Your VA's Daily Activity?

To be fair I could do that in around 4hrs back when I first started IM. However if you hired the VA's from elance or freelance they should have experience so I would say it's a fair amount of work.

Good luck!

I would say that a VA would only need 3 to 4 hours to accomplish all the tasks you listed. Everything that you listed needs them to move their mouse and tick the keyboard. Do you plan to add some more tasks?

Give them more work and see what happens.

Seriously though, try to build as good a relationship with them as possible. If you're wondering if they can take on more work, why not just ask them if they're capable of doing more?

If they say no, but you get the feeling they're slacking/have major downtime, give them a chance to step it up by gradually giving them more work.

People work at different speeds. I feel as long as their actions are making you money then you don't have much to worry about.

Regards,
Chris

from my experience, you will know yourself how long to complete the task. for me, i always ask for a daily update on what has been done by the worker.

if you think that they are not working enough, just use a time tracking software to check whether they are working or not. than you will know, if they are doing the work, or just browsing the internet such as watching youtube and checking facebook.

- Azlan

Definitely good to set objectives, but if you just measure objectives the VA might try and get too cleaver or do it in a way that isn't really effective for your site. If you can ultimately check how much traffic you get to your site from these activities that is great.

I don't think this is a light schedule. Submitting blog comments depends on how well you submit them, and where you submit them. If you're talking about 20 submits that's easy, if you're talking about 20 confirmed links to your site, that's more difficult

I agree with Azlan, it is really important for VA's and freelancers alike to use a time tracking software. It does not only let you monitor your employee's billable hours but their computer activity as well while they are working.

Elance lets you use a time tracking software. Why don't you use it?

Here's a great way to figure it out...try it out yourself!

Seriously, for anyone looking to outsource some work, actually doing the work yourself first and understanding it is critically important. You'll better be able to judge the time they're spending on tasks, answer questions as they learn the process, etc.

For anyone looking for a cheap/easy way to monitor their progress, consider looking at HiveDesk. (No affiliation) You can put in their hourly rate to help with payroll, the system will take random screenshots so you can monitor their work, etc. We use this with all of our staff...quite helpful!

To be honest your VA's daily assignments is purely based on the requirements of your business and not what other people do.

For example the only VA's I have are content spinners. All of the SEO/link building tasks I have personal and full control of. But that is because my wealth of knowledge and experience cannot be replicated through training and I like to have full control of anything that directly impacts my sites.

I dont use any time tracking software, I know roughly how long a task should take and I realise that I work a lot quicker and efficiently than most people so I always allow a bit more time.

For example I know that if I send a VA 3x 500 word articles in a full working day for each article they can write 2 alternative sentences for each sentence, spin all the words/phrases where it makes sense to do so and write/spin 15 alternative titles.

As long as they produce 15 of those in a week (3 per day) I dont care what hours they work. The tasks get assigned on a Sunday night and they must all be delivered by the following Sunday night.