While many articles you read will tell you that hiring and working with a virtual assistant is the easiest thing in the world to do, the truth is, it's really not—at least, not if your outsourcing decision is based on a real need to improve business productivity or...
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50 Ways to Buy Your Time Back with a Virtual Assistant
As business owners and entrepreneurs increasingly outsource tasks to virtual assistants, they do so for a number of reasons. An overwhelming majority though, outsource purely to save time that they would otherwise need to spend on low-value, but necessary tasks. As...
Hiring Offshore Virtual Assistants: Are You Depriving Job-seekers at Home?
Arguments against the use of VAs from countries like the Philippines don't seem to be impacting growth in the practice, but do they have any credence? Offshoring opponents typically take one of two key stances in decrying the use of overseas service providers: 1....
Questions to Ask before Hiring Freelance VAs from the Philippines
If you're planning to outsource some of your personal or business tasks, we happen to believe you'll get no better value from virtual assistant services anywhere than those offered by Filipino outsourcing professionals. However, if you're thinking about visiting some...
Have You Thought About Writing SOPs For Your Virtual Assistant?
As we've mentioned a number of times in our blog posts, deriving value from task/process outsourcing requires a willingness to put in some preparatory effort as a potential VA client. The good news is that most of the preliminary work will comprise one-off tasks, the...
An Identity Crisis in the Virtual Assistant Industry?
VDW Monthly NewsletterAn Identity Crisis in the Virtual Assistant Industry? At Virtual Done Well, we provide our clients with virtual assistants to work on organisational and administrative tasks for their small businesses, but we also do so much more. In fact, our...
Some Less Obvious Tasks to Outsource to a Virtual Assistant
You can find many an article or blog post suggesting tasks you can outsource to a virtual assistant, but many of them focus on the obvious activities like email and calendar management, data entry, and reception services. As the profession matures though, more and...
Is It Possible to Hire a VA for Cultural Fit?
VDW Monthly NewsletterStudy Reveals Why Philippines Best for Australian BPO Outsourcing A study recently carried out by The Philippine Institute for Development Studies (PIDS), shows clearly why the Philippines is the favourite business-process outsourcing destination...
Are You Really Ready to Hire a Virtual Assistant?
If some of the hype is to be believed, everybody, but everybody should have a virtual assistant to take over unwanted tasks and so reduce their own working week to just a few hours. Whether that's true or not, the hype-machine has certainly been good news for virtual...
How Virtual Done Well Supports Your Business Growth
VDW Monthly NewsletterAll Day and All of the NightNew for 2017 … Virtual Done Well will soon be launching a permanent night shift, staffed by virtual assistants who know no barriers between night and day. Our night shift will ensure that wherever your business is...
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