Free up your time and focus on what you love to do and the more important things by hiring a virtual assistant to take care of the other stuff.
I took a look at my daily tasks recently and realized that I was spending wasting some time everyday on trivial tasks that my imaginary kid brother could accomplish under intoxication. Something needed to change.
After recently reading books like Tim Ferriss’s 4 Hour Workweek and other motivational reads, I decided recently to hire a virtual assistant to help me take care of errands and research that I’d rather not waste time on. It’s been a week now and I’m quite satisfied with the results. Here are some tasks that my assistant has taken care of in only the last week:
- Posting craigslist ads
- Researching whether the ‘How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying’ musical is worth watching (and best prices)
- Finding the top 3 sites (traffic-wise) to post used books
- Contacting a few websites with miscellaneous inquiries
- Hiring and communicating with other contractors to work on coding jobs
My assistant works in India, has perfect English capability, and has exceeded my expectations and performed on time and with quality results so far. He works from 9PM to 9AM PST and basically takes care of my work while I am asleep. He has saved me at least 10 hours of time (and hassles) in the last week at the cost of only $5 an hour. In my opinion, money well spent.
Depending on your workload, you could be saving yourself much more than 10 hours a week. I found my current virtual assistant through Elance but there are many other options like Brickwork (not recommended, the quote they gave me was totally overpriced). I may hire more assistants in different disciplines overtime as workload increases.
Do you have a virtual assistant? Please share your thoughts.
You might also enjoy these posts:
Enjoy this read? Stay posted by subscribing to our free RSS feed.
 | Tony Chung, founder of Geekwhat Design (as featured on Forbes.com), is a designtrepeneur and model based in New York City. Tony has a EE degree and left his job at Cisco Systems to release 2 albums in Asia and star in a film. This blog is about entrepreneurship, Apple products, music, and financial investing. (more...) |