How Does Hiring A Virtual Assistant Work?
Identify Your Needs
Identify Your Needs
To ensure that you’re getting the right virtual assistant to meet your needs, ask yourself the following questions:
- What types of services do I need?
- How many hours per week will I require a VA?
- What is my budget?
- Does my project require a VA with special training?
- Does my project require a VA to use specific software or equipment?
Go to VA Services to see the skills and services your virtual assistant can offer you. Under Pricing, find the best package to suite your needs.
Reserve a VA
Reserve a VA
Once you have identified a need for support help in your business, finding and choosing a virtual assistant is the next step. Go to Reserve a VA and fill out the form.
Here Is What We Need From You...
- A detailed work request with specific expectations and requirements
- Format or other preferences
- Any previous problems encountered with your project
- Your work hours when you want your VA to be available to you
- A contact person for any questions or approvals
Review VA Portfolio
Review VA Portfolio
Once we review your form to reserve a VA, a salesperson from our American office will contact you and will help you choose the best VA for your needs. You will be presented with a portfolio for each VA that includes:
- Writing samples (in English)
- Graphic design samples if the VA is a graphic designer
- An overall objective assessment (report card) of strengths and weaknesses
Unlike many other VA websites, Virtualassistant.org is not a single person business operating out of a bedroom. We have offices in the United States and overseas that are fully staffed with skilled professionals using the best tools available.
Our policy is that we only hire and use dedicated full-time virtual assistants to provide our clients with the best method for accomplishing their goals. Part-timers and independent freelancers often lack the type of commitment that potential clients require for their business needs.
Our VAs are college educated and are extremely savvy using the newest technologies to their (and your) advantage. To ensure that we have the right people to serve you, we take the following steps when hiring a virtual assistant:
- All potential recruits must have 4-year university degrees (the majority have degrees in Computer Science)
- Each VA is also given an IQ test and the test results are shared with our clients
Go to Reserve a VA to start this process and you'll receive a customized selection of VAs best suited to your needs.
Purchase a Plan
Purchase a Plan
Now that you know which VA will handle your work, go ahead and view our plans and pricing. Your American representative who helped you choose a VA will help you choose the best plan for your needs.
Connect with Your VA
Connect with Your VA
For your convenience we offer many ways to connect with your VA.
- Instant messaging such as Yahoo Messenger, AIM, MSN, Google Talk, etc.
- Skype, so you can actually talk.
- Email.
- Fax.
- Phone.
Your virtual assistant will be available to you during the hours specified in the package you chose. But...the office where your VA works is staffed 24/7 with virtual assistants and account managers. So even if you need to connect with someone during wee hours of the night, a representative at the office will be available to you.
To get connected, go to Reserve a VA, fill out the form, and one of our American representatives will contact you.
Food for Thought... How Do You Find A Dependable And Professional Virtual Assistant?
Would you hire a VA to do SEO work when their own website has no page rank?
Would you hire a VA to blog or write copy for you when their own site is filled with misspelling and grammatical mistakes?
Of course you wouldn’t!
That is why we only retain full-time VAs who are trained specifically in the area of expertise you require and once you're happy we keep them working for you!
Many individuals and businesses thinking about using a virtual assistant worry about how to track the hours spent on your project. We solve these worries by utilizing innovative tracking software that allows our VAs to “punch-in” and “punch-out” to keep an accurate and up to date permanent record of time spent on your project(s). We will also provide you with a detailed invoice at the end of each billing cycle.
Correctly using virtual assistants can be a win-win for everyone involved!
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Financial & intangible benefits we offer you.
Our unique way of providing dedicated outsourcing.
How we ensure productivity and security.
Our unmatched training program for VAs.
Choose a package that fits your business.
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