Honestly, we hear this more often than we would like. Other virtual assistant companies are hurting the trust that businesses have for virtual assistants — and these are the companies which do not hold the same gold standards as MyOutDesk does. The truth is, there are broad opportunities & huge potential when choosing the right virtual assistant provider & business partner.
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In today’s global economy, many companies are leveraging talent between both physical and remote employees.
When your organization transitions to remote work or hires a virtual assistant, they will need to be on-boarded and trained like any other employee. At the same time, the team will determine and adapt to best practices, technological tools, and procedures for training a strong blended (remote & physical) team.
Luckily, MyOutDesk offers training materials and resources that will help prepare you to interact successfully with a virtual team member. We equip all clients with a service portal, a dedicated account manager, and a virtual solutions trainer.
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Setting clear objectives is foundational to a successful team. On a weekly basis, reiterate your goals and procedures to allow the team to access how they can best contribute. When virtual professionals are given a collaborative space to voice their thoughts, you can see how productive and collaborative remote teams can be for your business.
To ensure our ongoing success, ensure you clearly note procedures on:
✔ Phone/email/messaging
Encourage open communication, and use the platform as a means to carry the same conversations that you would otherwise have in the office.
How will you communicate and how often?
✔ Training and Supervision
Neuroscientists and psychologists proved that it takes about 90 days to solidify a habit. The same goes for a remote team still figuring out how to work best together—for successful adoption, allow an adjustment period and repeat key messages regarding the change intentionally and consistently. By doing so, you will get everyone on the same page.
What is your plan for training for your Virtual Professional and who is the main point of contact?
Consistently train and repeat key messages, as well as regularly use effective frameworks like SOPs (Point 3) and Play-Pause-Do (Point 7). These guides are part of the 7-Figure Business Roadmap, and additional resources are available through a free strategy call with MyOutDesk.
✔ Productivity
A variety of organizational tools will help employees and the business stay productive. Here are some tips and trips to immediately keep teams accountable and for managers to recognize patterns in productivity. Remember that during an adjustment period to remote work, employers should not expect employees to immediately produce the same amount of productivity.
When will you set up Virtual Professional logins to essential tools such as CRMs or other databases?
✔ Scheduling
Videos and images can greatly improve communication among virtual teams. Video conference calls are the new (virtual) conference rooms and allow team members to show body language, facial expressions, posture, and hand gestures—all important aspects of communication. A
Find time to meet regularly & Confirm Virtual Professional work schedule & client availability restrictions
Remote work requires an adjustment period for all employees. A business cannot simply apply the same systems and procedures from the physical office and expect the same productive output immediately. Treat the transition to remote as a retraining process where employees need to relearn how to work effectively in this new environment.
It is important for the management to maintain a fully supportive and flexible state of mind. Encourage and communicate a reasonable adjustment period for allowing mistakes, offering training, and consistently repeating key messages in order to foster a fully functional remote workforce. Key themes to embody at this time are that your team is a connected, supportive, and a positive force; and mistakes are reinterpreted as positive opportunities.
We have a vested interest in your success! Every MyOutDesk client wants to maximize the ROI on their investment in virtual assistants. Our CEO Daniel Ramsey hosts a live mastermind discussion with MyOutDesk clients and discusses tactical, practical & utterly invaluable strategies to best utilize a virtual assistant while you scale your business!
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MyOutDesk CEO Daniel Ramsey is interviewed by Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC and discusses the following:
Daniel Ramsey is the founder & CEO of MyOutDesk, the highest-rated Virtual Assistant company in the marketplace with over 500 5-star reviews, and over 13 years of experience, serving more than 5,000 clients across the US and Canada.
MyOutDesk has the secret sauce for businesses to tackle the market downturn in this health crisis. Don’t just take our word from it–here’s what our clients are saying:
“We were up and ready to operate in this new change environment instantly. MyOutDesk completely transformed our office, and we were already set up for remote work.” — Daniel Del Real, client of three years
“We are doubling down on hiring more and preparing to expand in a way that we’ve never done in the past. This moment provides us with the opportunity like nothing that we’ve ever had before.” — Charles Pulliam, MyOutDesk client
Daniel also shares his new book, “Scaling Your Business with MOD Virtual Professionals: How to Drive Revenue, Save Time, and Create Your Dream Company.”
We are giving away this book for free and also a timely resource amid today’s health crisis, called the“Go Remote Fast Guide.”
MyOutDesk proudly provides free business growth business guides, books, and strategy calls. See what we are about, and schedule a free consultation with us. We’ll take the time to learn more about your business and offer solutions to foster top talent and lower operational costs for your company.
