9 Reasons To Hire A Virtual Assistant from The Philippines!

hey what's up everyone paul here from dropshippingtitans. com and in this video i'm going to cover nine reasons why i think everyone at some point should be hiring a virtual assistant to help them with their ebay or amazon business so if you're not familiar with what a virtual assistant or va is these are individuals that you hire and they usually live in other countries like the philippines where the cost of living is much lower so you can pay them you know between two dollars and four dollars an hour that's a livable wage for them but it's also a bargain for you so it's really a win-win situation so i want to kind of cover nine reasons why you might want to hire one to help you before i do that i do want to let you know that this video is being sponsored by onlinejobs. ph which is where i hire all my virtual assistants from and we'll go more into why that is in a few moments so the first reason why you might want to hire a virtual assistant is because they're going to do tasks for you that you don't like to do so let's get real like there are some things in our businesses on ebay or amazon that we just don't like to do so for me i hate fulfilling orders so when i got sick of doing it i hired a virtual assistant and had him do it and that allowed me to focus more time on the tasks that i did like doing like listing items for instance that was a big game changer for me because i went from starting to feel like i was hating my business to loving it again and that really can make a big difference to your sales as well because when you like what you do it really makes a impact on the way that you run your business and how well your sales are on any platform so that's the number one reason for me why i started hiring virtual assistants so that they could do stuff that i didn't want to do but there were a ton of other benefits that came with it so the second thing the second reason you might want to hire vas is because it allows your store to grow if you are spending all your time doing these routine repetitive tasks over and over again like fulfilling orders you're spending less time growing your business think about it if you hire a virtual assistant on a full-time basis and you don't have to do it full-time right away you could hire a va part-time but let's say you're hiring one full-time you've just doubled the number of hours that are being put into your store in a matter of the hour it takes you to hire a virtual assistant that's it you've just doubled your the amount of work going into your store and that makes a huge difference especially when they're doing the kind of everyday tasks that don't move the needle forward don't grow your business and allows you to focus more on growing your business so that's the second reason why hiring a virtual assistant is a really powerful move to make the third reason is because it allows you to take a step back right there are times when we don't want to work on our business so much or we're going to go on vacation and having virtual assistants who can run your store while you've kind of taken a step back that is a pretty amazing feeling so my virtual assistants have run my stores for me while i was on vacation before and the reason i'm sitting in my car right now is because we recently had a hurricane kind of breeze past florida where i live south florida it was supposed to hit us it didn't quite hit us but we have all the storm shutters on the windows i've been running around like a lunatic the past few days getting water getting food getting supplies in anticipation of this category 5 hurricane that thank goodness didn't hit us but was supposed to hit us so while i was running around i wasn't focused on my business right i was more focused on my own safety and the safety of my family as well but it was great that my virtual assistants knew what to do they're really well trained and they were able to run my stores without me even being present there with them so there's still storm shutters up on my windows so inside my house is really dark so that's why i'm in the car where the light's a lot better right here so that's kind of the third reason is because it allows you to stay take a step back either because you want to enjoy parts of your life and not focus so much on running your business or because you have more important things to take care of like maybe hurricanes coming so the fourth reason why you should hire a virtual assistant is because they have a ton of experience so this isn't like you're hiring someone off the street and training them from the ground up these

