- If you could have an extra 20 hours a month
to work on your business for only 60 bucks,
would you take this deal?
Now, this is a common sense question
that I think we all know the answer to.
But in today's video,
I'm going to be discussing how I use virtual assistants.
Really help me scale my business,
what tasks I delegate to them,
and more importantly how I decide on these tasks
since my business and jobs are always evolving.
Now, before I hired my first person,
I had all these assumptions
that I had to be making all of this money
before it would be worth my time to do this.
But I think you're going to see by the end of the video
that this is just not the case.
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What's going on everyone?
Thank you so much for your time.
It is the most valuable thing that we have
and today I'm going to be showing you
how to get more of your time back.
One of the biggest mistakes I see people making
when I'm talking to people,
and that I was guilty of making for the longest time,
was just not hiring someone
to these small, mundane tasks
that you see throughout the course of your day.
When I first started working for myself,
that first year, back in 2017,
was probably one of the most frustrating points
in my entire life.
I was setting these weekly goals
and when the week ended and I was analyzing
to see how far I came,
I wasn't even close to accomplishing it.
And so when I was analyzing my tasks
I was seeing that I was not accomplishing
even a fraction of what I was supposed to do.
And that's because I had all of these small tasks
that were taking up my time.
And just because they're small,
doesn't mean that they're not important.
These had to be done.
But what was happening here
was I had built myself a work prison.
I was working 12 to 15 hours a day,
more or less busy work,
and I wasn't accomplishing anything
and if I were to take a step back,
everything was going to come crumbling down.
So this is a terrible spot to be and I was in it,
and I see some people that currently are.
Hopefully, this can help you out.
What I do want to say is this is not a video
talking exactly about the hiring process
or where I find, or what methods I really use
to find these workers.
Really quickly, I do use OnlineJobs.ph
to find my employees.
I do have an affiliate for them in the description below.
So, if you do want to support this channel,
feel free to use that link.
And if I do see that you use it,
you can take up a 30 minute call with me
which I usually charge for.
But let's say you don't even wanna do that,
I give out a one hour call to someone who likes
and comments, on every single video.
I'm gonna give out two calls this video.
Either one of YouTube people,
reach out to me on social media,
I would love to set something up.
I wanna talk about some tasks that I actually assigned
to my virtual assistants today.
And here's the thing, okay
I want you to take away the theory from this,
because when I was in accounting class,
I remember my professor would always say
Kris, there's so many different types
of accounting out there,
but what I want you to know is the theory.
And this can be used the same way for this.
You could be a woodworker or a dog photographer,
but the theory will be the same.
I guarantee that there will be something
in that job or whatever job that you're currently doing,
you might be a musician or what ever it is that you do,
you can outsource a fraction of that to help you focus
on more important things.
So that's why I'm going to be sharing to you my tasks.
I do have two people on my team and these two people,
there's usually some kind of underlying big project
that goes on.
These bigger projects are, you know,
they're always gonna be doing two to three hours a day.
But then there are just some tasks that pop up
that no matter what they have to do.
Task number one for that was,
I have these two accounts
that we need to fill out forms for.
These two accounts, it's quite a bit of paperwork,
and it would probably take about 45 minutes to an hour.
I decided that I'm going to forward this over to my VA.
I told them, hey, this needs done by tomorrow,
you have all my information,
fill it out, sent it back to me.
So that alone right there saved me one hour today,
which doesn't sound like a lot, but it gets better.
Another task that kind of popped up
was there's a trade show coming up.
It's a very large trade show, the ASD.
There's hundreds and hundreds of suppliers,
and it can get kind of overwhelming
with, okay, where do you wanna go,
what routes do you want to stop at, et cetera.
What I had him do, I had him vet the suppliers
based on criteria I gave him.
And he made an excel sheet with all their information.
It came out to be 120 out of the 700,
800 suppliers that were going to be at this trade show.
That alone, it took about two to three days
and it was about two to three hours per day.
Now that alone saved me about six to eight hours in total.
The last thing I had him do, which took another two days,
at about two to three hours a day,
was sending out emails,
with an email template I sent to set up appointments.
I knew that all these suppliers
weren't going to respond to the email,
but I knew that once the emails were sent,
the people that do respond, I can handle it from there.
That was probably another four to six hours in total
that I saved this week.
This week alone, not counting the product research,
and other larger projects I have these VAs doing,
I have saved at least 10 to 12 hours
of just things that popped up, right?
It's kind of like a game.
The more you practice doing it, the better you get at it.
The more you get in the habit
of thinking, what can I outsource,
the better you will become.
Maybe you're a natural at it.
Maybe you will be able to do this right away,
to outsource things.
But it took me awhile to get to the point
where just something could come my way
and I could just think,
okay, I need to send this over to my virtual assistant
right now.
This could even be said about nine to fives.
This may vary among careers, and different types of jobs,
but in my last job, in my personal experience,
my last corporate job that I had,
I worked in the purchasing department for a hospital
and I had to make sure
several hospitals heart surgery departments
had the right product, going into heart surgery.
I was behind a computer all day,
just thinking back on that job,
I know for a fact there were two, three,
maybe four small aspects of that job
I probably could have outsourced.
It may not sound like a lot, but that my employers saw it
and that made them think, "Wow.
This guy's absolutely crushing it.
Let's give him a pay raise or a pay bomb."
I'm not saying that I wanted that,
but it could've led to that.
I'm gonnna go ahead and close out here
with, what are you guy's currently wanting to outsource?
Let me know in the description below.
This was a shorter video,
but I thought it was just something that needed to be said.
Kind of a fun topic.
But, yeah, hope you guys enjoyed this one
and I will definitely see you next time.
Thank you for joining me.
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