Wellness Startup Seeks a Virtual Assistant (VA)

About Company

Merkaela believes that feeling good can be good for you. Our all-natural health and wellness products, delivered right to your door, are made on site with ingredients you can pronounce and know. They are made with you in mind and formulated to nourish your body, your mind and your spirit.

We are currently looking for a virtual assistant to join our team.


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What are the benefits of this position?

In this position you will gain experience:

• Working for a Start-Up
• Running your own experiments
• Participating in a collaborative work-flow at a growing internet company
• Building your own brand
• Learn about about wellness



Your responsibilities will be:

• Work with different team members to create engaging shareable materials
• Blogger outreach
• Wordpress Blog updating and formatting
• Upload / update products on e-commerce platforms
• Research authoritative content related to Health & Wellness, Organic Living and Personal fulfillment.
• Promote blog postings via social media platforms and other outlets.
• Develop and enhance workflows


About You:

• Most BELIEVE in sustainability and care about the environment.
• Some knowledge about the health & wellness industry (Aromatherapy, meditation knowledge a big plus).
• Self-motivated in completing projects. Ability to roll with the punches in a fast-paced environment
• Working knowledge of technologies such as wordpress, shopify, asana, dropbox etc
• Detail-oriented with very high standards.
• Curious mind.


If you have a willingness to learn, a positive attitude, and customer service skills you can start immediately

Salary Starts at $350 USD per month and goes up based on performance.


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What's Next.....

Send us:

1) Your resume,
2) Your current availability
3) Examples of work
4) Edit and return the attached proofreading quiz with your resume. Edit not only for grammar, but also style and clarity. See below


Please send all documents to hello @ merkaela.com (http://merkaela.com/)

Applicants will only be considered if they submit all the related materials.


FINAL NOTE -- BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION, PLEASE NOTE THAT IN THIS JOB YOU BE GIVEN LOTS OF RESPONSIBILITIES AND YOU WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTANBLE FOR THE RESPONSIBILITIES ASSIGNED TO YOU. THIS IS "NOT" A RESUME BUILDING RESUME. THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO LEARN, EXPERIENCE AND GAIN THE SKILLS NEEDED FOR YOU TO SUCCEED IN YOUR CAREER.


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Editing Exercise:

Please edit and return with your application materials.

I do not find facebook, or flickr to be much help. But saying that, here would be nothing I
would regret, b/c ANY type of promotion gets your shop out there, and in the minds of
people. Maybe if I didn't live in a tiny town in the thumb of michigan, promoting would be
easier. But that's not changing anytime soon, so I work with what I have and just do my best!!
Some things work better for others and some things totally work for one shop and then not
yours. Just find your niche and what works for you. If you like blogs, promote your shop on
blogs that bring customers in with the like of your items. I have bought ad space on some
decorating blogs...not sure how succesful that was though....
The hardest part is def. time manangment and the finances etc. THere are some days that I
DO NOT feel like sitting at that sewing machine. But I see it there..staring at me. I always
end up sewing. As for the money part, it is so hard to keep track of all the expenses. What is
coming in, what is going out...making sure you are charging enough, not charging too
much...When I have fabric, thread, shipping, shipping supplies, stuffing..ect..to keep track of
it can seem like a burden, but is is so important!

http://merkaela.com/

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