John Jonas employs 38 full-time virtual assistants in the Philippines across programming, design, customer support, and more. He pays them $400 to $2,000 a month and says remote workers can be highly skilled and trustworthy. His free book at OutsourcingLever.com walks through the full hiring process.
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So a lot of people want to know what kind of work can you get virtual assistants to do for you? So I'm gonna tell you what some of the 38 full time virtual assistants in the Philippines do for me now. I don't actually call them virtual assistants anymore because they're not really assistants, they're not secretaries, they are specialists at things. So I have four full time programmers who work for me. I have a system admin, I have two guys that just do front end things like HTML and CSS and JavaScript type stuff. I have an HR person, I have a couple people that just work on social media actually I don't even know how many, three or four people that just do social media for us. They write social media content, they make posts, they share. I don't know what they do. I have content writers, they just write content for me and some of my newsletters are written by them. If you write, if you read the OnlineJobs ph blog, most of that's written by them. Written in the Philippines. I have copywriters, sales copywriters. I have customer support people, I don't know how many, maybe six or seven or eight enough that we cover full time shifts. Probably double covered so that we can answer support 24 7. I have people that do lead generation for me. I have a project, I have a couple different project managers. I have data admin people so or like data security people so people who are looking at important data that we have and ensuring that it's correct. We're going through and making sure that people on the site are not cheating. I have people that do social media for me. I have a video editor, audio editor, graphic design people, user interface design. It's amazing how you can find people from 400 to $2,000 per month for full time work. And at the low end of that you have like lower end people and at the high end of that you have really talented people. I have someone that runs my Facebook ads for me. Anything that can be done online, you can find someone in the Philippines who is skilled and honest, talented, really hard working. They want to do really good work for you. I want to teach you this whole process. I wrote a book all about it. It's available at OutsourcingLever.com it's free. OutsourcingLever.com and I will walk you through like why and how and where and who and the whole process. Outsourcinglever.com.
