Have you hired a Virtual Assistant?

[Rein Garcia]

Hello, im looking for great advice on hiring a virtual assistant from outside the country. Ive hired a virtual assistant in the state before and they had everything set up, but Philippines keeps coming up as a better source in relation to expenses and reliability.

What's a strategy to train the person and paying them?

Is there reliable places to look for the virtual assistant or a place i can offer a job opportunity?

What do you do to keep track of the work done and hours worked?

Thanks you.

[Brandon Sturgill]

@Rein Garcia My business is run almost exclusively with VA's...support staff is local just because it makes sense as she improves her skill-set and grows with the company into other positions...programmers, coders, mapping solutions, website design, all branding and design work is completed by VA's... I have 7-10 on staff on various projects...split between India, US, Russia, China...and we have another company using a financial analyst in India building financial models for a new business...and a tourism specialist in Italy doing research...architectural design assistant in Serbia...voice over actress in California...

We use UpWork...used to be ODesk. They had some troubles with the merge and spotty platform, but they have most of the kinks worked out...works pretty fluid. Take a look.

When I first started doing this years ago I started with simple tasks...like find me a place to go on vacation this weekend...there is trial and error for sure, but the sky is the limit.

Best of luck