MBA2325 Guest Teacher – John McKenna – How to leverage a virtual assistant to scale your business

The $100 MBA Show

Omar Zenhom

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Are you struggling to keep up with the day-to-day tasks of your business, leaving you with less time to focus on growing your business? If so, then you don't want to miss today’s Guest Teacher lesson with John McKenna on How to leverage a virtual assistant to scale your business.

John McKenna, CEO of Peachtree VA, shares his expertise on using virtual assistants to help grow your business, taking you through the process of how to hire them and delegate tasks effectively. To determine which tasks to delegate, business owners should conduct a time study, identify pain points, and keep a list of tasks they want to do more or less of.

Also Omar provides a simple method for business owners to determine which tasks to delegate by assigning a dollar value to each task.

Listen in to this episode for practical tips on delegating and scaling your business with the help of a virtual assistant. Click Play!

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0:00.0	Heyo! Welcome to the $100 R.M.
0:11.3	Because the Better You is a better business.
0:14.1	That's why we deliver our practical business lessons.
0:18.0	I'm your host, your coach, your teacher Omar at home.
0:20.7	I'm also the co-founder of Webinar Ninja an Inhibited Software Company I started back in 2014.
0:26.3	And today's episode is a guest teacher episode.
0:29.1	On our guest teacher episodes we bring on an expert to teach their area of expertise.
0:33.7	Today we have John McKenna, the CEO of Peachtree VA,
0:37.4	and he'll be teaching you how to use a virtual assistant
0:40.7	to scale your business. I wanted to bring on John McKenna on the podcast because many
0:46.3	people ask me what are the first steps when it comes to hiring a VA or even one
0:50.9	of the first steps of making your first hire.
0:53.2	I've always said that your first hire should be a virtual assistant,
0:57.0	somebody that can take off your plate, a lot of time-consuming tasks that don't bring in all
1:01.8	the money.
1:02.6	You need to focus on your secret sauce,
1:04.2	the thing that is gonna help you grow your business.
1:06.6	So today, John is gonna give you a crash course,
1:08.5	the 101 of how to hire a VA.
1:12.1	So let's get into it, Let's get down to business.
1:14.7	Before you hire a VA, one of the big questions people have is, what do I get them to do?
1:18.8	Well, that's really an important step. Knowing what you want to offload, knowing what you want to hire for,
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