The Idiot Proof Guide: How To Hire Your First Virtual Assistant As Low As $3/Hour In Less Than A Week
Description
As an entrepreneur bootstrapping a business paying employees $8/hr (not including overhead) wasn’t really an option for me. I then read Tim Ferriss’ 4 Hour Work Week and thought “Great! Now I can hire an assistant that won’t cost me a fortune.”
I set out to hire a virtual assistant from overseas but come to find out it’s not as easy as it sounds.
The Problem? I had no idea...
what to look for in a good hire
how to find the right candidates,
how to negotiate hourly rates, and
how to settle disputes when I came across them.
The reality is that we were never taught how to succeed at hiring new people or bringing on new team members. No one sits you down to explain how hiring works, and you certainly don’t learn this in any college course.
When hiring my first virtual assistant, I wasn’t thinking about what my applicants or future employees were looking for in a job. Like most of us, I was thinking about what I needed to get off of my plate and how quickly I could do that.
That was my first mistake.
I started hiring assistants on a task basis. I usually never prescreened them… I just checked to see if they had some good english and if they did, they would get hired... I’d give them step-by-step fool-proof instructions alongside sending them videos of exactly what I wanted them to do.
That’s sounds easy right?
?Wrong...
After struggling through it for over a year I started to get the hang of it and began to document what worked and what didn’t.
This is the book that shows you how to efficiently hire a new employee in a short amount of time, for lower than our countries minimum wage. The very guide I wish I had when I first began hiring.
This book is an in depth guide of the knowledge I’ve gained from hiring virtual assistants from all over the globe including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, Romania, Egypt, Lithuania, Bolivia and finally settling on hiring people exclusively from the Philippines (due to their work ethic and culture).
This book is the foundation of how to hire virtual assistants if you want to run a business like Chris Drucker (Virtual Freedom), Sam Carpenter (Work The System), and Kelly Azevedo (She’s Got Systems).
By using this guide you’ll...
Save money by having the scripts to negotiate wages with candidates
Save time by knowing the strategy for hiring higher caliber candidates than those who would normally apply for your job and
Avoid serious pain by seeing the early signs of bad candidates
After following my my own documentation I was able to hire two assistants in the Philippines for $2.50/hour (which equates to $75/week (for 30 hours of work per week) which comes out to $300/month)
I’ve also helped numerous other people find assistants between the $3-5/hour range who have kept their assistants for over 12 months.
That being said...
If this isn’t the most straight forward guide you’ve seen to hiring a virtual assistant, if you get lost at any point in the hiring process, or if you just don’t see the value in this book.... ask me for a full refund.
This step by step guide is meant to help you.
If you’re already 100% satisfied with your knowledge, your team, and your business and everything else in your life, then maybe you don’t need this book. For the rest of us, we can always be improving. All you have to do is commit to learning and implementing a different way of doing things.
It starts here.
I set out to hire a virtual assistant from overseas but come to find out it’s not as easy as it sounds.
The Problem? I had no idea...
what to look for in a good hire
how to find the right candidates,
how to negotiate hourly rates, and
how to settle disputes when I came across them.
The reality is that we were never taught how to succeed at hiring new people or bringing on new team members. No one sits you down to explain how hiring works, and you certainly don’t learn this in any college course.
When hiring my first virtual assistant, I wasn’t thinking about what my applicants or future employees were looking for in a job. Like most of us, I was thinking about what I needed to get off of my plate and how quickly I could do that.
That was my first mistake.
I started hiring assistants on a task basis. I usually never prescreened them… I just checked to see if they had some good english and if they did, they would get hired... I’d give them step-by-step fool-proof instructions alongside sending them videos of exactly what I wanted them to do.
That’s sounds easy right?
?Wrong...
After struggling through it for over a year I started to get the hang of it and began to document what worked and what didn’t.
This is the book that shows you how to efficiently hire a new employee in a short amount of time, for lower than our countries minimum wage. The very guide I wish I had when I first began hiring.
This book is an in depth guide of the knowledge I’ve gained from hiring virtual assistants from all over the globe including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, Romania, Egypt, Lithuania, Bolivia and finally settling on hiring people exclusively from the Philippines (due to their work ethic and culture).
This book is the foundation of how to hire virtual assistants if you want to run a business like Chris Drucker (Virtual Freedom), Sam Carpenter (Work The System), and Kelly Azevedo (She’s Got Systems).
By using this guide you’ll...
Save money by having the scripts to negotiate wages with candidates
Save time by knowing the strategy for hiring higher caliber candidates than those who would normally apply for your job and
Avoid serious pain by seeing the early signs of bad candidates
After following my my own documentation I was able to hire two assistants in the Philippines for $2.50/hour (which equates to $75/week (for 30 hours of work per week) which comes out to $300/month)
I’ve also helped numerous other people find assistants between the $3-5/hour range who have kept their assistants for over 12 months.
That being said...
If this isn’t the most straight forward guide you’ve seen to hiring a virtual assistant, if you get lost at any point in the hiring process, or if you just don’t see the value in this book.... ask me for a full refund.
This step by step guide is meant to help you.
If you’re already 100% satisfied with your knowledge, your team, and your business and everything else in your life, then maybe you don’t need this book. For the rest of us, we can always be improving. All you have to do is commit to learning and implementing a different way of doing things.
It starts here.
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