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January 18, 2016 By Francis Leave a Comment

Keep Away From Bad Business Ethics When You Are Involved With Outsourcing

Bad Business EthicsBad business ethics in a global market place are the number one factor that will destroy your chances of being successful with outsourcing or working as a freelancer.

The easy part of outsourcing is to get the work done as an employer or making the money as an employee.

The hard part as an employer is to have good outsourcing ethics so that you can sleep at night and be proud about what you do to your friends.

The hard part for a virtual assistant is to impress your employers with the high quality of your work and your loyalty so that they cannot help but

  • promote you
  • raise your salary
  • and even hire you full time on their team

If you choose to do outsourcing without any business ethics, this will hurt your success both as an employer and as an employee.

Bad business ethics as an employer of virtual assistants

As an employer, you spend the money for results. But paying money does not free you from your responsibilities.

The best bottom-line attitude to have as an employer is to think of your workers as respectable experts that you have the opportunity to have gained as associates. Always think about how you both can win.

You’ll know that you have ethical issues as an employer if…

…you catch yourself thinking like this:

  • Cool, I can hire a “slave” in India for 1$/hour!
  • This work is crappy and boring to do. I’m not even sure it needs to be done, but my assistant is so cheap, let’s just have him do it.
  • This damn VA is stupid and doesn’t understand me. I better yell at him real good!
  • Bah, I’ll fire the guy. There are millions like him out there…

…or any condescending, egotistical thoughts towards your associates…

Re-think your strategy!

If you have this approach about outsourcing to virtual assistants.

If you continue to think this way, chances for success are slim for you.

The worst things you can do to your virtual employee

Do not treat you VA as your slave!Your employee depends on his work for you and trusts you to treat him fair and square.

There are not much more ways to hurt your assistant, both financially and emotionally.

  • Firing a person without further notice

This will leave him in the rain, and he’ll lose time trying to figure out what happened (he may assume that there was a technical glitch) or trying to convince you not to fire him.

  • Lack of communication by not exchanging your thoughts with your virtual assistant

How can your VA learn how to best do the work for you if you don’t tell him? Take the time to instruct your VA of what you want.

It doesn’t even need to take that long: a quick video using screen recording software takes minutes and can clear up tons of misunderstandings instantly.

  • Shouting or insulting your employee

You know this would be wrong if you had a person right in front of you.

Don’t go there. It’ll make you look weak and will lower your self worth. And it’s rock bottom even for bad business ethics.

Robert Noyce's famous quote about ethics

What good are you as an employer if you raise your voice against someone working on the other end of the world? Especially if he or she comes out of e.g. an Asian culture, where politeness and respect is of highest importance?

  • Badmouthing your VA

It’s perfectly possible to fire someone and leave him an unnecessary evil feedback to “get back at him”. You won’t gain from it.

It’s possible to hide excessively bad feedback on most outsourcing companies’ feedback scores. Also, you might be kicked off from the outsourcing service.

And honestly, do you want to kick off someone that might know lots about you, your business, and might escalate the revenge even further by attacking you back?

If you follow those bad business ethics when outsourcing, others will know:

oDesk, for example, also has a feedback system for employers, and you’ll run out of prospective co-workers if you are treating them badly.

Be good to your employees

Be good to your VA’s: They will reward you with excellent results

You will be pleasantly surprised how far a few nice words, some praise here and there and constructive criticism will bring you and your business. A loyal and motivated virtual assistant might be the biggest asset you’ll ever have.

Bad business ethics will always come to bite you in the end.

What if your virtual assistant has been bad?

Read how to cope with bad behavior from your virtual assistant.

 






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January 18, 2016 By Francis Leave a Comment

Bad Business Ethics From Your Virtual Workers

How a VA can hurt you and your business?Most freelancers from overseas will do great work for you. However, there always will be a bad apple among them from time to time. Read our advice from real experiences, how to handle virtual assistants with bad business ethics.

What bad stuff can happen

The closer you are working with virtual assistant, the more any possible bad business ethics from them towards you or your work can hurt you. A personal assistant can screw you over.

I had a personal assistant from India over several years. He knew a lot of personal information about me and we worked together very closely, more like friends than having an employer-employee relationship.

That was a mistake.

After some time he knew that he could ask for whatever he wanted and I was almost forced to go along with it. Because he knew how much I needed him for personal stuff which I outsourced, he started over charging me and asking unrealistic demands.

