John Jonas shares unexpected ways business owners hire Filipino virtual assistants beyond typical admin work. A forum post described hiring a personal trainer for $15 a session. Listeners reported using them for meal planning, life coaching, backyard design, and graphic design, with 221 different tasks documented on ofstasks.com.
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Welcome to the Secret Sauce of Altrusting podcast that's dedicated to making you better at working with OFS. This is episode 259 creative uses for OFS. So sometimes I get wind or I'll get an email or I'll hear things about just crazy creative things that people are doing with hiring workers in the Philippines. And so I get an email the other day from so this is from an expat who lives in the Philippines and was on a forum talking about it's like a digital nomads forum and someone had posted about hiring a personal trainer. So here's how the conversation ends up. So the person who posts in this says I want to hire a personal trainer but I'm moving. Any suggestions? And again, this is a digital nomad forum. So here's what someone says. If you don't end up moving, you could try a virtual training. I've worked with a trainer from the Philippines for over a year on Zoom. I pay his requested rate for each private session which is 15 USD. There are minor technical issues during their rainy season it's cut off and the next person says hey, I was considering the same thing. I was wondering if you could find them the same way as other freelancers, fiverr, etc. Someone chimes in, says check out onlinejobs ph and they respond to say for personal trainers though, yeah, I live in the Philippines, that portal is very well known. I also know the founder, amazing guy with a newsletter. It's among the most valuable insights I've ever received. Blah blah, just check out the reviews. Someone else chimes in and says hey look, he's spot on. That's where I found my trainer onlinejobs phone. So I mean he sends me this screenshot of this conversation. I was like this is crazy. You're hiring a personal trainer, a fitness trainer from the Philippines. Like if you're working, if you're doing your workouts at home or if you're moving around and you want to continually have access to this trainer, like wow, this is such a good option. So when I sent this out via my newsletter I got a bunch of responses from people with like creative ideas that their that they're gonna do. So someone told me, wow, this is like opening up my mind to I can hire someone to do meal planning for me which would be super amazing or a life accountability coach or I could hire someone to help me design my backyard. Well yeah, you really could. And in fact I just did something like that. We for my kids mountain bike team, we need a New Jersey design and so I went on to onlinejobs page and posted a job for a graphic designer. I got like 20 applications within 24 hours. I hired a couple people to create a whole bunch of designs and now we have a whole bunch of different Jersey designs that we can choose from and pick and choose from. Before I go back to them and say, hey, will you modify this and this and this? Super duper simple to get that done. Is there something in your life that you could use help with? It's not that hard to find someone in the Philippines just like you would locally. That and they might be more affordable and they might. They're probably just as good and it could be actually really beneficial to you. New creative uses for online Filipino Specialists Outside of just working in your business, if you want to hear other things that people are actually having OFS do for them, check out ofstasks.com it's 221 tasks that other employers have told me. This is what my Filipino workers are doing for me right now. Sa.
