How To Hire A $3/hour Virtual Assistant.

How to Hire a $3/hr Virtual Assistant

In this video, the speaker shares his experience of hiring virtual assistants and how it helped him grow his business. He explains what virtual assistants are, why you should hire them, and how to hire them for as low as $3 per hour.

The Importance of Hiring a Virtual Assistant

• One of the biggest hurdles in starting a business is not being able to sign customers.

• Until someone is running your outreach or taking care of some portions of your business development, you cannot consider yourself a business owner.

• Hiring virtual assistants can help you do the volume required to acquire customers and outgrow your current state.

What is a Virtual Assistant?

• A virtual assistant (VA) is someone who isn't meant to do a specific task but rather help solve whatever problem you want them to solve or that you train them to solve.

When Should You Hire a Virtual Assistant?

• You should hire a VA when you need someone to run your outreach or take care of some portions of your business development.

How to Hire a $3/hr Virtual Assistant

• To hire a VA for as low as $3 per hour, use websites like Upwork or Onlinejobs.ph.

• Create an account on these websites and post job listings with clear instructions on what tasks you want the VA to perform.

• Interview candidates and choose the one that best fits your needs.

• Train your VA by providing clear instructions and setting expectations.

Why You Don't Need to Be Perfect at Outreach

In this section, the speaker advises that waiting to be perfect at outreach is not necessary and may even hinder progress. He suggests that hiring a virtual assistant (VA) to handle outreach tasks can be more effective.

Hiring a VA for Outreach

• The speaker recommends finding a virtual assistant and showing them the basics of outreach.

• Even if you don't know what your VA is doing, they will likely get better results than you would on your own.

• If you are making anywhere from zero to 40k per month and don't have a VA doing outreach every day, something is wrong.

Training Your VA

• The speaker suggests training your VA by doing the task yourself first.

• Use Loom or other software to record training videos for your VA.

• There are many free outreach training resources available on YouTube.

• Shadowing your VA for 30 minutes per day can help ensure they are performing well.

Conclusion

• Once your VA is trained and performing well, daily 10-minute training sessions can help keep them on track.

Tracking Metrics for Your Virtual Assistant

In this section, the speaker discusses the metrics that should be tracked when working with a virtual assistant.

Key Metrics to Track

• Warm leads are people who have given their information and are interested in your product or service. Track these leads.

• Volume for the day, follow-ups, conversations started, comments left, booked meetings and booking links signed should all be tracked.

• At the end of each day, ask your VA to write notes about their day and provide you with all these numbers.

• Missing two days of not updating metrics is unacceptable.

Paying Your Virtual Assistant

In this section, the speaker discusses how much to pay a virtual assistant.

Payment Structure

• Currently paying VAs $3/hour plus a bonus per booked call or per closed deal.

• Hourly wage is not enough as VAs need something to look forward to.

• Compensate on performance so they can see a better future ahead.

Finding Virtual Assistants

In this section, the speaker discusses where to find virtual assistants.

Where to Find VAs

• Facebook groups can be leveraged to find VAs who already know about your industry.

• Onlinejobs.ph is a website where you can post job listings for VAs.

• The speaker's company has a hiring database where you can find trained VAs.

How to Make Money by Helping People

In this section, the speaker emphasizes the importance of helping people in order to make money. He explains that in order to make $100k a year, you need to help 100 people a month.

Importance of Helping People

• Making money requires helping people

• To make $1 million a month, you may have to start helping a thousand people

• The value has to be there for your business to succeed

Hiring and Managing Virtual Assistants

In this section, the speaker discusses how businesses can hire and manage virtual assistants (VAs).

Hiring VAs

• Find VAs and pay them a set amount per month

• Train VAs on expectations and requirements

• Give VAs everything they need but let them go if they're not a good fit

Managing VAs

• Provide training on various tasks such as Instagram prospecting and Facebook advertising

• Teach VAs how to troubleshoot campaigns

• Have shadowing sessions where VAs learn from other experienced team members

Launching an Appointment Setting Agency

In this section, the speaker talks about launching an appointment setting agency with the help of his company's knowledge and infrastructure.

Starting an Appointment Setting Agency

• Launch an appointment setting agency with five to ten virtual assistants

• Ideal niche would be agency owners, coaches, consultants or high ticket businesses

• Contact the speaker on Facebook to learn more about launching an appointment setting agency