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Robert W. Massie Testimonial: 150% More Recruiting At Half The Cost!

Brightstar is a rapidly growing in-home healthcare organization striving to help Americans with quality, affordable assistance – but when it comes to recruiting the best of the best for their organization, who helps them? MyOutDesk! Just listen to what Brightstar Fairfax Owner & President Robert Massie has to say:

“Mark, our virtual assistant, is basically our recruiting department – and he’s been able to drive us from two hires a week to just over four hires a week in the last 12 months. He’s a very skilled individual who understands the health care market, very technically savvy, and he’s been very effective.”

A few years back, Massie left a successful Fortune 500 executive career to launch a Brightstar Franchise with his wife – and in the process, learned how painfully competitive the market is for qualified healthcare staff. He turned to MyOutDesk to help his recruiting, and in less than a year we gave him 150% higher results, for less than half the cost of in-house staffing! If you want to do the same, schedule your Double My Business Strategy Session now!

So what’s the secret sauce that makes his MyOutDesk VA work? We found him a qualified, healthcare experienced recruiting assistant to handle all of his recruiting and turned it into a full-time role that let his HR staff focus on more important tasks in their daily routines. The results were impressive:

“I would’t have expected it was going to be quite this successful. You know, I thought that if I can get 70% of what I would have gotten otherwise maybe that’s good – but I’m getting 150% of what I used to get and it’s less than half the cost of a really good recruiter. It’s turned out to be very, very good – the outcomes can’t be argued with!”

Robert’s experience is similar to many MyOutDesk clients who rely on our trained recruiting assistants to find, follow up with, prequalify help onboard the best & brightest talent for America’s up & coming organizations. We have experience in several industries and across dozens of national market areas, and know-how to help your organization grow rapidly by outsourcing the phone work & scheduling to a trained virtual assistant.

Brightstar Fairfax is assisted by Mark – a hard-working VA with past experience as a trained nurse. We placed Mark with Robert’s team, and over the course of a year, he took them from 2 hires to over 4 per week: and helped them beat the competition to the highest quality trained labor for their organization!

If you’re trying to grow your organization, a recruiting assistant is an amazing resource to put your team growth into high gear, and is available for less than 60% of what you’d pay for in-house staff! Schedule a Double Your Business Strategy Session now and add a virtual assistant to your team today!

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MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment costs
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January 26, 2022/by Tim

a virtual assistant working in his notebook

Harvest Growth: You + the Right People = Profits

MOD Virtual Assistants, Podcast, Recruitment

In this Harvest Growth Podcast interview, Daniel Ramsey, the Founder, and CEO of MyOutDesk, asks the powerful question, “if you were forced to double your business, what tasks would you remove from yourself so you could focus 100% of your efforts on growth?”

The Harvest Growth Podcast

Grow Your Business Virtually

Link to Podcast

MyOutDesk has employed 1,200 virtual employees and helped over 7500 clients off-load tasks from themselves so they could grow their own businesses.

Whether or not you are considering hiring virtual employees, during COVID even “regular” employees are now working virtually, and Daniel shares some great advice to make this new virtual workplace perform more effectively.

Jon LaClare at the Harvest Growth Podcast features MyOutDesk CEO, Daniel Ramsey. The show covers:

How to increase productivity for your entire workforce, even when they are not working in your office on a daily basis
How to profitably hire the right people to offload time from your calendar so you can focus on growth, both business and personal
Understanding how to best utilize virtual assistants

Learn more about MyOutDesk, and text MOD to 31996 to get a free download of our Grow Virtual Guide!

If you have a product you are looking to launch or grow and you would like some help from a partner that has helped successfully launch hundreds of products that now total over $2 Billion in revenues, visit HarvestGrowth.com and set up a free consultation with a Product Launch Expert.

Experience The Difference
MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment costs
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January 19, 2022/by Jeremy

Every Leader Needs Help: The Case for Virtual Assistants

Cannabis & Legal Marijuana, Financial Planning, Healthcare, Human Resources, Insurance, Marketing, MOD Virtual Assistants, Mortgage, Property Management, Real Estate, Technology, Vertical Markets

No matter where you are in life & how successful you’ve been, all leaders know you can’t do everything on your own.

Even Iron Man needed the Avengers.

Effective Leadership: To make the best use of time & maximize productivity, leaders know how to effectively delegate & benefit from the assistance of others. Even leaders need help!

Let’s face it in today’s digital world, every successful business has its online presence. Whether we like it or not, it’s simply not feasible to operate without technological savviness. When daily busywork can bog you down, leverage the right kind of support that helps you thrive.

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Every leader needs an assistant

Now, you can have a full-time Virtual Executive Assistant with a career background from your preferred industry and skillset!

A Virtual Personal & Executive Assistant can handle most, if not all of your paperwork, transactions, concierge-related tasks, and even reception calls! Whether it’s working on documentation, managing emails, transaction coordination, and the list goes on. A Virtual Personal Assistant can save you valuable time while handling these essential tasks that you do not need to be doing yourself.

You can sleep well at night knowing that your work transactions & tasks are handled on time -AND- you have plenty of quality personal & family time.

TENURED. COLLEGE-EDUCATED. CAREER VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS

WITH INDUSTRY EXPERTISE IN:

Property management, PR/Publicity, Real Estate, IT & Technology, HR, Insurance, Marketing, Finance, Retail, Inside/Outside Sales, and much more.

You can acquire top talent for your daily needs even while cutting your costs, saving you up to 70% of the cost of a traditional employee. Professional virtual assistants can grow your everyday capacity. Schedule an interview.

MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment costs

OUTSOURCE YOUR PERSONAL & PROFESSIONAL WORKLOAD WITH PERSONAL ASSISTANT SOLUTIONS

The math is simple with an enormous ROI. A full-time Virtual Personal Assistant will lower your costs, reduce overhead, save time, and leverage professional talent for your career, business, and personal goals.

It’s no wonder entrepreneurs & career-focused professionals trust us most — with 15 years of experience serving over 7500 clients. We’ve saved our clients $55 million in the span of a single year, as the highest-rated virtual assistant company with more than 800 verified 5-star business reviews.

Experience The Difference
MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment costs
Claim a free business strategy consultation & ‘Grow Virtual’ Guide

January 12, 2022/by Jeremy

a team of virtual assistants working remotely

9 Awesome Real Estate Apps

Administrative, Inside Sales, Marketing, MOD Virtual Assistants, Real Estate

There are so many Real Estate apps out there and some of them can be expensive. How do you know which ones are essential? How do you choose those that will be helpful for your business and your remote team? We’ve put together this list of free and affordable Real Estate apps to help in your research. Let’s dive in!

