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VA vs AI: 5 Reasons Why

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We’ve talked about what differentiates our virtual assistants from the AI virtual assistants you may be familiar with, before. There are various reasons to go with one of our human professionals to assist you in scaling your business successfully. But consider this the definitive, top five reasons why you should ditch the AI robot world of assistants, in favor of our very real and very skilled virtual assistants. Read on and be convinced…

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All Natural, Organically Grown

1. Don’t forget what AI stands for; artificial intelligence. I don’t know about you, but I prefer my coworkers to be not artificial. Natural intelligence is much more useful and reliable than intelligence that is by definition fake. Sure, not all of your coworkers may be all-natural themselves, but whatever work they may or may not have had done is none of our business! What is our business, however, is… our business! And real business needs real intelligence to get the job done right. A real-life, not-fake virtual assistant will always be smarter than an artificial product because AI can’t compete with the complexity of a real human brain.

 

You Don’t Have To Yell at Us

2. Do you ever yell at Siri or your Alexa device? When I say “Alexa, turn off the living room light” I don’t want to hear back “Rain Wilson plays the character of Dwight on The Office”.  I don’t need another reason to watch re-runs of The Office, I need the living room light turned off. That’s another problem with AI, which is you can’t always rely on it. With a human assistant, especially those from MyOutDesk, you CAN always rely on it. You don’t need to repeat yourself to our VA’s, and should never have to yell at them either. Please don’t yell at them. They will learn what you need and execute exactly that because they have ears and brains… not speakers and circuit boards.

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Works For You, Not It’s Creator

3. AI doesn’t truly work for you. Think about it(with your human brain); an AI is just code, algorithms designed by someone else to handle general tasks. That someone probably isn’t an expert in the specific area you’re working in. So why rely on pre-determined routines from some stranger in another world? Don’t! Instead, put your very sensitive and important tasks in the hand of a human being who wasn’t designed, but has learned through experience what you need. Someone who is getting paid to do those very specific tasks you require and understands why they need to be done and how. 

 

 

AI Isn’t Alive, Humans Are

4. The increasing reliance on AI to help us with tasks reminds me of machine assembly lines. Once upon a time, the advancements in machine technology resulted in people losing their jobs to “robots”. The modern-day equivalent is kind of like shifting human jobs to AI automation. Hard-working, experienced, skilled people are losing jobs to AI that didn’t earn that job. AI that isn’t loyal, understanding, passionate, or reliable. If you’re reading this you’re a human(I hope!) so stop stepping on your fellow humans. Stop aiding the inevitable rise of our machine overlords. This leads me to point 5…

 

Don’t Fuel the Apocalypse Fire

5. We’ve all seen The Terminator movies. Do you remember how well it worked out for the people in that world? They kept advancing their AI technology with reckless abandon. They never stopped to consider what eventual repercussions could come from putting our livelihood in the cold, artificial hands of an emotionless entity. But you have the chance to consider that right now! Don’t chance your precious business on someone else’s disconnected creation, that comes with no guarantees. Work with a real-life human who wants to work for you, and comes with assurances. Worst case, they don’t work out and you find someone else who’s a better fit. A machine may not give you that choice.

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Nothing Beats That Human Touch

And there you have it, folks! If you were unsure before about human VS AI assistants, you’re probably pretty clear now. These top five reasons should be all you need to see how much better it is to go human. All cuteness and jokes aside, nothing beats the results you get from one of our highly-skilled, human virtual assistants. Because our VA’s aren’t software with limitations and defects, they’re individuals with specific skills and experience. And we take pride in matching them up with our clients to very specific roles and watching them fit right in and work hard. An AI isn’t going to become a respected member of your team and work culture, but our VA’s will. If you enjoyed this little eye-opener of a blog and would like to see if one of our VA’s can help your business, follow the link below and schedule a free consultation.

 

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Keeping Your Business Going In Uncertain Times

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No matter how much you plan ahead, there are certain things that no amount of preparation can account for. Being flexible and quick on your feet can make all the difference between your business failing and thriving in times of crisis.

Have the best team in place no matter the situation with MyOutDesk Virtual Assistants! Schedule your GoRemote with MyOutDesk Virtual Assistants Strategy Session today to find out how.

Be a Chameleon

Find creative ways to adapt to the current situation. Brainstorm with your team and talk about alternative ways you can run the business while you are at home. If you run a B2C model and rely on face-to-face, in-store interaction with clients, think of ways to provide the same service in a different way. For example, many restaurants continue to operate by adding a delivery service, giving discounts and coupons, subscriptions, etc. to keep up with the competition. This is a more obvious example of course, but take a look at your business model and find ways you can work around your current situation.

 

Keep The Current Situation Top Of Mind

In your marketing, be aware of how you can keep your message relevant to the current situation. Increased and flexible marketing is crucial right now because many people will wonder whether certain businesses are still operational. Make sure your target audience knows you’re open and still going strong.