When I met my limits, I had to fire him. And we weren’t on very good terms after that.

A virtual assistant can stop working for you without any further notice. The only notice you will receive if you hire a worker via oDesk is a note that the contractor has left your team.

Don’t be surprise if that happens. It happened for me when I outsourced a very simple picture research task for a very modest amount of money. Probably after getting hired, this female freelancer decided that the job wasn’t worth awhile and she simply cut ties with me.

That can happen and it shouldn’t surprise you. Just be prepared to repeat the interview process again.

Miss commitment- over committing and not delivering at all

I had two cases where this happened.

In the first case I was looking for a virtual assistant that could speak and write English. I found a lady from the US who applied to me and went through a very thorough interviewing process.

I was thrilled because I found someone who I could use as a personal assistant with German language knowledge at a very, very competitive price. I didn’t care at that point that she didn’t have any oDesk history.

The emails we exchanged prior to working were also very long, so I knew she was committed. When I started working with her, I suddenly never heard of her again.

Albert Schweitzer's famous saying for ethics

No matter how much I wrote her, she wouldn’t reply.

The second case where this happened was when I worked together with a personal assistant from the Philippines. She was doing a great job for me and we had a great working experience over almost a year.

After difference of opinions – I cannot even call it a fight – she stopped responding to my emails.

That’s when I learned the hard way that you have to treat many virtual workers from the Philippines extra carefully.

Another case of very bad business ethics is when a provider outsources the work you give to him further to other freelancers who you don’t even know without telling you.

Luckily this hasn’t happen to me or I didn’t find out about it. This is a real danger and you have to make sure that your private information or sensible data cannot land in false hands.

How to prevent bad experiences with your VA

Preparation is the key to avoid having a bad experience. Before hiring a virtual assistant, do your homework. Pre-screen each candidate very thoroughly, check their previous feedback.

That would tell you a lot about their attitude towards work. Then start out by giving them a very small test task. If for any reason your worker does not follow through, you haven’t lost much time. You can use the same test task over and over again.

If you are working with a virtual assistant for some time now, challenge him from time to time. Give him a piece of work that is a little bit harder. This will teach you a lot how your virtual assistant works under pressure.

Always and regularly check his work diary. Make use of the work diary that is provided by oDesk. Also let your virtual assistant know that you are regularly checking his work diary. This will keep him on his toes and focused on his work.

Ask for daily email updates. Insist that your virtual assistant lets you know about the progress of his work daily. Even if he does not have any work from you or does not do any work insist that he writes to you that what work he has done and what work he hasn’t done and for which reasons.

Learn how to prevent bad experiences

This will keep you in the mind of the virtual assistant all times and hopefully prevent him to develop any bad business ethics.

If your virtual assistant starts seriously slacking of anyways, give him a warning. Sternly let your virtual assistant know how you would react if they misused your trust. Inform them clearly and un-misunderstandably how you would react and which steps you would take if this virtual assistant would continue exhibiting bad business ethics.

Use the carrot and the stick strategy. As much as you must be stern and assertive towards your virtual assistant, you must show your kind side too. If your virtual assistant does great work from time to time, give him an additional bonus for his work.

When you do this, let him know exactly why they received the bonus. Be specific about what sort of work was excellent and what sort of attitude you are looking forwarded to in the future.

How to react if your VA shows bad business ethics

How do you react when your VA does something wrong?

Give him one final warning!

If your virtual co-worker continues to screw you over, have him stop all work. Inform him that he needs to explain himself to you. Count up all the errors you have found in his attitude and ask for a clear explanation for each and every one of them.

Let them know that this explanation may very well decide about the future of this virtual assistant.

Why shouldn’t you fire the virtual assistant right away?

He is human too and can do some mistakes and if you have invested much time into working with him, then it is worth your while to try to get back on track. If this doesn’t work out, fire him and cut your losses.

If you do fire him there are some things that you quickly must do.

  • If you have shared any important files with him via Dropbox, then remove any shared files from him.
  • Change any shared passwords which you may have shared with him.
  • After ending the assignment of the freelancer who repeatedly showed bad business ethics towards you, take the time to write honest feedback on oDesk. Be honest and don’t exaggerate. Clearly write down what was good and what was bad and why you ended the assignment.
  • And if the virtual assistant has damaged you and your business with his bad business ethics, investigate how you can get a refund or complaint against the outsourcing company over which you have hired him.

