Summary: Have you ever wondered about the nuances of hiring a virtual assistant for your real estate investing business? If so, then today’s podcast episode is for you. In this video podcast, Ken & Alex answer a listener’s question about a particular virtual assistant (VA) service finder, then continue with some of their real-life insights and advice on who, what, where and how to hire a virtual assistant for your real estate investing business. If you have a budding real estate business, or any business for that matter, then tune in to learn how a VA can make you more productive and more successful as a result. Watch and enjoy: What's inside: 00:38 – Have you ever heard of Virtual Office VA Staffing? 01:23 – Pros and cons of using a VA finder service 03:31 – What can a VA do for you? 05:05 – Why it’s not that hard to find your own VA 06:24 – There are 2 types of VAs…which should you be using? 07:10 – Is it better for a VA to work from their home or an office? 08:28 – How to train your new VAs Tweetables: “Put an ad out there and they will be on it like white on rice.” Here’s how to find your own virtual assistant. [Click to Tweet] Don’t think you can get the office help you need? Joe & Alex share how a VA can change that. [Click to Tweet] Mentioned in this episode: www.virtualstafffinder.com www.virtualofficeva.com www.xoom.com Transcription: Download episode transcript in PDF format here... Joe: Hey, welcome back. This is Real Estate Investing Mastery. Alex and I have the second answer to the second part of the question from Jesse, and basically, I'll play it again here so you guys can listen to it. Jesse: Joe, this is Jesse Mills calling out of Minneapolis, Minnesota. This is a cool thing. Thanks for it. Number two, have you ever heard of Virtual Office VA Staffing and I stumbled across them. Actually got a call from them and it looks like they're pretty cool VA. They specialize in exactly what we do. They're a little bit more expensive than overseas, but looks like they're pretty specific to our industry and I think might be worth taking a look. If you've had any experience with them, I'd love to know. Thanks, man. Joe: Basically, Jesse's asking about this particular service that a particular speaker is recommending called Virtual Office Virtual Assistant Staffing or whatever it is. Alex, do you have any experience with hiring third party outsourcing virtual assistant services? Alex: Why yes, I actually do. In fact, this past week, I went with a company called VirtualStaffFinder.com. They gave me three different applicants to choose from and I would say my results have been okay. The prices are just about right, $500 a month, which is a really good price. Joe: For a full-time person. Alex: Yes, and the staffing price is only 400 bucks or whatever it was. Joe: You pay Virtual Staff Finder $400 to give you three pre-qualified applicants that you interview and then you pay those VA's directly. You don't use oDesk to pay them or anything like that. Alex: Yeah. No, no. You don't shift them over to oDesk. You use Paypal or Western Union or Xoom, X-O-O-M dot com, or whatever you want to use to pay these people, your assistants. My results were okay, but the first day, I was getting from the person I chose ... Now this is probably my fault. The first day was "Oh, my internet connection is down," so is that a valid excuse? I don't know. I guess time will tell as we move on. Joe: Let me say this and interrupt you. Virtual Staff Finder, because I've used them several times and I've gotten some great people from them ... Alex: Oh, okay. Joe: If the three that you have don't work out, they'll get you another three, and even after you hire that person, if it's a month later and that person doesn't work out, Virtual Staff Finder, for no extra charge, will find another three for you.