Trello

Trello is one of the most popular projects management tools for real estate for many reasons. It has a free version which would be adequate for most teams but for bigger teams, it has upgraded tools that can scale with any size. Philadelphia Realtor, Jennifer Geddes, uses Trello to streamline her transactions. You customize your Trello board to fit your business processes and gives everyone on your team the ability to see where the project is at and what needs to be done next. She talks about it here:

Trello

HubSpot CRM and Sales Tool

With over 30,000 customers in 91 countries, HubSpot is one of the most widely used free CRMs real estate apps and sales tools on the planet. The best part? It’s FREE. HubSpot is a CRM that also offers marketing and sales tools. Furthermore, with the free version of HubSpot’s software, it offers contact management, deal and task pipelines, email scheduling, email templates, and more. Hubspot reported a 100% traffic increase in the first three months for Rever.VN.

HubSpot CRM and Sales Tool

Clozio

Custom checklists that keep you (and your team) on track. Elegant calendars to keep your clients informed and engaged. All in one central place. A starter account is free! Realtors usually go for Clozio to stay organized. Additionally, it allows you to keep clients on the same page for all the dates and to-dos that come along with a typical real estate transaction.

Clozio

Broker Assist

Broker Assist is the on-demand agent-to-agent referral network real estate app and collaborative marketplace for real estate professionals. BrokerAssist connects agents and brokers in real-time on their outbound referrals and notifies them of inbound referral opportunities in their area. As well, BrokerAssist offers a marketplace solution for agents and brokers to collaborate on fractional assistance for deal-specific tasks (showings, open houses, inspections, etc). Broker assist is Free to sign up, free to request & assist, free referral networking.

Broker Assist

Spacio

Spacio helps you maximize open house lead generation opportunities and increase ROI by automating lead capture for 100% follow-up. Make the best first impression at your open house by inviting visitors to check-in by filling out Spacio’s professional and elegant digital sign-in form. Accurately collect visitor information and automatically send follow-up emails after your open house ends. No more unreadable handwriting no more lost leads. Spacio offers a 30-day free trial and offers affordable packages for as low as $25 a month depending on your needs.

Spacio

Propertybase

Propertybase is a powerful website builder website / CRM combo for advanced lead generation and nurture. Its well-equipped CRM does pretty much everything a Realtor could need from managing projects, opportunities, and contacts. It makes lead and pipeline management easy with a customizable lead scoring platform. You can request a demo and decide how you want to proceed after that.

Propertybase

Amitree Folio

Folio attaches to your Gmail account and automatically organizes transactions, documents, and deal timelines. This gives you the ability to share with your clients. You can also sync calendars, set reminders, and even loop in service providers to make sure everyone is on the same page. It automatically detects a real estate professional’s transactions and organizes them in real-time into Smart Folders. Sign-up is free.

Amitree Folio

Zillow Premier Agent app

Zillow Premier Agent offers a surprisingly robust free CRM real estate app that lets you import leads from Boomtown! or Realtor.com through Gmail. You can set up tasks, reminders, texts, and emails like any good CRM. Additionally, it also gives you a granular look at what your leads are searching for on Zillow in detail if you sign up for their My Agent program that makes you the only buyer’s agent your leads see on Zillow.

Zillow Premier Agent app

ProAgent Solutions

Pro Agent Solutions is a real estate app that works with you to help automatically reach out to realtors who have shown your listings. Additionally, it can get relevant timely feedback from them that you can read and pass on to your clients. You can also have Pro Agent Solutions send it along for you. If you use Supra or another electronic lockbox service, you can link your account, further automating the feedback solicitation process. Lastly, with a 30-day free trial, this is a tool that everyone should check out and see if it is worth the cost, which ranges from $3 to $50 monthly a month (paid annually).

ProAgent Solutions

CONCLUSION

Working from home can make you feel isolated or like you can’t get everything that you needed to be done. Luckily, with the help of these apps and all the amazing online tools that are available. Thankfully, you are now given the ability to stay on top of all the things you need to do remotely, on your smartphone. In conclusion, now all you have to do is choose whether to completely handle these apps yourself or delegate them to your team, or a combination of both.

Now you have the technology, what about people to manage them?

MyOutDesk Virtual Assistants

MyOutDesk is the leading provider of virtual assistants in real estate, generating massive GCI while cutting costs. We have white-glove service and an astringently vetted talent pool. Our virtual assistants can manage your real estate apps, keep you up to date, and research upcoming technology that can give you a competitive edge in the market.

It costs up to 70% less than a traditional employee, yes you heard that right. Realtors can access IPC and GPDR compliant productivity tracking software through the MyOutDesk Client Portal with MyTimeIn timesheets. MyOutDesk Virtual Assistants have professional experience in sales, marketing, transaction coordination, operations, general administrative management, and more.

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September 28, 2021/by Abby

How To Recruit and Retain – with Dan Stewart at Happy Grasshopper

MOD Virtual Assistants, Mortgage, Real Estate, Recruitment, Webinars

The foundation of any professional empire is recruitment and retention. Because people are the material that makes up your business, and that material needs to be strong and long-lasting. In this webinar recording, you’ll be encouraged to reflect on this topic, and how it pertains to your specific company needs. Nowadays remote work is the new normal, and believe it or not, it actually has gotten easier to implement remote services to help you recruit the right people. All the while saving you up to 70% of the cost of a traditional employee!

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Recruit and Retain

R&R has a different meaning from 9 to 5, and it isn’t rest and relaxation; it’s recruit and retain. We talk about exactly how to best do that, here in this webinar series with Dan Stewart, president of Happy Grasshopper.

[Virtual Success Webinar Series] This mastermind webinar shows you how to:

Leverage recruitment strategies. What you need to know to attract instead of recruit. Attract competitive talent without seemingly “recruiting.”
Nurture & break the cycle. Break the churn-and-burn cycle & nurture productivity with your current team.
Scale business & improve processes. Understand the entrepreneur’s scale strategy. Build an engine to efficiently process recruits & new hires.
Use VIRTUAL best practices. Metrics, tools, and filters. How to recruit remotely.

Key Takeaways

Identify, Attract, Retain. If you’re more certain of what you want, you WILL get it!
Know the Power of Questions. Slow down and think about the right questions to ask. What’s the purpose of your prosperity? What’s your overall GIANT GOAL?
QUESTIONS lead to… CONVERSATIONS … which lead to RELATIONSHIPS … then to OPPORTUNITIES … and lastly to SALES. (Read more)
Recruitment is a process of EXIT and ARRIVAL EXIT. Receives a signal that they’ve outgrown their former life ARRIVAL – In a new, fantastic adventure, opportunity, career, or way of thinking. Ask yourself, “Are you going to be the HERO of the story, or the GUIDE, the MENTOR?” — YOU ARE THE GUIDE!
2 Recruiting Styles. 1) OBI-WANs recruit and depart. They show up, and then they’re gone! 2) LUKEs stay on a mission with the recruit, someone they go to battle with. They stay on the mission together.