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Headquartered in Sacramento, California, MyOutDesk has over 13 years of experience serving over 6,000 SMBs, and we know for a fact how businesses benefit from leveraging our business strategies and virtual assistant services. US and Canadian entrepreneurs have longtime success in leveraging our virtual solutions for business success.
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The host is Dr. Katrina Burrus, MCC, founder and general manager of www.mkbconseil.ch a company specialized in leadership development and executive coaching.
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Sweet Fish Media has launched over 100 podcast programs, totaling over 1,600 episodes! Their flagship podcast, The B2B Sales Show, is known to be the only B2B podcast to broadcast 7 days a week.
In this episode, Logan Lyles interviews MyOutDesk CEO Daniel Ramsey to help businesses, managers, employees, entrepreneurs manage this time where everybody is going remote.
The point of owning a business is that it should free you. The only thing you can’t buy more of is time. Daniel wants to help as many entrepreneurs as possible regain their time and lead a remote team as they scale.
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Tune in to understand how MyOutDesk has helped businesses scale and grow with virtual assistants primarily in sales, marketing, and operations for over 13 years and 5,000 clients.
Daniel also shares his book, “Scaling Your Business with MOD Virtual Professionals: How to Drive Revenue, Save Time, and Create Your Dream Company.”
MyOutDesk proudly provides free business growth business guides, books, and strategy calls. See what we are about, and schedule a free consultation with us. We’ll take the time to learn more about your business and offer solutions to foster top talent and lower operational costs for your company.
Remote work presents new opportunities for many businesses — from lowering overhead costs to hiring competitive, global talent. Not only can you save up to 70% on employment costs with virtual assistants, MyOutDesk also created the MyTimeIn portal to manage your team’s overall productivity & performance.
All-in-One Remote Team Productivity Tracker
MyTimeIn is our in-house scheduling software that ensures your virtual assistants & remote workers are on-time and productive. This is your go-to MyOutDesk client portal is a place where you can manage all aspects of your MyOutDesk account, in ONE PLACE.
If you want to explore how you can manage your team’s productivity & accountability, schedule a free Strategy Consultation today.
High-caliber providers of virtual assistant & remote work services should provide you with the tools you need to easily manage and track the productivity of your virtual assistant & remote employees.
Typically, when you hire a virtual assistant, you have to provide these kinds of productivity tracking systems yourself. MyOutDesk understands the importance of having these systems in place, so we created one for our clients.
Manage your virtual assistant’s (or assistants’) department, teams, service accounts, schedule & PTO, and payroll.
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MyOutDesk’s MyTimeIn software allows teams to stay accountable and track productivity effortlessly. Managers can access IPC- and GPDR-compliant productivity tracking software through the MyOutDesk’s Client Portal with MyTimeIn timesheets.
If you never had success with a past remote employee or past virtual assistant, it’s probably because you weren’t equipped to keep a distanced worker accountable.
MyOutDesk MyTimeIn: Team Productivity Software
Stanford Studies have shown that remote workers show increased productivity by 16%. Those who work from home seem to be more focused with fewer distractions. They also found that employees working in open offices took 62% more sick days than virtual employees.
Deloitte’s Millennial Survey 2017 found that remote work arrangements are “strongly linked to improved performance and employee retention.” Furthermore, 38% of respondents reported they were likely to leave their current employer within the next two years, with many citing work/life balance and flexibility as major contributing factors.
Large companies are benefitting from using a blended employment model. In fact, a new regulation stemming from the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act has given us a clearer picture of the extent to which some of the largest U.S. companies employ global talent.
You might be surprised at the high percentages of global talent that successful companies have reported so far:
If these major companies employ this strategy, there is no reason that you cannot for your own business as well.
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COVID-19: Are you going back to the office yet or not?
We posed this question to over 500 millionaires, entrepreneurs & CEOs and asked for their thought process.
18% Back at the office
19% Never left the office (+ essential work)
12.3% Creating a transition plan & not back in the office
23.7% Because of COVID-19, we’re staying remote
27% We’ve been 100% remote since before COVID-19
From these business owners’ responses, there is a slightly greater lean towards working remotely. Nonetheless, businesses are seeing value in both physical and remote locations.
MyOutDesk advocates for the ‘blended business model,’ where teams leverage the power of working remotely in any profitable business — especially for businesses still requiring physical commercial space. If you need help or want to explore some ideas, schedule a free Strategy Consultation today.
Sample Responses:
MyOutDesk’s MyTimeIn software allows teams to stay accountable and track productivity effortlessly. Managers can access IPC- and GPDR-compliant productivity tracking software through the MyOutDesk’s Client Portal with MyTimeIn timesheets.
