How Do I Manage Communications with My Virtual Assistant?
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Pat Flynn
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2016
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Today's question comes from Marilyn, who asks a question about virtual assistants. How can they keep track of the tasks that she is assigning? Marilyn's site is http://www.infantdentalcenter.com/. You can find virtual assistants using Upwork (a combined company of Elance and oDesk; http://upwork.com/). I highly recommend using Slack for communication (http://smartpassiveincome.com/slack). Do you have a question about working with virtual assistants? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Check out my new book on validating your idea for a business, Will It Fly?, at http://willitflybook.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Ask Pat. |
| 0:09.1 | Hey, what's up, |
| 0:12.0 | Pat here, and welcome to episode 524 of Ask Pat. |
| 0:15.9 | Thank you so much for joining me today. |
| 0:17.6 | As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business-related questions five days a week. All right, here's today's question from Maryland. |
| 0:26.5 | Hi, Pat. This is Dr. Marilyn Berdora with Infant Dental Center, www.Infantdental Center.com. My question to you |
| 0:35.8 | today is regarding VAs. |
| 0:37.9 | So I recently got my own VA and have been working with her for the past two or three months. |
| 0:44.5 | It's been fantastic to be able to send her an email of a task and she gets it done and |
| 0:49.9 | I don't have to think about it anymore. |
| 0:52.1 | However, as I've been doing this more, it's getting more difficult for me to track |
| 0:58.4 | tasks that are a little bit more complex or going back in my email to find the answer of |
| 1:07.3 | different research that she's looked up. |
| 1:09.3 | I was wondering if you have a system or an open access software that you use to manage the |
| 1:16.6 | communication between you and your VA and managing projects. |
| 1:22.6 | Thanks for your time, Pat. |
| 1:24.6 | Appreciate all you do. |
| 1:25.6 | Bye. |
| 1:26.6 | Hey, Marilyn, what's up? thank you so much for the question today |
| 1:29.3 | i really appreciate it and congratulations on getting your first VA i remember when i first got my |
| 1:34.6 | VA for the first time uh not just somebody i hired on a on a website like elance back in the day |
| 1:39.7 | which is now called upwork which was really cool too you you know, to hire somebody, pay them to do something |
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