What sorts of tasks do you use a VA for?

[Bill C.]

Hello BP!

I was wondering what everyone uses VAs for.

I understand the utility of their services for wholesaling or marketing but I was wondering about other cool applications that you may heard of.

Thanks!

PS: I’m a buy and hold investor so anything in that line if investing would be much appreciated :)

[Drew Sygit]

Thanks @Filipe Pereira

First, you want to understand the difference between a VA and a Remote Worker. The major difference is their mindset and skill level. VA's do a task and get paid, caring little for your busines. Remote Workers are workers that don't work in your office.

We learned that the hard way and now primarily use Remote Workers. 

So, what can you use them for - start with any repetitive task you can easily create step-by-step procedures for. We started with:

1) Bookkeeping: we scanned invoices and emailed to them to rename and organize, and input in our accounting system. Also got every invoice we could emailed to a Group email address we added them to, so they got them.

2) Applications: they processed the documents applicants sent in and followed up on missing items. All done in Dropbox.

We also started out taking a video of our computer screen walking them through what we wanted them to do. We even had one of them create written procedures from the videos, that we then did final edit on.