if you had 100 virtual assistants, what would you do?

Shoot

12 years ago

Fire them all and get a few real assistants.

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BJ Min

12 years ago

ok if you had a few real assistants, you would eventually want to scale up and have them hire and train others...so what TACTICS would you focus on to grow your business and make more money in your business...im looking to open up a discussion to share ideas that work TODAY...in terms of REALLY WORKING and making money.

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JohnD2000 12 years ago

Great question BJ. I'd probably segment the 90 or so left after the managers were chosen into work groups: content writers, link builders, site builders, etc. Then, I'd set some daily and weekly goals that would be monitored by the "management level" of those VAs.

The managers should have to synthesize the results into daily reports for me, and I'd make one of their jobs include quality control (checking links, reading content, etc.) and recommending layoffs.

My goal would be to eliminate the poorest performing 1/3 and incentivize the managers to boost efficiency. Review targets with managers and award them for the volume and quality of work they're able to get from the VA.

What the managers probably "shouldn't know" is that you're looking to eliminate the bottom 1/3 of them also. So, within the first few weeks you should be down to a lean mean machine of 7 managers managing 7 work groups of 10.

How does this sound?

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NACAdam

12 years ago

wow haha I could write out tasks for all of them
boom have 10 do manual backlinking
have 10 of them writing content
have 10 of them doing social media tasks
have 10 of them finding JV partners
have 10 of them creating video
have 10 of them submitting content
have 10 of them setting up software SEO campaigns
have 10 of them entertain me some how
have the last 10 work on improving business systems

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JasonGrimes

12 years ago

Originally Posted by NACAdam

wow haha I could write out tasks for all of them
boom have 10 do manual backlinking
have 10 of them writing content
have 10 of them doing social media tasks
have 10 of them finding JV partners
have 10 of them creating video
have 10 of them submitting content
have 10 of them setting up software SEO campaigns
have 10 of them entertain me some how
have the last 10 work on improving business systems

Exactly this, solid plan.

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johnjonas01 12 years ago

I like your plan but I think I'll also have 10 doing all the administrative and human resource stuff. I'd love to have a 100 VAs. But managing all of them....
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12 years ago

First of all I need to know who has the best outsources... please give me a shout.

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JaffeyApple

12 years ago

If I wanted my imagination to run wild with fantasies of 100 of something it would not be 100 VA's I can tell you. Now PA's hummmmm. What could I do with those

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ryanmilligan

Banned 12 years ago

Outsource everything and just be a project manager.

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mojojuju

12 years ago

I would choose 25 of the virtual assistants and give each of them their own 3 virtual assistants from the remaining 75 virtual assistants.

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wizzard74

12 years ago

I'd get rid of 99 of them

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Greg Jeffries 12 years ago

Originally Posted by wizzard74

I'd get rid of 99 of them

Likewise. I'd probably narrow them down to something like 5 or less if I wanted to manage them myself. And most likely even if I did that, I'd just communicate with one of them, who I'd make the project manager. I'd delegate all tasks and instructions to him, and require daily reports on tasks.
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DSTeam

12 years ago

Hi BJ, I think a more realistic approach for the average guy is to start with just one VA and go from there. I can't even imagine how much time it would take someone to screen through hundreds of applications just to come up with the final 100 VA's and then start the elimination process of those under-performing and so on.

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Zeus66

12 years ago

Rule the universe. Or, at least my chosen niches.

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CDarklock

12 years ago

Originally Posted by BJ Min

if you had 100 virtual assistants, would would you do?

Reconsider my business plan. Clearly I have hired personnel I don't need. If I needed them, I would know what to do with them.

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paul_1

12 years ago

Wow you can start a global movement with 100 VAs...

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Joseph Then

12 years ago

I'll make sure that I have enough cashflow to pay them monthly first before I do anything else.

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tmoby

12 years ago

Do I get to keep my other assistants?! What happens to them?! What experience do they have?! Are they nice people?! Is it free labour!? So many things I still need to know!!

But actually I would probably just use them to boost sales.

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Green Diamond

12 years ago

I would ask all of them to do what I do currently

My earning = 100 * My earning

Basically will train a few of them myself than let them to do it with others...Wow what a great network it will be in my imagination....LOL

Thanks for the fun

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buckz55 12 years ago

I would have them all post 10-20 ads a day on CL , so that's 2000 live ads a day... with a good campaign you can easily make a few thousand a day if your promoting a few pay per sale offers that convert at 2%-5%.
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meltingwaves

12 years ago

haha geez man a few of those assistants would have full time jobs managing the other ones. I don't know if I could manage that many. I'm looking to hire on one at the end of this year but 100? Whoa. That's an army lol

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revstan

12 years ago

Let them research KW's and create the most MNS' as possible a day. With this manpower, the succes lies in the quantity of the sites, not quality anymore as you are less limited with so much va's.

Simple Stan

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revstan

12 years ago

Originally Posted by johnjonas01

I like your plan but I think I'll also have 10 doing all the administrative and human resource stuff. I'd love to have a 100 VAs. But managing all of them....

Let a couple of the VA's manage the other VA's. Just give that job to the most competent VA you have.

Simple Stan

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ankur420420 12 years ago

I generally prefer real people in my team working at my office since managing virtual people is a pain

But if I had 100 virtual assistants,then 10 can be kept for managing their groups of 9 each

After this,their departments can be broken down to Link building,Content writing,Web Designing,PPC,Social Media,Email Marketing,Human Resources,Software Development etc

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Austin357

12 years ago

I would probably scale back to about 5 working directly with me on a regular basis. These 5 can expand their workload and subcontract out with their team but I hold the my main 5 accountable. I would be involved to review the backgrounds and work quality of everyone that joins our extended team.

