💡 What?

<aside> 💡 A procedure to find good Virtual Assistants that understand and execute tasks well

VAs can help you with:

• Data Entry
• Market research
• Video editing and transcription
• MVP legwork (in the beginning before you build your product)
• Other administrative tasks </aside>

❓ Why?

<aside> ❓ Virtual assistants are a great way to reduce operational overhead and freeing up time to put into growing your company

It also helps showing that the business doesn’t rely on you as the founder to run it

</aside>

💪 How?

Source

• [ ] Think about how much you want to outsource
  • [ ] On a task basis (per task or hour)
  • [ ] Part time (20h / week)
  • [ ] Full time (40h/week)
• [ ] Think about if you want
  • [ ] A solo VA (Best for ongoing, not incredibly time sensitive work)
  • [ ] A team of VAs (Best for business critical recurring work that need to be done fast)
• [ ] Find a VA that fits your engagement criteria on one of the sources linked in 🛠 Resources & Tools

Evaluate

• [ ] Evaluate the following factors by exchanging emails/messages and asking them a couple of basic interview questions (e.g Why did you become a VA? What can I do to make your job easier for you?)
  • [ ] Reliability
  • [ ] Ability to understand instructions
  • [ ] Ability to ask good questions
• [ ] Optional: For specialized work (e.g. video editing), ask for samples of previous work

Test

• [ ] Pick or create a SOP using Base SOP to test the process with the VA
• [ ] Send them the task with a due date attached (Estimate from your past experience with the task + add some slack)
• [ ] Check the results

Iterate

• [ ] If the work was performed well outsource more over time
• [ ] If the work is subpar check if:
  • [ ] the problem lies with the instructions and expectations
  • [ ] the problem lies with the understanding or quality of work
• [ ] If you’re unhappy go back to the Test step with another VA