 

Plan Ahead

It’s important to consider not only how to survive as a business, but also to have a strategy in place for what’s going to happen afterward. Don’t assume that once the crisis has passed, things will just go back to the way they’d been before the outbreak. One key consideration is that being confined to their homes will likely lead to many customers switching to online or otherwise remote solutions, and it shouldn’t be assumed that post-crisis, they will go back to the solutions they’d used prior to the outbreak.

 

Have a Plan A to Z

Make sure that you explore different scenarios and challenges and solutions and steps you will deploy for each one. While you may not be able to predict anything, it’s nice to have contingencies in place so that you can adapt to any situation, odds are that if something comes up that you may not have an exact plan for, having several different challenges plus solutions will help you.

 

Embrace New Technology

Since remote work is now the norm, this is the perfect time to find and try out new innovations in software, apps etc. That may benefit your business’ new set-up. Do your research and try different ones. Consider using online platforms for your planning and communication. Use Google Docs or dropbox for collaborative documents and files that everyone can edit and comment on, Monday or similar software for business planning that keeps everyone on the same page, and the likes of Slack or Stormboard for brainstorming and file-sharing.

We are all in limbo as things unfold in the world, but your business does not have to be. If you would like to discuss further remote staffing options, make sure to schedule a GoRemote with MyOutDesk Virtual Assistants Strategy Session so we can discuss options and how we can help.

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The Real Experience of a Virtual Culture: Avital Tours and MyOutDesk

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Avital Ungar, CEO/founder of Avital Tours

 

Avital Ungar is the founder and owner of Avital Tours, a business that has offered artisan food tours since 2011. After spending time surrounded by great food in places like Shanghai and Paris, Avital returned to the states. She arrived with a newly energized passion for not just food, but for sharing the experience of great food with others. That’s why she started her business of organizing tours through popular neighborhoods of San Francisco, to try different foods from different restaurants. The concept is a food lover’s dream; have one dish at one restaurant, then walk nearby to another for something totally different next, and continue until you end somewhere else for a delicious dessert. Along the way, Avital connected with bartenders and expanded on her companies success by incorporating custom cocktails too. And so a very successful business model was born. 

 

When Circumstance Becomes Opportunity

 

In the midst of a global pandemic, Avital was eventually faced with a serious professional challenge. How does a business so reliant on in-person experiences stay relevant in a world where everyone is staying home? By translating those experiences into something anyone can enjoy from anywhere in the world; a virtual experience. Avital Tours was shifting gears to offer a new way of providing their customers with the same service, albeit catered to fit an increasingly remote culture. By tapping into existing relationships with renowned chefs and bartenders, they had the foundation they needed to start a new business… within a business. Customers could now sign up for virtual food tasting experiences and have the ingredients shipped right to their door. Avital had managed to pivot so successfully, that they launched an entirely new business in just one week. It took MyOutDesk a couple of months to find our footing and feel some semblance of stability! It only took Avital 7 days to launch, followed by several months of bringing in our VP’s to help them grapple with all that newfound success. 

 

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“We were building a business in 6 months. We had to build systems so nothing fell through the cracks.”

 

Culture is What You Make of It

 

A new culture of recreation is now a major part of life, for both business and pleasure. While the average person is looking for ways to have fun and be social from the comfort of their homes, so too are businesses looking for new ways to stay connected with their remote workforce. Despite everyone being increasingly disconnected physically, Avital Tours has given companies an entirely new way to maintain a connected company culture. Your company weekly happy hour can now be virtual and hosted from the safety of the employee’s own kitchen. Even a bigger company outing can utilize the virtual events Avital Tours offers, via inclusive experiences anyone can attend from any location. Sending them the ingredients also makes it easier to get involved, thus driving up engagement. More employees can, and want to attend these events due to the ease of access. Just because your team isn’t sharing an office anymore doesn’t mean they can’t find new, engaging ways of staying connected.

 

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Good For Them, Great For You

 

It’s good for b2c too! For example, the days of sending your sales team to another city to wine and dine with a prospective customer are fading fast. Through Avital Tours, a sales team member can now book a virtual cooking class with someone and have a just as productive and personal experience. All while staying with their families. And while all of this addresses the concerns over connectivity with customers and internally between employees, we haven’t even talked about how cost-effective it is. Your sales team won’t be expensive flights, hotel rooms, and other travel expenses. And HR won’t have to negotiate a budget for big company outings. With the money saved, you can also host more company events, monthly rather than quarterly or even yearly. Spend less to do more, keeping your employees connected and efficient while driving up profits. It’s literally a win/win for everyone.

 

“We’re trying to show everyone that you can have blended models and keep your team”

 

Happy Workers are Hard Workers

 

Avital has become a pioneer for the virtual culture that’s growing fast. All the while improving her own internal culture too. New roles were offered to many employees who had been laid off during the pandemic. Positions like the tour guide were able to capitalize on that established knowledge and ability and transition it to hosting virtual events now. Where gaps needed to be filled in between roles, MyOutDesk was happy to provide virtual professionals to assist. Because with a new vertical comes new responsibilities and processes. Our very human virtual assistants came in and helped with the influx of new customers and the workload that followed. Often creating entirely new processes for Avital to ensure nothing slipped through the cracks. Avital wanted good people with high attention to detail, and that’s exactly what we gave them. And they not only became valuable contributors to Avital Tours’ success but welcomed members of the company culture.