Dan Stewart is a veteran of multiple startups with over 10 years of experience in helping businesses save more money, while also making more money.

Book a tour with Dan Stewart’s Happy Grasshopper:
https://happygrasshopper.com/tour/

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How virtual staffing solve recruitment challenges

Now that we’ve established the importance of recruiting and how to keep good talent around, let’s talk about the best way to achieve all of that. In a world quickly becoming increasingly remote, it pays to lean into that trend. This is why it’s become highly recommended to look into virtual staffing solutions, like MyOutDesk. Let’s take a look at an easy-to-digest list of exactly why a virtual professional can be right for just about anyone…

Recruitment Duties Solved by Virtual Assistants

Industries: Professional Services, Healthcare, Retail, Mortgage & Lending, Real Estate, Residential Services, Cannabis, HRO & PEO, Insurance, Finance, Creative Agency, IT, Web, Technology, and more!

Prospecting
Outbound Prospecting recruitment calls and follow-up
Cold calling
Pre-screening
Recruitment cycle coordination
Calendaring and appointments

Example Real Estate Recruitment Duties Solved By Virtual Assistants

Calling realtors/agents & set up appointments with brokers
Check-in with monthly RE exam passers
From the initial interview to an office visit

Example Healthcare Recruitment Duties Solved By Virtual Assistants

Healthcare-educated staffing solutions
On-boarding paperwork
Director of Traffic
Virtual reception

Business leaders, take your time back & let virtual assistants grow your company talent!

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Company growth potential with virtual recruitment assistants

Successful individuals and businesses often do not have the time it takes to hire and train a talented individual properly. You should be leveraging this job to experts who have already mastered recruiting and training. Imagine only having to sit back and observe as your expert recruiter leads a deep dive into three impressive candidates’ personalities, operating styles, successes, failures, learning experiences, and more… Then having the confidence that they’ll pick the one who’s the exact right fit for your business needs.

The math is simple with an enormous ROI. A full-time Recruiting Virtual Assistant will lower your costs, reduce overhead, save time, and leverage professional talent for your company.

MyOutDesk’s Commitment to You

We’re in the business of helping you find the best solutions for ‘hybrid’ virtual & physical offices. If you need help or want to explore some ideas, you can schedule a free Grow Virtual Strategy Call with us today.

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MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on the employment cost
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June 16, 2021/by Dan Trujillo

How BoomTown CRM works — With Grier Allen, Co-Founder & CEO of BoomTown

Real Estate, Technology, Webinars

BoomTown Real Estate CRM is the all-in-one platform that gives small to midsize businesses the edge they need to increase their sales, grow more efficiently, and thrive in a competitive marketplace.

But before we get into what BoomTown CRM does for real estate agents, let’s take a step back and ask: What do you need from your CRM?

Aside from simple contact management tools like address books and calendars, you should also have reporting capability so you can keep tabs on your sales pipeline and profitability. You want a system that will analyze your data for you so it’s as easy as possible for you to make informed decisions about how best to grow your business.

How BoomTown CRM works

BoomTown is also perfect for new agents because it features a one-time, easy-to-read training module that will allow you to start making money almost immediately. Above all, there’s a reliable customer support team to help answer your questions and solve your problems.

So what benefits does BoomTown have to offer small businesses like your real estate office or individual agents?

Let’s take a look.

BoomTown CRM Features

The BoomTown Real Estate CRM includes a full suite of features, including IDX site integration, seller lead suite, automatic CRM-to-Lead conversion, IDX feed, social integration, lead routing & follow-up emails, customizable landing pages for hot leads, and more. BoomTown also automates your pipeline management by presenting you with immediate access to hot leads.

IDX Website – Multi-Site
Multiple Website Themes
Site Customization
Landing Pages
NOW Mobile App Hot Sheet Customizable Smart-Drip Plans
Bulk Actions
Listing Promotion
Dynamic Retargeting
Success Assurance (Opt.) Zapier, GCal, Addt’l Integrations
Lead Routing
Seller Lead Suite Pipeline Management
Tagging & Segmenting
Best-Fit Leads
Reporting Dashboard
Sharing Library
Lead Matching
Networked Sites

BoomTown Real Estate CRM is a sure bet for building and tracking your clientele. The software allows agents to schedule meetings and sync with third-party apps, and track leads in a simple pipeline management system. When it comes to building your clientele, you can quickly and easily search through your database of contacts using filters like geography, contact information, notes, etc. You can then sort them into custom lists based on their interest category.

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BoomTown CRM Review

BoomTown Real Estate CRM is a great solution for real estate agents and brokers to streamline their business processes while maximizing their productivity.

Since 2006, BoomTown has been bringing together world-class lead generation, CRM software, real estate websites, and mobile app technology – but creating this industry-changing platform wasn’t an easy task, and it faced daunting initial competition.

Join BoomTown Co-Founder & CEO Grier Allen as he shares his experience as the Co-Founder & CEO of BoomTown, where he has worked relentlessly to build & optimize a seamless lead generation & conversion platform used by top agents & brokers to grow their real estate business in today’s online real estate economy.

BoomTown isn’t “just another” agent website company – it’s a major industry leader in real estate technology. It was recognized on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing companies in 2011, 2012, and 2013, and its software used by 25% of the Real Trends top 500 teams and current partners include BombBomb, Mojo Dialer, RPR, and Bandwidth.

In 2018, Grier was named to The Swanepoel Power 200 list for the second time, ranking #132, and #16 in the Technology Executives category – highlighting his presence as a key driver and influencer making the big changes in the real estate industry.

In this exclusive interview, you’ll find out what drives him, and where his vision for real estate technology will take us in the future.

[Up to 70% off: Virtual Assistants]

What a productive real estate team in 2021 looks like

Don’t box yourself! Outsourcing opens up your world to the talent that’s more affordable and probably more fit with your needed skill sets, saving you tens of thousands from additional office space, and other significant expenses related to in-house hires.

“Outsourcing makes the hustle better — because you’re not burdened with many/growing expenses that you’ll need to figure out how to cover and hit profit”

Focus on your growth & scale your operations

ENVISIONING OF A NEW REALITY FOR YOUR BUSINESS

Simply put, MyOutDesk equips entrepreneurs & business owners with tools, strategies, and virtual employees – and when combined, businesses have a competitive edge and find growth while efficient systems and processes are put in place.

MyOutDesk proudly provides additional free business growth 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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MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment costs
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Did You Know? MyOutDesk’s origin story is set during the last global financial crisis of 2008. Yes, that’s right — our business started by scaling businesses with virtual assistants during a recession! Our first client in 2008 went from five to seventeen VPs with a completely revamped organizational model in short order, and he told MyOutDesk, “Our virtual professionals have shaved $250,000 off our monthly overhead.”

