How to Utilize Virtual Staff to Create Multiple Streams of Passive Income
This is a guest post from Chris Ducker from VirtualBusinessLifestyle.com. Chris has quite an impressive resume, with 19 years in sales, marketing and PR. He’s a CEO of a total business outsourcing company with a staff of approximately 165 full-time employees. I’ve gotten to know Chris fairly well recently since our recent interview, and he’s got some really exciting stuff planned in regards to generating passive income streams and truly living a super-mobile lifestyle. Enjoy!
As someone that has been involved in the outsourcing industry for almost 10 years, I’ve seen it change a lot over that period of time. It used to be something only the big boys would get involved with, outsourcing scores of customer service and technical support staff over to countries such as India and the Philippines – but, it’s become a whole different animal in the last 3-5 years.
No longer is outsourcing, or utilizing virtual, offshore staff something just for the large companies and corporations of North America. Nowadays scores of entrepreneurs and small to medium-sized business owners from all around the world are catching up by working with virtual employees to be able to grow their businesses, or simply have one-off projects completed quickly and with cost saving benefits in mind, too!
There are fundamentally two ways to be able to engage and start working with virtual staff – and which avenue you decide to go with depends solely and completely on your needs and requirements. To give you a quick idea, I’ll go over them real fast for you, because this is a post on how to work with virtual assistants to create passive income, not a lesson on the outsourcing world!
Working with Freelance Virtual Staff
This is for the entrepreneur. The one-man-band type of business person. Potentially even someone just starting out, and wanting to ‘see what can be achieved’ by hiring some virtual staff. Very often these types of people are really boot-strapping it, so the lower cost affiliated with working with freelance virtual employees (meaning they work from home or a web café, etc.) is a slam dunk of a decision to make.
It does come with some pitfalls however, such as the fact that they are not dedicated to you, and a lot of the countries where you can find good people, at a low cost, are still ‘developing’ countries so to speak, and internet connections are sometimes not as stable as you might like them to be. So, from time to time communication can be a bit of an issue.
Working with Virtual Staff from a Solutions Provider
This is something that larger companies will get involved with, or entrepreneurs happy to pay the slightly more premium dollar required to work with this type of set-up.
Historically speaking, the infrastructure in regards to this solution is a better, more professional one and usually has a better track record, in terms of performance and production. But, you must be sure to do your due diligence and get involved with the right company. Make sure that these types outsourcing providers can provide client references for you to talk to, etc.
Now, based on the podcast interview I did with Pat for my own blog, and the insights that came from it, I am going to assume that the large majority of you reading this drop into the ‘entrepreneur’ category, or perhaps the ‘aspiring internet marketer’ group, which is great, because there are a TON of things you can work on with virtual staff to be able to be more effective, productive and to create more streams of passive income for yourself and your family.
Let’s take a look at some of the ways you can create passive income, which I’ll grab directly from Pat’s awesome video post (the first filmed in his new office, I believe) entitled How to Earn More Money Working 9 to 5 Versus Working For Yourself Online. I’ll focus on just a few in the spirit of space saving and quick reading time, plus give you some tips to leverage working with virtual staff to get these ideas together, set-up, online and making you money in no time at all..!
Creating an eBook
A lot or people nowadays are using eBook’s to build up their subscriber and newsletter numbers (both Pat and myself included!), and it really does work if you have great content and great, professional design. This is even more true when it comes to actually charging something for the eBook (just as a side comment here, if you are thinking of creating an eBook to giveaway or sell online and you haven’t already downloaded Pat’s eBook on this exact subject – do it right now!).
There are several ways to utilize a virtual employee when creating an eBook. Let’s say you’re a huge rock climbing enthusiast, and you’ve traveled the world scaling the highest mountains and rocks known to man. People are going to want to read about your experiences if they are also into the same stuff. However, although you have all the experiences and lots of knowledge to share, you’re not a great writer. You can hire a virtual copy writer to help put your words into a strong, informative format for your potential readers (customers).
Finding a copy writer is simply as easy as visiting an outsourcing resource such as www.Freelancer.com and posting a job description requirement. Believe me, I’ve searched on this exact thing before and there are literally hundreds of great writers ready and waiting to work with you. The same can be said for a reliable, experienced graphic designer, to be able to professionally layout your work into a nice presentation, so people really feel as if they have gotten more bang for that buck.
