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As you may have learned by now, I love tackling tasks with the latest and greatest tools out there, from video software to product management tools. So when outsourcing expert John Jonas joined my podcast to discuss virtual assistants, I was all ears.

Like many of the best ideas out there, this one was born of a business owner’s needs—in this case, to find a high-quality, timely, and accurate content writer. Local freelancers were letting him down, and he resisted the robot world.

Instead, Jonas turned to the Philippines, where he created his own agency of virtual assistants. Today, more than 1 million profiles have populated his site. Here’s some of Jonas’s wisdom on using the platform (onlinejobs.ph) to increase efficiency and grow your brand.

Virtual assistants are ready for your brand.

That’s because your payment for the job—let’s say its $500—goes directly to the worker. Nobody else in between. Plus, Jonas has made it easy to find exactly the right match for your brand’s needs. Simply go to the “search Filipino resumes” box and the search engine will run through some 55,000 profiles to find the right match.

You can afford a virtual assistant.

Salaries run from about $160 to $2000, so you can easily find an assistant who fits not only with your brand’s needs but also your budget.

Virtual assistants love email.

Be prepared, says Jonas, to discover your ideal virtual assistant may already be booked. But once you’ve engaged in the best one for your brand, you’ll be increasing industry influence in no time. As Jonas reports, many of the workers prefer email over video or even phone interviews. So you can cut right to the chase and outline your exact outsourcing needs.

Find your virtual assistant today.

You’ll find the portal to this incredible resource, as well as many other materials to help grow your brand, on my website (drglennvo.com). Or go straight to the site at onlinejobs.ph.