How to Confidently and Successfully Use Virtual Assistants to Scale your Business – In Just 7 Minutes Barbara Turley

 Learn how a virtual assistant can help you accomplish everyday tasks that you simply may not have time to complete Know how to successfully delegate and scale your business by building your elite VA team Discover how to hire your first virtual assistant Resources/Links: http://www.thevirtualhub.com/leadsology Summary Barbara Turley is an investor, entrepreneur, and Founder & CEO of The Virtual Hub - a company that recruits, trains, and manages virtual assistants for businesses who need to free up time and energy so they can go to the next level. In this episode, Barbara shares the ins and outs, and the benefits of hiring a virtual assistant. If you have never hired a Virtual Assistant before, it could be hard to figure out where to begin. Barbara gives you a better picture of your starting point with your VA. Check out these episode highlights: 01:44 – Barbara's ideal client: Ideal client for us is anyone running a small to medium business. 02:08 – Problem she helps solve: A lot of the problem people were facing is they wanted to get a virtual assistant but really that's not the crux of the problem. A lot of the problem is training demands, onboarding a VA, managing a VA, and then making sure that your business is set up properly to get to the sense with offshore teams before you hire a VA. 03:24 – Typical symptoms that clients do before reaching out to Barbara: They may have tried outsourcing before. They may have tried and it has either failed or they tried and it was a roaring success but the person left and then they got failed after that because it's actually very hard to find good people. 04:57 – Common mistakes people make when trying to solve that problem: On the recruitment side when people go to other websites, they do it themselves. They underestimate the amount of work involved in trolling through and the numbers of people that you have to go through to hit a home run. 05:20 – Barbara's Valuable Free Action(VFA): This two technique: pictures and connections. Everything I want to remember becomes a picture and that picture becomes connected to an existing memory. 06:17 – Barbara's Valuable Free Resource(VFR): thevirtualhub.com/leadsology 07:28 – Q:'How's the English offshore?" A: English can be really missed. So just as someone speaks great English on the phone doesn't mean that they write great English. That’s a true one. Tweetable Takeaways from this Episode: “On the recruitment side, when people go to other websites, they do it themselves. They underestimate the amount of work involved in trolling through and the numbers of people that you have to go through to hit a home run.”…Click To Tweet “The other mistake people make is they underestimated how much work they need to do in their business to make sure that their business is ready for a virtual assistant or for a virtual team.” -@virtualhubltdClick To Tweet Transcript (Note, this was transcribed using a transcription software and may not reflect the exact words used in the podcast) Tom Poland: Hello everyone. A very warm welcome to another edition of Marketing The Invisible. My name is Tom Poland. Beaming out to us ever from on the sand next to the waves a Little Castaways Beach here in Queensland, Australia. Joined today by Barbara Turley. Barbara, a very warm good day. Welcome, and where are you hanging out? Barbara Turley: Hey Tom. Thanks for having me. So, I'm in a very wet Sydney today. So,