KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCASTWhen it comes to hiring your first virtual assistant the most common objection is that you don’t think you can afford it. If you don’t stop doing those tasks that allow you to hire a virtual assistant, you’ll never be able to afford it. You must hire a VA first to get there. Even if you’re not incredibly profitable, it’s still a great investment.When working out whether or not you need a virtual assistant, write down the tasks you do every single day and think whether or not you are the only person that can do them. If not, you may want to consider hiring a VA. Think about whether or not these tasks are worth your hours.If you want to teach your VA how to do the tasks that you’re doing daily, screen record yourself doing those tasks and talk yourself through it. It takes no extra time to what you’re already doing, but it means you have a training video for any assistants you bring on board.When you place your VA job advertisement you must detail everything from the start. Make sure you make it clear they’re going to grow with your business, and that you want them to prove they’re the right person for the job. The best way to do this is to include a list of tasks you want applicants to complete in your job advertisement. Not only does it test their ability to follow instructions, but it shows you what skills they have.Once they have completed their tasks, you can narrow it down to those that you want to use and interview them. After your interviews, you can bring one of two VA’s on board for a PAID trial. Make it very clear what you want them to do in your trial and link them to the training videos you have already created.You must be making your virtual assistant feel as though they’re a valued member of your team. Do whatever you can to make them feel valued.THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE…One of the best ways you can succeed with a virtual assistant is to consider them as someone you want to grow with you as a business. You need to show them that they are of value.HIGHLIGHTS YOU SIMPLY CAN'T MISSIntroducing Jen Lenher – 13:51Alexa Flash Briefings – 19:00Hiring Your First Virtual Assistant – 21:57When A Virtual Assistant Becomes Much More – 29:00Finding Those Tasks You’re Repeating Daily and Training Your VA – 30:42Writing Your Job Advertisement and Using A Trial Period To Find The Perfect VA - 35:06Valuing Your VA - 46:00LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY'S EPISODEJen’s One Hour Workshop On Hiring A VAJen’s Podcast EpisodeJen’s Blog PostJen’s InstagramJen’s TwitterJen's communityTranscript below Hello and a super warm welcome to this week’s episode of the podcast. How are you? I have just come back from two weeks away in the states having attended two different conferences. The first one was the Kajabi Summit, Kajabi Impact Summit, sorry. And that was a three day event in Irvine in California and it was run by Kajabi and they used their customers as speakers but boy did they have the best customers. Like when if I was to write a dream list of people I would want to watch on a stage, they probably had the same list. It was amazing so much so I decided to write a blog post about the summit and how good it was. I reviewed briefly the speakers and also wrote kind of what was their key takeaway or their key point and their learnings. So if you do want to go and have a look at that, I’m going to hook that up in the show notes for today because I never write blog posts or I rarely write them because I don’t like writing as you well know.. Hence why I have a podcast. But I was so compelled because it was so good and I knew I wouldn’t be home for a few weeks and I knew I...

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