May 31, 2021/by Jeremy

Blended Business Model: Remote Work with Traditional Employees & Virtual Assistants

Administrative, Cannabis & Legal Marijuana, Financial Planning, Healthcare, Human Resources, Inside Sales, Insurance, Marketing, Marketing, MOD Virtual Assistants, Mortgage, Property Management, Real Estate, Technology

We all know that businesses are thriving online in today’s information age. So why aren’t businesses proportionally blending their physical and remote practices?

Working from home is actually more productive than working from the office. According to studies from Stanford, it turns out work-from-home employees work a true full-shift (or more) versus being late to the office or leaving early multiple times a week and found it less distracting and easier to concentrate at home.

The fact that the Internet and other modernizations have globalized our economy gives you a chance to scale your business faster and further than ever before, using a blended business model, as many big companies do.

What exactly is a Blended Business Model?

A blended business model is an engineered organizational chart where part of an organization works in-house and another part works virtually.

Symptoms when without a Blended Business Model:

Company revenue productivity is suffering because most of your time as the CEO is spent on non-revenue efforts.
Your growth curve is flat because you’re stuck with administrative work.
You know you need support but do not want to go through the tedious process of hiring, only to have your hires leave after a period of time, thus putting you in a vicious cycle.
Your workload is starting to get overwhelming and the quality of your life is suffering.

Hiring Virtual Assistants solves a lot of problems and actually brings many benefits. For example, a full-time Virtual Assistant will cost you 25%-30% of the cost of an in-house employee. A Virtual Assistant will have their own equipment and software, and will not take up any precious office space, so overhead costs are cut down as well. Organizations like MyOutDesk cover HR concerns, benefits, and even things like paid time off; while all you do is pay your monthly subscription.

Still curious about MyOutDesk Virtual Assistants? Schedule your Go Remote Business Strategy Session now to learn more!

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The Stats: Blended Teams Outperform Competitors

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 much 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:

Kellogg: 80%
General Electric: 66%
United Technologies: 68%
Whirlpool: 80%
Merck: 55%
Honeywell: 58%
Hanes: 80%
Mattel: 78%
Wal-Mart: 35%

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 costs
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Implications of Outsourcing: Virtual Assistants + Traditional Employees = Growth

Employing a Virtual Assistant means that the company is making an investment for the entire team and looking to achieve the next level of excellence and performance. A Virtual Assistant is a full-time addition to the organization, but they will work with you virtually. They can shoulder specific daily responsibilities, help maintain smooth operations, and allow the physical team more freedom to focus on their work.

Imagine not needing to take every distracting phone call anymore, until a relevant call is forwarded to you!

We’re helping to level the business playing field by helping small & medium-sized businesses offshore as the big companies have for years. It doesn’t mean that jobs are going away, but it does mean that more work is available and more income is generated because entrepreneurs finally have the affordable help they need to close more transactions & generate more commissions.

Don’t do this alone. Come out stronger with MyOutDesk.

Find the knowledge + positive support that you need NOW.
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Virtual Assistants & Blended Teams

When we founded MyOutDesk 15

years ago, we realized that a virtual assistant living in the Philippines could do all of the clerical work online that an assistant could here in the USA for a fraction of the cost, and when we started helping small businesses to hire them we realized that it was a win-win proposition for everyone.

Virtual assistants have all the qualifications (and often more) than local labor but at 1/3 the cost — which means you can afford to hire better help for a lower price, and you can afford to employ MORE of that help to grow your business. They’re high-quality labor, with a great education and an outstanding work ethic, and available for wages that similarly qualified Americans typically won’t work for.

Blended teams are exciting because it finally means that entrepreneurs can employ a competitive advantage in their business formerly reserved only for top-tier manufacturing companies — like the folks who made your iPhone. Just like them, you’re able to delegate repetitive, non-dollar productive tasks to a virtual assistant, which in turn helps you focus your time & energy on what actually makes you money.

The fact that the Internet and other modernizations have globalized our economy gives you a chance to scale your business faster and further than ever before, using Virtual Assistant services. Demand for virtual talent is increasing because it works for most business owners. Simply put: it is good for business.

To learn more comprehensively about the blended business model (as well as other awesome strategy guides) schedule your Go Remote Business Strategy Session today and find our how a MyOutDesk Virtual Assistant can support you to boost your business.

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February 22, 2021/by Jeremy

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Marvin Mitchell: Making a 20x ROI with Virtual Assistants!

Financial Planning, MOD Virtual Assistants, Testimonials

Marvin is a top-ranked, nationally recognized financial advisor with a focus on helping people invest & save more wisely for their golden years. As the founder of Compass Retirement Solutions, his team leverages MyOutDesk virtual assistants for both administrative & inside sales roles, and on average, they’re making him over a 20x ROI – and sometimes even more.

“My virtual assistant made me $43,000 in commissions less than half an hour ago, so if you’re still on the fence about hiring one, my advice is: just do it. The ROI on our virtual assistants is amazing – it’s definitely going to finish the year over 20x…”

Marvin isn’t just leveraging his ISAs for prospecting: he’s also using them to prequalify prospects, which saves his team of advisors countless hours – and lets them focus on advising only qualified prospects who are ready to take advantage of his expertise. This is only one of the many strategies Marvin has used to grow his business into the #3 financial advising firm in the United States. Take Marvin’s advice: just do it! Schedule your Double My Business Strategy Session now!

Marvin grew up in a working-class family in St. Louis, with little money. The first in his family to earn a college degree, Marvin put his law school education on hold to help care for his grandmother after she was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer. Marvin soon discovered that, although his grandmother had worked her whole life, she was still susceptible to financial turmoil as a result of poor financial advice and a stock market crash. Inspired to help other, hardworking retirees, Marvin became a broker for a large financial institution in 2005 before founding Compass Retirement Solutions.

“Once we get that lead, that’s where my MyOutDesk virtual assistants come in – they’re following up on those leads, getting them on our calendar and making our time more efficient. It saves us literally hundreds hours of time because we don’t have to skim through all of those individuals to find the most qualified people – and it’s changed our average case size from $325,000 to over $850,000!”

In 2016, he received the Salute to Business Excellence Award as voted by the St. Louis American Newspaper, and also that year, he was an honored recipient of the St. Louis County NAACP Distinguished Legacy Award. Schedule your Double My Business Strategy Session now, and drill down on doing your one thing to the absolute best of your abilities.

December 23, 2020/by Jeremy

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Leadership Strategies for Crisis Management with Scaling Coach Bill Gallagher

Tune in as we discuss leadership strategies for – crisis management, executing flexibility, accessing pivots & improving your cash position. Schedule a free Thrive Strategy Call today.