I also know several online marketers that have done their research, found a number of excellent niches that are really untapped in terms of information products and have hired writers offshore to basically write eBooks for them, from scratch, and then launched the product as their own – they make several thousands of dollars a month on products that took them very little time to work on and put together.
Online Marketing and SEO Work
The majority of the entrepreneurs I know, including myself, are simply far too busy to sit at their desks promoting their company reputation, website, blog and online presence in general to would-be customers and clients. And let’s face it, almost all of us don’t really know how to do it all, anyway!
Social networking / media management (getting more and more important with every passing month right now!), blogging, search engine optimization and pay-per-click management are just a few things that virtual assistants can do for you to help increase traffic to your online homes and to generate more sales of your information products.
I have personally worked with virtual assistants who have been able to get my own company to the top of the SERP’s in a very short period of time, on pretty much every keyword I have thrown at them (and on several different vertical websites) – and my industry is an extremely competitive one, even more so in regards to its online space. We all know the power of the internet nowadays is huge. And if you are wanting to create even just a single stream of passive income online, you must make sure that your online marketing strategy is second to none.
Joint Ventures for Passive Income Brilliance (Real Life, Recent Case Study!)
Since I launched the Virtual Business Lifestyle blog in January this year a lot of different opportunities have come my way that are, mostly, unrelated to my core business. Because of this, within the last four weeks, I have teamed up with two completely different, relatively well-known bloggers to put together two completely separate projects online – both of which will be launched initially as ‘knowledge centers’, but will quickly turn into passive income streams for all involved.
One is based on personal outsourcing and another is being put together for wannabe entrepreneurs that are foaming at the mouth to be able to ‘stick it to the man’, and quit the rat-race to become their own boss.
Throughout the last two weeks, I have had virtual staff do the following, with clear instructions, with absolutely no screw-up’s at all:
- Huge amounts of keyword research.
- Domain registration for a whole bunch of domains.
- Tracking down, sizing up, comparing and choosing a hosting company.
- Looking for premium blog themes, collating data, presenting these findings to me, and then purchasing the themes for me.
- Searching for, testing, negotiating (that took me off guard as I thought I’d have to do it myself!) with graphic designers and web developers.
- Setting up social networking accounts for both projects.
- Installing WordPress on servers and also installing the chosen themes, too. As well as creating administrator accounts for myself and my partners on these projects.
- Emailing respected bloggers on the subject matters, asking for their buy-in on running posts in regards to the launch of both these two new ventures.
- Massive amounts of research for content to be produced for the ventures, and even beginning to produce certain parts of the content that will be used in the launch of the projects in the next month or so.
Quite an impressive list, I’m sure you’ll agree – and the whole thing, by the time everything goes live, would have cost no more than $800, all in. That’s BOTH projects, so slice that in two for just one potential passive income stream to go ‘live’, so to speak.
The important thing to mention here more than anything else is that, myself and my partners on these projects could have done ALL of this ourselves. However, we chose to outsourcing the work to highly skilled virtual staff instead, so that we could spend more time on strategizing and working on finalizing concepts for the respective web presences, and planning their launches with more focus.
As Pat commented in our aforementioned interview, the most important thing is that you simply get it done, make sure its full of top quality content and get it out there. it doesn’t matter if it’s not perfect – there will be time to create perfection.
The bottom line here is that, the way I see it, passive income is not just about making money in an easy way, with little requirement of effort from our part as marketers. It’s also about creating a lifestyle that enables us to spend more time with our children and family. To be able to travel more frequently and enjoy a more mobile and varied life. However, most importantly it’s about being able to get stuck in, try new things out and see how they work – with very little investment. And that is the key here, more than anything else.
So, if you’re thinking of setting up any number of streams of passive income, get SMART, and look at utilizing virtual staff to get the brunt of the work done, so you can spend more time on making sure that when you do launch, it’s a home run all the way!
This is Pat again. I really have to say that if I could go back and start all over again, I would have utilized virtual assistants much earlier. I probably would have been in the market much faster and probably earn a lot more money too. Unfortunately for me, I was totally new to the online world, so I didn’t even know such things existed. Luckily for you, Chris laid out most of your options quite nicely.
