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How Long Should You Spend Training Your New Virtual Assistant?
You’ve decided it’s time to hire a VA. You want someone who can handle some of your work to free you up to handle other things. So how long should you spend training your new virtual assistant?
Figure on spending at least a month.
I know, I know. I can hear you already.
“A month? Are you kidding me? I’m hiring you because I need someone to free up my time! And now you’re telling me that I need to invest even more time into training you before you can free up the time I already don’t have?”
Yes, that’s what I’m telling you. But before you throw up your hands and decide that maybe you should just keep plugging along on your own, let me explain why you should invest this month, and what this month of training will give you in the end.
Why You Should Spend a Month Training Your New Virtual Assistant
Just like a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, a virtual assistant is only as good as her client.
A virtual assistant’s job is to make your life easier. Consider these situations:
- You archive emails; your virtual assistant deletes them
- You send a weekly newsletter and prefer it to go out on…
