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Virtual Freedom
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Virtual Freedom

How to Work with Virtual Staff to Buy More Time, Become More Productive, and Build Your Dream Business

Chris Ducker
BenBella, 2014

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Businesspeople often seek to make their operations more virtual, migrating work online to save money, be more efficient, and free their time to strategize and build their companies. Going virtual can include hiring virtual assistants (VAs): capable, hardworking freelancers who often live in other countries – most notably, the Philippines. Finding, selecting, training and managing foreign, long-distance workers can be challenging. Most VAs speak a different language, live in a different culture and have different attitudes about work. Chris Ducker, known as the “Virtual CEO,” explains how to recruit and work with VAs. His knowledgeable manual offers useful guidelines, handy checklists and an extensive resources section. getAbstract recommends Ducker’s insights, pragmatic advice and easily applicable methods to the self-employed, small-business owners, start-ups, entrepreneurs and anyone considering employing an offshore VA.

Take-Aways

  • Entrepreneurs should hire virtual assistants (VAs) to handle administrative tasks.
  • VAs who do quality work could live locally or overseas.
  • VAs help entrepreneurs build their businesses by freeing them from day-to-day tasks.

About the Author

Chris Ducker, known as the “Virtual CEO,” consults on virtual-staffing strategies.

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