3 Crucial Tech Tools to Guarantee Success with VAs
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In this episode, Matt and Barbara speak about the 3 most crucial tools you must have in your business to guarantee success.
Let us know in the comments below what your key takeout has been from this episode or why not join the continuing conversation over in the Virtual Success Facebook Group.
In this episode:
1:25 - Technology that is crucial to succeed in your business

2:58 - Tool Number 1: Project Management

9:25 - Tool Number 2: Effective Communication

17:49 - Tool Number 3: Data Management

22:40 - Why having processes is also crucial to your business

23:40 - Benefits of these tools

24:26 - Bonus Tech Tool

27:03 - Wrapping Up

Tools Mentioned:

Asana

Basecamp

Trello

Slack

Zoom

Skype

G Suite/Google Drive

Dropbox

Loom

Intro: Do you find yourself running out of time to accomplish your work? Are you spending time doing things that you are not that good at? There are effective ways to outsource these tasks, so you can focus on your business. This is the Virtual Success Show. We bring the inside scoop on outsourcing success for entrepreneurs by entrepreneurs, and now, here are your hosts, Matt Malouf and Barbara Turley.

Matt Malouf:  Hey, everyone. Welcome back to another show of the Virtual Success Show where I'm joined by my co-host Barbara Turley. Good afternoon, Barb.

Barbara Turley:  Hey, Matt from sunny Sydney. Is it sunny where you are in Sydney today?

Matt: It is. It is, and I had to think about that because we normally do these recordings in the morning but it's—

Barbara:  I know. It's nice to do it in the afternoon.

Matt:  It is. It certainly is. How's everything going?

Barbara:  Good, great. We're heading into a nice time of the year here, my favorite time of the year in Sydney. The weather gets a bit cooler, which is good. But excited about today's topic. I love how we pow-wow and come up with these problems that we see across business coaching and in what I do in outsourcing and gel them together and come up with these great topics. So what are we gonna talk about today, Matt?
Technology that is crucial to succeed in your business
Matt: As Barb and I were preparing, we were talking about the technology that's crucial to succeed and win when you're working with your virtual teams. I think there's so much technology at our fingertips these days and so much advice around, you should use this, you need to get that, you need to integrate it with this, it can be very, very confusing for many of us. I know technology is not something that has come naturally to me. It's something that I've had to learn and train myself with. But the key is that there are some crucial pieces of technology that you must adapt and adopt in your company to succeed with virtual assistants.

Barbara:  Definitely. I mean, I echo those thoughts. You know, Matt, I'm someone who is into technology and I love integrating systems and everything, but my love of simplicity is bigger. Even though I love tools, I actually have very few. We recommend strongly that clients stick to a few key things. It was great when we were discussing this today to actually come up with three. There's lots of things we could talk about, but there are three that we would describe as the non-negotiable. If you want to get success with a VA or a virtual team, or, honestly, even if you have a company that just has a lot of people, there are three non-negotiable tech tools and setups that we've isolated to make this work.

Matt:  Absolutely.

Barbara: Let's kick this off, Matt.
Tool Number 1: Project Management
Matt: Okay. The number one that Barb and I were discussing was you need a project management tool. It may be a tool like Asana, Basecamp, Trello, or the like. Our preference and what we both use in our respective businesses, and I know Barb you highly recommend it with all of your clients, is Asana. What's the experience that you and your team have had arou...