Here’s my take on it. I’m not sure if you can..
At the end of the day they are going to tell
you they can do everything.

Well they should if they are worth their salt,
because that is what you are employing them
to do.

If they are working independently i.e. for
themselves if they were any good they would
be fully booked, unless you happened to be
one of the first very few people who they
spoke to.

Obviously the best thing to do is to ask for
references of people they have worked for
and see how they react to that.

What I choose to do now is to work with my
partner in Outsource Success. He is Indian,
lives their, has a background in recruitment,
project management and IT.

He is must better placed to weed out the dead
beat VA’s than I am or ever will be.

About 6 months ago a new company launched
amongst a blaze of online publicity saying
that they had a team of 300+ Indian VA’s
that were available to get work done for you.  

I asked my partner to find out about them
as we might be able to poach some of the
workers for our team as they were obviously
not being paid much based on the prices being
offered to clients.

Funnily enough he had the resume’s of 5 people
already citing that company’s name, that should
have been a warning as why would they be looking
for a new job already.

Anyway he interviewed 3 of them, they were less
than impressive and weren’t competent at all.

Funnily enough I have not had any good reports
about this company, good at Internet Marketing
as they were they sucked on delivery.

As the saying goes

‘If you are going to pay peanuts
 you are going to get Monkeys’

Gavin Allinson
support@OutsourceSuccess.com

P.S.So my suggestion is to choose a company
    that can provide testimonials and to steer
    clear from one person bands.

P.P.S Give our team a try first, if you don’t like
      us I’m more than happy to give you the details of
      2 or 3 other companies that I have heard good
      things about.

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