In this week’s episode I want to talk to you about outsourcing and bringing on a virtual assistant. I’m going to tell you all the benefits of bringing on a virtual assistant, and how it will actually make you more money.KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCASTIf you are doing a task in your business more than twice, you shouldn’t be doing it.Every time you are doing a task that you don’t have to do in your business, you are paying your hourly rate.If a task is not your zone of genius or it is a process, you don’t have to do it!You do not have to do everything in your business.In the UK, you can expect to pay anything from £25-£40 per hour for a VA depending on experience. In the Philippines, you can expect to pay between $5-$15 per hour.You don’t have to have a full time VA, they can do as many hours as you need.VAs can get things done so much quicker than you can.Different people can do different things, no one can do absolutely everything.You have to make sure you are managing your team and giving them enough work to do.THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE…You do not have to do EVERYTHING in your business, you can outsource it. Whilst they are doing those tasks, you can focus on the things that only you can do.HIGHLIGHTS YOU SIMPLY CAN'T MISSWhat is a virtual assistant? 05:00You do not have to do everything! 05:35My VA experience 12:00Hiring a Filipino VA 13:42The cost of hiring a VA 19:20Working with a VA 23:56LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAYS EPISODEBen Bellamy Katie Podcast EpisodePhilippines Online JobsSlackLoomTranscript below Hi and welcome to this week's episode of the podcast. How are you doing? So I just want you to pitch it for a second. I'm sat in my office, windows open. I've got a fan that blaring at my feet. I'm hoping you can't hear that too much. And I'm slowly melting. Now I am really not one to complain about the weather, but I just really struggle when it's humid. I love the heat. I don't like sitting in my office melting and slowly my makeup falling off my face because it's so warm. So that's where I am today. Recording this podcast episode. And I'm recording it late again. The team are so very kind and gracious to me because obviously these last few weeks have been somewhat crazy and hectic, and I am still only just getting back into the swing of things. But the other thing that's happened is obviously when mum was poorly and died and obviously I'm seeing my dad an awful lot, make sure he's okay. I was basically putting everything on hold. So there was calls. I should have done interviews. I should have done me being interviewed and all these various things. And now of course, I've pushed them all back and they're all in my diary at once. So my days, are crazy busy as well as I've literally just come back from seeing my dad just to make sure he's all good. So it has been a little bit of a busy few weeks, but I'm hoping now to get ahead, which would be good. However, during this crazy time, something kind of cool has finished. A project has finished for us here. And that is my new website. Now I am a huge advocate of you still having a website it's still really, really important. And next week, we've got an interview where we talk about websites and we talk about some of the things...

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