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The $100 MBA Show

MBA2135 Q&A Wednesday: When do I hire my first executive assistant?

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

If you’re running a business by yourself, the question isn’t if you should hire an EA or VA (Executive Assistant/Virtual Assistant).

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0:00.0

Heyo! Welcome to the $100 MBA Show, your better business work out every single day with our daily 10 minute

0:15.0

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

0:20.3

I'm also the co-founder of Webinar Ninja, an independent software company I started

0:24.2

with my co-founder back in 2014. In today's episode is Q&A Wednesday. On

0:28.6

Q&A Wednesdays we answer a question from one of you, one of our listeners.

0:31.8

If you got a question you want to ask go

0:33.8

ahead and email you over at omar at one zero mba and mbaa dot net today's question is

0:38.5

from Adam and Adam asks hey omar I've started my business and it's been about six months now and it's starting to grow and get some traction.

0:46.0

My question is, when do I hire my first executive assistant?

0:50.0

I've heard from you before that hiring an EA or a VA is a good first hire.

0:55.0

But how do I know I'm ready to hire them?

0:57.9

I don't want to spend money that I don't need to be spending.

1:00.9

Thanks so much for the podcast, Adam. Great question, Adam, and

1:04.0

congrats on getting traction with your business and also being fiscally

1:07.5

responsible and not wanting to waste your money. In today's episode I want to

1:10.2

break down when is the time, when do you know it's time to make that

1:14.3

higher for your EA my answer might surprise you I'm a big believer on outsourcing

1:20.1

your busy tasks tasks that are taking and sucking your time, not allowing enough time for you to do

1:26.2

the tasks actually bringing the money and grow your business. You know offload those tasks to somebody

1:31.8

like an EA to clear your plate, clear your mind from the

1:35.7

burden of things that don't actually make your business money, but it's kind of required

1:40.4

to keep things running.

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