What Do You Need Most?
Ever since we launched the Help Without Hiring Toolkit, we’ve been hearing from people who are interested in partnering with us.
We’ve talked to companies that provide virtual assistants, people who do training for virtual assistants, organizations that match freelancers with gigs, consultants who help businesses use virtual teams, software companies that offer collaboration tools and software that helps business owners manage a virtual assistant or a virtual team, people who act as virtual office managers, authors of other ebooks relating to outsourcing, and others…
We’re trying to figure out who to partner with first.
Can you help us make the decision?
Here are some of the options we are looking at:
Free Virtual Assistant for a Month
Through partnering with one of the virtual assistant training programs, we could offer a virtual assistant intern who would work with you for free for a month.
You would probably get 10-20 hours of their time for free.
That should be enough time for them to do a few simple projects, so you can see if you like their work and want to continue working with them.
If you want to continue working with them, you would start paying them after the first month was over, probably at the rate of about $200-500/month (depending on the volume of work you want done). But if it didn’t work out, of course, there would be no obligation to continue.
For them, this is not a bad deal. In exchange for the free work, they gain experience working for an actual client - potentially someone who could be a good reference for them (and possibly refer other clients).
Does that sound like it would be useful to you?
If it does, is a month the right amount of time? Should it be more? Less?
Help Finding a Good Virtual Assistant
We’ve had several people offer to help match business owners with virtual assistants or freelancers.
In fact, one of the options is software that helps make a good match - so you are paired with someone whose personality meshes with yours.
Would that be useful?
Virtual Business Butler (or “Just Do It For Me”)
We’ve heard from a few people who have said “Why can’t you just do it for me?”
What they want is for someone to look at their business, see where they can outsource work, put together a plan to start doing that, bring on the right people, and manage the team.
Would that be something you’d want?
There are so many avenues we want to pursue and we’re not sure where to head next.
If you can help…
What would be the most useful thing to you in your business?
Which one of the 3 options above?
Or it could be something else entirely - if you have other ideas, I’d love to hear them…
Please feel free to post your answer as a comment below or email me directly at judy@proresource.com.
Thank you for your help!
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