Welcome to Part Two of our Virtual Assistant Domination Series! Last episode we talked about where to find virtual assistants, and today we’re going to get into the nitty gritty of training VAs.

If you can properly train your VAs, you are going to seriously leverage your time. Whatever you don’t have time to do in your business, a VA can easily pick up the slack. They can be the person you pass the ball to when there’s just too much on your plate. You just have to prepare them for the job, and that means giving the proper training.

For us, proper training is done with what we call a “video training library”. We share the tech we use to make these videos and how to share them with virtual assistants across the globe. What’s great about these videos is that they give you something you can use over and over again to train new assistants. Training videos also create a line of communication between you and your assistants, which is absolutely necessary if you want to have a successful VA.

Communication is critical to having success with your VAs, no matter where you find them. There are so many tech tools you can use to keep up with your VAs and talk to them in real time, and we share a couple of our favorites today. With so much technology at your fingertips, there’s no reason not to get a virtual assistant. Technology makes it so much easier to manage and communicate with a virtual team, and your real estate business has the chance to grow exponentially if you just try it out.

MINUTE MARKERS

2:04 What’s Cory’s favorite podcasting app?

2:50 The weather is getting a little weird

4:54 How to leverage your time with a VA

6:30 Joe’s Training Philosophy

8:34 The tech Joe uses to train new VAs

13:46 The safest way to share your personal information with VAs

19:16 Creating a video training library

21:00 Joe shares his Podio on this podcast for the first time ever!

27:40 Where to find high-quality and affordable VAs

33:10 What is a daily check-in and scorecard?

34:55 Communication is critical

38:27 Tune in next time for Part 3 of our Virtual Assistant Domination trilogy!

39:20 We answer questions on Facebook Live

QUOTES

Whenever you’re giving tasks to a VA, it’s got to be measurable. You need to figure out some way to measure it so that you know it’s being done.

What you want in a virtual assistant is a driver, they take responsibility and then they have accountability.

RESOURCES

Screencast-O-Matic

Upwork

Vumber

Dropbox

Podio

VA Servant

Fiverr

Reedsy

Slack