Who's using a VA? Post results please!

[Martin CS]

So for someone who has been wholesaling for 3 years, I am surprised I have not hired one but frankly I am tired of doing it all myself specially basic tasks.

I been looking into hiring a VA for over a week. I have plan and what kinds of work I want to delegate.
Here is a sample:
• Data Entry
o Enter business cards into system
o Organize Excel Spreadsheets/ docs
o Answer phone calls from leads and enter information in database (Strong communication skills a must)
• Research
o Prospecting online
o Comps (sold properties)
o Property records
o Important articles
o Personal stuff to buy
o Create a speech
o Skip trace
• Marketing
o Use the social media to drive traffic to your buyers list "squeeze pages"
o Marketing from Click2Mail direct mail
o Craigslist and other sites ad postings

As you can see the list is long (hey I can dream , right lol).The chance of finding someone that could do all that is probably not great but where I am most concerned is getting help with data entry (taking calls, excel etc). The other part that's very important to me is help with online marketing and increasing traffic to my website. I am not good with this at all and I want to grow this big time.

So far it looks like you can hire a VA from anywhere from paying $2 to $50 / hour. Obviously there's probably a big difference in skills between the two. I was thinking I would be comfortable somewhere around the middle like maybe $20 IF this VA is very good at online marketing. Then I think to myself that someone with that skill set might be closer to that $50 range. Of course I thought maybe I would hire a VA dirt cheap for data entry and hire a more expensive one for the more technical part. But then I would have to train 2 people and keep track of both.

I been looking on Elance and even ran an ad that netted me about 10 proposals. The cost ranged similar to what I mentioned before. I have not gone any further than that because I want to get this done right . I also know there's other online services to hire a VA , some on the cheap side and than really expensive perhaps suited for executives.

I would like to hear from investors that are already using a VA please. How did you find them and share some tips on the hiring process? What are you paying and what is that expense getting you? Are the results worth it? Do you use someone local to supplement what they can't do live?

I would really appreciate some feedback here and I'm sure other fellow investors would too. Thanks!