Comments on: I Hired a Virtual Assistant

By: Ramesh

Ramesh — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:27:00 +0000

Hi There,

A Virtual Assistant is effective, professional and task oriented person who can work for you 24 by 7. As the name suggests Virtual assistants can work anytime you want them to work even on holidays.

Virtual Assistant can give you following benifits.

Save up to 90% on your Administrative Cost.
No office space.
Data Entry work for just $4.00.
Annual salary for USA employee $90000, For Us $8448.

By: Arihant Kothari

Arihant Kothari — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:57:49 +0000

Virtual assistants are for small business owners and general administrative tasks while BPO/KPOs companies are for specific industry segments.

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By: johnny

johnny — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:03:13 +0000

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By: Jay Harris

Jay Harris — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:31:46 +0000

I have a good read,I will certainly come back for more reads later. Thanks for sharing.More power!

By: Arihant Kothari

Arihant Kothari — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:12:12 +0000

Hello Chris,

As Shaine has rightly pointed out there is some training involved so that the VA meets your expectation and this comes with time. For this the initial start should be slow and gradually increase.

—-Regards
—-Arihant Kothari
—-OutSorcerer.com

By: Shaine Mata

Shaine Mata — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:29:28 +0000

Good luck, Chris. Remember, there is some training involved. You cannot expect your VA to know what you need right off the bat from one email or phone call. Fortunately, VAs offer pay as you go rates so that you can get into that groove of outsourcing.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:58:14 +0000

I enjoyed reading the Four Hour Work Week and have thought about using a VA for my business. I have been a little hesitant though because I feel like I don’t have enough work to outsource. I will be checking out your other posts about using a VA.

By: Arihant Kothari

Arihant Kothari — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:21:38 +0000

Hello,

I say from experience that one doesnt need to try out 1-2 options to see if outsourcing is for them.

Specific traits that one needs to look for within himself to see if outsourcing is for them are- supervision capability, leadership, understanding others (listening/writing), aggressiveness and time to train your outsourcing service provider/virtual assistant- many a times, the project owners or the clients are so busy that they do not coach their service providers/virtual assistants well and the end result is a failure- client saying that outsourcing is not for them.

—-Regards
—-Arihant Kothari
—-OutSorcerer.com