Your next hire should give you time back.

THE PROBLEM IS TIME

You have 168 hours a week. Your business cannot have all of them.

Sleep. A job. Commuting. Family. Exercise. Everyday life. By the time those commitments have their share, the hours left to build a business can disappear fast. In the example from my original book, a full-time worker has about 29 hours left after those commitments. Your numbers will be different; the problem will feel familiar.

You need to find leads, reply to messages, follow up, organize information, and still make the decisions that bring money into the business. Doing every task yourself eventually makes you the bottleneck.

I built VA ×2 around a better question: which work needs you, and which work needs a clear process and the right assistant?

TWO ROLES. DIFFERENT SKILLS.

Hire for the work you actually need.

You may need one role first and the other later. The point is to recruit for the job—not hire a person and hope you will figure out how to use them.

MY HIRING & FILTERING METHOD

Stop reading every résumé. Start seeing who can follow the process.

In the usual hiring process, you post an ad, get a flood of applications, and spend your evenings trying to guess who will be useful. I made those mistakes. The filtering system grew out of learning how expensive the wrong hire can be—in money, time, and frustration.

My approach gives applicants steps to complete before you invest more time in them. Their responses help you see whether they read instructions, follow through, and do the work required to move forward. The interview then has a purpose: evaluate the person for the role you have defined.

WHAT YOU RECEIVE

The explanation and the working materials, together.

• VA ×2 book: the thinking behind delegation, front-end and back-end roles, and using assistants in a business.
• How-to-hire training: where to recruit, what to ask, and how to avoid the hiring mistakes described in the original course.
• VA Filtering System: a repeatable way to narrow the applicant pool before investing more time in interviews.
• Sample interview manual: a starting point for questions that relate to the work.
• Copy-and-paste recruiting ads: adapt the examples to the position you are filling.
• Contracts and pay-chart examples: use the materials to prepare the arrangement and budget for the role.

Compensation depends on the work, hours, skills, location, and current market. Old wage examples are not a promise of what a qualified assistant will cost today.

THE VA DOMINO EFFECT

Give the routine work an owner. Keep your attention for the bigger decisions.

Picture the week from my original example. Calls need making. Lead information needs organizing. Marketing messages need preparing. Your family has plans, and the house still needs attention. You can keep trying to squeeze every task into the same hours—or start building a process someone else can help you deliver.

A useful assistant can help keep those recurring tasks moving. You still choose the priorities, train the person, check the result, and make the business decisions. The change is that every task no longer has to wait for your hands.

That is why this training is for more than real estate. An investor, brokerage, service company, shop, or online business can all benefit from getting clearer about the work they delegate. Start with one role that solves a real bottleneck.

IN THEIR OWN WORDS

Original feedback about the VA training.

YOUR QUESTIONS

Know what comes next.