Hiring A Virtual Assistant: What To Delegate & How To Manage With Tricia Sciortino

The sooner you can kind of bring that person on, I think you you see your business accelerate because you're able to spend your time really focused on the business and what it means to grow that business versus being buried in the processes behind the scenes of the business. I'm Amy Porterfield, ex corporate girl turned CEO of a multi 7 figure business. But it wasn't all that long ago that I lacked the confidence, the budget, and the time to focus on growing my small but mighty business. Fast forward past many failed attempts and lessons learned, and you'll see the business I have today, one that changes lives and gives me more freedom than I ever thought possible, one that used to only exist as a daydream. I created the Online Marketing Made Easy podcast to give you simple, actionable, step by step strategies to help you do the same. If you're an ambitious entrepreneur or one in the making who's looking to create a business that makes an impact and a life you love, you're in the right place, friend. Let's get started. Welcome to another episode of Online Marketing Made Easy. Get your pen and paper out right now because this episode is jam packed, and I'm not even exaggerating, jam packed with information you will not want to forget. So today, we're talking about hiring a virtual assistant and how a virtual assistant can support you and your business. Specifically, we're even getting into how they can support you with marketing efforts. So I have my friend Tricia Shortino joining me today, and I'm so excited to have her here. She is the CEO and a board member of BELAY, one of the nation's leading virtual staffing companies. So BELAY has landed on Inc five thousand's list of fastest growing companies and best places to work under Trisha's leadership. I love this woman. Now take it from me. Hiring a virtual assistant is such a great opportunity for entrepreneurs to take at any point in their business, but it's essentially, in my opinion, the best first hire you can make. The key is to know what you're hiring a virtual assistant for and how to train them. And we're gonna talk about this in the episode today. Now I wanna kind of take you behind the scenes really quick. First of all, Christine is my executive assistant And virtual assistant, executive assistant, I would say same thing except executive assistant definitely takes on more responsibilities. And you can hire a virtual assistant and kind of move them into an executive assistant where Christine handles a lot of personal and private stuff for me as well as the day to day. Now, I got Christine four years ago from BELAY. That's how I found her. I used this staffing company. I didn't really know anybody at the staffing company yet, but I had heard great things about them. And so I found Christine, and soon …