If you have any comments or questions, please feel free to leave them below. I’m sure Chris will come by to respond. Also, if you want to learn more about Chris and what he’s up to, you can visit him on his blog at Virtual Business Lifestyle.
Cheers!
Posted on : April 30th, 2010
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WOW! This is a great post worth referring to in the future. I personally believe that there is no way you can make what we call passive income without outsourcing, you will have to do business in niches you don’t know anything about which means you will outsource the heck out of your job.
Great post,
Thanks
Hi Onibalusi
Thanks for the comment and positive feedback. Much appreciated.
Chris
Do I have to get an official blog to do a guest post for you, Pat? (lol…I know, I’m long over due for one…)….
If you ever get a lull in content, I have a few ideas…and would be more than willing to help you out….
Just let me know…or I can just email you something I write someday and see if it works for SPI….
Howie
If you fancy writing for the VBL blog, too – please let me know. I’d be interested in what you might be able to offer our readers, too!
Chris
It sounds absolutely fantastic, especially your “real-life, recent case study.” I wonder about problems with trusting virtual assistants with sensitive information? For example, if they’re representing you in these different projects and talking to different people in your name you want to make sure that they are 100% reliable. How did you vet them to insure confidentiality and reliability?
Hi Tyler
This is always the toughest part. You do have to look into things properly, and 9/10 times I tend to work with people that I know from another working relationship – or even a personal one.
In my exercises above, I didnt part with any credit card details (they got stuff ready and then my PA actually did the transactions for me – NOTE, I still didnt do it myself!
)
Getting a solid resume, with referrals is a must, and calling on the referrals is also a must, too. Bottom line – there is ALWAYS going to be a risk involved in working with anyone and having them representing you. Even if they are in the same office as you!
So, do the best you can to vet someone and then go for it!
“There are several ways to utilize a virtual employee when creating an eBook. Let’s say you’re a huge rock climbing enthusiast, and you’ve traveled the world scaling the highest mountains and rocks known to man. People are going to want to read about your experiences if they are also into the same stuff. However, although you have all the experiences and lots of knowledge to share, you’re not a great writer. You can hire a virtual copy writer to help put your words into a strong, informative format for your potential readers (customers).”
Good point, Chris. I would urge people to be very careful here. Of course, things work out best if one can write (and has the time to write) their material themselves, however, if they can’t, I would definitely make sure you hold anyone you engage up to a high standard of quality and don’t stray from that.
Just a little lesson here: When I was writing my course, it wasn’t that I didn’t feel I could write well, I just felt that I didn’t have quite the technical knowledge and expertise to conquer what my course had become. Hiring someone to write for me became both a blessing and a curse…..the raw material and ‘thoughts’ they produced were really great, however, the grammar and spelling were so horribly lacking. Fortunately, I did eventually come to the conclusion that they just weren’t capable of tackling such a massive project from a grammatical/spelling standpoint, so I took their “framework”, and was able to run with it….and produce a really great, and largely expanded course built off of a few of their ideas.
Others might not be so lucky….that’s why it’s so important to REALLY know who you are hiring, and what they are capable of, from the get-go. Chalk it up to a newbie experience….
On another note, I have not yet done THIS myself, but, I have heard that one way for people to essentially cut the cost of writing their eBook is to actually view it as a series of articles. Rather than pay for an entire eBook to be written, one could make a Table of Contents, and hire some one to simply write 1,000+ word articles (pricing varies)…then, take all the finished products, consolidate them, ADD a few ideas and writing here and there, .PDF them, and sell them….
Say someone offers an eBook writing service for $1000. You could technically just outsource the writing of 30 articles, pay $5.00-$10.00 for each one….then, just consolidate them into an eBook form. It makes alot of sense from the entrepreneur’s standpoint….of course, some may have an issue with NOT telling those they hire that their “articles” would essentially be used for a book.
Hi Howie
I agree – somebody writing content for you MUST be a good writer. Quality is paramount, thats for sure.
I speak with a LOT of people that have tried outsourcing and had bad experiences, you’re right – you can chalk it up to a newbie type of lesson. But, I believe that in todays society with the internet being as powerful as it is, people have a lot of resources to go to which enable them to cut-out those ‘first timer’ mistakes more than ever.
Excellent feedback on the topic of hiring someone to do individual articles, instead of an entire eBook – I honestly hadnt even thought of that!
Thanks for the comment, bud.
