How to Use Upwork Virtual Assistants to Change Your Business

Everyone uses Upwork to hire cheap virtual assistants.

Yawn. Duh. 

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Did you know you can also use Upwork to:

- Save 90% on software 

- Find off-market real estate

- Save 95% on leads 

- Get new marketing ideas 

- Get intel on competitors

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I’ll show you how:

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1. Targeted Leads

BuiltWith is amazing. It provides millions of targeted leads & tells you what tools any website uses. 

But it costs $450!

Go to Upwork & post a job looking for someone with a BuiltWith account.

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2. Prescraped Leads

Pay them $30 to run an export for you. 

Takes them 5 mins & saves you $420

Imagine you need a VA to scrape targeted leads for you from:

Google my Business 

LinkedIn

Yelp

Etc 

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Don’t hire a VA to do it. 

Hire a VA that already did it and buy their CSV for $20.  

Works like a charm.

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3. More Prescraped Leads

Say you need self-storage owner leads for central Ohio. 

Once again, it’s already been done before for someone else. 

Post a job for the leads, not for the labor. 

Buy the CSV. 

No dice? Post another job for it a day or two later. 

You’ll find it.

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4. Freelancers

Need new marketing or business ideas?

Create a new Upwork account for FREELANCERS.  

Start looking at job postings from other business owners. 

Search terms to use:

Lead generation

Sales

Marketing

Launch 

Business plan

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What you’ll find is a treasure trove of ideas.

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5. Investigate Your Competitors

Want to know what your competitor is up to?

Post a job for VAs that have worked for them before. 

Hire them and pay them to answer questions. 

You’ll never know what you’ll learn.

It’s the same framework for every tip in this thread. 

Before posting a job simply ask yourself:

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“Has a VA already done this for someone else? How can I find them?”

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Want to save 80% of your time looking for the right VA?

Use @loom to make a 5-minute video and post that. 

Put an Easter egg in the loom that asks the VA to mention a keyword in their application to weed out the noise. 

Many agencies use bots to mass apply.

Waste of your time!

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6. Music Teachers

How about a piano teacher for your kids? 

We hired a fantastic Armenian concert pianist for a fraction of what average pianists in our neighborhood were charging. 

Want to start a marketplace for matching remote pianists w/ Americans looking for one on a budget?

Upwork!

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Companies much further along & better funded than you have already built massive marketplaces.

Don’t reinvent the wheel. Seek out their users and profit.

Hope this helps someone! Always grateful for your follow @mhp_guy

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