A VA, or virtual assistant, can mean be one of many things. Think of them as an outsourced worked that can do just about anything you can train them to do from remote locations around the world. That means you can hire someone, or a few someones, in India, the Philippines, China, Thailand, or any other location around the world with cheap labor for less than half the hourly wage you would need to spend on an in-house employee.
So why should you get one? Well these are the reasons I want one.
I’d like a VA, number 1, to help me create/write content. It’s so god damn hard to find a decent writer that isn’t going to skip out on me. Over the past month, I’ve outsourced about 10,000 words of writing to 3-4 different writers. Only one writer completed their work, and submitted it about 3 days later than I expected. Lame as shit. The thing about the content I need is it doesn’t even need to be fantastic stuff, just original filler for a few SEO and hub sites. Most VAs in India and the Philippines have decent English language knowledge and can writer 500 – 1000 words per hour. It takes me 2 minutes to go through that much, correct any grammar and fix it. They get their hourly wage and I get my yummy content.
Research is the most boring part of the day. Digging further and further through keywords and ad targets can steal hours of your affiliate marketing life away. Get your VA to do that shit for you. Send the 10 links to offers you need researched. Hand them demographic site tools to help them find new, relevant targets for you. Give them access to your keyword tools and tell them to mine deep for keywords, and cut out the shit. As long as you aren’t hiring a 12 year old, they should be able to understand the difference between a good keyword/target and a bad one.
A virtual assistant can keep you up to date on important emails. Checking these damn emails all day wastes about an hour of my day. I get so much spam and emails like “Hey Justin! I was just wondering if you could teach me to make $15.93 a day. Thanks man TTYL LOLOLOLO OMGWTFBBQROFLCOPTER! – Steven”. Getting my VA to keep those email accounts open and checked for me gives me about an extra hour a day to spend playing xbo… Brainstorming new campaigns I mean. When I get an important message, he IMs me, summarizes it, and can even respond for me. The easy life, bro.
Optimization. Once I get a campaign set up, its basically a test of time and money to see if its going anywhere. With some of the stuff I’ve been doing lately, I get a lot of volume in just hours after being launched (We are talking x,xxx – xx,xxx clicks an hour). It takes a lot of time to sift through keywords and targets and getting rid of the fat that isn’t converting. That’s where Mr. India comes in. He constantly keeps his eyes on my campaigns and analytic software, pressin’ F5 every two minutes. He sees things that don’t convert, logs in to the traffic source, and pauses anything that sucks. I wake up and see Mr. India just saved me $1,000 by pausing that, and subsequently, I am now running a positive ROI because of that. Thank you, Mr. India. I send him a $20 bonus and everyone is happy!
Now there are a lot of problems you can run in to here. How do you train a VA if they don’t know what the hell you are talking about. How do you really trust someone with access to your financial info when they are halfway around the world. Can you really count on someone you don’t know and will probably never meet face-to-face? These are all questions you’ll have to confront, and something I am doing now.
With that said, if anyone is interested in working for me, or knows a good source to hire VAs, please let me know.
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Martin
are you on drug or somethin’? No outsourced VA could ever do that much, not even inhouse employee. Unless you’re really lucky…lol
TTYL LOLOLOLO OMGWTFBBQROFLCOPTER! – Martin
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Justin Dupre Reply:
October 27th, 2009 at 4:55 am
@Martin – Which is why you get 2 – 3. A smart VA could handle that shit on his own, just not a ton of volume.
@JT – I don’t think I want another affiliate looking at all my data. Someone who is more willing to work in the security of having a wage is better. I do a lot of PPV now, but also some other things.
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JT
Will you accept affiliates to be your VA?
I might be interested… I’m some experience with PPV… from the terms you used, it sounds like you’re doing PPV…
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Rosemary Zalewski
Hi Justin – I have a great selection of VAs from the Philippines. I hire about 1 in every 125 applicants. I aggressively screen, test, and train every one of them. As a VA service, I do all the HR stuff for you. Because I pay employees well, and am equally picky about the clients I take on, I’ve had great success with matching employees and clients. I’m glad to see that you understand the benefits of working with outsourced employees. Though my team can’t do 500 – 1000 words an hour (unless they are editing content that is produced by software), we do offer quality, unique content. We offer sample articles and will let you test the service for free. Call me at 877-241-2488, DM me at @virtualhires, or email me at rosemary@virtualhires.com.
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Jamie Johnson
Make sure your VA only works for you!
or else the va will be sharing with the next client and trust me lots of them do this
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Danger Brown
I definitely understand your need and desire to outsource, but I think to have someone pausing campaigns and so forth you either need to train them in person or be dealing with some kind of campaign management firm.
As you mentioned to @JT, the problem is that if someone really knows what they are doing they could easily horn in on your profits by running matching campaigns of their own.
Good luck with your search,
Danger
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Nigel
I prefer the Pinoys over Indians. I hired bunch of Indians and they trend to over promise and never delivers. It’s funny that some of them (Indians) would even lie to you that their father/mother or sister was admitted to hospital and they didn’t have time to complete the assignments in time.
I have had very bad experience with Indian workers and I’m surprised to see that you have found one that is reliable. Pinoys, on the other hand, are honest, hard working and even if it means that they’re going to work overtime without getting paid for the extra hours–they will get the work done and submitted on time.
Everyone might have a different view on this, but I’ll never hire another Indian again.
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Jamjam
Dont hire a ladyboy unless you want your emails with your male am’s ending with
Love,
Justin
or
Sexy Time,
Justin
or some gay shit lol
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