MyOutDesk MyTimeIn: Team Productivity Software
Stanford Studies have shown that remote workers show increased productivity by 16%. Those who work from home seem to be more focused with fewer distractions. They also found that employees working in open offices took 62% more sick days than virtual employees.
Deloitte’s Millennial Survey 2017 found that remote work arrangements are “strongly linked to improved performance and employee retention.” Furthermore, 38% of respondents reported they were likely to leave their current employer within the next two years, with many citing work/life balance and flexibility as major contributing factors.
Large companies are benefitting from using a blended employment model. In fact, a new regulation stemming from the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act has given us a clearer picture of the extent to which some of the largest U.S. companies employ global talent.
You might be surprised at the high percentages of global talent that successful companies have reported so far:
If these major companies employ this strategy, there is no reason that you cannot for your own business as well.
MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment cost
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In this STRATEGY-focused webinar, understand the magic of selling physical real estate through virtual solutions. This year is your ultimate test.
Fun Fact: THE Knolly Williams doesn’t go to a showing UNTIL he’s already signing the listing agreement / selling / closing the sale. He’s worked remotely more than he has stayed in an office (started at 23 years old, and he’s in his early 50s now).
As a top-performing real estate broker who has coached tens of thousands of agents & brokers around the world, Knolly Williams has over 300 listings without ever physically seeing any house, and he’s been doing this since 2008!
Tune in to understand his remote business model and how he leverages his virtual assistants to prepare everything. Knolly shared very important tips, tricks and resources on our topic:
“Houses don’t have to be seen to be sold: Virtual Real Estate Selling”
Agents didn’t think it was possible to effectively sell virtually until COVID-19 forced everyone to.
Knolly has been featured on ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, Newsweek and in over 300 newspapers worldwide. He is an author, trainer, national speaker, entrepreneur, real estate broker, and pastor of the Front Row Church.
Resources:
Knolly’s Sample Team Checklists https://bit.ly/2XmMWZ7
Knolly’s Sample Assistance Form https://bit.ly/36rAXO7
Knolly’s book “Consider it Sold!” https://bit.ly/3bU3LA5
From the beginning MyOutDesk has been developing applications in remote environments with a team of developers from the US, Philippines, Pakistan, and India. Now more than ever it’s important to embrace smooth & modernized delivery pipelines to ensure development and deployment of critical applications.
IT Virtual Assistants can help you build the applications you NEED and QUICKLY for your competitive company. MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment costs with experienced, full-time virtual assistants. To book an interview with those in our talent pool, click here.
Here’s how our remote team is keeping our development pipeline flowing.
Git is a Version Control System. Version control systems “are a category of software tools that help a software team manage changes to source code over time. Version control software keeps track of every modification to the code in a special kind of database. If a mistake is made, developers can turn back the clock and compare earlier versions of the code to help fix the mistake while minimizing disruption to all team members.” (source)
Github is a platform operated by Microsoft that allows developers to store their Git repositories and share them with the world as open source projects or share it with other developers privately as a team.
With Github launching Github Teams for free there is no reason to put off adopting Github as your tool of choice for developer collaboration. It directly integrates with CircleCI, meaning that any commit to any branch is automatically built and tested. This reduces regressions and ensures developers can focus and have peace of mind that their deployment won’t break a critical piece of your application.
Before any code is deployed we also create a pull request and ask for peer reviews. A pull request will bundle the changes and allow other developers to comment, mark specific lines that need to be adjusted, and discuss potential breaking changes. Once a pull request is accepted, a final pull request is built tagging the version before anything goes to production.
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In the past we leveraged Jenkins as our tool of choice for Continuous Integration. Jenkins is a great tool for any company needing complete control over the build process, testing, and even deployment of their software. Unfortunately, you’ll need to run it on your own infrastructure most of the time and maintain verbose and complicated build scripts depending on application complexity. In the past year, MyOutDesk has moved our build process over to CircleCI to allow us to focus on development and testing instead of building & deploying.
CircleCI is a continuous integration & delivery platform that automatically spins up custom or pre-built docker containers to build your application and run it’s tests. CircleCI also has Orbs which simplify the process of configuring your container. This abstraction makes it much easier to extend its functionality (versus writing your own docker scripts).
For our build process we need NodeJS in addition to AWS-CLI. It’s much easier for us to include the Orbs for Node & AWS-CLI in the build definition file (YAML) rather than write our own scripts to install it when the container launches or to build our own custom image. Additionally, we can be sure the testing environment is completely fresh every time tests are executed. CircleCI has their own certified orbs or you can build your own depending on the complexity of your application. Lastly, we pull down the AWS-CLI to allow us to ship artifacts to Elastic Beanstalk.
