Where to find a Virtual Assistant ?

Question

I need a VA to clean City data, and put in Excel sheet. It’s labor intensive work and want to know where I can find someone to do this for me? And how much will it cost?

Kerry Noble Jr · Answer

theres actually a group on facebook.....i forget the name.....upwork.....some have reached out to me on linkedin also

Mark Shaver · Answer

@Sardar Mustafa Khan, Marcus Maloney writes in the article "Hire a Virtual Assistant for These 21 Tasks (& Supercharge Your Productivity!)":

"Finding a network of VAs is not difficult. There are many services offered online. I actually hired a new VA recently for database management. Here’s where to look:

• Upwork.com
• MyOutDesk.com
• Freelancer.com
• TimeEtc.com
• ReferralExchange.comFiverr.com
• Zirtual.com"

You wrote: "And how much will it cost?"

This is a great question.

Usually investors try to pay a fixed price. This is normal when the work is standard or you provide a detailed specification. In this case the performer knows how long it will take to complete the task. He will multiply his hourly rate by the time of work and you get a fair fixed price.

But the fixed price is not suitable in your case. If you try to find a virtual assistant with a fixed price, you will have problems. The performer has the standard hourly rate. The volume of work is unknown. The fixed rate is set at random. As a result, the virtual assistant will work exactly the time that you pay him. If you paid through a fixed price only 10 hours of his work, and cleaning requires 50 hours, then be prepared that the virtual assistant will work 10 hours and will clean the data very roughly. The result will contain:

• A lot of unnecessary data
• A lot of necessary data will be discarded.

This will happen because you don't know how to check the quality of data cleaning.

In the end you will save money, but you will lose raw data and get only part of the useful result. The old principle of "How much you pay, how much you get" is fair for data cleansing.

In your case, it's better to pay by the hours:

• Your order is unique
• You do not provide the terms of reference
• The virtual assistant will only understand the amount of work when it is finished
• Virtual assistants traditionally work with hourly pay.