 

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Supporting One Another

 

It’s been the perfect pairing of an established virtual profession, with a new and fast-growing virtual experience. We at MyOutDesk consider ourselves in the service business because we live to serve our customers. And Avital Tours is exactly the kind of company we love to do business with. We are honored to help them scale up successfully, as they help us in facilitating a growing acceptance of remote professions. Because their success is our success. We’ve love to see how we can help your business scale up efficiently and effectively, too. Follow the link below to schedule a free demo and see how we can serve your success. 

 

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

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

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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.

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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.

 

Claim a free business strategy consult
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.”

 

 

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What CEOs need to know about this year’s tax-filing season, economy & government

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Now in the 2020 tax-filing season, there is a flood of questions. To summarize this year’s tax season, the coronavirus pandemic affected some tax provisions. However, it did not affect tax rates and brackets.

Current Tax Brackets & Policy

Currently, individual tax codes have seven brackets for income taxes that range from 10% to 37%. This means that you pay 10% tax on the first dollar of taxable income, after applying your standard deduction.

The current tax rates and brackets were passed in December 2017, and they expire at the end of 2025. For 2026, the top rate is forecast to be 39.6%, though Congress has the ability to adjust rates even earlier.

The income brackets & levels are adjusted annually to account for inflation, although Congress switched to a less generous method in 2017 for calculating inflation adjustments on tax brackets and other key provisions. The Joint Committee on Taxation predicts that this will cost Americans $133.5 billion over the next 10 years.

While many thresholds in the tax code are adjusted for inflation, some important exceptions exist. Some benefits for homeowners, thresholds for taxes on Social Security benefits, and certain taxes on investment income will not be adjusted. Many Americans who are currently making under $38,700 a year are paying more taxes to the U.S. Government than they would if the limits were adjusted for inflation.

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PRESIDENT BIDEN’S TAX AGENDA … AND WHAT IT MAY MEAN FOR YOU.

 

 

The 2021 income cap is $142,800, so there would be a gap in taxes between $400,000 and the amount exceeding that sum. The Social Security proposals that Biden is proposing have more procedural hurdles in Congress than other proposals.

LIMITING THE VALUE OF ITEMIZED DEDUCTIONS

Under the current income tax system, if you’re paying 37% in income taxes, then deductions save you 37 cents for every dollar. Under Biden’s proposal, a tax deduction saves a taxpayer with more than $400,000 no more than 28 cents on the dollar, even if that person’s top bracket is higher.

LIMITING THE 199A PASS-THROUGH DEDUCTION

The tax reform in 2017 gave businesses a 20% deduction for net income, including rental real estate. There is no formal proposal from the Biden campaign to end this tax break for business owners., but The Tax Policy Center’s analysis of the president’s proposal assumes that this change is consistent with his goal of rescinding 2017 tax breaks for high earners.

RAISING THE CORPORATE TAX RATE

For corporations, the tax rate would go up to 28% from 21%. There would also be a minimum tax on companies with lower effective rates and taxes on the U.S. company’s foreign earnings.

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The Case for Virtual Assistants

No matter what your business, virtual assistants can help you! It starts with building the right systems and processes to have all job roles stay more focused on their most dollar-productive work. When we start to use virtual assistants, knowledge doesn’t get lost. When an employee has been working for a long time, it’s easy for them to forget what they’re supposed to be doing. Or what they’re not supposed to be doing. But, the VA can always refer back to the process. Or, they can even document what you have in place so that things are done properly and consistently.

Now is the time for us all to stop looking at hiring as a huge problem. It’s solvable. We just need to figure out a better way other than posting job listings over and over again on popular job boards and hoping that we’ll get lucky this time.

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When you book a Double Your Business Strategy Consultation with MyOutDesk, you’ll sit down with a business consultant to form a strategic plan that’s specific to your business needs. My Forbes 500, Inc 5000, and ranked RealTrends clients have seen their continued success with this solution.

It’s time to get more efficient -AND- lower operational costs. Hire a virtual assistant to boost your admin, marketing, and project coordination job.

This way, your employees can dedicate themselves to the more important, dollar-productive jobs (a.k.a. making the sale!). Focus on the bigger picture — you can close more deals + get more organized + grow your business.

An experienced virtual assistant will support your operational needs (at up to 70% less than traditional employment costs). What’s more, is virtual assistant talent can become a long-term asset and growth catalyst for your company.

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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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.”

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

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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.

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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.

 

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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.

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Virtual Assistants & Blended Teams

When we founded MyOutDesk 13 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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Marvin Mitchell: Making a 20x ROI with Virtual Assistants!

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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.

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Leadership Strategies for Crisis Management with Scaling Coach Bill Gallagher

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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

 

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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.

 

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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!

 

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

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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

 

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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. 

 

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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!

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