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Every application MyOutDesk maintains ships with both Cloudwatch Log Monitoring and Sentry Error Reporting. This is an absolute must when working remotely with a team of developers. There is not a single exception or critical application failure that occurs in our production environments that we are not aware of before it is reported by our internal staff or end users.
Working 100% remote with your development team presents a lot of challenges. However, with the right implementation of Github, CI\CD Services, effective review of pull requests, and proper monitoring working with a fully remote development team is a breeze.
IT Virtual Assistants can help you build the applications you NEED and QUICKLY for your competitive company. We’ll say it again, MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment costs with experienced, full-time virtual assistants! To find the talent you need & to book an interview, click here.
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Like most business owners, the past quarter went by as a complete crash course for many.
You can get past the hurdle like we did & see profits again using our free & timely resources:
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You can access all three guides when scheduling a no-frills strategy consultation with us.
MyOutDesk started its business to scale with virtual assistants DURING the last recession, the global financial crisis of 2008. We are uniquely positioned to help you BEST respond to the current health crisis. That’s why we’re offering FREE strategy consultation calls & downloads.
During the call, we’ll walk you through step-by-step on how to use these guides & understand what your business needs to recover ASAP.
In 2018, only 5% of Americans worked remotely. Today, over 50% are attempting to do it, but are they doing it correctly?
Be prepared to shoot back up while understanding today’s market. Don’t wait around like many businesses, and stay ahead of the curve. Schedule a strategy consultation & access these 3 guides today!
From marketing to administrative tasks and even sales, the help of Virtual Assistants offers a ton of benefits. The demand for virtual assistants is multiplying. To help you make the best decision for your business, understand the benefits of virtual assistants here.
(To learn more about virtual assistants, schedule a FREE Business Strategy call with MyOutDesk today!)
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These are compelling reasons to hire a virtual assistant, and for many jobs ranging from administrative work to telemarketing, a Virtual Assistant working remotely is a perfect fit. Here’s what career Virtual Assistants know they contribute when working full-time with clients.
Regardless of the industry, you’ll experience incredibly busy periods, as well as slower periods. Your goals may also change throughout the year, impacting the types of tasks that need to be addressed. In order to achieve this level of flexibility, a virtual assistant is an ideal solution.
This strategy will allow you to pinpoint opportunities that’ll likely lead to increased productivity and growth — all while you continue to develop new growth ideas and techniques.
MyOttDesk Virtual Assistants are selected through a stringent talent-matching process. They are a professional talent pool with experience serving real estate, healthcare, finance, commerce, utilities, and much more!
MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment cost
When considering hired help, you must compare the potential cost-saving benefits associated with a virtual assistant. When hiring a full-time employee, you’ll need to consider costs related to onboarding, benefits, and other hidden costs.
In contrast, a virtual assistant can help you overcome busy periods without needing to pay someone during slower periods. Although you’ll still need to pay for their services, a virtual assistant is an investment — the type of investment that can significantly boost long-term revenue.
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The old saying, “Two heads are better than one,” could not be closer to the truth. When hiring a virtual assistant to address x, y, and z, those tasks no longer require your attention. Learning to delegate such tasks is one of the most effective ways to boost overall efficiency.
Also, a virtual assistant can help you become much more organized so that you can easily access the files and documents you need when you need them. From bookkeeping to CRM management, a virtual assistant will provide the level of support you need.
Some weeks seem as though they are hitting like a ton of bricks. As you try to catch up, prospective business is not addressed as it should be. Whether following up with last week’s clients or are sending out client documentation, you can INSTEAD spend your time on more dollar-productive activities and leave the rest to a mighty Virtual Assistant.
In turn, your clients/customers are not getting the attention they expect — and your business could suffer. Virtual assistants can address all of your customers’ questions and concerns, all while you focus on driving your business forward.
Just imagine being able to grow your client list while you strengthen your relationship with current clients. Perhaps you have a contact list that you have not yet used for marketing purposes? If so, a virtual assistant could create an email or telemarketing campaign to gain more leads and, in turn, grow your client list.
If routine, non-dollar productive tasks are steering your business into a rut, it’s time to eliminate these tasks off your plate. MyOutDesk has been serving business professionals across the country for over 13 years, becoming one of the top service providers in virtual assistant services.
We are here only for your success. That’s why we are offering zero-obligation strategy calls with free access to our guides and books.
Schedule your free business strategy call today. We’ll map out a plan for attaining:
MyOutDesk brings you 13 years of recession-tackling knowledge. We are committed to supporting your continued drive to champion a thriving business and support your local community during the COVID-19 health crisis. Schedule a free strategy call today.
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