virtual-assistant

I am pleased to say that my online endeavours have got to such a point where my workload warrants getting extra help. I don’t want to go through the paperwork of hiring someone to work part time for me in the UK. I am a one man business and I want it to stay that way. I don’t want to have the responsibility of keeping someone in a job, especially in these difficult economic times.

As I don’t have enough hours to feed to a UK based person, I am going to take the plunge into Mumbai. It is clear that you get what you pay for with a virtual assistant, especially a Mumbai VA, and I have heard mixed reviews. Many people have told me “Mumbai is cheap but they take hours to do a job, and don’t always do it right”. However, without being too disrespectful, Indians are good natured and hard working people, and yes I could continue to pay my existing web developer £35+/hour with zero risk, knowing exactly what I get, but enterprise is all about risks and in my eyes there is no better validation of current business processes than a good bit of split testing.

So I am going to look at outsourcing these specific tasks:-

  • 50% Blog Posting for DailyEcoTips.com
  • Chunky data entry SEO tasks
  • Customer service emails for thejohnnyshop.co.uk
  • Graphic Design

I am not sure how this will turn out for me, and I will keep you posted. I am hoping to get a dedicated assistant for 20 hours a month, and will not settle for a situation where I deal with a different assistant every day, as I want to build up a working relationship with my assistant. My research at present is leading me to getfriday.com or taskseveryday.com. Does anyone have any experience with either of these? If so, i’d be delighted to hear from you.