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The Academy Presents podcast


Oct 26, 2020

Do you feel overloaded with your work and hardly finding time to focus on your business improvement? Don’t worry; now you can hire a VA to help you with that.

 

Today I had the pleasure of speaking with one of my good friends Keri Bednarz. Keri is a highly motivated real estate investor, salon owner, and entrepreneur with thirteen years of experience in single-family, multi-family, commercial, and raw land development.

She will share her experience in hiring a VA, how it helps her lighten her workload, and give her more focus to level up.

 

Let’s jump right into Keri’s story and learn more about the effective way to work with VA. 

[00:01 - 08:49] Opening Segment

  • Let’s bring Keri to the show 
  • Keri talks about the beginning of her career journey.
    • She begins investing in residential real estate in 2006
    • Did a few flips, rental, and owner finance property
    • Begin in multi-family in 2018
  • Keri talks about how she started to hire a VA.
    • Joined elevate in 2019 hired a VA since May.
    • Begin to get overload with her job
    • His husband set up an interview with a VA selection company for her.
    • She uses Rocket Station. 
  • Keri shares her opinions on how good her VA works.
    • Has been helping her to elevate and level up quickly 
    • It took a few weeks to get a grip on the job but has been doing fantastic since
    • Planning to hire another VA

[08:50 - 13:48] Tips on Hiring Your VA

  • Keri shares some tips on how to hire a VA 
  • Ask them some of off wall questions. 
    • Make sure that they are a quick thinker. 
    • See their true communication skill
  • Make sure they have good internet 
    • It is very important that they can connect with you. 
  • Make sure they have the right equipment for their job.
  • Flexibility in their working hour
  • Find a good communication tool to communicate with them.
    • She uses Slack to communicate.
  • Keri shares her experience working with her VA.
    • Being open to any suggestions from your VA
    • Asks them feedbacks for improvement
  • Daily report on their job
    • Beginning and end of the day report

[13:49 - 17:48] VA Job Descriptions

  • Keri talks about her VA job description. 
    • The main focus was to take and create video content. 
    • Edit videos for social media content on various platforms 
    • Scheduling the content for her
  • Took two weeks of training 
  • Her VA has created the entire month’s worth of content in just two weeks.
    • Putting out incredible content
    • Posting 3 times a day
    • With much much better quality content

[17:49 - 23:59] The Adaptation Process

  • Keri talks about how her VA learn her voice. 
    • Getting used to her voice and communication style 
  • Just because it’s not your way does not mean it is not good.
    • Being open to any suggestions
    • Sharing and exchanging ideas
  • He is also doing the SEO for her website. 
  • Turns videos to micro contents
  • Rebranding her youtube channel
  • Posting her blogs on the bigger podcast
  • Handling FB groups and Instagram
  • She talks about hiring another VA to help her with CRM. 

[24:00 - 28:35] Increase The Engagement

  • Keri talks about the virtual meetups 
  • Having the checklist to work on 
  • Her VA not only creating the content planning but also tracking the matrix on her post.
    • Increases the engagement
    • Giving her the monthly report
  • Keri talks about the hourly rate 
  • By hiring a VA, you would go so much quicker than if you do it yourself. 

 

Tweetable Quotes:

“By hiring a VA, you would go so much quicker than if you do it yourself.” - Keri Bednarz.

“Before you are about to hire a VA, make sure that they have good internet and the right equipment for their job.” - Keri Bednarz.

 

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You can connect with Keri on Facebook, Linkedin, and you can also check out some of her blogs about multifamily investment at https://www.elevatecig.com/

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