Read more about Bad Business Ethics from the employer






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As a worker, did you get treated badly as a freelancer?

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Filed Under: Business Ethics Tagged With: bad business ethics, bad ethics remedies, prevent bad ethics, virtual assistant’s bad manners

January 15, 2016 By Francis Leave a Comment

A Real Life Experience About Asian Work Ethics

A view from tops of the ThailandAsian work ethics is part-13 of the second interview from Stefan from Germany, who lives the Four Hour Work Week lifestyle in Thailand.

Click here to read part 12 – Short term vs long term assistants

Summary:

  • There are differences in the world and you cannot expect people in Asia to behave like people in Europe.
  • When in Rome, do it like the Romans. Similarly when working with Asians, do it like the Asians.
  • Work ethics from Asian countries can be very surprising.

Start of the Interview:

stefan employer interview
Stefan:

I would like to give you a real life example about Asian work ethics because I live in Asia.

Francis
Francis:


I would love that. Go ahead.

stefan employer interview
Stefan:

This is from my perspective and maybe from yours too, this is completely and utterly insane behavior. We started here with a cleaning lady, okay?

We moved in and our landlord knows someone and he sent these people to us and they cleaned here. And we told those people, we need every week – Sunday at this time. Every week. 

Just every week. No questions. You come every week. Knock on the door. Come in. Clean everything, just everything. Dirty? Clean it and you get paid for that. Very good. Very good. This is the job. You know what happened?

They came the first time. They got told come every week and whatever. They came the next week. They didn’t come the next week because we didn’t say it again. You have to come because we just said it the first time – every week. I said it like a hundred times.

The first week I said it a hundred times and I said, “Do you understand?” And they “Yes, yes, yes, we understand.” Then the second week, they didn’t come. Then we contacted them to come and then they came. And the next week, they didn’t come again. But we said it a hundred times. 

We have now a new cleaning lady and last week, she seemed very good because she understood that she has to come every week and she has no questions just clean everything.

Last week, she didn’t come and we were already looking at each other thinking “Oh, this is again the old Asian thing.” We contacted her and it turned out she was here.

But she knocked on the door and nobody opened which is crazy because we told her that we are always here and we already had missed her almost because she knocks very soft and it could be the tree outside. You don’t know when…

Francis
Francis:

Oh my God, I can not understand what happened.

stefan employer interview
Stefan:

You know, I mean, we are there. She can knock as long as she wants to just get our attention. Or just open the door because the door was open. Because we are here at home, we don’t close the door.

We don’t lock it. We don’t need it. So she could just come in. Instead, she decided to knock like silently as she does and then nobody is opening and then leave.

But the funny thing is when she was knocking on the door, I was inside and I wasn’t sleeping or anything. I just didn’t hear her.

Francis
Francis:


Okay. So this was different between their levels of politeness. I mean, she did knock as you’ve said so she did her job but knocked very quietly because that’s her nature. She didn’t want to wake you.

Then you would have to adapt and say, “If you knock, you can enter. Then just open the door and look into and see if we’re there.” Something like that.

stefan employer interview
Stefan:

Yeah. We told her now but…

Again, this is the problem because in my perspective the cleaning is the more important thing than the politeness. I don’t care about politeness. I assume most of the Western people don’t care if you say or behave very polite. The very important thing is the job.

That is you can be rude, you can be whatever as long as the job is done, whatever I don’t care.

I think that is more important for Westerners. Am I right?

Francis
Francis:


If we want to say something global like that, I might agree. But don’t you see that it might be important for people from other countries that politeness is like the most important thing in the whole world?

stefan employer interview
Stefan:

I can see that but I don’t agree.

Francis
Francis:

That’s okay. But you have to agree that there are differences in the world and you cannot expect people in Asia to behave like people in Germany. 

If you live there, you cannot expect people to live like. Then you would have stayed in Germany, if wanted German behavior.

I have asked my virtual assistant to comment on your experience as he is also from Asia, and here is what he wrote:

virtual assistant vector
Virtual Assistant


In my opinion, Stefan’s cleaning lady is totally lying (with due respect) that she came and knocked the door, but nobody opened the door.