This special webinar includes 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 limited-time access to:

1) Famous book “Scaling Up” + tools & worksheets
2) #1 bestselling business book “Scaling Your Business”
3) Business strategy consultants + thrive guides

Free Thrive Guide + Strategy Consultation

We’re joined by Bill Gallagher, CEO of Scaling Coach. Bill Gallagher is a business coach and master facilitator with over 30 years of entrepreneurial and executive experience. Bill has spent the last 15 years coaching and training others in leadership and performance and previously led 4 companies of his own and been a partner or executive in 2 others. Bill discovered the Rockefeller Habits and Scaling Up 20 years ago, has used them in his own companies.

Today, Bill coaches leaders and teams across more than 25 cities in 11 countries and the host of the Scaling Up Business Podcast. He is a passionate and playful presenter, and his clients, at all stages, share a hunger to grow successfully with an openness to new approaches and thinking.

It costs tens of thousands of dollars to attend one of Bill’s Scaling Up Institutes, and today you can access his timely knowledge here for free! If you need help or want to explore some ideas, book a Schedule a free Thrive Strategy Call today.

Free Thrive Guide + Strategy Consultation

Bill shares his strategies to lead in today’s uncertain times.

Lead Without a Plan — Although this sounds like terrible leadership, IF you relay that you’re FIGHTING through any crisis and problem, and when you work collectively with your team, you can figure out and make astounding pivots with your leadership.
- Continue to hold the vision and communicate
- Fight like hell
- Ask your people for help
Radical Requests — Get access to improving the situation. Instead of feeling confined, ask what you really need! Don’t wipe yourself out, BUT work with a solution — For example, with clients & prospects, you can ask, “What do you need? What can I do for you instead?” It can help you turn situations around and come out with success and growth!
Name That Feeling — it takes courage to show emotions, and courage needs strength, to be a whole human! Nobody’s great—there are moments that you are, and moments that you’re not. Emotions make you human. There is power and courage in being a leader. Being human as a leader gives your people a truth, that you’re not faking it to make it. Self-awareness & mindfulness. Calling it out as a practice of acceptance—it becomes a powerful thing. Call it out and go with it!
Execute Flexible — Working remotely to keep the business going. Technology can help you manage virtually. At the same time, don’t change or abandon your long-term vision and goals. Shift priorities, or even strategies! Metrics and dashboards? It might be missing since you moved virtually. Some tools and apps can help you out and keep it up. This helps people know if we’re collectively hitting metrics and KPIs. Keep the progress visibility out there!
Let People Get Off the Bus — People who continually resist might not be a good fit in your environment. There might be a better place for them to win. How do you get people in this space and get the right requests out there? By leading up in the front and leading by example. Work with your team, and ask them what they can do. Keep nudging them up. Make a list of radical requests and have them do one while you are encouraging and helping. Fully appreciate and acknowledge the radical request from both perspectives.
Be a Trend-Spotter — Acknowledge the weaknesses and strengths in the world and yourself right now. What do they need? What can you do better? Pivot your business around what people need, and you might see opportunities. This might be the same business to different people, or a different business for the same people. Look for trends far outside the norm, and look broadly across the world. Bill shares his SWT tool—strengths, weaknesses, and trends. Start using this tool for in your industry, then for your region, and afterward go even broader!

Free Thrive Guide + Strategy Consultation

December 22, 2020/by Jeremy

talent acquisition the ceos job featuring patrick johnson of talentuition and daniel ramsey photo of patrick johnson

Quality Talent Acquisition: The Process & Systems for Predictable Results!

Administrative, Human Resources, MOD Virtual Assistants, Recruitment, Webinars

In this special webinar, we share an effective & proven recruitment model that is entirely process-driven, where you can find predictable results in bringing high-caliber talent into your team.

What you’ll learn in this webinar:

The biggest mistakes that businesses make with talent acquisition
Bulletproof Process on Ad Placements
How to take advantage of short term opportunities in our labor market

MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment costs
Claim a free business strategy consultation & ‘Grow Virtual’ Guide

In today’s unprecedented time, there is a real opportunity to grow your business.

BIG NUMBERS: 50k people per day are applying for unemployment. This is a time to take advantage of the short-term trend. Talent has never been more available and affordable.

Normally, there is a huge gap between the number of available workers and the number of available jobs. Usually, there are more available jobs than qualified, quality workers.

When COVID-19 hit, this caused lots of layoffs

Today during the pandemic, the trend has changed, and there are more quality workers who are ready for hire. This massive shift in the market will eventually go back to normal.

If you have the foresight, start talking to candidates now and have the opportunity to get better people who were laid off by older, destabilized companies.

The labor opportunity window is open right now.

TALENTED LABOR WITHOUT DISTANCE LIMITATIONS

For almost any function that can be done remotely and doesn’t require physical space, virtual assistants for recruitment, marketing, & administrative jobs are cost-effective and allow us adequate focus & time for our functions.

MyOutDesk Virtual assistants are known to exceed expectations in providing excellent customer service and seamless administrative operations.

We will save you up to 70% on employment costs with experienced virtual assistants, precisely matched for your strategic needs. To book an interview with those in our talent pool, click here.

MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment costs
Claim a free business strategy consultation & ‘Grow Virtual’ Guide

Patrick Johnson, CEO of Talentuition (a MyOutDesk client) provides Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) services to Professional Employer Organizations (PEOs). They focus on “process outsourcing” more so than traditional headhunting or recruiting.

Recruitment Fundamentals

The mistake in prioritizing skills & experience over culture fit & talent.
Recruitment should follow this order: Culture fit, talent, skills, and experience
There are two things you can’t teach people: culture fit & talent. So skills and experience can follow.

What is culture fit when hiring?

The right candidate who matches your culture is the one you’ve considered once before, (think this mentality) : “We’re not ready to hire yet, but as soon as we do we want you.”

When hiring, culture fit usually gets bumped down when skillsets & experience get prioritized over. Again, remember to prioritize in this order: culture fit, talent, skills, experience. This webinar goes into detail on the technicalities of posting your jobs while attracting the right culture fit.

How to know if it’s talent or not

In basketball drafts, Player A has played ball for 10 years and they know how to do everything (he has the skills & experience). Player B is someone who can do the shots, the dunks, and the plays — he has the talent! With the both of them together, the culture is the team.

Tip: People apply to several companies at the same time — so the response you make puts you out there in front of other companies for the candidate. Never be that employer who doesn’t reply to any questions.

2 Reasons to Recruit Now

#1 Lots of people got laid off with the pandemic, even those who had 10+ years & are highly sought after — you can get them now!

#2 Now is also the perfect time to make timely investments in your business, use the downtime so you can push your curve steep when you bounce back.

Contact:

You can contact Patrick Johnson at Patrick@talentuition.com, visit their website: talentuition.com, or email info@talentuition.com.

