How to Find, Hire and Work with a Virtual Assistant with Alicia M Forest and LauraLee Sparks

Would you like to have some help with running your business?

Think you can't afford it?

Well, I'm here to tell you that you CAN get high-quality help that you can't afford NOT to have if you want to own a truly successful business.

If you know anything about my story, you know that when I first started out in my consulting business that I thought I'd be spending most of my time working with clients.

However, I quickly realized that if I ever wanted to get those clients, I actually had to spend most of my time marketing my business.

Even with a marketing background, that wasn't always the easiest thing for me to do... and soon I found myself mired in the administrative details of running my business, instead of working with clients and cultivating new relationships with potential clients.

I quickly became overwhelmed and frustrated by my lack of forward movement with my business. Everything just seemed to take so long to do and I often felt like I was spinning my wheels. I would end a work day feeling like I'd hardly accomplished a thing.

And I wasn't - or at least I wasn't accomplishing anything that was bringing any additional income into my busines. I was answering customer service emails, updating my web pages, loading autoresponders, taking registrations for my teleseminars, taking payments - you name it, I was doing it. And all of those administrative tasks were eating away at the little time I had to work - being a fulltime mom as well as a business owner - on actual profit-producing tasks.

At the time, I had heard of Virtual Assistants (V.A.’s are business owners who service other business owners like you and I by taking care of all the "busy work" and more, from their own offices, on an as-needed basis.)

Even my coach at the time was encouraging me to hire someone to help me move things along much faster and easier, but I didn't think I could afford one.

I also felt that I could just do things more quickly and easily myself, so why pay someone to do it for me?

Does that sound familiar?

Then there finally came a turning point where I just couldn't do it all anymore by myself. I was getting nowhere fast and my business was suffering from my lack of being able to delegate.

So, I bit the bullet and started looking around for the right Virtual Assistant for my business. I knew what I was looking for, but I had really hard time finding it, even after getting dozens of responses to my request for help. I was getting more and more frustrated and actually stopped looking for awhile and continued doing it all myself.

But it soon became clear that I was going to have to hire someone to help me, even if it was to do just one simple task to get it off my plate. So I did.

And things haven't been the same since!

I started with one Virtual Assistant to help me with one task and now I have two who help me run my business much more efficiently and effectively (with A LOT less stress on my shoulders!).

Let's just say that hiring my first Virtual Assistant DOUBLED my income the first month, and that flow has only increased since then. Obviously, that more than covers the cost of her services. But having someone else to count on to get things done and get them done even better than I can do them myself is priceless.

Once I had my VA in place, it freed up my time to focus on the things that really matter in continuing to grow my business...

working with clients, marketing, creating new products and programs, writing ~

all the stuff I really enjoy and that keeps me excited about what it is that I do.

My frustration and overwhelm quickly disappeared and I'm back to being just as passionate about my business as ever.

A lot of my clients have asked me about hiring a VA - how did I find mine, what tasks do they work on for me, how does the virtual relationship work, etc. So I decided to interview one top-notch Virtual Assistant, LauraLee Sparks of A Simple Solution, to answer ALL your questions about how to find, hire and work with your own VA.

The amount of time you'll give back to yourself by adding a VA to your team will astound you - after working with my VA for a couple of months, I actually had some moments when I thought "Gee, I have nothing to do..." because she had taken so many of the little things of my plate that had been taken up hours of my time. What a relief!

Here's just a sampling of what you'll get from this fun and informative program:

How to know when you’re ready to get your first assistant!

How a VA is different than a traditional secretary, temp, or secretarial service, and why that's good news for you

What types of things a VA can (and can't or won't) do for you.

Where to find the most qualified VAs to suit your specific needs

What skills, knowledge and traits you should look for when hiring a VA

The MAJOR mistakes most people make when hiring a VA

How much money you should expect to pay a VA

The biggest benefits to working with a VA, including specific examples of how a VA can help you grow your business

How I personally work with my own VAs

Which tasks to hand off, which to keep for yourself, and why

How to communicate and train your VA, effeciently and effectively

What you MUST know about your VA before you hire her/him

How and what to start delegating immediately

How a VA can eliminate the technical frustrations of running your business

How to use your VA to make more money for you both!

60-Minute Audio Program, VA Delegation Checklist, and a Special BONUS...