Just 8 hours from now I have to get up to catch a plane with my wife & son to Singapore. We will only stay one day thereto relax, then continue the flight to Frankfurt, Germany and from there to Hamburg, Germany. From there it’s just a hour with the rental BMW on the Autobahn until we reach the house of my brother. We will stay with my family 3 weeks and then drive to Berlin, fly from there to Munich and from there to northern France where we stay for 5 days before we drive back to Frankfurt.
My wife and son will then return to Sydney, Australia (vs Singapore where they stay another day) and I will fly to Monaco where I will meet for a week with one of my business partner Colin Klinkert until middle of August.
Why am I telling you all this? Not to impress you, but to impress upon you what is possible thanks to having a system in place that allows me to continue to earn and support my customers while I am traveling.
About 16 month ago the world looked differently… I earned already then good thanks to ViralURL, but I was about to go insane with the amount of helpdesk tickets and emails I got bombarded with on a daily base. I noticed that instead of moving my business ahead, I more and more just tried to stay afloat doing support work.
Don’t get me wrong… support is majorly important in your business. Without it you would not be able to build a reputable business where happy customers refer others just because of their level of satisfaction.
But the most important task to move your business ahead is product creation and marketing!
It was then that my good friend and now also business partner, Aurelius Tjin shared with me the secret to his ability to turn out product after product without getting too much into sweat…
Diving with Aurelius in Bali
No, not diving… VA’s & outsourcing!
I have done outtasking before… where I hired somebody to do a task one time for me, but I never had a full-time VA (Virtual Assistant) before early 2008. I always told myself that nobody can do it better then me and that’s why I had to do it all.
Now, what I found out once I finally hired my first VA in April 2008 was that after just a week of training her on those company specific tasks I wanted her to do for me was that my work load dropped dramatically. I was able to concentrate more on improving my existing products and that way was able to generate a lot more profits because our site became more viral and our customer base grew faster.
Three month ago I hired my second VA and both are working in shifts now to cover more of the 24 hours a day.
My only regret is that I waited so long until I hired my first VA. I should have hired her years ago… as soon as my monthly profits exceeded her monthly cost I should have hired her and by now my business would have been light years ahead. Oh, well… afterward we are always smarter.
I would love to hear your feedback & questions in the comments below.
There is obviously a lot to know about this. I think you made some good points in Features also.
Good video, Frank. Hope you’re enjoying Germany. http://www.TimeToOutsource.com is proudly used by many top internet marketers.