Every Entrepreneur’s Vital Asset Online

Have you been hearing about how every successful entrepreneur or businesses give credit to where they are now to their Virtual Assistants? We sure hope you are because true enough to many, hiring a Virtual Assistant could be the best decision you’ll ever make! Before you make the move, here are 10 tips you should take into consideration.

1. Educate yourself about Virtual Assistants. Who are VAs? Let’s just go by the definition of Investopedia. A virtual assistant is an independent contractor who provides administrative services to clients while operating outside of the client’s office. A virtual assistant typically operates from a home office, but is able to access the necessary planning documents, such as shared calendars, remotely. People employed as virtual assistants typically have several years of secretarial or office management experience.
2. Assess your situation how you will utilize your Virtual Assistant. Our VAs are multi-skilled but we have experts in their own niches. You need to put sincere thoughts of who you need and want to hire because there will be an up-front investment – your time.
3. Set up an interview or initial video conference. This is a must. Interviewing who you will be working with gives you a feel of the Virtual Assistant work set up.
4. Get a good understanding of what services your Virtual Assistant can offer. Most VAs now are multi-skilled. So the thing here would be the level of expertise on the services you require.
5. Remember our time zone differences. We highly suggest that you set reasonable timelines because we don’t want to miss any deadlines.
6. Set and communicate your processes before starting any work. In whatever role, this is a must. You need to communicate expectations and instructions clearly for your Virtual Assistant to understand your business and all about it. It will be easier for both of you to work together if everything is clear.
7. Document everything. Having all in black and white is the best practice.
8. Be reachable. Provide us with the fastest way and times we can contact you should we have any questions about the job.
9. Establish a monitoring system. There are online apps and tools that can easily be installed to keep track of your Virtual Assistants time. Our team uses Worksnaps.
10. Consider the human factor. Skilled, talented but not robots even though we only communicate via the internet. Please know that we also take the 8-hour sleep and the 2-day weekend family time off — but we sure can take shifts if you have anything urgent.

Make hiring stress-free and stop wasting time on the rigorous processes. Email us to get started on working with our Virtual Assistants!