Chris
Howie,
Great point about breaking the book down into articles. I do the same for newsletters. If you tell a writer you need a newsletter you’ll get a much different price than you would if you’d asked for the individual articles.
“Excellent feedback on the topic of hiring someone to do individual articles, instead of an entire eBook – I honestly hadnt even thought of that! ”
With some of that newbie experience under my belt, I’m seriously contemplating this now, Chris….there is TONS of room in the eBook market, as long as people produce something of value, and follow it up with great support. Pat is evidence that it CAN be done….
I just absolutely LOVE this business model, and I can’t thank Pat enough for providing his guidance along the way (both in the form of emails AND his blog posts)….Right now, with the product created, it’s all become a matter of responding to emails/questions, networking, and monitoring sales (probably the best part…lol), while planning my next product. The automation aspect of this is so awesome….SPI was a godsend, literally.
P.s. Loved your interview with Pat, Chris!
Hey Howie – Yep, tons of room in the market, youre right!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed the interview, and would love to see you commenting over at the VBL blog, too – great, insightful comments youve made here.
Chris
Sure thing, Chris….love what you have going on over there….
I’ll throw it into my cue of daily blogs to check out.
Awesome stuff.
Looking forward to conversing with you more, bud.
I’ll admit my ignorance on VA’s in the last few months. I guess it stems from experiencing some poor customer service from companies who have outsourced their tasks. After reading some of the posts here at SPI, checking in with some of the VA’s who comment on this blog, and this article, I’m starting to come around.
Trust is a tough thing to earn – and it’s also tougher to earn back. Thanks for the input, Chris. I’ll be sure to visit VBL on a regular basis now. (currently listening to the interview with Pat now!)
Hey Drezz
Thanks for commenting, bud – really appreciate it.
Glad you’re tuning into the blog, we have some great stuff planned for the coming week and months. The interview with Pat is gonna be a resource forever, I think!
Have an awesome weekend…
Chris
Chris,
Your eBook is SICK… (in a good way…lol)
Nice job on it…just reading through it now…really like how professional you managed to make it…nice job
Howie
Awesome! Glad you like it…
I tend to not do anything at all at anything less than 100%, it’s just my old-school approach to things.
Super hyped that you’re digging the eBook.
Thanks for posting some feedback on it.
Best,
Chris
This post gave me some really good ideas on things that I can and may need to outsource in the future, especially that I run my blog and have a 9-5. Great Post thanks for all the information, very good read!
Hi Jason
Glad to be of help! Yep, sometimes juggling is tough – with the right support (be it virtual or not) things can be a lot easier and usually, if you want it to be – a lot more profitable, too!!!
Hope to see you at the VBL blog from time to time…!
Chris
Great post. As a virtual assistant I can tell you the greatest thing you get from using virtual assistants is the ability to free your time to focus on what you do best. Generate new ideas, get more face time with clients, and more time to find new business. Those are all income producing activites, while the other administrative tasks are just that. Administrative tasks. Working with a virtual assistant means YOU are no longer the assistant.
Hi Serita!
Thanks for commenting, on behalf of ‘the other side’ so to speak…!
That’s my main thing myself. Is there something I can be be doing differently right now that directly or indirectly puts more money in my pocket? If so, VA it all the way, baby!!!
Have a cool weekend, and dont work too hard…
Chris
Great post, Chris. Your post here (and your blog) has warmed me over to the idea of going with VAs to tackle some projects I have on the backburner. The biggest fear I have is trusting someone to do the projects right. But I figure this is a common factor with people hiring VAs.
Mucho thanks for the informative post, Chris. Cheers!
Wesley Craig Green
Hi Wesley
Appreciate your feedback. Yep – the ‘trust’ issue is a big one. You guys have given me an idea… I feel a future post on ‘Building TRUST with your Virtual Assistant” coming on…!
Reach out… Try it out, and then get to work on more inspiring and productive tasks, instead of pushing paper and pencils around your desk.
Thanks again,
Chris
Chris, this is a brilliant article. I have just started using a VA based in India and appart from a few initial problems (me not being clear) this is going well. What I give them to do is limited by my imagination.
You have given me a few ideas, I really appreciate that. Thanks
Hi Matt!
Yep – imagination, and laziness, I guess…!!!