virtual assistants a lot of them have college degrees they're highly educated and a lot of them have worked on ebay and amazon stores for years now so during the interview process you can ask them about their experience make sure they have experience doing the tasks that you want them to do that way they can come in and just hit the ground running and start helping you right away so that brings me to the next reason why you should consider hiring a virtual assistant is because you can learn from them i've learned a ton from my virtual assistants so like i said they have experience they've done this before and during the training process when i've been training virtual assistants i've had some of them ask me well why do you do it this way when this way is easier i look at them or i look at the message and i say you know what you're right that way is easier i'm really glad you told me about that or they tell me about different opportunities right they might say well why don't you start drop shipping from this website and yada yada and all that information the more you know it really does help you and if you allow them to kind of give you that feedback and give you those recommendations you can learn a lot from them that can really help your business out a lot so that's the next reason why i think everyone at some point should hire a virtual assistant the sixth reason why i think everyone should consider hiring a virtual assistant is because it will be so empowering for you once you hire someone you are now a boss literally you're a boss and that comes with maybe it's a little bit of ego in there but it feels really good to have a team behind you a team that you hired that you trained that work for you it really helps you feel really more confident about yourself and about your business as well especially when those virtual assistants are invested in the way that you run your business in your businesses as well because look the more money that you make the more sustainable that your stores are the more money they're going to make and the longer they are going to have a job which they want so when you build a team like that it feels really good so the next reason why i think you should be hiring virtual assistants is because you can find virtual assistants who are very loyal to you like i said they want you to succeed because if you succeed you continue to pay them money and that's what they want to see now another reason you would want to hire virtual assistants is because if you hire the right virtual assistants if you go through the right vetting process if you train them bring them in gradually you can trust them and i know this is hard for a lot of people where they don't think they can trust these people who live in the philippines you've never met them how can you trust them with your ebay password for instance well the first thing you gotta know is you don't always have to give them every password right off the bat there's ways to have them work on your accounts in your stores without giving them full access to everything but at some point just like with any employee that you hire the more you work with them the longer they work for you the more you begin to trust each other and there will come a time where you'll probably feel comfortable giving them your password to your ebay account for instance i've done that personally and it's been such a game changer because they can now take care of more of my business for me without me having to kind of find these ways around having them help me so if you find the right ones you can trust the virtual assistants the next reason why i think that everyone at some point should consider hiring virtual assistants is because they can replace you and that's a good thing replace you in a good way a lot of people fear that if they hire virtual assistants the virtual assistants are just going to steal all their ideas and start their own businesses and i have feared that before hypothetically that is possible but it's never happened to me and i've hired and trained and gone through many virtual assistants i have many friends who have done that as well i've never heard of it happening and i think the reason for that is because some people want to own their own businesses like you and i do and others want to work for other people and that's where their strengths lie and that's what they feel more comfortable doing so they're not going to start their own businesses and you know i say if they do start their own business good for them right it's never going to be an exact copycat of what i do so i'm just happy for them that they are you know going out there and you know making a difference in their life but like i was saying they can replace you in your own company so this month i've been super focused on hiring a team of virtual assistants to do that for me and i've kind of shaken things up i've told my virtual assistants who have worked for me look things are going to change around here i'm no longer going to be the bottleneck the way i had it set up in the past every problem that existed

had to come back to me and i don't want that anymore i've hired one va who's kind of the supervisor and she takes care of everything she's replacing me she's going to be able to have discretion to answer questions without having to come to me and all the other virtual assistants have to answer her and some of the virtual assistants weren't comfortable with that so they left or they weren't comfortable with the new rules i set so they're gone but i've hired new ones that have been very experienced so i didn't have to start from the ground up and they're all working together now as a team and i'm less and less involved in my business so that when i have a hurricane like i did recently i can take a step back and know that things are going to be taken care of and the final point i want to make here is that hiring a virtual assistant is the biggest win-win like i alluded to in the beginning if you're hiring a virtual assistant for two to four dollars an hour then that allows you to be able to hire multiple people to run your business for the cost of one person here in the united states now this is where online jobs comes in the website i was telling you about before which i will have links to down below onlinejobs. p is one of the best websites i found out there actually it is the best website i found out there for hiring virtual assistants that fit all the criteria i kind of went through you know experience loyalty being able to trust them and just having ones that are team players and want to help you out and they tend to have much lower prices than other websites because of the way that they are set up so with other websites when you hire a virtual assistant through them they are going to charge you a fee every time you pay your virtual assistant and it adds up it ends up costing you and your virtual assistant a lot of money when you hire through online jobs they don't take a fee after you hire them so you pay the virtual assistant directly the cost ends up being much lower you end up saving a lot of money all your money goes directly to the virtual assistant which i think is the right way to do it the virtual assistants i hire through online jobs have just been the best i've found anywhere they are highly experienced they're highly trained i don't have to do much training to onboard them at all every virtual assistant i've hired has been absolutely fantastic which is why i've always highly recommended them even well before online jobs has ever reached out to me about making or sponsoring a video like this so if you guys are looking to hire virtual assistants they're really the only website that i recommend at this time for all the reasons that i just mentioned so guys i hope you guys got some value at this video if you did feel free to give the video a thumbs up or check out the link down below to online jobs to see more about how you can hire and train your own virtual assistants to help you run your online businesses guys thanks so much for watching i really appreciate it make sure to subscribe to the channel for more tips about ebay and amazon drop shipping and i'll see you in the next video bye for now