As a small business owner you are a fountain of knowledge and you may be able to earn an income stream from setting up an email course.  The idea is that you sell your email course on your website and then use an auto-responder application such as Aweber automatically sends your emails at the scheduled times.  You may decide to offer a free short course in order to try and attract new clients or newsletter subscribers or offer a more comprehensive paid course in your chosen speciality.

If your Virtual Assistant is experienced in copywriting they may be able to assist you in writing the text for your email course.  Or you may choose to provide the copy and have your VA design a template to match your branding and then insert the copy for each email.  If your Virtual Assistant is involved in updating your website they can also add the sign-up box and link the payment system for you.