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- In my opinion, not enough startups take advantage of hiring virtual assistants. [00:18]
- I’ve used virtual employees in the Philippines and Honduras including my executive assistant. [00:35]
- Both of my assistants speak English fluently and one you can’t even tell she’s from Honduras. [1:13]
- $600 a month is a pretty decent middle-class wage for that area and affordable for me. [01:35]
- Keep it fun, give bonuses at the holidays and get to know your virtual assistants. [1:55]
- I use a virtual assistant to help with transcription and generate lead lists for prospecting purposes. [02:08]
- Use VirtualStaffFinder.com to find a quality virtual assistant. Plug in your criteria, and they’ll find three qualified candidates for you. [02:42]
- If you don’t like them, you can send back your assistants and find new candidates. [03:06]
- Elance and Odesk have proven hit or miss with quality of candidates. To make it work, you need to nail down your hiring process, set-up some tests and filter out bad candidates. [03:33]
- TaskUs is great for large-scale customer service and work with companies like Tinder and Whisper. [04:03]
- I run my virtual assistants through a typing test to find out how accurate and fast they are. Companies like VirtualStaffFinder.com will do the same, and even give them a personality test. It’s $325, but has been worth it for me. [04:40]
- I run a Google Doc test and have them set-up a spreadsheet and ask them to do some simple tasks or separate data. [05:15]
- Remember to do reference checks on your virtual assistants, and anyone you hire. [05:45]
- Test people on their writing skills so they can type emails and respond to people with proper English. [05:57]
- I tell them we’ll work on a one or two week trial with no hard feelings if it doesn’t work out. [06:11]
- Stay tuned, I’m developing a course on how to hire and manage. [06:36]
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