Before you hire your first virtual assistant?

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Before you hire your first virtual assistant
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First, Congratulation ! If you reading this post
it mean that your business has a lot of tasks
going around, and more likely than not it is
having more growth in income. So, your business
is slammed with a lot of to do list, right and
left. You know you need help but you are not sure
who to hire, or where to start, all you know that
there is so much on your shoulder than you can
handle, and well hiring a virtual assistant
sounds about right.
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Well, before you jump into calling virtual
assistant agencies, or looking up freelancer,
take a deep breath and start follow these steps
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What tasks can I outsource
This is the first and most important place to get
started, identify the tasks that can be
outsourced, write them down. When defining tasks,
make sure they are as defined as possible, as
clear as possible, dont hire an assistant to
increase your social media presence unless you
able to point out what tasks does that involved ?
create  posts, etc.
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Be realistic with your tasks expectations
So, I have had potential clients asking if they
can hire web developers for 600 700, well the
short answer you can, but dont count on quality.
Also, dont expect the virtual assistant to
replace you, that is a common mistake, the remote
assistant is there to be your right hand, but you
need to be real, dont ask the virtual assistant
to do 40 hrs work in 20 hrs, be reasonable with
tasks and expectations. Dont get your virtual
assistant burned out.
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Decide if you want to hire a freelancer or an
agency ?
You need to understand there are a lot of
difference, freelancers are of course cheaper for
the most part, agencies are more reliable. Many
virtual assistant agency offer backup person at
no cost, offer the right resources, freelancers
can work from home at lower cost, but they may
not have any of these privileges (low sped
internet, .. etc). If your task require training,
dont go with freelancer, no matter who long they
will support you, there come a point where they
leave you hanging. So, think if you got reliable
virtual assistant for years and one morning he /
she left how bad would that be for you. I stopped
hiring freelancers long time ago for that exact
reason.
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Be prepared first
Before you jump in paying for a virtual
assistant, take some time, make sure you have the
right training material, most importantly the
time to train your new virtual assistant.
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