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BI 383: How to Hire a Virtual Assistant
Flowster Live Demo
https://flowster.app/live-demo/
Episode Highlights [1:07] — The Benefits of Hiring a Virtual Assistant
https://flowster.app/live-demo/
Episode Highlights [1:07] — The Benefits of Hiring a Virtual Assistant
- VAs are the single greatest addition to Trent's business arsenal.
- Significantly increases productivity at an affordable cost.
- Trent typically hires most virtual assistants from the Philippines, while his personal assistant is from Mexico.
- You can hire a Filipino virtual assistant for around $4 an hour. Trent’s executive assistant in Mexico gets paid about $6 an hour.
- Aside from being less expensive, it also saves costs from providing healthcare benefits.
- An hour-to-hour basis allows you to terminate them without hassle when they don't perform.
- Allows you to focus on more critical tasks instead of $10 an hour jobs.
- You can hire a general VA for all the tasks you don't want to do. Hiring a specialized VA can help you with specific tasks like project management and content creation.
- Accomplish a collection of tasks that do not require experience. Some examples of these tasks are:
- Making phone calls and contacting venture partners and clients.
- Doing first-level research tasks and project management.
- Order management.
- Create content, graphic design, digital marketing, social media management, and email management.
- Trent typically hires from the Philippines and Mexico. He hires VAs from Mexico to be in the same timezone as them.
- The best places to find virtual assistants are Upwork and OnlineJobs.ph.
- Make sure to put a unique code in the job description that you want applicants to put in their application. It will allow you to filter out qualified candidates more quickly.
- Trent's wife handles the hiring process of all their VAs.
- They have them complete a test task to filter out applicants who will do a good job.
- Test tasks are usually one to two-hour jobs. But instead, they tell them it could take up to eight hours and that they will get paid by the rate.
- The test task works as a trial run to find out who among the candidates does the job most efficiently.
- They don't put a code word in their job posting.
- They do traditional interviews instead of straightforward project-based interviews.
- There's no clearly-defined process and instruction documentation in place for the virtual assistant to follow.
- They set unrealistic expectations far from what they have to offer.
- Tune in to the full episode to learn more about why people struggle when hiring VAs! Make sure to get your SOP template from Flowster SOP Template Marketplace.
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By Trent DyrsmidFlowster Live Demo
https://flowster.app/live-demo/
Episode Highlights [1:07] — The Benefits of Hiring a Virtual Assistant
https://flowster.app/live-demo/
Episode Highlights [1:07] — The Benefits of Hiring a Virtual Assistant
- VAs are the single greatest addition to Trent's business arsenal.
- Significantly increases productivity at an affordable cost.
- Trent typically hires most virtual assistants from the Philippines, while his personal assistant is from Mexico.
- You can hire a Filipino virtual assistant for around $4 an hour. Trent’s executive assistant in Mexico gets paid about $6 an hour.
- Aside from being less expensive, it also saves costs from providing healthcare benefits.
- An hour-to-hour basis allows you to terminate them without hassle when they don't perform.
- Allows you to focus on more critical tasks instead of $10 an hour jobs.
- You can hire a general VA for all the tasks you don't want to do. Hiring a specialized VA can help you with specific tasks like project management and content creation.
- Accomplish a collection of tasks that do not require experience. Some examples of these tasks are:
- Making phone calls and contacting venture partners and clients.
- Doing first-level research tasks and project management.
- Order management.
- Create content, graphic design, digital marketing, social media management, and email management.
- Trent typically hires from the Philippines and Mexico. He hires VAs from Mexico to be in the same timezone as them.
- The best places to find virtual assistants are Upwork and OnlineJobs.ph.
- Make sure to put a unique code in the job description that you want applicants to put in their application. It will allow you to filter out qualified candidates more quickly.
- Trent's wife handles the hiring process of all their VAs.
- They have them complete a test task to filter out applicants who will do a good job.
- Test tasks are usually one to two-hour jobs. But instead, they tell them it could take up to eight hours and that they will get paid by the rate.
- The test task works as a trial run to find out who among the candidates does the job most efficiently.
- They don't put a code word in their job posting.
- They do traditional interviews instead of straightforward project-based interviews.
- There's no clearly-defined process and instruction documentation in place for the virtual assistant to follow.
- They set unrealistic expectations far from what they have to offer.
- Tune in to the full episode to learn more about why people struggle when hiring VAs! Make sure to get your SOP template from Flowster SOP Template Marketplace.