The Biggest Problem with Training Virtual Workers: You!
Here’s a little secret no one tells you: The first person you’ll need to train when working with virtual staff is yourself. That’s right. You. You’re the one in charge. You’re the one with the vision. You’re the one who’s battling superhero syndrome—remember? The biggest and most surprising problem I see in current VA training […]
25 Tasks You Can Outsource to a General Virtual Assistant
One of the biggest reasons why entrepreneurs nowadays struggle to grow their businesses is because they are simply wearing too many hats. They do everything in their business. They ARE the business!!! It’s a dangerous, downward spiral that most entrepreneurs suffering from what I regularly refer to as ‘Superhero Syndrome’, will eventually encounter – if […]
The Famous ‘3 Lists to Freedom’ by Chris Ducker
Building for virtual freedom is a task best done in small stages, carefully thought-out, sequenced and pieced together. Your first step is to begin identifying exactly which tasks you want freedom from—and the types of workers you’ll need to handle those tasks. This is why at my speaking engagements, in podcast interviews, and even in […]
The Two Golden Categories of Outsourcing
Outsourcing can get very complicated, very quickly. From years of outsourcing, trial and error, recruiting va’s for clients and hiring over 1000 VA’s ourselves, we have a simple process. As a pre-cursor, this is always going to be defined by the project or set of tasks that you ultimately need doing. Project-based outsourcing is used […]
4 Fundamental Rules Of Hiring A Virtual Assistant
Just like in sports, we need to begin with the fundamentals. Once you understand these principles, you can tailor your approach to streamline the process. And this is a process—one that should be followed step by step. Here are the basic rules of the game: 1. Your virtual workers are people, not a program. Though […]
Should You Hire Local or Overseas?
One of the biggest questions in the world of virtual staffing is whether you should recruit locally or overseas. For those of you who don’t know me well, here’s a quick bio. A while back, I was speaking at a conference in the United States in front of around 400 small business owners. At the end of […]
The Myth Of The Super VA
The idea of a super-VA is the big kahuna—the one mistake that I see entrepreneurs who are getting started with outsourcing make over and over again. Read these words carefully: there’s no such thing as a super-VA. It drives me crazy when an entrepreneur sets out to find that one special VA who can do […]
4 Smart Steps to Establishing a Successful Online Brand
Creating quality products isn’t enough to produce sales. There are other important factors involved. As a business owner, you have to make sure that you don’t just create a product that really benefits the target consumers, but also establishes an easily recognizable, trusted brand. The brand image you project online is crucial. To help you […]
Get To Know Your Vas
Here’s the deal with training VAs: it doesn’t have to be difficult—in fact, it shouldn’t be—but it must be intentional. That means you need to put some thought into the various tasks you want your VA to do and then communicate how you want those tasks done.Note that there is a difference between communicating tasks […]