HOW TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS WITH VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS

Tips on how to grow your business with Virtual Assistants with Barbara Turley

The Virtual Hub, really, we recruit, train, and manage Virtual Assistants

All the businesses I was working with had the same problem; they all were too small revenue wise to hire staff, but unless they hired the staff they were never really going to be able to grow it properly, and get out of the trenches of the terrible overwhelm of running your own business. Hiring Virtual Assistants was part of the answer.

Offshore has been held as the panacea to solve all cost efficiencies and lots of sort of problems in business. I will say it's not as simple as people think...

No matter what size your business is if there's no profit left, there is no business.

But unless you've got a business that has a very clear vision, then you have a strategy attached to that vision, and attached to your strategy are all your recurring task lists and project task lists and processes that are involved in running your business; your likelihood of success is lowered if you're not really having a focus on those kinds of things.

We have some outsourcing strategy consultants that everybody gets to speak to first. Their job on that call is to dig and see, is this business ready for virtual assistants?

Remember that every single business, no matter how small or how large, actually had departments. I always recommend that people just list out all those different little departments, and then underneath those departments, the first task that you want to do is to list what are all the tasks that need to be done daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, annually.

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HOW TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS WITH A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT

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HOW TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS WITH A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT

All the businesses I was working with had the same problem; they all were too small revenue wise to hire staff. Hiring a Virtual Assistant was the answer.

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Doug: Well, welcome back listeners to another episode of Real Marketing Real Fast. Today's guest in studio is Barbara Turley. Barbara is an investor, she is an entrepreneur, and she is the founder of a company, and the CEO, of a company called The Virtual Hub that helps companies hire Virtual Assistants. It's a business that she started by accident that exploded over the space or the course of about 12 months, and has now become one of the leading companies that recruits, trains, and manages virtual assistants for businesses that need to free up more time and energy so they can go to that next level.

Doug: Barbara's deep background comes from the investment banking side, so she is very keen and very smart when it comes to business, numbers, and making sure the business is making a profit. With her company Virtual Hub, she has a strong focus on customized training and ongoing career development, she ensures that her team is trained in cutting edge programs like HubSpot and Ontraport, to make sure that she meets the needs of her clients, and the unique needs that they have in digital marketing, social media, and personal assistant services.

Doug: Barbara is a mom to a gorgeous daughter named Ruby, wife to her best friend Eddie, and an adventure lover with a passion for horses, skiing, tennis, and spending time in nature. So with that introduction, I'd like to welcome Barbara to the Real Marketing Real Fast podcast today.

Doug: Well, welcome to the Real Marketing podcast today, Barbara. I'm super excited to talk to you and allow you to inform our listeners on the opportunity that exists working with a company like yours, and working maybe offshore, something they haven't done before.

Barbara: Great to be on the show, thanks for having me.