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notek

12 years ago

groups - 10 in every group (content, promotion, seo etc.) - virtual assistant farm

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Banned 12 years ago

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bo4610

12 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeWike

Interesting thread.

I would..

30 - Backlinking strategy (driving traffic into websites)
30 - Writing Content
30 - Software/App developers
5 - Keyword researchers
5 - Browsing WF fore new methods etc...

This is a very good plan!

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TopBackBuilder

12 years ago

Assuming I had the funds for such a big team, I'd have 10 managers with teams proportionate to the work required, not just spread evenly, some jobs don't require as many people as others.

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Dann Vicker

12 years ago

I would assign 95 of them traffic generating tasks, in teams with each having one manager, and the other 5 will assist product creation. Traffic + Products to sell = Big bucks.

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bo4610

12 years ago

Originally Posted by BJ Min

hi guys,
just a quick question.

if you had 100 virtual assistants, would would you do?

im thinking what ideas are best to get them working on a MASS SCALE to build your business...what would you assign these guys?

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ps...obviously if you had 100 va's, you would want to assign 10 of them to manage 10 people each...so u only have to deal with the managers...just trying to come up with ideas on how to make the MOST out of having a big virtual assistant team.

I would say you first create a system, multiply your system, designate a number of VAs to each system and wolla!!! you have a bunch of passive income stream.

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Fernando Veloso

12 years ago

50 to call businesses.
50 divided in small teams of 5 (one leader), each team would address one particular item like design/coding/copywriting etc.

Something along these lines so that 50% of human force can create "work" for the rest.

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Cartellian

12 years ago

I would fire all of them because of how much time 100 VA's would take up to manage.

VA's are not valuable UNLESS YOU ALREADY HAVE A SYSTEM IN PLACE THEY CAN MANAGE.

You have the cart in front of the horse here... I'm all about dreaming big, but do-so intelligently so that you may actually synthesize ideas that will help you and your business right now.

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Duc

12 years ago

Interesting question

But in order to answer, I must know what your goal is; what skills you have; and how much they cost.
If Pareto rule apply 20 of them will create 80% of the value. -> So fire 80
If individual potential counts, look for special talents in each. -> assign tasks according to strenghts
If you want profit and don't know what to do with them, auction their service & work time.
If giving back to the warrior forum is what you have in mind, offer their service for free in this forum ->

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IMHunter

12 years ago

I would use them for many things like creating and promoting websites, Facebook Marketing, Twitter Marketing, YouTube Marketing, Forum Marketing etc.

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WebPen

12 years ago

Hire one more and then film a movie called 101 VAs.

Oh and the villain will be called Googela Devil

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theemperor

12 years ago

I'd let them go, as they would be redundant to requirements.

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Quattro

12 years ago

you use them to offer services like:
- customer support (i.e. for product launches)
- writing articles
- link building services

if you do it right, you can make a decent profit from this.

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excloc 12 years ago

Just one question, how much would you guys be paying one VA?
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- tantivy 12 years ago
  
  i say make the first 10 team leaders, then as someone here said give each 9 members.... the members do all the work, the team leaders check and do quality control on them.
  
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  PatriciaJ 12 years ago
  
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  I would be happy with 5 and an assistant in my office to run them. Instead of the other 94 someone to do my housework would be much appreciated.
  
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TCrosby

12 years ago

Some people have hit on key concepts I would use, but I think several of them need to be combined.

1. Adopt to a business model which allows for maximum use of outsourcing, and minimum personal requirements (Adsense, Amazon)

2. We discussed forming subteams (say 10 managers each with 9 people under them), and also splitting people such as 10 writers, 10 backlinkers 10... etc....

The best way to do this, I believe, is to make that subdivision under EACH manager.

So we have 10 managers, each of which has:
3 writers
3 backlinkers
1 wordpress/graphics guy
2 social media guys

This way I could give each manager a new site to launch, and they can take care of the entire project just within their team.

That being said, I would only do that with maybe 5-6 teams.

1 team would be entirely researching and testing new niches.
2-3 teams of developers working on products for platforms such as iphone, wp plugins, etc

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PhilippaWrites

12 years ago

I'd wonder wth I'd done and sadly sack 97 of them, with profuse apologies and an explanation that I had no idea what they were doing there.

It would take me a good 12 months to think up non-stupid tasks for 100 people.

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TCrosby

12 years ago

Another thought.....

The guy at nichepursuits.com made 20 adsense sites in one month like 6 months ago (Case study) and they now make about $2000 a month in total.

If you had ten teams (each which had writers, backlinkers, etc), each team could easily create 1 of these sites per week.

You could 40 adsense sites per month being made (each could easily have 20-50 articles scheduled to post over the next year).

If each site could average $4 a day, that is a $58k yearly income you created in a month.

That for 12 months? 690k yearly income created.

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sundown16

12 years ago

take the world over...
they would

backlink till the cows come
create enuff content to shake the search engines
do the social stuff to make me a star
hunt high and low for keyword magic
and.. butter my toast in the morning

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Brooke Milt

12 years ago

I would die and go to heaven :-D once that was accomplished I would have them all begin work on putting together authority niche sites. Wash rinse and repeat.

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12 years ago

Unleash them on an Insane Social Application development project

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Bluestarace

12 years ago

70 will create content
20 will submit the content and create backlinks
10 will supervise all of them

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TryBPO

12 years ago

We have more than 10 agents right now that work on our niche sites...and they have dozens of contractors that work for them all over the world. Not to mention...I have two "house managers" that run the house, take care of the laundry, cook the food, pay the contractors, etc.

Answer = Live in the Philippines! :-)

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