I think it’s a lame excuse, actually she didn’t come at all and when Stefan asked her why she wouldn’t come, she pleaded this lame story.

It’s just like that someone bunked from college and the teacher asked ‘where you were last day’ and he replied that I wanted to come but I missed out my bus, therefore I couldn’t come.

Although I live in Asia, but this is not something new for me, even I face this problem very often.

stefan employer interview
Stefan:

But I could assume, at least, if I state my wishes. For example, you come every week, you do this whatever happens. I mean, that they fulfill my wishes. 

Francis
Francis:

Nope, you cannot.

stefan employer interview
Stefan:

Okay. But that’s the universal thing that I would expect from every human being. If I express my wishes, I want them fulfilled whatever is necessary for that. 

Francis
Francis:

Are you a King Stefan 🙂 That sounds very one sided – “I expect every human on the Earth to respect my wish and to fulfill my wishes.”

stefan employer interview
Stefan:

Yes. If I have a job, a task, that is to be fulfilled. That is the job of the employee is to fulfill the task. I put the task very high.

Francis
Francis:

Yeah. But I think here this is a communication thing, you have to adapt to the situations as they are. When in Rome, do it like the Romans. If you are in Asia and people behave like that then you have to adapt. 

Else, you will not get your job done. You will stay unhappy and there’s nothing you can do about it. So either you buckle up on the debt or you don’t get the job done. Your choice! 

stefan employer interview
Stefan:

Yes. That’s the sour lemon, I guess.

 

Continue reading part 14 – How to improve communication skills with your virtual assistants

Filed Under: Interviews, Virtual Assistant for Small Business Tagged With: asian work ethics, outsourcing experiences, real life outsourcing experience, work ethics

January 15, 2016 By Francis Leave a Comment

Post Article Writing Jobs To Mechanical Turk. Get Good Articles Written For Less Than One Dollar!

Young Virtual Assistant Writing an ArticleGetting extremely cheap articles written for you is possible, if you just post article writing jobs to Mechanical Turk.

As you know from my case studies I have gotten articles and personal stories written by many workers on Mechanical Turk. I could ask for very cheap prices, for example 80 to 50 cents for 300 words of content.

That’s not much money in the field of article writing.

But it worked!

Why did it work?

Post article writing jobs about topics people can freely write to

Each worker can write from the top of his head about stuff he is doing every day. That’s where strengths of Mechanical Turk article writing lies.

If you ask them about everyday stories that most of the workers could answer, then you can get articles out of Mechanical Turk that are

  1. very cheap,
  2. very passionate
  3. and very useful.

Of course, you always need to check for copyright.

Don’t ask them to write about topics they couldn’t know about – or you WILL get bad quality results

Thinking about what to write for an article

However, if you try to hire people to write a 400 word essay about, for example, “solar panels” or “solar energy” because you run a commercial website about this topic, then the results will be – and I am trying to be as diplomatic as I can – pretty crappy.

You will get results. But you won’t be happy with them!

Workers on Mechanical Turk will do almost anything to get the job done.

  • They will paraphrase content from internet.
  • Or they will simply try copy pasting content from elsewhere and hope you will not notice. This happens pretty often.
  • They will tell you any story necessary to complete their HIT.

Why?

It might be easy money.

And since the work force is so big, there is probably always a worker willing to do your HIT.

But will you be able to use the results? I doubt so!

Take home message: It works, but only for some topics

If you want to outsource article writing cheaply on Mechanical Turk, limit yourself to topics that your everyday person could answer without looking anything up.

Do you want some ideas of topics you could get tons of articles written about?

Ask them to tell you

  • William Zinsser's famous saying about writingstories about their favorite car
  • stories about their childhood
  • descriptions of the bad pranks they ever have been victim of
  • ideas and stories about parties
  • their worst hung-over experience
  • about their favorite pass-time and so on.

Believe me, I have asked for these HITs just for out of pure curiosity and I got some interesting stories.

If you limit your questions to simple topics like those from the list above, I am pretty certain that nothing beats publishing article writing jobs to Mechanical Turk when it comes to getting high amounts of original articles for a very affordable price.

Filed Under: Crowdsourcing Tagged With: article writing jobs, cheap articles, cheap prices, mechanical turk

January 15, 2016 By Francis Leave a Comment

Posting A Job On Amazon Mechanical Turk – Step By Step Instructions

Lean how to use amazon Mechanical Turk" title="Lean how to use amazon Mechanical TurkWhen you successfully signed up to the amazon Mechanical Turk service, this is the starting point you will see. Take the time to look at the case studies and read the suggestions at the bottom to see what sorts of jobs are best done on Mechanical Turk.

