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Author: [[Chris C. Ducker]] Full Title: Virtual Freedom Category: #books It’s the reason that people miraculously get work done at the last minute—because they need to.          •    It’s the reason that some of your best ideas surface when you’re faced with a do-or-die situation—because you must come up with something or face terrible consequences.          •    It’s the reason that my good friend Pat Flynn, creator of the online brand Smart Passive Income, found success as a digital entrepreneur after being laid off from his job as an architect—because he had to. I fired myself from thinking that more of my time and energy was the solution to every problem. I fired myself from being a micromanager, which was causing a bottleneck in a lot of our day-to-day operations. I fired myself from building the business on my shoulders and instead chose to build it around a system of highly skilled local and virtual employees. hiring a full-time trainer for new recruits instead of handling the training myself          •    developing an internal management team          •    setting benchmarks and clearly defined tasks instead of micromanaging          •    hiring experienced online marketers and other virtual staff to help me with business development and lead generation say I was a business owner instead of saying I was owned by a business. It was, and continues to be, a great feeling. It’s a learning process and a building process to stop struggling to do it all on your own. As you become more fluent in the virtual business lifestyle, some concepts and ideas will fall easily into place. Others will need to be customized to your needs. Put quality in, get quality out. The quality of work you receive from virtual employees is proportional to the quality of the instructions they receive. Are your instructions clear and concise? Or are you giving them a jumbled mess of instructions and hoping they can connect the dots?          3.   One size does not fit all. All VAs have strengths and weaknesses, but they may not want to tell you that. They want to please you and will try to figure out ways to do whatever you want. This is a double-edged sword. Take care to match the right VA to each of your needs. We’ll go into this in a lot more detail.          4.   Super-VAs don’t exist. who can handle all of the following tasks and more:          •    update blog posts          •    manage social media          •    edit video          •    transcribe audio          •    create custom images and icons          •    design and develop websites          •    respond to customer support tickets          •    research and recruit affiliates          •    do Amazon shopping for birthday gifts for loved ones

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Virtual Freedom by Chris C. Ducker presents wisdom from the contemplative traditions.

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