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The StoryBrand Podcast

#125: Tricia Sciortino—Best Practices for Hiring and Using a Virtual Assistant

The StoryBrand Podcast

StoryBrand.com

Business, Marketing

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

As a business leader, you know what it's like to constantly juggle multiple responsibilities and face the demands of a fast-paced work environment. Your days are filled with meetings, calls, and strategic decisions that require your undivided attention. Time is of the essence, and it feels like you never have enough of it. In this competitive landscape, staying on top of your game requires strategic delegation and effective time management. 

 

In today's episode, Donald Miller talks with the CEO of Belay, Tricia Sciortino, about best practices for hiring and using a virtual assistant. A virtual assistant can help you handle crucial tasks such as scheduling, correspondence, meeting note-taking, and follow-ups to give you back hours of your workweek. With a virtual assistant by your side, you can reclaim precious time and focus on the strategic initiatives that drive your business forward. Tune in now to learn best practices on hiring and using a virtual assistant!

 

Schedule your free consultant from Belay to see how a virtual assistant can help you get your time back at YourNewAssistant.com

 

Get more small business managment tips and tools with Tricia each week on the One Next Step Podcast

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

A virtual assistant should probably be your first hire.

0:07.2

For about two years, my friend kept telling me,

0:10.2

Don, you need a virtual assistant.

0:12.4

You need a virtual assistant.

0:14.4

But I would just sort of ignore it.

0:15.8

The thing is, I knew I needed a virtual assistant.

0:18.2

I knew I needed some help,

0:19.7

but I didn't want to do anything about it for one reason.

0:22.8

And the main reason or the only reason really was,

0:25.0

I didn't want to have to enramp that person.

0:27.4

I knew how things were done.

0:28.9

I got them done.

0:30.4

I knew I did things in a quirky way.

0:32.7

And I just thought a virtual assistant is going to be weeks

0:35.6

if not months of trying to help this person figure out

0:38.3

how to help me.

0:39.4

And so I just put it off.

0:41.4

Man, I'm glad I finally just bit the bullet and dead it.

0:44.7

I went to belay solutions.

0:46.5

And that months of on-ramping turned out to be hours.

0:50.8

My life was revolutionized.

0:53.1

I would say that my company would not have grown as fast as it has

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