Chris Ducker

Ever since I read Tim Ferriss' The 4-Hour Workweek, the idea of hiring a virtual assistant has been in the back of my mind. While at the Social Media Marketing World 2017 Conference, I picked up the book rel="nofollow" target="_top">Virtual Freedom: How to Work with Virtual Staff to Buy More Time, Become More Productive, and Build Your Dream Business by Chris Ducker. This book goes into depth about hiring training managing and using a virtual assistant. I am using what I have learned in the book to hire my first virtual assistant for a project. So far, I am happy with the results. Read more… (mehr)

Not having come across the term "virtual staff" before, I was expecting a range of technology solutions to make business and life more efficient. What I found was the term "virtual staff" really means real people more appropriately termed "remote staff".

Much of what the author covers relates to staff wherever they are located. Some of the material relates specifically to hiring and managing remote staff, often in overseas locations.

Reading the book reminds me a lot of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), and overseas outsourcing in general, that became popular during the 1990s.… (mehr)