I have been working with a VA from AskSunday which is a very popular VA service. I hired a dedicated VA from them a while ago. I went for the 20 hour plan which costs $249. I requested a VA who was familiar with social media, technology and data input. I know I would probably have them do some simple social media reporting at one point in time.
I had my dedicated VA work on two ‘test’ projects. Project 1 was a research project which I considered to be rather easy … it basically entailed the VA going to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube with the intention to find competitors of a company then place the information in an excel sheet. I wanted how many followers the account had, views etc. Easy information to find. He took 5 hours to do this project. I did this for another company and it took me about an hour for the same number of companies etc. He also asked me about 5 questions which was frustrating because I was extremely detailed in the explanation.
The second project was more on the research/data analysis side. I needed to find articles, blog posts, etc about local search specifically google maps. The articles he found were horrible. Not from reliable sources at all. I didn’t ask for services and he gave me a list of services as well. I specifically said no services.
I have requested a new VA. For this next project they will be developing a social media report. I have made a video on exactly how to do everything. I am hoping to get better results with this. This will be a bi-weekly task which probably will take 2 hours max. It takes me about 1 hour to do it all.
Have you ever used a VA? If so what service did you go with? How did you like it? Give me some feedback. Thanks everyone.
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