Hire a Virtual Assistant

Written by Damian Hons


So,repparttar decision has been made to hire a virtual assistant...

Knowing your business needs and clearly defining them will berepparttar 103805 first step inrepparttar 103806 process. A good virtual assistant (or VA) will be asking you these questions and havingrepparttar 103807 answers ready will get your project moving inrepparttar 103808 right direction faster.

Truly assess your needs. You may find that your current needs and future needs are different. An honest evaluation of these needs will lead you inrepparttar 103809 right direction as some virtual assistants can offer services that are specific to your current needs, but may not haverepparttar 103810 skills for further demands. This is not a negative thing, however, you should keep this in mind when interviewing your perspective VA. If that VA can not provide, do they belong to a network of virtual assistants, or associations that they could pull help from?

Translating Budget Goals...

Most ofrepparttar 103811 time you will not be pleased withrepparttar 103812 answers to questions like “How long is SEO going to take?” and thenrepparttar 103813 answer... “we charge $x.xx for that service.” WHY SO MUCH?! These answers can berepparttar 103814 wrong answer to you and your perceptions ofrepparttar 103815 VA could be distorted unless you know your budget. The business owner usually thinks in terms of total costs,repparttar 103816 VA usually thinks in terms of hourly rates. Set your budget, then take a look atrepparttar 103817 hourly rate: $25 an hour translates into $1000 at 40 work hours. How many hours will your job take to do? Add inrepparttar 103818 extras and you can determine how much you are ready to spend. Isrepparttar 103819 service an ongoing service, or a “one-off”? What isrepparttar 103820 industry standard forrepparttar 103821 work you need done? The more prepared you are with your budget and howrepparttar 103822 budget relates to an hourly rate,repparttar 103823 better your search for a VA will be.

Learnrepparttar 103824 Lingo…

Excuse me? What are you talking about? What is a SOHO and do I need one of those in my home office? Trade jargon can confuse you or even be intimidating. Being in a position to make an uninformed decision is not where a businessman needs to be. You can looserepparttar 103825 pace of your interview when having to ask what an acronym means, or why you might need whatever it isrepparttar 103826 VA is talking about.

What is in a Title

Written by Ramakrishna Pochiraju


Nowadays I hear a few saying “what is in a title”, “titles are not important”, “you should not place importance to your title” etc. This drumbeat leads you to think that you are selfish and doomed if you attach yourself to titles. Ironically these statements come fromrepparttar bosses having titles like “Group Manager”, “ Group Director”, “Executive Vice President” etc. They are definitely elder and more wiser than I, which forces me to think I may be doing something wrong if I attach myself to titles. May be I am not supposed to think about Titles that way. So I decided to give it a try,repparttar 103804 life without thinking about titles. I failed miserably and I was very unsuccessful in doing that. So I decided to dwelve more into why a title is important. I started looking into my life as a kid and as an adult. The society I grew up know me as son of so& so, brother of so&so and that made me feel proud. Don’t say that how can you be happy if everyone only recognizes you as someone’s somebody. I would say that title gave me a sense of belonging, a sense of entitlement and that feeling maderepparttar 103805 surrounding environment more enjoyable. After my graduationrepparttar 103806 society gave me a title “Engineer” and that meant something. Once I started working, my profession gave me a title

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