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The $100 MBA Show

MBA101 How to Hire a Virtual Assistant Part 1

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2014

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

The increasing popularity of hiring virtual assistants is not a surprise anymore given the benefits that it can provide to businesses. But how do you start the hiring process? And how can you make sure that you will hire the most suitable virtual assistant for your business? We start answering these questions and more on today's $100 MBA Show. Let's get down to business!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Heyo!

0:09.0

Welcome to the Hunter R. R. B.

0:10.0

A show where your business is starting to feel like it should with our daily 10 minute

0:15.1

business lessons for the real world. I'm your host, your coach, your teacher, Omar

0:19.9

is at home. I'm also the co-founder of the $100 MBA, a complete business training and community online.

0:26.9

And today you will learn how to hire a virtual assistant.

0:30.7

This is a jam-packed lesson, so we're going to have two parts to this lesson.

0:34.5

Today is part one, and tomorrow's episode will be part two.

0:38.0

For most of us, a virtual assistant will be our first employee.

0:42.0

So we want to make sure we do it right and that's why I decided to create a lesson or actually

0:47.8

two lessons on this.

0:49.4

I'm going to walk you through the steps of how to make sure that you're getting somebody that you need

0:53.2

and how do you make sure you find the right person for your business.

0:56.2

As usual there's no fluff here so let's get down to business. Firstly, I have to come out and say it and say I really don't like the term virtual assistant because I see this person as a team

1:14.1

member somebody that's going to join your team and benefit your business I'm

1:17.2

talking about somebody who's actually going to roll up their sleeves and do the

1:20.0

work that needs to be done in order to run your business.

1:23.1

So I really don't like this term virtual assistant, but we're going to use it because it's the

1:26.9

common term of people know is a VA or a virtual assistant.

1:30.3

And this just means somebody that works remotely. they could work in another country or another state or just another town.

1:37.0

But the point is they don't work in the same office as you do.

1:40.0

They're doing their tasks or doing their job virtually.

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