Virtually virtual…
At long last, I decided to hire a virtual assistant. And I decided to use Elance to find the VA. After researching what companies were available that did what I needed, I registered, wrote a project description, and invited a company to bid on the project. They never responded. So I researched a few more companies and invited them to bid. One declined and the others haven’t responded.
So far, I’m not impressed with the responsiveness of any of these companies except the one who declined within an hour of my invitation. I’m a little nervous about opening the bid up to everyone, because I prefer to vet the company first. But it would appear my vetting process needs some help, since none of the companies I selected based on my criteria even bothered to respond.
The whole idea behing hiring a virtual assitant was to make my life easier. So far? Not so much.