Glad you have taken the plunge and started to get ‘involved’. Excellent news. Please do keep me up to date on the VBL blog on how things go!
Happy to have been of service, and thanks for commenting, bud.
Chris
Thanks for the post Chris. The control freak side of me has a hard time grasping the idea of using VAs. Like a previous commenter shared, I’m not truly confident in handing my work out to someone I don’t know to help. The idea of working with someone continually helps put me at ease, but it’s getting started that cause my hesitations.
I’ve got a couple questions about VAs that I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts on: (1) How do you determine whether to use a VA for a particular task? There are some essential things I don’t enjoy doing, but take me very long. Do you outsource because of the time it takes, or the lack of enthusiasm you have for that particular task? And (2) I’m just starting and don’t have $400 for outsourcing. What a basic task I could do to get started with VAs?
Thanks again for sharing with us SPI readers.
Hi Jim
Haha. I love that term ‘control freak’..! Every entrepreneur I have ever met (including myself) has a little bit of that in them. The problem is not letting go – thats what will slow you down, as they say!
Answers to your questions:
1) I think the main reason a lot of people look at outsourcing is because of the cost saving benefits. Thats usually what kicks it all off – but, with time, I believe the mentality of the outsourcer comes into play a little more and then it comes down to ‘do I like doing this’ or perhaps ‘can I be doing something that makes me more money if I outsource this to someone else’…
2) A virtual assistant is not a ‘one stop shop’. Meaning one single VA cant do everything under the sun. Some have very different skill sets than others. I suggest you think of one task that you CANT perform well enough yourself. Perhaps designing a logo, or some web development (such as a customized plugin for your blog). Post the job on Freelancer, and then get quotes. I’ve had logos designed, for example, for $50 before and the work has been outstanding.
Bottom line – get involved. Think of a couple of things and just try it out – I think, like most people, that once youve tried outsourcing for the first time, you’ll definitely use it again in the future – or even potentially full-time, like a lot of people.
Thanks for the comment and questions! Feel free to post more for me at the VBL blog soon.
Chris
Awesome post Chris! This is a great article to refer to over and over again. I’m looking forward to your product launches.
**SPI readers, following both the VBL and SPI could be the best decision you have ever made
(I like hyping up Pat and Chris, mostly because they’re both raw and uncut). **
Hi Tony
Thanks for the props, buddy!
Chris
So when are you coming to my blog with a killer guest post on outsourcing Chris? I’ve used VAs a little but I’d love to see a post on building trust with your VA. Great idea
Hi JD
I have a post on the VBL blog coming soon on ‘learning to trust your VA’. Stay tuned!
As for the GP, send me a little info on what you would like to see, and I will see what I can do, bud.
Chris
Nice ariticle Chris. Beside building a passive income stream i am also providing freelance services at http://www.azadshaikh.com . i had started this previous month. You article helped me. Thanks
Hi Azad
Glad that the article served as a little help and inspiration, bud.
Good luck on your own business!
Chris
I like the idea of getting a virtual assistant to create an eBook for our chosen niche. I think we’re also providing good sources of income to people if we outsource work.
Hi Julius
Thank you for your comment, and glad that I convinced you to try a VA out for the first time. Just be sure to explain what you want clearly, set realistic guidelines and targets for completion of work and spend the time it requires to go over things with your VA when starting the project together.
If you do all those things, I am sure you’ll have a great experience as well as end up producing a great eBook for your niche market!
Good luck with everything.
Chris
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Chris, I like the way you laid out this article in terms of the different things you got your virtual assistants to do for you. Especially in the last few weeks on your new projects.
How can I track those?
Also, Pat. When do you feel is the right time to start trying to make money from a blog. I am about to launch one and it would be good to know for planning.
Thanks guys.
Mike
Hi Michael
Thank you for the comment and interest.
You can keep up to date with my projects over at the VBL blog. In terms of your question to Pat, he actually answered this in the interview I did with him, which is on my blog.
But, I’m sure he’ll sum it up here, for you, too.
Thanks again, bud!
Chris
I totally agree with you Chris, it’s all about getting more time. If you can use your business as a spring board to gain yourself more time, then you have made it. It is very hard to watch new entrepreneurs run their lives into the ground because they have worked themselves into a frenzy at the expense of their families.
