Posts about ‘virtual assistants’
Mar
Apparently I write enough about my experiences hiring virtual assistants and freelancers that this blog has started to attract readers who are researching virutal assistants (VA’s) themselves. So much so that I’ve started to receive requests from some of those readers, asking if I’m available to be their VA. Thanks for the offer. I appreciate the opportunity. [...] (more)
Remote or “virtual” assistants (VA) can provide assistance that frees you up for more important tasks in managing your web business (or the web-based extension of your offline business). And while hiring a VA requires some due diligence (interviewing, matching skillsets with the tasks, billing discussions, etc.), even after you find the “right” assistant you’re still [...] (more)
I’ve written a lot about my experience with virtual assistant firms like Brickwork (India), Get Friday (India), and BPOvia (China) – and how my results and impressions of their services have been mixed at best. A few months ago I mentioned that so-called VA firms seemed to be sprouting up everywhere; and now that the [...] (more)
A couple months ago I mentioned that the president of a young VA firm called BPOvia – out of China – contacted me, offering a free trial of their services. Being that there are more VA firms than there are Starbucks these days it didn’t strike me as a particularly appealing offer at first. But when I [...] (more)
Some of the more popular posts on this blog lately are regarding virtual assistant (VA) firm reviews. They’re getting more and more views each day. But after being contacted by Chinese outsourcing firm BPOvia, and then today by another firm in India called Arctern I’m starting to think that a big chunk of the individuals [...] (more)
Last Thursday I was contacted by a China-based virtual assistant (VA) firm, BPOvia, and was asked to give their service a trial run…the first 10 hours without charge. The CEO, James Huang, came across my VA firm review blog post and sent me an e-mail, offering a free trial of their VA service. I happened [...] (more)
Right around the same time I signed up for my Brickwork India Virtual Assistant, I registered with Get Friday, too. I wanted to work with the two big name Virtual Assistant (VA) firms simultaneously, so I could compare apples to apples. But if you’ll read my Virtual Assistant Firm Reviews (including this one), you’ll see [...] (more)
Mar
Review of Brickwork India Virtual Assistants: Room for Improvement, but Leading the Pack
Posted by: Jeremy Reither
Like a lot of people who have read The 4-Hour Workweek (review), right when I finished it I told myself “I have got to get a virtual assistant.” I imagined all kinds of time consuming tasks that I could get off my plate. But offloading tasks to VA’s comes with its own set of challenges [...] (more)
Mar
Below are some of the Virtual Assistant (VA) firms, Outsourcing, and Freelance networks that I either have used in the past, currently use, or plan to use. Some of them have proven to be great resources for some tasks (like Elance). Some I would never use again (like BPOvia). I’ll tell you which is which [...] (more)
Hiring offshore virtual assistants (VA) is the biggest craze to hit the solopreneur world since the Blackberry. The main difference being that Blackberry’s work. Don’t get me wrong; in concept VA’s are great – relatively cheap labor that works while you sleep. I just think it’s getting a lot more hype than it deserves – [...] (more)
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