You can connect with Daniel & MyOutDesk to leverage virtual assistants. 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!

It’s time to gain market share new by leveraging virtual assistants!

‘Grow Virtual’ with MyOutDesk Today

Access more business guides & Schedule a free consultation today!

December 22, 2020/by Jeremy

business owner on a video call with their myoutdesk virtual assistant

Explained: What does a Virtual Assistant do?

Administrative, Inside Sales, Marketing, MOD Virtual Assistants, Recruitment

Everything you need to know about how to use virtual assistants for your business

Considering a VA for your business? — This page has everything you need to help you make an informed decision.

Hiring a VA marks the beginning of a new and exciting time for you, your current employees, and the company. Employing a VA means that your company is making an investment in the team and looking to achieve the next level of excellence and performance.

In This Article, We’ll Cover . . .

What is a virtual assistant?
Why you need a virtual assistant
Why virtual assistants are important
Where to find virtual assistants
How much does hiring a virtual assistant cost?
Best virtual assistant companies
What tasks can virtual assistants do for you?
Is it safe? Can a virtual assistant be a security risk?
Most popular virtual assistant roles
Managing your virtual assistant
Where to find & where to hire virtual assistants

What Is A VA? What Is A VP?

VA’s provide assistance in prospecting, calling, marketing, administrative, and customer service functions to their clients from a remote, home office and typically from a different country.
VP’s (virtual assistant professionals) are career-oriented virtual assistants with proven industry and educational experience.

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Why You Need VAs

VA services have existed since the 1980s. The biggest US corporations have been using VA services for decades–it’s a huge factor to their growth model.

Caption: US corporations with integrated blended business models.

“We really needed good candidates to interview and MyOutDesk has provided that. We’ve been really happy with MyOutDesk’s resources!”

~ Jonathan McGowan, JVM Lending

[Considering a Virtual Assistant?]

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Why VAs Are Important?

VAs are mentioned as an integral part of the 2007 bestselling book The 4-Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss. Ferriss needed virtual assistants as a business growth tool to check his email, pay his bills, and run parts of his company.

Yes, small & medium businesses are increasingly incorporating VA business models.

» (See also) AllTheLeads: Why You Should Hire a VA

In fact, in 2021, the top competitors of the 10 most profitable industries ALL use virtual assistants.

Here’s how the 10 most profitable industries are leveraging virtual assistant services, like MyOutDesk, to ensure scalability and higher profits.

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Where To Find VAs

Differences & Similarities – How to compare the 4 Types of Virtual Assistant Services Companies

How To Choose & Decide The Right Virtual Assistant Services Company Or Provider

Where to Find: Fundamentally, there are four types of VA companies that cater to different sets of needs.

Database Of Freelancers

This VA company displays virtual assistant profiles for mainly part-time gigs. Prices vary per assistant.

Pros: Great for one-time, off-hand projects

Cons: Skills & experience typically not vetted by provider

Project-Based Freelancers

This VA company attracts both virtual assistants & clients to their site, and charges a service fee.

Pros: Great for a one-time seasonal project

Cons: Skills & experience typically not vetted by provider

Low-Cost Full-Time Provider

This VA company provides full-time assistants, generally specializing in a few specific roles or industries.

Pros: An affordable alternative to a traditional employee

Cons: Limited to a few roles and responsibilities, and lower value tasks.

Strategic Outsourcing Partner

MyOutDesk consults & caters to each client’s needs and addresses growth opportunities through outsourcing business processes — with specific expertise serving multiple industries. They provide services, starting from just one VA, for up to an entire enterprise workforce.

On the client side, the VA company provides a thorough talent-matching process, background checks, full-time client support, business process optimization tools, and business strategy consultations.

On the VA side, the company offers company perks such as professional development, health benefits, and holidays.

Pros: As affordable as all other VA services. Greatest quality of professional skill sets in a competitive talent pool. A powerful model for businesses looking to scale up. Hybridized physical-virtual (blended) organizational strategy allows local employees to focus on higher value tasks.

Cons: Not ideal for one-time projects.

As not all virtual assistant providers are created equal, businesses need to consider and choose the provider would best serve their needs.

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How Much Does A VA Cost?

The price of virtual assistants can rage from $3 per hour to $50 per hour. However the quality of these assistants greatly vary!

Will a $3/hr VA meet your expectations? Cheaper providers typically do not have FBI-grade background checks & legal backing like MyOutDesk.

Does a $50/hr assistant necessarily mean they’re the best? No. Higher wages mainly reflect the average living costs of where the assistant lives.

The ideal provider can will with you on a comprehensive solution — finding the most qualified candidates for the lowest rates & stringent safety checks.

MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment costs with experienced virtual assistant professionals. To book an interview with those in MyOutDesk’s competitive talent pool, click here.

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Best VA Companies

We’ve scoured through the internet to find all the reviews for the best virtual assistant companies. MyOutDesk is consistently named one of the best virtual assistant companies out there.

Where To Find & Where To Hire Virtual Assistants

MyOutDesk is named as the TOP virtual assistant company by:

TechRadar: Best Virtual Assistant Services of 2022
Time Doctor: Top 30 Virtual Assistant Companies of 2021
Hubspot: 30 Virtual Assistant Companies & Services to Make Your Job Easier
Hooquest: Best Virtual Assistant Companies in 2020

Full-time employees are expensive. In addition to salaries, you also end up paying a hefty sum every month for benefits, office space & equipment, worker’s compensation, and even retirement. It adds up fast & erodes profitability.

MyOutDesk Virtual Assistants are a cost-effective alternative to full-time staff that save you money, and let you keep your business nimble. Add or reduce staffing on-demand as you grow to meet today’s needs without the overhead.

	MyOutDesk	COMPETITION
Market Force Personality Profile	Yes	No
Over 5,000 clients served	Yes	No
VA Benefits & Medical	Yes	No
Legal Entity in USA & PH	Yes	No
Stable Internet + Backup Systems	Yes	No
Secure PCI Compliant Payments	Yes	No
VA Time-Tracking Software	Yes	No
FBI Grade Background Check	Yes	No
Dual Candidate Vetting	Yes	No

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What Tasks Can VA Do For You?

Most Popular VA Roles:

Administrative Assistant
Executive Assistant / Personal Assistant
Marketing Assistant
Transaction Coordinator
Virtual Receptionist
Customer Service
Telemarketing / Inside Sales
Help Desk & Support
Recruiting Assistant
Loan Processor
Real Estate ISA

Where Virtual Assistants Are Most Popular, By Industry

Real Estate

“Our top reps have been able to focus more on developing relationships & creating new business with clients — rather than task-work like simply handling claims. MyOutDesk allows us to scale more quickly & be more profitable at the same time!”

