Your opinion’s on VA's and VA Companies

[Stone Cyrus]

Fellow RE Investors, I want to source opinions from investors who have used VAs or hired from VA companies in the past. What elements or services are important to YOU when it comes to a VA company? What are some downfalls you have noticed about VA companies? If you could make changes to improve VA functionality and ease, what would it be?

[Eric Cornwell]

So, if you are talking about Virtual Assistants... we used VA's in the past - Cleardesk was one company. First hire did outbound calling and killed it - set probably an average of two appointments a week - started to get involved more then she asked to be hired on directly (it went south from there)... second didn't do more than outbound calling and started to learn business then they got Dengue Fever and quit... pretty sweet.

Overall, the value of the work in how well you train them - don't expect home-runs if you don't teach them how to swing the bat the way you need it swung.  I am sure outsourced assistants can do most things (non-critical) its just getting them on with the CRM or your platform.

Good luck