VAs are the way to go for so many different mundane projects that you really don’t need to do yourself, and in many ways they will be much better at it then you are, all while you are getting back more time for yourself and your family.
-Joshua Black
The Underdog Millionaire
Hi Joshua
Thanks for taking the time to comment.
There are those days, as entrepreneurs, that we have to do a little extra, and might have to work a few extra hours. Just this week, I had to do a 12 hour day – but, it was the first time since the end of last year, and I normally average just 7-8 hours a day… So, you don’t here either me, or my family complaining!
Whether you hire a VA for a full-time role, or a project based task, getting that additional time to spend with the ones you love IS what its all about, you are 100% spot on!
Thanks again, man.
Chris
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Pat
A thank you for allowing me to do this post for you. I’ve had some great feedback on it, and truly hope it gets linked to, and hit a few times in the future!
Until our next collaboration, thanks man.
Best,
Chris
Of course, Chris! We’ll definitely have to get together again sometime soon. Cheers! Thanks again!
I have always liked the idea of a virtual assistant but have never felt confident in hiring one. Probably because I am not sure where the best place to do that is. And I guess that would depend on what I need them for. I would like to try hiring someone for SEO but am worried about cost. Also for some writing. Any suggested companies/people to go with?
Hi Jonathan
Check out Freelancer.com – they now have around double the amount of traffic to that of eLance, and I hear that they are VERY quick on certain things, too.
Bottom line – go slowly at first. Work on a couple of ‘projects’ and then go full-time, if required.
Have some fun with it, and see what can be achieved.
Hope to see you over at the VBL blog sometime soon – tons of info on VAs over there..!
Regards,
Chris
I already use several freelancers on my team, to do the nitty gritty, but I find it a challenge to motivate them to perform beyond the mundane tasks they are used to doing.
I think by providing them with incentives such as commission and revenue sharing would make them step up to the plate better.
Liberate!
You are bang on the money, my friend. Money speaks volumes to freelancing staff, and makes them a lot more loyal, too!
Is it bad to have to ‘buy’ loyalty above and beyond the normal level in terms of them working for you. NO! Every company on the globe does it in some way, shape or form.
Go for it, I say. And let me know, over at the VBL blog, how it goes for you… Perhaps you can do a Guest Post on the subject!
Best,
Chris
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I totally agree with outsourcing. Infact i have done this a lot of times and it has saved me both cost and time eg recently i used logonerds to get a nice logo for just $29. I outsource as many things as posible especialy d coding stuffs & i just love the idea.
P.s: john reese is launching a program on outsourcing. You needn’t really pay for it cos the free videos is just enough info to get started with outsourcing. Check it out http://www.outsourceforce.com
-Cheers
Good God, I wish I had known about VAs two years ago. I’ve started up five successful businesses online and feel like I could have had another ten completed if I had a competent team working with me (I’ve done it all myself until three weeks ago).
I was hoping that you had lists of preferred VAs, as well as their cost. I’m still in the process of testing out my current provider, and simply want to make sure that I find the right company to side with on a long-term relationship.
Thanks, Chris. Great work on the blog. I appreciate any and all feedback on recommendations. Elance has proven to be a time-waster and, obviously, it might be awkward to have my VA search for another VA to try out…
Cheers,
Wayne
Hi Wayne, according to John Reese, you should not hesitate asking for good VA contacts from other Vas because birds of a feather flock together. IF their work performance is good, chances are, they will recommend other people with the same work ethics.
Also, you can find pre-screened VAs over at onlinejobs.ph and also Maren Kate’s new VA finding service at http://www.escapingthe9to5.com/escaping/30-day-consulting-birthday-blow-out/
They will pre screen the VAs for you.
Hope that helps
You’re more than welcome, Wayne.
Get your VA to do ANY task for you… They WORK for you, remember.
See you around soon!
Chris
Thanks for this insightful post. I, am an independent contractor offering virtual assistance. Offering VA support, SEO and marketing, web development, project management.
You’re more than welcome, Wayne.
Get your VA to do ANY task for you… They WORK for you, remember.
See you around soon!
Chris
I just started listening to Chris’ podcast after finding it while searching for Pat’s new podcast. Funny, that I now see this article after perusing the archives. Good content. I have been interested in hiring a VA since I started working in this area but have not been really comfortable with the idea. I will start to read Chris’ blog and see whats up.