#714: Very practical lesson learned after working with numerous overseas virtual assistants who help run my business
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
I've worked with virtual assistants around the world to help grow and scale my business for over 15 years. Today I share some practical tips and strategies for finding great workers who can help you grow - often for just a few dollars ($3-$4/hr). What jobs can they take on? How do you narrow down the candidates quickly if you get 100s or more candidates applying? Isn't paying them $3-$4 exploitation? What jobs do these VA's do for Amazon sellers? What strategy should you use to train them?
All these questions and more are addressed as I share my best tips and strategies for working with VA's to help build your provenamazoncourse.com business, or any other business that can benefit from a virtual workforce!
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| 0:00.0 | A business building warrior. It's Jim Cockram coming at you with a new episode of Silent Sales |
| 0:08.5 | Machine Radio, the podcast that features hundreds of students who have been through our training |
| 0:14.5 | program and come onto the show to share their incredible stories of success. But today it's just me |
| 0:20.6 | and I'm going to |
| 0:22.0 | talk through one of the strategies that you might be under leveraging and building a beautiful |
| 0:28.4 | business. If you're not familiar with the concept of leverage, that's when you apply just a little |
| 0:34.6 | bit of work and get tremendous results on the other side. |
| 0:39.3 | Kind of like, you know, a seesaw, how the smallest kid in the school could lift the largest |
| 0:44.5 | kid in the school if you set the seesaw up properly. |
| 0:48.1 | So they were leveraging, you know, the fulcrum point set at the bottom of a beam, and if you extend that beam far enough, |
| 0:58.3 | you can do some incredible things, lifting quite heavy weights by pushing down on the long |
| 1:05.1 | side and lifting the heavy weight on the short side. So what do you mean leverage in business? |
| 1:09.7 | Well, that's when you put just a little bit of effort in and get a lot of results on the other side. And one of the most |
| 1:14.6 | under leveraged opportunities in all of e-commerce, in my opinion, is using virtual assistance |
| 1:21.6 | whenever possible, as much as possible, whenever you can, getting them into any repetitive processes. |
| 1:30.7 | That's what I typically teach is if there's anything that has to be done over and over again, |
| 1:35.5 | the same way, fairly repetitive. That's a great thing to bring in a VA to help you accomplish. |
| 1:42.9 | So a virtual assistant can be anyone and anywhere in the world, |
| 1:46.0 | if it's a online related job, if it's an internet-based task, they could be doing it instead of |
| 1:53.5 | you doing it. And one of the most common ways in our community that we've seen a lot of people |
| 1:58.8 | use virtual assistants is for things like researching, profitable products or monitoring your account health those kinds of things i'm not |
| 2:06.6 | going to offer any specific services today i'm not going to recommend any specific trainings or |
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