— Mark Schwaiger
Managing Partner at Infinity HR

Full MyOutDesk Interview: Link

Mortgage & Lending

“As a loan officer, I want to foster relationships, and I use my Virtual Assistant to help me acquire the relationship…He set up 51 one-on-one meetings with agents in the first quarter I had him!”

— Ryan Yardley, RyanYardley.com

Full MyOutDesk Interview: Link

Healthcare

“Our virtual assistant is basically our entire recruiting department – and he’s been able to drive us from two hires a week to just over four hires a week in the last 12 months. He’s a very skilled individual who understands the health care market, very technically savvy, and he’s been very effective.”

— Robert Massie, Owner & President
Brightstar Fairfax

Full MyOutDesk Interview: Link

IT & Technology

“I’m not going to be able to make $250,000 a year if I’m spending half my time doing $10 an hour work. That’s why we’re such big fans of virtual assistants and automation.”

— Dale Warner
CEO, Realvolve

Full MyOutDesk Interview: Link

Insurance

“As a Fortune 500 company, controlling the title market in SoCal and being Top 5% in the country, we highly recommend the local expertise with a unique touch that MyOutDesk offers. If we want to go onwards and upwards, definitely the option to consider.”

— Joseph Galante, Ticor Title

Marketing Agency

“Publishing, web development and site maintenance; there’s a lot of those tasks they do very good and have done for us.” – Cliff Stoltzfoos, founder and CEO of LifeX Marketing

Human Resources & PEO

“Anybody who’s gone to business school in the last 20 years has had 1 commandment hammered into them: if it’s not your core business, outsource it.”

— Pat Cleary, President & CEO
National Association of Professional Employer Organizations (NAPEO)

Full MyOutDesk Interview: Link

Property Management

“MyOutDesk has really revolutionized our business. We’d generate rental leads, hand them off to our agents, and have those agents reach out. We needed a better way to use the time these agents were spending to get these leads ready to go out on tour. I can’t tell you how many hours you’ve saved for our agents.”

Boots Levinson, Principal, Rent Philly

Financial Planning

“Because of one 15-minute appointment set by a MOD Virtual Professional…that one, landed client just paid for both virtual assistants for the rest of the year. My virtual assistant made me $43,000 in commissions less than half an hour ago, so if you’re still on the fence about hiring one, my advice is: just do it. The ROI on our virtual assistants is amazing – it’s definitely going to finish the year over 20x.”

— Marvin Mitchell, Compass Retirement Solutions

Full MyOutDesk Interview: Link

Cannabis & Legal Marijuana

“Why didn’t we do this two years earlier? MyOutDesk helped with least 8 candidates & seamless interviews. If you’re thinking about it, just go for it. We paid off in a month.”

— Tony Trinh, Fresh Mint
Full MyOutDesk Interview: Link

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What Tasks Can A Virtual Assistant Do?

VA’s provide you with the flexibility, scalability, and cost-savings to adapt quickly to today’s changing business & market conditions. Here are a million tasks and roles that virtual assistants can do for you.

General Administration

Having a VP tackle operations and administrative outcomes for you can go far beyond what a traditional assistant does, like answering phones and keeping your calendar. There are many more ways a virtual professional can help you administratively. Here are some concrete examples of my favorite things administrative virtual professionals do for our clients.

Virtual receptionist
Client care & relationship building
Screen calls & emails Loan processing
Administrative support
Accounting & bookkeeping
Lead management
Lead reporting
Recruitment
Agile project management
Performance reporting
Customer support

Marketing

There are many things a virtual marketing assistant can do for you to supercharge your company’s scalability. Focus your talented marketing professionals on the above sales tools and also on ideal client targets. If you know who buys from you and why your marketing virtual professional can really help drive your message out to the marketplace.

Online marketing, listings & social media
Virtual showings & open houses
Webinars & speaking events
Marketing automation
Brand work
Design coordination
Collateral development
Repurposing content
Audio, video & multimedia
PR & paid advertising

Prospecting Assistant

A sales prospecting assistant can take over your prospecting and expand your lead generation efforts. Our inside sales virtual assistants will help you generate more leads, qualify them and allow you to focus on selling and generating commissions. In addition to warm & cold calling, our virtual assistants can assist you with lead screening & pre-qualification, lead nurturing, prospect & client follow-up calls & more!

Telemarketing & inside sales
Smart plans
Appointments
Warm & cold calling
Prospect & client follow-up
Lead nurturing
Recruiting assistant
MLS

Loan Processor

MyOutDesk loan processor virtual assistants can to manage all the paperwork and deadlines involved in your mortgage & lending transactions – including every step of the process, from contract to close, and everything in between!

Gather documentation
Cloud e-agreements management
Lender follow-ups
Documentation review
Internal reporting
Manage mortgage or lending pipeline
Communications liaison

Transaction Coordinator

A Transaction Coordinator Virtual Assistant manages all the paperwork and deadlines involved in a contract transaction. They’re trained in every step of the selling process and tasked with monitoring progress from the time the seller accepts an offer through the steps involved in the close of escrow.

Become more effective by using a virtual professional transaction coordinator to handle the repetitive tasks involved with closing a transaction – such as gathering documentation & signatures, calling clients, completing paperwork, following up on contract terms & requirements, and ultimately creating a broker file for the completed transaction.

Manage signatures & documentation
Manage paperwork processing & deadlines
Coordinate inspections
Respond to contract terms
Compliance coordination
Communications liaison

Service & Support

MyOutDesk virtual assistants provide the leverage you need to meet your customer service & support demand at a fraction of the cost of hiring full-time staff. Customer service outsourcing lets you work smarter, not harder, and help you invest your time in dollar-productive activities that matter.

Manage trouble tickets
Manage escalation calls
Run reports
Manage calendars
Update CRM
Customer training & education
Issue resolution

. . . and the list goes on! With a business strategy in place that leverages virtual talent, there are a million ways that virtual professionals at MyOutDesk will transform your business during a recession.

[Ready for a Virtual Assistant?]

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Is it safe? Can a VA be a security risk?

Businesses who choose a reliable VA service provider with thorough qualification procedures ensures high-quality virtual talent. MyOutDesk has a strong reputation for providing virtual administrative assistants, built on:

A stringent talent matching process that uses detailed work experience profiling.
A comprehensive candidate vetting process unmatched by any other outsourcing provider.
FBI-grade background checks.
DISC personality matching to ensure the most experienced, educated, and skilled virtual assistant services possible.

An unparalleled distinction of MyOutDesk among many virtual assistant providers is its high standard of service to its clients and virtual assistants. The company provides uninterrupted support services for client businesses and virtual assistants with dedicated trainers and solutions managers. VAs receive competitive benefits and medical at MyOutDesk, upholding high work morale. Hiring a highly qualified, full-time virtual assistant from MyOutDesk is safe as well as cost-effective — costing up to 70% less than hiring a full-time in-house employee.

