By Coco Clayman-Cook

Virtual assistants are people you hire to work from a location other than your office.  I use virtual assistants for any task that I can benefit from hiring someone else to do.  If I don't like a task, I hire a virtual assistant.  I don't like posting blogs, it's time consuming and not a good use of my time.  So I have a virtual assistant post the blogs for me.  That way I have more time to write the blogs, which is a better use of my time.

I also hire virtual assistants to do things I am not good at and have no interest in getting better at.  I'm not good at updating databases, it's boring!  I have no desire to be better at it either, so I hire virtual assistants to update my database for me.  With all the hours that frees up I give my clients better customer service.

Mostly, I hire virtual assistants to do any work that saves me time and money.  If I can pay someone between $10 to $20 an hour to do something, it makes no sense for me to do it myself.  This includes proofreading, SEO, research and even gift buying.
We live in a great age which allows us to easily delegate work without having to provide equipment or even space.  How do you use virtual assistants?

 

2 Comments on Virtual Assistants 101

APR
25
2009
420,295 Points 13 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

Sadly most agents do not put a value on their time and end up getting caught doing $10-30 an hour work and they wonder why they end up out of business.  Delegate....delegate
12:07pm • #1
JUL
07
2009
Localism Sponsor Outside Blog

Where do you find great VA? Thanks for the post.
7:57am • #2


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