Personally, I have only used it for two different services:

  1. Content creation and editing – I wanted genuine stories as well as rewriting on some low quality content.
  2. Data entry jobs – but I prefer other services like oDesk for that.

Mechanical Turk Navigation

You will need to go through these steps i.e.

  • Design,
  • Publish and
  • Manage

to successfully set up and complete jobs (or “HITs”) on this service.

Step 1: Design Your Job Posting

Mechanical Turk Design ModuleThe job description formats are mostly provided by pre-filled templates that you can find under “Design” of this window. Just choose the template which best describes your job. If you are not sure, start with the “Basic Open-ended Question” if you are looking for content creation by workers on Amazon Mechanical Turk. This is what I use most of the time. After you give your template a name, which will be only for your use to find different jobs for reposting, you need to think hard about a descriptive title.
  1. It really should attract high quality workers
  2. It should be as concise and descriptive as possible.

Take a look of this title:

Create new HIT on MT

I tried to make it alluring to the workers and I put the most important info right at the beginning of the title: What are they in for? They need to write 300 words. People who are not looking for this job will click away immediately. Only interested workers will look at your job. Don’t worry! The work force behind Amazon Mechanical Turk is huge. You can afford to set the standards as high as possible. This will make it easier later to screen through the results.

Step 2: Write out a short but informative instruction summary

In the description field, be more specific than in the title field. Look at the beginning of my description; it can be a little longer than one line, but don’t make it a whole essay. You will have some place to write a very exact description later when you design the layout. In the “Keywords” field put some keywords which describe the skills you are looking for. Take a look at what I wrote. I specified that the HIT is about writing and that I only need workers from the US.

Enter the best possible keywords

Why? In my personal experience, I got the best results when I limited the jobs to workers from US only. I have had some excellent cooperation with workers from all around the world with other outsourcing services. But on Amazon Mechanical Turk, personally I got the best content written by people from the US.

Step 3: Planning the Deadlines

Give your workers some time to work on your HIT. Depending on how fast you want the results and how long the task is. For a small writing job, three days are fine. I never have given any worker on Amazon Mechanical Turk less than one day to work on a task and I only check my results once a day. Give yourself enough time to review the results after the HIT is complete. Make it 10 days.

Working on your HITThere is an option to pre-screen the workers for their skills before you let them work for you.

I always left this option as it was without any problem.

Step 4: Carefully screen for the best workers

In the field “Additional Qualifications,” it is where it gets interesting. Take a look at the standard options. Now take a look at how I changed the qualifications to get

  • high quality workers
  • which are not newbies
  • and are native English speakers
MT additional qualification block

Let’s go through the options one by one.

  1. In the first field, put the numbers of approved HITs to “higher than zero”. This means that this person has at least successfully completed one HIT before he can even apply to yours. This will keep out most of the newest newbies.
  2. Limit the location to “United States” . Visitors from all other countries will not be able to view to complete your HIT.
  3. Also, make sure that your approval rate for the requesters is greater than at least 90%. This HIT approval rate is the feedback score from the workers. The better the feedback score, the more trustworthy the workers.

If you feel that your results are too poor, feel free to increase the number of approved HITs (1) while keeping the HIT approval rate high (3). This really will only give you the most qualified workers. The only risk: Perhaps you will not find enough prospects to do your work. And the last and most important action, click here (4) on “Yes” to require a worker to fulfill all qualifications before he can do your work (or “HIT”). To change the additional qualifications, you can simply add more options by clicking on the little “+”.

Or remove any of the options by clicking to the remove link until you have the profile of the worker that you want for your job. It’s your money. Don’t just let everyone do the work for your business.

Step 5: How much money do you want to spend on Amazon Mechanical Turk?

Finally, it’s time to think about the money. Of course the Amazon Mechanical Turk service is not completely free. You will pay

  1. the money that you promised the worker
  2. plus a 10% fee which goes to Amazon Mechanical Turk.

