as long as you’re smart about it. The fact is, you can reduce the amount of time you spend on social media — such as posting tweets, building links, marketing content, researching keywords, managing email lists, creating online…

There are some cars that just seem to need plenty of attention. From maintenance to car washes, owning a car does require you to spend quite a bit of time on your vehicle, assuming that you want to keep it in good working condition. That may be time you don’t have to spare, though, making it worth your while to outsource car-related tasks. If you’re willing to spend the money, there are plenty of professionals willing to take on your projects.

Your health is important — but making sure that you handle everything from taking your vitamins to scheduling your doctors’ appointments can require more time than we always have. There are more than a few of your health tasks and projects — such as meal planning, stress management, researching conditions, information tracking, disease management, and prescription management — that you can handle off to someone else.

By now, you’re familiar with the benefits of outsourcing your tasks and projects to virtual assistants. Previously, Smartlife wrote about how to choose a VA and how to choose which tasks to delegate. Actually finding a reliable VA to handle your to-dos, however, is easier said than done.

One reliable source you can turn to is a company like TaskUs that can manage the delegation of tasks to virtual assistants for you. Another way is to go directly to the VAs…