Virtual assistant needs internet phone number

[Brent Kiger]

Good morning,

I recently hired an overseas virtual assistant in the Philippines to help manage my rental properties. So far everything is going really well, and its time for me to get her a US based phone number so she can more easily communicate with my vendors and tenants. I use Google Voice for my business number but it appears that service is not available in the Philippines.

I'm curious if anyone in the community has any ideas/strategies that you've done to allow overseas VA's communicate with US based tenants and vendors.

Thanks,

Brent

[Josh C.]

@Brent Kiger

Google voice is available over there. You can have them try to use it from a computer instead of a phone. Also, headsets are better than internal mics. RingCentral will also work on google voice numbers.

Pro tip: spend $80 on a VPN for them to use. Lots of US based companies don’t play nice with foreign IP addresses for whatever reason. So have their IP be “local” is helpful.

Good luck!