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videoplayback (1) Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message. Are you a client who wants to start virtual assistants but you don't know how to get started? Do you want to hire a virtual assistant but you don't know what are the qualifications and what is virtual assistants by the way? In this video, allow me to show you a complete guide on how you can embrace virtual assistants for your company. Hi, my name is Grace Luxin and I am the CEO and owner of Surge Digital Agency. We provide online courses, online services, and freelancing solutions all around the globe. In today's video, allow me to share with you a complete guide in embracing a virtual assistant for business success. Let's start with this very basic question. What is virtual assistant? A virtual assistant provides remote services to different brands and businesses. Additionally, virtual assistant offers numerous benefits in the business such as grasping the most potential talent for your business needs, less supervision, it reduces the workload since you're able to delegate everything. Virtual assistants can also keep business owners away from any entrepreneurial burnout because you're able to really focus on your mission, your vision, and your value. Despite these benefits, there's a big decision when it comes to the business owners when to outsource and when to hire a virtual assistant. This is why I'm creating this video to guide you on how you can transition in embracing a virtual assistant. Now that we have known what is a virtual assistant, we can avail virtual assistants. Of course, business owners can hire virtual assistants, coaches, trainers, real estate professionals, doctors, the brands themselves, influencers, and the like. Embracing a virtual assistant means delegating remotely with a bit of a training, especially when it comes to your preference as a client. Virtual assistants can really allow you to focus on your business and leverage your business since you will be focused on what matters to you, your vision, your mission, your value that you want to provide to your customers. There are millions of virtual assistants ready to assist you today. They are primarily in administration, sales and marketing, finances, customer service, human resource, IT, creatives, and other expertise or niches. Virtual assistants can work hourly or in fixed rate jobs starting at $5 per hour or $500 monthly. These are the very virtual assistants that can help you today. They are executive virtual assistants, social media managers and marketers, search engine optimization experts, virtual assistants dedicated into real estate tasks, those offering services and their expertise in ClickFunnels, email marketing, Shopify, project management, copywriting, editing, or proofreading, online bookkeeping, video editing, those in the marketplaces like eBay, Facebook marketplace, Etsy, Pushmark, and even Amazon, Facebook ads marketers, web design, graphics design, podcast management and marketing, online teaching, brand marketing and advertising, online accounting, web development, app development or software development, chatbot marketers, business and product development. There are also virtual assistants providing services when it comes to financial services, especially in these softwares, Xero, Wave, FreshBooks, and Zipworks, QuickBooks, MYOB, Zoho, and accounting. There are also virtual assistants who can help you with human resource management, online school management, coding and designs, and anything under the sun when it comes to customer service, sales, and support. Allow me to share with you the top three reasons why you need to hire a virtual assistant today. Number one is it reduces costs. When you are in an office-based setting, you are going to pay for a lot of insurances and benefits on top of your hourly pay or a fixed rate that you are paying for your employees. When it comes to virtual assistants, however, you can save costs for training, benefits, and other fees. Considering a virtual assistant is an independent worker, they pay their own insurances and benefits. They also have their own internet in the setup in order to provide their professional services right away, so business owners don't need to spend on the leave credits and benefits like a regular employee receives. Another one is virtual assistants will allow you to save time. Most of the virtual assistants have experience in their expertise. This means that you don't need to go deeper in terms of training. They know what to do and have the knowledge and skills that will impact your business growth. And since virtual assistants are remote workers, they know well in managing their time and tasks, and on top of that, they can also multitask while providing outputs with quality and value. Another benefit when you are hiring a virtual assistant is your ability to delegate tasks and focus on what matters to you most as a business owner. When you outsource, you are delegating tasks effectively. This is because when your business is continuously growing, tasks are also increasing. In this case, you will need to leverage the virtual assistant's abilities in coping with duties. Similar to your office employees, you as the owner can focus and prioritize your core duties and delegate the rest to your virtual assistants. There are many other benefits when it comes to virtual assistants, but those are the top three that I can mention right now. As we go on with these videos that we're going to be providing to you as a guide, we will discuss more on what are the other benefits when it comes to hiring a virtual assistant. For the time being, allow me to share as well where to find an effective virtual assistant. Here are the top three best places to find a virtual assistant who can work with you right away. Number one, you can find virtual assistants in any social media platform like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and even in Pinterest. Virtual assistants right now are creating their online presence through their portfolios. They even have their own websites in order to really leverage your online presence and provide information about their services so you can find them in any social media site. Another place where you can find virtual assistants are virtual assistant companies or agencies like real estate VA agency or remote working agencies. You can connect with them and hire virtual assistants from them. Lastly, you can find virtual assistants in freelancing websites or marketplaces. There are a lot of freelancing marketplaces today where you can come in as a client and hire a virtual assistant within minutes. Virtual assistants are already there creating their profile and leveraging their portfolios through these freelancing marketplaces. All you have to do as a client is signing up, do other verification processes when it comes to your company information and your personal or probably even billing information and then from there you can right away post jobs where virtual assistants can apply themselves. All you have to do is just find the perfect fit for your company and start the ball rolling. Now, how do you hire a virtual assistant? One freelancing marketplace that you can start with is the Search Digital Agency. In order to find a virtual assistant through Search, all you need to do are the following. Number one, you need to sign up to Search Digital Agency. There will be a fast verification so afterwards you can post a job right away and get applicants. We have at least 5,000 virtual assistants ready to serve you and it's growing every month. These virtual assistants are trained from our own agency experience and have been screened for you and finally you can hire the most fitting freelancer for your business and these virtual assistants can start giving value right on day one. I hope this guide has been helpful in understanding what is virtual assistants, what do they do, where you can find them and how you can hire them. Don't forget to connect with us. We are on social media at Search Digital Agency. You can also email me at grace at searchdigital.agency and our website is searchdigital.agency. Don't forget to also follow, comment and share when it comes to your need on how to leverage your business through virtual assistants and remote working. We are the Search Digital Agency and we are here to leverage your online presence through freelancing. Thank you so much for watching and we'll see you again on the next video. God bless. Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.