“Our top reps have been able to focus more on developing relationships & creating new business with clients — rather than task-work like simply handling claims. MyOutDesk allows us to scale more quickly & be more profitable at the same time!”

— Mark Schwaiger
Managing Partner at Infinity HR

Full MyOutDesk Interview: Link

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Managing VAs

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.

MyTimeIn
Remote Team Productivity Tracker

Manage your virtual assistant’s (or assistants’) department, teams, service accounts, schedule & PTO, and payroll.

Real-Time Visibility
Work History
Scheduling & Timesheets

Also to help foster the most effective remote work culture for your business, we’ve made a guide to help your team thrive under a remote transition.

Effectively Manage Your Remote Teams with:

Increase Productivity + Managing Virtual Assistants [Find Out More]

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Where to Find & Where to Hire VAs

MyOutDesk is a California based company founded in 2008. We’ve been steadily growing and gaining large and small business clients daily, especially those seeking a high quality virtual assistant. We’re an intelligent, successful voice in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and the Virtual Assistant community.

With 40+ years of combined experience, our principals have been involved with hiring and managing personnel and running businesses ranging in size from $14 million per year corporations to proprietor-type businesses producing hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Simply stated, no job is too big or too small for us. Unlike many outsourcing companies that will only work for businesses that place hundreds of employees at a time, we treat one order just like one hundred. We believe that while the order may be small, hiring a virtual assistant will allow you to grow your company. We fully expect to grow with you as partners in your success.

	MyOutDesk	COMPETITION
Market Force Personality Profile	Yes	No
Over 5,000 clients served	Yes	No
VA Benefits & Medical	Yes	No
Legal Entity in USA & PH	Yes	No
Stable Internet + Backup Systems	Yes	No
Secure PCI Compliant Payments	Yes	No
VA Time-Tracking Software	Yes	No
FBI Grade Background Check	Yes	No
Dual Candidate Vetting	Yes	No

Our Business Is Built On Experience

1. Cost-Effective Staffing Solution
An alliance with MyOutDesk will deliver high quality ancillary services you need while giving you the freedom to focus on your core business.

2. Highest Quality Virtual Assistants
You can contract for services that you need without the long standing costs like benefits, retirement, office space, management staff, etc.

3. Best-Of-Breed Technologies
MyOutDesk hires virtual assistant candidates that have some college education or college degrees; many times those degrees are similar to Harvard or Yale education. Our staff also has a broad range of skills, having worked for other United States companies like Dell Computers and IBM.

4. Over A Decade Of Experience
Operating leverage is a measure that compares fixed costs to variable costs. Outsourcing changes the balance of this ratio by offering a move from variable to fixed cost and also by making variable costs more predictable, thus improving profits.

5. You’ve Always Got A Single-Point Of Contact
Our virtual assistants receive ongoing trainings to keep up with current business practices.

6. We Value Your Information Security
You can manage contracts in a way that you can’t manage in-house projects. We can also manage virtual assistants by utilizing operational best practice that would be too difficult or time consuming to develop in-house.

We Match You With The Best Candidates

All of our virtual assistants are required to complete a rigorous 160 hours of special training, learning our secrets of success prior to employment. We also require our hired Virtual Assistants to attend five hours of additional training every month to help keep them “above the curve” with new technologies and processes. English is a common language in the Philippines, so all of our virtual assistants speak English clearly and professionally. We invest a great deal of time and money into developing our VAs and it shows in the quality of work they perform for you.

Many Virtual Assistants you find on the internet operate out of their homes. We feel this is a poor environment for both quality and accountability. At MyOutDesk, our virtual assistants work out of their home offices that provide them with the infrastructure to do their jobs more efficiently and effectively. They provide their own most up to date hardware and software and have experienced management on hand to assist them in their duties.

Working out of an office helps to create a team environment and allows for better accountability and security; your work will never leave our offices and be taken home by a Virtual Assistant.

Each employee is trained on task tracking and metrics reporting. If a virtual assistant cannot handle such simple tasks correctly before they begin, we don’t want them, and neither would you. Be careful with companies that claim task-tracking software. Why? If they need such software, they are likely hiring under-skilled, inefficient people. We know from extensive experience the importance of finding and employing only best people.

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Getting Started With MyOutDesk

TALENTED LABOR WITHOUT DISTANCE LIMITATIONS

MyOutDesk Virtual assistants are known to exceed expectations in providing excellent customer service and seamless administrative operations.

We will save you up to 70% on employment costs with experienced virtual assistants, precisely matched for your strategic needs. To book an interview with those in our talent pool, click here.

MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment cost
Claim a free business strategy consultation & ‘Grow Virtual’ Guide

August 17, 2020/by Jeremy

Achieve the Dream – Scaling as a Franchisee | With Brian Beers

Administrative, Franchise, Inside Sales, Marketing, MOD Virtual Assistants, Webinars

MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment costs
Claim a free strategy consultation & downloads

Brian Beers and his family currently own and operate 12 Midas® franchises in the Philadelphia area. He shares what talent means for his franchise businesses and his journey to getting the leverage that he needs.

“We used outsource companies in the past and have some varying experiences. I really like about [MyOutDesk] is all the work that you guys do upfront to find the right virtual assistant — ensuring that we’re getting a high-quality, well-vetted candidate because the biggest challenge or a roadblock is TRUST.”

How to scale profits with a franchise business

Brian’s family has been in the business of owning franchises for a long time. With a virtual assistant, they doubled their business in the last 3-4 years, and in the next couple of years they’re looking to double again. His virtual assistant, Ann, handles tasks independently. Brian compliments her achievements in our interview.

The virtual assistant directly works with his managers to get things done. These tasks are now completely off his radar, and Brian shares his “great experience for his franchise locations!“

“We got to try to multiply our efforts, and that’s really where the virtual assistant comes into play. They take away the everyday tasks, so that I could focus on higher-value outcomes and continue to work towards these larger goals.”

Did You Know? MyOutDesk’s origin story is set during the last global financial crisis of 2008. Yes, that’s right — our business started by scaling businesses with virtual assistants during a recession! Our first client in 2008 went from five to seventeen VAs with a completely revamped organizational model in short order, and he told MyOutDesk, “Our virtual professionals have shaved $250,000 off our monthly overhead.”

ENVISIONING OF A NEW REALITY FOR YOUR FRANCHISE BUSINESS

Simply put, MyOutDesk equips entrepreneurs & franchise owners with tools, strategies, and virtual employees – and when combined, businesses have a competitive edge and find growth while efficient systems and processes are put in place.

MyOutDesk proudly provides additional free business growth guides, books, and strategy calls.

Experience The Difference
MyOutDesk can save you up to 70% on employment costs
Claim a free business strategy consultation & ‘Grow Virtual’ Guide

August 6, 2020/by Jeremy