Every entrepreneur wants to make profits with less investment. Most of your investments include Office Space, Furniture, Computers, Employees and thei...
Every entrepreneur wants to make profits with less investment. Most of your investments include Office Space, Furniture, Computers, Employees and their wages… of course it’s a big list to explain. Obviously after reading these 2 lines everyone think how to avoid them. The solution for your problem is “Outsourcing”. If you decided to outsource your work the only question that will pop up in your mind is “How to outsource?” and “whom to outsource?”
There are lots more ways to outsource your work. The best two I suggest you are either find a freelancer or hire a Virtual Assistant.
Finding a freelancer:
Elance.com and Guru.com are the best free-lancing websites among all with which I have experienced till now. The major advantage with a freelancer is you can find the cheapest quotation for your project in the world. Posting your project in a free lance website will be like a reverse auction where you can find hell out of bids for your project. You have to choose the right and reputed one. Once you choose someone and decided to assign your project still you will be scared about the quality and deadlines. Also most of the freelancers are part timers who are working for their additional income. So the most common problems with freelancers are deadlines and quality. So be careful in choosing a freelancer.
Hiring a Virtual Assistant:
There is a lot to talk about this because there are huge corporate involved in this industry and serving millions of customers. Before hiring a Virtual Assistant all you have to do is keep your requirement in mind. Because there are hell out of companies which are offering wide range of services. If you are looking for a specific project to be completed better you can go with “Brick Work India”. This is the best among the companies which I tried. Their quality of service is good comparing with others but they are a bit expensive. If you are looking forward to hire someone who can help you with your day to day activities for example giving you a wakeup call in the morning, managing your calendar, scheduling your professional and personal appointments, working on your Data Entry tasks… etc, my suggestion is better you go with “TaskBarge.com”. They are good at delivering the quality results on time. I really appreciate their responsiveness. “TaskBarge.com” is the only place where you can hire a personal assistant who can work for you for $5/hour. I tried hiring the virtual assistants of many reputed companies however most of them are expensive and few of them are totally useless especially from Philippines and China.
Tips to find the right Virtual Assistant:
These are very important before you hire a VA. Now a days it’s quite common that everyone are offering 24/7 support. This is not the matter at all, however what all matters is who is offering the right service for the better price. Please don’t search for the reviews f the company it’s totally waste of time. Better you try it on your won and find the suitable one for you. Most of them are offering free trial so make the best use of it. Initially just get sign up with 1-2 top reputed companies as well as 1-2 new born babies. Give similar tasks and check their responsiveness and quality of the result. Now you got your answer in front of your eyes.
I always suggest people to experience things rather than following others. Because you going to deal with peoples not machines so be passionate. There will be lot of cultural difference between people of different countries. So I believe direct communication is more important especially in choosing a Virtual Assistants.
