By Corbin Links
Today I’m tackling another side of the virtual assistant business. Like any business—as with coaching or anything else—there’s great and not-so-great things about it. And since Tim Ferriss’ famous “4 Hour Work Week” came out, the Internet has been abuzz about virtual assistants. But the concept goes back a LOT farther than that, pretty much […]
By Corbin Links
You have to plan a multi-country trip for medical treatment. You need some research tasks done and a bit of itinerary planning. ….But…you ONLY have $50 to spend. ‘ll share two well-tested services we’ve used, again, and again.
Carol asks some pointed questions about business insurance. We’ll tackle that one as well.
Plus, I’ll be bangin’ your health this week with Key #3 of the 7 Keys to High-Performance health. AND, sharing one my favorite new browser-tamer tools, which has really helped my productivity.
By Corbin Links
This is *Part 4″ of a four-part series on finding, hiring, managing, and ending relationships with virtual assistants. Today’s post addresses the difficult challenge of firing a virtual assistant or ending a project early. Why do virtual assistant projects sometimes go awry? How can you prepare? What steps should you take? Should you leave feedback? These questions and many others are answered inside…
By Corbin Links
This is Part 3 of a four-part series on finding, hiring, managing, and ending relationships with virtual assistants. For business IT consultants or others looking to expand their businesses, this series is designed to make virtual assistant outsourcing productive. In Part 2 of the series we walked through the hiring process, including how to write virtual assistant requirements, searching and filtering and finding candidates. Today we answer the question “Ok, I’ve hired the virtual assistant – how do I manage them?”…
By Corbin Links
This is Part 2 of a four-part series on finding, hiring, and managing virtual assistants. The goal of this series is to make virtual assistant outsourcing productive and effective. We’ll pick up where we left off in Part 1, by diving deep into the virtual assistant hiring process. Following guidelines in this post, you’ll save yourself a lot of time and aggravation and hire the right assistant the first time. Today we’ll continue with: 1. Writing a Virtual Assistant Requirement Document 2. Posting the Requirement to a Virtual Assistant Hiring Portal 3. Searching and Filtering Candidates 4. Interviewing and Selecting a Candidate 5. Finalizing Terms 6. Completing the Hire …
