Odesk and virtual assistant questions

[Michael Fitzpatrick]

Hi I will make this short and sweet. I am looking into using Odesk. I'm working another job presently so I am not able to answer the phone all the time like I want. How do you pay someone to cover the time you are not able to answer phones...is it a per minute base? sorry to seem like a novice on this, im just looking into things to expand and get better. Thank you for any insight.