Can the headache of outsourcing be solved?
Today’s guest runs a company called The Virtual Hub, outsourcing simplified. Here’s why outsourcing needs to be simplified. Like many of the people who I’ve interviewed, I read “The 4-hour Workweek” where Tim Ferriss talks about how to hire outsourcers. And he makes it sound like such a revolutionary concept that I had to go and use one of the companies he mentioned.
And, man, it was frustrating. It was so frustrating. They didn’t get anything done. Well, today’s guest had the same problem and said, “I’m going to make it really easy for the person who’s hiring an outsourcer to get a virtual assistant who knows their work.”
I invited her here to talk about how she did it. If you’re in the people business, you’re going to want to learn how she did it. If you’re selling entrepreneurs and you’re going to want to know how she did it.
Barbara Turley is the founder of The Virtual Hub, a virtual assistant company based in the Philippines
Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. Today’s guest has a company that when you hear it, you might think, “Oh, this is so easy. Of course I could do that. I can copy it.” I got to admit, I thought that too but it’s a lot harder than it seems. And I want to understand why.
What Barbara Turley does is she runs a company called The Virtual Hub. They are basically outsourcing simplified. And here’s why outsourcing needs to be simplified. I like many of the people who I interviewed read “The 4-hour Workweek” soon after it came out and somewhere in there Tim Ferriss talks about how to hire outsourcers. And he makes it sound like such a revolutionary concept that I had to go and use one of the companies he mentioned.
And, man, it was frustrating. It was so frustrating. They didn’t get anything...
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