Virtual assistants would always come in play when you mention outsourcing. Indeed, virtual assistants are great assets to businesses of various kinds and sizes because of their invaluable services offered in an affordable manner. However, you need to learn the best strategies for choosing the best virtual assistant.

After you’ve chosen a potentially best virtual assistant to outsource your business task to, you can adopt the following steps to make the outcome desirable;

Don’t Assign the Tasks all at Once

If you’re working with the virtual assistant for the first time, consider adding the tasks gradually instead of assigning them all at once. This strategy will help you assess the outsourcing provider from the onset with the little task, to see if it is worth increasing the task or not.

The aspects to assess as you assign tasks gradually include ability to follow due process, quality, attention to details, communication, ability to meet deadline and general work ethics. If you find these aspects satisfactory, you can go ahead and increase the task but not outsourcing everything yet until you can be rest assured.

Don’t delay to look for another virtual assistant to outsource to if the first virtual assistant did not measure up to your desired standard while performing the initial small task. You want to ensure you are getting nothing less than the best from an outsourcing solution.

Keep an Open Line of Communication

You should not leave the virtual assistant all alone after assigning the task to be done. You want to be sure that the outsourcing independent contractor understands the details of the project and follows due process in getting it done.

Communication is the major tool for tracking an outsourced business task. Don’t just kick-start a relax mode after outsourcing a task In fact, you have more work to do after outsourcing a task than when you were interviewing and assessing the outsourcing provider.

If you don’t put a monitoring process in place, you may find out that the outcome of the outsourced task will be a far-cry from the expected returns. This may be as a result of lack of communication or misunderstanding of what the actual job requirements are.

So, endeavor to keep an open line of communication that requires various and effective communication channels – email, phone call, conference calls, Skype, and messaging apps.

Keep Your Own Side of the Bargain

An outsourcing partnership shouldn’t be a one-sided thing. Often, clients expect so much from the outsourcing partner without giving back much in return. An outsourcing provider also needs you to keep your own side of the bargain in terms of providing the materials (where necessary) required for the work making payment as at when due.

Finally, if you keep these tips in mind, you will be able to outsource effectively.

Daven Michaels is a New York Times Best Selling Author and CEO of premiere global outsourcing company, 123Employee. The company employs hundreds of young bright individuals on three continents. His International event, Beyond Marketing Live! inspires entrepreneurs build & grow their business with revolutionary new theories and systems allowing them to design the business and personal lifestyle of their dreams.