Online StoreHow to Choose the Perfect Virtual Assistant?
How do you find a Virtual Assistant? What kind of Virtual Assistant will you need? How much do they charge? How do I get in contact with them? How does this all work?
Before you start Googling ‘Hire a Virtual Assistant’, there are some things you need to work out beforehand. For example:
1. What kinds of tasks do you want them to take on? Write it out with as much detail and structure as you possible can. 2. Are you comfortable with working with someone virtually? Can you handle not being able to see someone fact to face? 3. How many hours do you think youll need them for each week/month? 4. How much can you afford to budget for this? Take into account how much more productive you will be during those hours that your Virtual Assistant will be freeing you up. For example, if your hourly rate is $200, at $50 per hour for a Virtual Assistant, for that same $200 you can free up 4 hours, opening your availability to make an additional $800.
Once you’ve worked these things out, its time to find your candidates. You could probably Google Virtual Assistant + whatever niche or specialty you’re looking for and then try contacting them one by one but this would be incredibly time consuming and not the best solution. There are a number of different Virtual Assistant Networking sites and Associations that not only maintain directories of Virtual Assistants by specialty, but also allow you to post an RFP, a request for proposal.
An RFP allows you to take all of your answers from the questions above and put them out there on these sites so that the Virtual Assistants with the proper qualifications can contact you and take some of the legwork out of the process.
Some of the most popular site are:
* IVAA or International Virtual Assistants Association * VANetworking.com * Virtual Assistant Forums * A Claytons Secretary * Find Virtual * Home Secretarial Services * Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce
Once you’ve placed your RFP you can sit back and wait. It won’t be long before the most qualified and compatible Virtual Assistants are contacting you. From then it’s just a matter of determining which one you feel most comfortable with.
