A virtual assistant is someone who helps you and your company or business complete busy, time consuming tasks. Virtual assistants are proving to be very successful in today’s world. As our lives become busier and busier, we need the help of a virtual assistant to allow the founders and managers of your company to focus on their strengths.
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It’s important that you set your Virtual Assistant up for success and that you know what tasks to delegate to them.
You should delegate:
• Tasks that are time consuming and repetitive, such as social media posts.
• Administrative tasks such as responding to emails, scheduling meetings, etc.
• Researching difficult topics or questions for your business.
• Menial or tedious tasks like data entry or inputting data into a spreadsheet.
• Project management.
• Data analysis.
• Anything that is taking up too much of your time.
Today’s episode is about taking a step back and really evaluating what is important for you to get done. We’re going to discuss the different types of tasks you can delegate to a virtual assistant and how to find a virtual assistant that’s a good fit for you. We’ll also discuss the importance of setting the right expectations for yourself and your VA, and how to ensure your virtual assistant is a success. We’re going to share with you examples of things that go wrong with a lot of new VAs. And in the end, we’re going to arm you with some basic things that you can do in order to ensure that you never have a bad day.
Episode Highlights:
00:00 Introduction
1:53 Ricardo’s experience with VAs: finding a VA that matches your operating procedures
8:29 … but also being able to be less of a “control freak”
12:34 Dustin’s experience with VAs: using VAs to test new strategies
19:46 Scott’s experience with VAs: figuring out what to delegate to a VA
27:51 Impact of having a VA managing your emails
31:38 Using VAs to save time and focus on tasks that only you can do
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