Take some time to think about how much you will pay for a specific task. Calculate the time it normally takes to do the task. What hourly wage would come out? And then think about if this is appropriate. In my personal experience, putting high qualification expectations and promising $0.80 for a well written article about a personal experience from a worker worked out really well. When I asked for 300 words, I get results from 250 to in some cases up to 800 words. Some workers really try their best! In the field below, put the number of people who need to work on your assignment. If you only want one result keep “1”.

How to pay at Amazon Mechanical TurkThink about that the final cost will be the product from those two parameters. Make the 3rd option a high number, perhaps 14 days. You will have 14 days to review your results. If you forget about it they will automatically be approved in two weeks. You shouldn’t do that. You risk paying for bad results.

Step 6: Write out unmistakable, clear and precise work instructions

Click on design layout to continue.

Use this design layout formatting tools to write a good description.

How to edit a HIT template

Of course you need to fill in your own descriptions here. Only you know what work you will want to have done. When you are ready to have a final check, click “Preview and Finish.” Your template will be saved and you can reuse it later when you need another similar job to be done. You just have to make the edits needed and then you will be good to go. This is how it looks like. Below you can see where the worker can write his answer.

Sometimes a worker on Amazon Mechanical Turk can be a little bit confused. Make it easy for them. Write clearly something like: “Please use the box below to submit your answer to this HIT” Here is another helpful technique: You can let them know that you will check content for plagiarism. Here is an example description of a HIT I use myself. Note how specific I was.

Step 7: Enjoy and review your outsourced results!

In the “Manage” field you review each entry one by one, paying it by clicking approve or denying it for example if there is some plagiarism going on. It is that easy.

Read this post for more tips on managing your results

Filed Under: Crowdsourcing Tagged With: Amazon Mechanical Turk, amazon mturk, post a job, publish a HIT

January 15, 2016 By Francis Leave a Comment

Seven Advantages of Outsourcing Work To Virtual Assistants

Man in a formal dress relaxing in an open place

Outsource your work to virtual assistants. Believe me, it works like crazy.

There are seven main advantages of outsourcing work to freelancers that I personally have experienced.

1. Get results faster

The simple truth is that two people work faster than one. Hiring a virtual assistant to cooperate with you on the same project will get you your results much faster.

2. You get highly qualified work force for relatively cheap

Getting this sort of help from an assistant would not work otherwise, financially and available for anyone. If you tried to outsource your work to local workers at your place, this would not be possible on a grand scale.

3. It frees up time so that you can do other more inspiring stuff

One of the main advantages of outsourcing your work is that you don’t need to do potentially boring and repetitive tasks and are free to do other stuff in that freed up time.

The one commodity one can never have enough of is: free time. Outsourcing gives you more time.

4. You become your own boss

Become your own boss!

By outsourcing, you automatically learn leadership skills. You master team work with your virtual assistant and you learn to effectively give instructions to your co-worker.

All these skills are typical for highly successful people.

You want success, don’t you?

5. You are helping out people

Assuming that you are outsourcing ethically and that you are giving people overseas additional work opportunities that would else not exist, you are actually doing a good thing. You are helping people out and creating a win-win situation for both sides in this way.

6. You can leverage your own efforts

Think about what you can get done, alone, if you work really really focused. Then take the one thing you have learned that works and teach it to someone else, for example your virtual assistants.

Then, use their time and their skills to reproduce your efforts. This will effectively multiply you.

Reusing your success and replicating it with others is one of the greatest advantages of outsourcing.

7. You get things done

Since virtual assistants are very organized, this will greatly help you to get your organization checked. Especially if you are a creative and chaotic type, then you will greatly profit from having one hard working and very logical virtual assistant at your side. Then your dreams do not stay dreams, thoughts and projects – but turn into real results.

Use the opportunity

Do you have an entrepreneurial mind?

Then take this opportunity.

This last tip is not really an advantage of outsourcing. It rather is a possibility that would not be there for you else way.

Have you ever thought about renting out your virtual assistant?Use the opportunity

That is what other outsourcing companies do.

You can do that too.

If you want, you can start your own outsourcing company this way. Just teach them one skill at a time that other people are desperately looking for.

Then, rent out your virtual assistant to those customers by negotiating a higher price than you are actually paying him. And then keep the difference.

This last strategy is for experienced entrepreneurs who would like to create their own online virtual assistance business.

However, the seven advantages of outsourcing I have listed above apply to anyone who wants to gain free time and get more organized.

 






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