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Unlocking Business Growth: How Hiring a VA Gave Ela Back Her Time

8 Aug 2024 · 2 min

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Ela Gold, a naturopath and teacher, describes hiring virtual assistants (VAs) starting about three years ago—initially via an agency for social media but later hiring directly after issues with disappearing VAs and high agency markups. She began hiring less-experienced VAs herself, found the process easy, and has since hired two more VAs who now handle a wide range of tasks (server/website work, maintenance, troubleshooting, social media, blog posts, email marketing, graphic design, video editing, research posting, and writing). The shift freed her time to work on her business and relax; she recommends others try hiring VAs.

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August 8, 2024

About three years ago

Two more VAs

Server and website development, maintenance, troubleshooting, social media, blog posts, email marketing, graphic design, video editing, posting research, and writing.

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Hi, my name is Ela Gold. I'm a naturopath and teacher now. I started hiring VAs about three years ago through an agency because I just wanted someone to do my social media. I realized very quickly that I could give them more work. Now there were two problems with staying with the agency. One was that I kept on having problems with disappearing VAs and the second problem was that I realized that the agency is actually charging double the amount than what they are paying the va and I started looking online. I was still a bit nervous about the idea of doing the first hire myself. I also decided then to hire VAs that had no previous experience or very little experience. Now. I found the process to be very easy and I have hired since two more VAs and they basically do everything for me now. So anything from server and website development, maintenance, troubleshooting, social media, blog posts, email marketing, graphic design, video editing, posting research, and even writing. This definitely leaves me more time to work on my business rather than in my business. And it also helps me relax because I just know that a lot of tasks get done in the background and yeah, so basically anything I can think of that I can put into my project management software and explain to them how to do it or what I want, they can actually go and do it. If you're sitting on the fence line and you're not sure if you should go ahead, definitely give it a go because really you have a nothing to lose and a lot of time to gain.