my va

Max: Jan 08 2013 — The first company I hired, Get Friday [December 2012] did not work out.  In huge ways.  And Get Friday had beaten out Brickwork hands down going in on responsiveness during first contact so Ferriss’s book [where I picked this stuff up] recommends were dead soldiers, outdated and probably really impacted by popularity the book itself created.  Hey, when I was an assistant, I did not dictate to my boss when I would bother to work – and then do an unparalleled in inadequacy job when I did show up – which was what I was getting from Get Friday.  Resulting in me posting things on Facebook like, “Why the F*CK am I up at 7 AM pulling all nighters to fix the disaster someone who is supposed to be helping me just created?”

But.  I researched a lot, read a lot of forums and blogs [like here] and my ultimate take away was two companies were my best bets, Tasks Every Day and BPOVIA.

 

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I found Tasks Every Day first and Tasks Every Day would have won early on if they didn’t require a 20 hour commitment per month going in.  I was not ready to do that going in so I kept going.  And found BPOVIA.  Which had a hell of a lot of good talk of mouth and also only required a 10 hour commitment going in.  With one bad commitment already on the books, paying a second company to come in who might be just as bad and slapping down cash for 20 hours to do it was not going to work, but I was willing to slap down another ten.  So the marriage between myself and BPOVIA was born.

 

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I am so happy.  Everything about BPOVIA has been good.  They were back with me immediately, on their Sunday, with a manager talking to me and my new VA [that is “virtual assistant” if you are not in the know] talking to me [Skype, yay!, learn it love it live it] on their day off, and my new VA went and hit my sites that day to get a feel for them before going on the clock the next day.  He’s smart, he’s fast, he picks things up quickly, and I am here posting this at 1 AM because I am actually off at 1 AM because of him, instead of 5 AM.  And that doesn’t happen in my world.  I don’t stop work till work is done and before now, work wasn’t done until 5 AM.  And now in three short days time, and that includes training time, it does.  My entire world just changed.  For the better.

 

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If you contact BPOVIA, tell them Max Adams says Cris Yeong rocks give him a raise – just don’t take him off Max Adams’ account.  [I am not kidding there, you get Cris pulled off my account, no jury will convict.]

 

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*Excerpted From Comments: The Personal Outsourcing Olympics: Bangalore Butler or American Assistant?

*PS, if you do go looking for BPOVIA, use :::my link::: I am so sold I am going all affiliate here.

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