- Why Outsource
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- Your time is valuable
- 2-3x your productivity
- Upwork
- Fiverr
- Onlinejobs.ph
- How to do it
- Why The Phillipines
- Quick Over view
- Make sure and have them jump through hoops just to get you to read it
- Insert something into the subject line
- Sample of my post is available in the ecommerce success pack which you can get by clicking up here
- Sign up for OnlineJobs.ph and post your job
- Sign up for onlinejobs.ph, it does cost $49 but it is well worth it and there is a 30 day trial. That link is also an affiliate link, if you use it to sign up for onlinejobs.ph, I will give you a free 1 on 1 session to help hire a VA or help make your ecommerce store more profitable. Here is a video on how I setup everything.
- Post your job, here is a sample of my Job Post
- Email The applicants that you like, here is a sample of my email.
- Interview the one you like, here is a sample of my questions. Here is a sample of interviews I conducted.
- Give the ones you like a sample project, my sample project.
- Hire the one you like and conduct an intro call with them (my example intro calls).
- Start giving them tasks, how I give my VA's tasks.
- I also recommend creating a VA Handbook, my example VA Handbook.
Sample Job Post
You will be doing a variety of tasks, almost all of which I will create tutorials for you.
Somethings I have in mind for you to do in the immediate future is,
*Collecting emails off websites
*Data entry (change the stuff on our website that is very easy)
*Posting blog posts to our wordpress blog (I'll show you how to do this, also very easy)
*Easy Social Media Tasks
*Sending and responding to emails
To Apply for the job: 1.Send me a message with a few sentences on why you would like this position. 2.Change the subject like to "I Want to Work for You [Insert the name of my mom who is the co owner of Bdancewear.com here]"
- There will be a short skype call between us and video will be required
Some photoshop or gimp experience is a plus as I will have you do some of this, but I will teach you just about everything you need to know.
Skype Interview Email
*One change I might make in the future is to give them a link to my calendar and have them schedule a meeting time.
Hi,
I want to interview you tomorrow.
Could you do a interview tomorrow sometime between 9 am - 9 PM Pacific time (PST) via Skype?
If so please let me know what time would work for you (please use the PST time zone), send me your Skype ID, and please add my ID is Travis.Marziani.
Thank you,
Travis
My Interview Questions
*I don't always ask all of these but I will usually ask most of these if I like the candidate
- Send me a link to your online jobs profile
- Tell me about your last job
- What do you want to learn/do in this job?
- Do you have your own computer and Internet access? If you have access, how fast is your connection?
- Desktop or laptop?
- If the internet goes out what are your other options?
- Have you worked for foreign employers before?
- Will you work from home or from an Internet café?
- Where are you in the Philippines?
- Photoshop and video editing skills.
- If you could have a conversation with anyone living or dead who would it be and why?
- How much money are you looking to make?
- Do you have Paypal account?
- Do You have kids or will you be having kids soon?
- Long term plans?
- When would you be available to start work?
- Any questions for me?
Sample VA Project
I'm very excited to see your results on this small project. Hopefully it will not take too long. If you need help along the way, please let me know.
The instructions below will help guide you through the assignment. Some of the materials you will need are attached. Some will require information gathered from the internet.
1.Please email me at [email protected] with the subject line "I am Ready To Start Working"
-Go to http://www.speedtest.net/ and take a screen shot of your test results and attach it.
-Take a screenshot of how much free space you have on your hard drive. You will need to have at least 400 gb of harddrive space, if you don't have at least this much please let me know if you will be able to delete things to make space.
- We will be posting on our Instagram using 15 popular hashtags to help get more organic reach. Please:
-Provide a list of 15 hashtags in a row that you think will be most relevant
-Explain how you researched and discovered these hashtags
-include this information in the above email
- This is a link to our website: bdancewear.com. Please send back the following:
-The link to our five closest competitors
-Why do you think these products are competitors?
- Please create a Google spreadsheet with the following information:
-Title - [Company name] Leads
-Please make columns for the following 6 cities: Los Angeles, New York City, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Dallas.
-For each city, please write the name and phone number of the 5 most popular dance studios. You may use Yelp.com for this research, or Google.
-Include a sharing link in the email response to me. I must be able to edit the sheet. Not simply view it.
Please email this back to me by 8:59AM PST Friday 10/28.
If there's anything that needs to be clarified, please let me know. It's my job to offer help when I can.