Tuesday, August 30, 2016

How an Outsourcing Team Can Grow Your Business



Have you thought of an outsourcing team before to grow your business? I wish to share with you the simple steps that you can take to increase the bottom line easily and economically.
Tim Ferriss who wrote the now famous "the 4 hour work week" showed the world how you can work less and earn more. The whole concept intrigued and open people's mind about using virtual assistants in 3rd world countries who are by the way well educated and highly trained.
With the knowledge in hand that there are people who can work for a 3rd of a cost of labor in their own countries then came the challenge of how do you train them and what can they do and I will now show you how you do both of these.
First things first:
Do you provide a service or have you an office based business for your clients?
  • Bookkeeping
  • SEO
  • Website Design for
  • Social Media
  • Article Writing
  • Amazon, Shopify or eBay store
All of these listed services can be outsourced and here is the exciting thing that happens you will be able to expand your business and take on extra clients and then outsource them and this will increase your bottom line.
I have personally seen outsource teams grow from only 1 or 2 virtual assistants to a team of 7-10+ VA's now that tells me the business is expanding. One of our clients came to us with only 1 Shopify store that we helped set up and train the customer service and with in 6 months they opened a further 5 stores!
Need To Train Staff
All businesses run a little differently you would not set a person up in your office and say there you go now you get to work. That would be setting yourself up for failure.
Online there is no limit to the training you can set up effortlessly. For example you could arrange to run a webinar and share and record your training, or you could do a short video and lastly a well written email in dot point.
Spend the time giving the necessary training that you would give any new employee.
What about other businesses?
Small start-up businesses normally start on a shoestring budget and want to do it all themselves and don't get me wrong it is good to have an understanding but I disagree that you need to be able to do yourself. If you look at the following list of "to do" tasks within a business, there is not any creative time in there for you to grow!
If you are doing everything yourself like:
  • Bookkeeping
  • Social media
  • Marketing
  • SEO on your website
  • General admin tasks
  • Video editing
  • Blog promotion
  • Customer Service
Where would you possibly get the time necessary to grow your business? Even if you worked 15-16 hour days how well would you do either of these tasks? You need to outsource, put a dollar value on your time and if you are worth more than $8.50 per hour you should look at getting your own VA.
So there you have it, the only way you can grow your business and increase productivity is to outsource and develop a team within a team.
If you are sick of burning the midnight oil missing family events to work on your business it now time to work less and grow your business by first outsourcing smaller tasks and growing your own virtual assistant team.
Only then will you see the growth in your business contact us at http://needava.com or email me at info@needava.com

How To Communicate With Your Virtual Assistant



Before we start on how to communicate with your virtual assistant lets look at how you find the perfect VA for your task. One of the first things is to do is make a list of all of the daily tasks that you are currently doing within your business and then remove the tasks that only you can do, all of the remaining tasks you can outsourced.
Now you have the list the skills that you will need your virtual assistant to do you may need more than one VA:
· Someone that is technical
· Has video editing experience
· Article writing
· Social media skills
· SEO
It's unreasonable to think that the one virtual assistant would have all of these skills they may have one or two but the only way to see if they can complete their task is always to test them. Have them do a short test with a time frame to have this back to you.
How to communicate with your virtual assistant.
As I see all the emails that come into my company the challenge for most people is how to be understood. English is not the first language of the Filipino VA they can get very confused with clients that want to give a long story in their email about the task which is not necessary at all.
If you have a number of tasks keep the tasks to sharp, succinct and dot point works best in step order so the tasks flows best.
What I love to teach new clients about is the use of Jing software that can either record a 5 minute video where you can talk and show the virtual assistant where to find the information for the task or have them move it to another area.
Also it has screen capture that allows you to take a photo of the screen and then circle or use arrows to point to what you need to happen.
When a task comes back to you please check it thoroughly and give it back to the VA for corrections and or comments.
Further suggestions:
  • On a Sunday I do my to do list for the tasks that need to be done by the following week. This means that all the work will be given for the week to the VA.
  • Keep the work flow to manageable and easy to follow steps
  • This will cut down on the number of emails
Need a VA is a virtual assistant outsourcing company based in the Philippines we have 9 different areas of the business that all have trained and expert staff ready to help you grow your business. Also there is a project manager that will manage all of your tasks. Please contact me here at http://www.needava.com for expert outsourcing.

Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Media & The City Edition of The Bon Bon Magazine

I’ve been working hard with Bonnie Bruderer cooking up a great event for women Freedom-preneurs. A new show is due to come out in the fall called, Brand It. This is a show that is modeled after, Making It.

Media & The City Featured in The Bon Bon Magazine

As part of the promotions for this event and the new show, a new edition of The Bon Bon Magazine will be released featuring a woman from Brand It. This first edition of the magazine has already come out to create buzz about this incredible thing that we are doing.
Be sure to check it out through the link below-

The Bon Bon Magazine

In this edition, they share about the event along with spotlighting one of the ladies that will be on the show. Also, you will find out information about the other shows that are coming out this fall.

The Magazine Will Feature Spectacular Women and Their Brands

It is hard to imagine, but this is going to be HUGE!!! As the weeks have gone on, Bonnie and I have been working to set these ladies up for success. All of these women have powerful brands that they are ready to unleash to the world.
Some of these fabulous ladies include:

Dr. Lesya Anna 

Inge Hart 

Di Downie 

Jodi Harman

Erica Kristene 

Liliana Aguirre 

Darviny D  

Christine Robinson 

Rhonda Swan 

Patty Alfonso 

Kalpna Suthar

Bonnie Bruderer

All of these women have worked hard to develop products and services that are sexy. I’ve been working with each one on one to refine their message so that they are ready to share it with the world.
I know they are ready for the world, but is the world ready for them?

There’s Nothing Like Brand It

What is so incredible about this new show is that there is nothing else like it. We have invited 12 entrepreneurs that are all women, to come and be a part of this show. The synergy is growing day by day as these ladies encourage one another on in their businesses.
I believe that this show is going to be the first of many seasons that will truly bring hope to up and coming Freedom-preneurs. I for one am feeling excited to see where it goes.

Want to Be On The Show?

If you have a brand that you want us to help you sexify and showcase on Brand It, be sure to learn more through the link below. We would love to see your brand on television along with other great women.

Media and The City Event

Source: Brand it Advertising