#27: First Month with a VA

Entrepreneurs Can Party

English - May 30, 2020 00:00 - 22 minutes - 15.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 10 ratings
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Previous Episode: #26: Bringing Food Products to Market with Rich McWatt

Next Episode: Trailer for #28: Humility as a Leader with Ian Roth

In this week’s solo episode, I'm going to give you updates, strategies, potential pitfalls and key tips around my first month working with a virtual assistant.

Podcasts and other recommendations worth checking out:

Travis Marziani’s YouTube Channel: Travis’s videos about creating systems to outsource work to VAs have been an absolute god-send! This video is a great place to start, and his incredible FREE Google Doc details step-by-step how to hire a VA.

Episode #9: How to Create Systems to Outsource Time-Sucking Tasks - This previous episode details how you can create systems to manage workers effectively.

Episode #17: How to Hire a VA from the Philippines - This previous episode details how you can hire your own virtual assistant and potentially avoid pitfalls in the process.

The Millennial Entrepreneur with Sina Sadrzadeh: Sina's featured some really cool entrepreneurs on his podcast already and I'm excited to see it grow!

Key Points:

First week with my VA (4:39)Tools:a. LastPass (6:34)b. Hubstaff (7:50)c. Asana (8:47)d. Dropbox (9:28)e. Audacity (10:09)f. Zoom (10:50)Opting with Transferwise (11:23) Tasks, reports and encouraging your VA (13:00)Week 2 and moving forward (15:18)My 5 key lessons (16:20)

Clarification: My virtual assistant is from the Philippines and she is based in Vietnam as of the moment.

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