Good experiences?
Bad experiences?
I need somebody to call some local businesses during business hours to find a part for me.
WIA
Bad experiences?
I need somebody to call some local businesses during business hours to find a part for me.
WIA
Quote: (07-16-2014 10:54 AM)VincentVinturi Wrote:
With VAs the main thing is to hire from Phils. Forget about India and Bangladesh.
Sure they work cheap but they half ass everything and need to be babysat.
Pinoys and Pinays know how to think like Westerners and can own projects way better if you give them the room.
Obviously their English is good too.
I hired all my VAs on oDesk.
Quote: (07-20-2014 03:04 PM)ADarkerNight Wrote:
I have a few that I use to manage various business bits, do research, and handle some personal matters.
The most important thing I've learned from using VAs is to hire fast, fire fast. For every top-notch one that I've retained, I've fired 5.
I could write a pretty in-depth data sheet on hiring and using VAs if there is interest in that kind of thing.
Quote: (12-11-2014 09:43 PM)Dr. Howard Wrote:
I'm also bringing this thread back to life. I'm looking for a virtual or real assistant. I need phones and email answered and thats about it. My last choice would be a white college girl.
Anyone have an good, US based assistant or virtual assistant experiences or recommendations. I know there are Phils choices but those chicks would be working through the night their time and that accent can be a little weird for me.
Quote: (07-16-2014 10:54 AM)VincentVinturi Wrote:
With VAs the main thing is to hire from Phils. Forget about India and Bangladesh.
Sure they work cheap but they half ass everything and need to be babysat.
Pinoys and Pinays know how to think like Westerners and can own projects way better if you give them the room.
Obviously their English is good too.
I hired all my VAs on oDesk.
Quote: (12-15-2014 12:31 AM)pialo Wrote:
Quote: (07-16-2014 10:54 AM)VincentVinturi Wrote:
With VAs the main thing is to hire from Phils. Forget about India and Bangladesh.
Sure they work cheap but they half ass everything and need to be babysat.
Pinoys and Pinays know how to think like Westerners and can own projects way better if you give them the room.
Obviously their English is good too.
I hired all my VAs on oDesk.
I concur. i've used an Indian VA to do simple tasks (copy website data) with comprehensive instructions with illustrations etc and they have still managed to fuck it up.
I also work in a company where they have outsourced some of their services to an Indian service provider and its the same thing. Give clear guidelines and they still screw it up.
Might check out oDesk as I have heard Filipinos are great workers.