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Can You Hire A Virtual Assistant On Commission Only?

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Can you hire a virtual assistant on commission – and commission only? In this video, we’ll discuss whether you can hire a virtual assistant on commission-only structure – and if it’s even a good idea.

The reality is, unless you are in a sales or similar-type role, it’s going to be tough to tie a commission-only structure to your virtual assistant.

Most of the time, the majority of the tasks are not going to have a performance-like incentive that is glaringly obvious like sales. Depending on the exact role that you want to hire a virtual assistant for, you may be able to hire a virtual assistant on a commission only structure.

However, before you begin the hiring process, you should lay out clear KPI + performance structure that aligns the incentive of your employee with the role they are going to hold in your company.

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Why You Should Stop Hiring “Virtual Assistants”

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You should stop hiring “Virtual Assistants” and start hiring people for specific, defined roles.

In reality, a virtual assistant is an easy way to just slap any ol’ job title and task onto somebody and call it a day. Rather than defining a job with clear roles, rules, KPIs, and expectations, instead you just expect somebody to “figure out” anything and everything you ever need them to do. That’s something that’s reserved for an executive assistant.

This is why most business owners who are hiring a virtual assistant are doomed to fail – they can’t even tell you WHAT a virtual assistant is.

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Business Owner Is Saving $200,000 Year By Hiring From Ukraine

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In this HireUA case study, Alex talks about how he hired a Client Success Manager and WordPress Dev…

…and is saving somewhere between $160,000-$200,000 per year between the two roles.

Crazy, isn’t it?

Hiring from Ukraine is extremely cost effective while also keeping the ability to get very high-level people. People who can think for themselves. People who can solve problems. People who want to grow and prosper at a company long-term. Especially since the war with Russia has started — hiring from Ukraine is a great opportunity. Remote, high-paying Western jobs makes a huge difference in the lives of the individuals, as well as the local economy itself in Ukraine.

If you’re looking to place incredible people into your business, click here to learn how HireUA works in 8 minutes.

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How Dakota Robertson Saves 20 Hours A Week With His VA

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In this video, we chat to HireUA Client Dakota Robertson about his recent experience hiring a virtual assistant via HireUA. He reckons he’s saving 20 hours a week (and a whole lot of the green stuff) by working with his new new VA.

Dakota talks about how his new virtual assistant, Kate, has been a godsend for his business. Paying her has been simple, the communication throughout the interview process was simple, and it’s been a smooth ride overall.

Hiring For Social Media Purposes

Dakota Robertson’s VA has been repurposing social media content — i.e. turning tweets into LinkedIn posts, engaging with potential clients, and running/engaging with his community, Growth Ghost.

In addition, compared to cheaper hires from other countries, his virtual assistant from Ukraine requires less supervision, hand-holding, and has a better grasp/understanding of critical situations. Kate’s saving him 10-20 hours a week, allowing him to focus on higher-leverage tasks and ultimately, make more money.

Ultimately, while social media is very profitable for many businesses these days, it’s easy for it to be a time-suck. Most business owners would be much better off focusing on outputting more content and then handing the reigns off to somebody else to do the management of said content.

Scheduling posts out, making sure the descriptions and tags are correct, and of course, re-purposing it to other channels is all very time-consuming and not a very high-leverage task.

You should write or create once, and publish everywhere.

But that doesn’t mean you should be doing all of the publishing and managing yourself.

It just doesn’t make sense.

To hire a Virtual Assistant like Kate, just click here.

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Andre Haykal Jr. On How To Hire An Amazing Inbox Manager

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In this HireUA client interview, Andre Haykal Jr. of KnowledgeX and Client Ascension shares how he hired a rockstar Inbox Manager from Ukraine.

She’s done so well in the business that he ended up paying her a 50% bonus for booked calls in just her first month on the job.

KnowledgeX is a cold email lead generation agency that focuses on personalization to help clients get more booked calls and ultimately attract more clients. As KnowledgeX has scaled up, handling requests from many clients became a huge bottleneck. Andre was spending a large portion of his day managing the inboxes himself — but with him running multiple companies, responding in a timely manner became a huge bottleneck.

He attempted to hire for the role himself, but had trouble finding the right person at the right price.

The role needed someone with strong sales experience and an excellent grasp of English, which was tough to find in the United States while still keeping a healthy margin on the service itself.

Andre had a few doubts about whether any foreigner could handle a job with such an emphasis on written English, but was happy to proven wrong.

andre haykal jr interview

Hiring An Inbox Manager

In general, hiring an Inbox Manager is very tough for agencies. You need somebody with…

  1. Sales experience
  2. Excellent English
  3. Who just “gets it” — every response and every potential lead is going to be in a box

It’s not “customer service” where there’s dozens of pre-canned responses for every situation…

Inbox Management is much more of a process that requires specific nuance, sales experience, and of course — nearly perfect written English. This makes it a very tough hire for businesses who prefer to hire overseas to keep costs down.

More Information About Andre Haykal Jr.

Watch Kyle’s appearance on Andre and his business partner’s podcast, Stick Talk at the link below:

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