Legendary Personal Assistant Required – Earn $1k/month Online
UPDATE: I’m no longer accepting applications for this position. Too many cool people have already applied!
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I’m looking to hire a personal assistant before the end of the month, someone to help me with a variety of tasks on an ongoing basis.
Why work with me?
This position is perfect for someone starting out on the lifestyle design/digital nomad path. You’ll have flexible hours, a decent income, and the freedom to work from anywhere. You’ll also be working alongside and learning from a guy who’s been self-employed for 2+ years and has pulled in more than $15,000 the past three months.
How much does it pay?
$250 a month guaranteed, plus 10% of whatever income you generate for me. At that you’re likely to clear $1000 a month working approximately 20 hours a week. Don’t expect to earn $1k your first month though, as it will probably take a few weeks to learn the ropes and get into a nice groove.
The person I’m looking for must…
- Be computer and Internet savvy
- Have a strong work ethic
- Be proactive
- Be trustworthy and reliable
- Speak and write excellent English
- Have solid negotiation skills
- Have strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Be willing to try and learn new things
How to apply
Send me an email with the following subject line (exactly as is): Fo shizzle, my dizzle, I wants this pozizzle!!!1
Keep your message short and to the point. I’m more interested in attitude, mindset and clarity than I am in resumes or testimonials. Tell me who you are and why this position in particular appeals to you.
Within a week I hope to have a shortlist of 2-3 applicants, and I’ll proceed to pick one from that group based on Skype interviews and the results of some trial tasks.
Beyond that: world domination. Expect a bonus should we succeed. Like the deeds to a continent or something.
Don’t apply for this position if…
- You can’t commit to at least 20 work hours per week
- You think it will be easy money
- You’d never heard of me or read my blog before today
- You don’t have a PayPal account (tough to pay you otherwise)
- You don’t have reliable Internet access or your own computer
- You can’t figure out my email address
Any questions?
For anyone genuinely interested in applying, ask away via the comments.
Could you expand on a few points?
1) “plus 10% of whatever income you generate for me”
How is that calculated? That is, is it 10% of your income for the month, or is it 10% of an arbitrary (or documented) amount of your income, based on what your assistant is likely to have “generated?”
2) “Have solid negotiation skills”
What sorts of negotiation is required? Negotiating with vendors? Other “digital nomads?” Advertisers?
Is this an area where you will accept a candidate with room to grow, but a determination to succeed?
3) How long-term are you looking to hire for? Is this a particularly busy time, and you’re looking for 3-6 months? Longer? It sounds as if you’re looking for an assistant indefinitely, but where is your personal threshold for “you applied, but didn’t stick with it long enough?”
Hey Colleen,
Great questions.
1) I mainly want someone to help me manage the blog advertising gig, which is easy to track income-wise. Basically, any deal my assistant helps me close, they get 10% of the moolah. The last two months I pulled in about $3500 (each month) through the blog advertising, so if I’d had an assistant helping me they would have earned $350 + $250 each month.
I fully expect this income stream to grow though once I have an assistant on board, hence the expectation of $1000 a month.
If I do end up having my assistant helping me with other stuff not related to the blog advertising gig, I’d be happy to compensate fairly for those tasks as well.
2) Negotiating with advertisers. And “absolutely yes” to your last question there.
3) At least 3 months, but assuming business keeps up (I can’t predict with much certainty how long the blog advertising cash cow will last), I’d like to have an assistant working with me throughout the whole of 2013, possibly beyond.
Hope that clears everything up. Let me know if you have any more questions.
I second Colleen’s questions, and here are my own:
- How computer savvy do I need to be ? What are the 3 core competences you’re looking for ?
- Could you clarify the kind of tasks and responsibilities you will delegate ?
Hi Sara,
- You need to be very computer savvy. I’m not looking for a programmer or a designer, but the ideal applicant should be able to touch type, know their way around WordPress and social media, and have excellent organizations skills (keeping Google docs updated, following up with advertisers on time, etc.)
- Email exchanges and negotiations with advertisers, communication with writers who create content for us (you would submit article ideas, approve/reject the submissions, etc.), posting content to WordPress, keeping good documentation on the entire process, implementing my ideas for all the above.
Let me know if you need any clarification on those points. I’m currently doing all of that stuff myself at the moment, and none if it is particularly difficult, just takes more time than I’d like, and prevents me from focusing on some of the higher level stuff that would take the business to the next level.
If I weren’t so busy with my own work, I’d probably apply for this! It sounds like a great opportunity for someone who is interested in how to do what you are doing… like being a paid intern! I hope you find the perfect person; good help is hard to find!
Thanks, Michelle. 18 applications in my inbox this morning. Pretty sure I’ll find a great assistant among that lot
I’m in! Sounds like something I’ve been looking for…expect and email shortly
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Well done, Colleen!
Niall, would you please answer questions here, publicly, or in an email, please. I couldn’t have asked them better myself! Very concise and precisely what I was wondering, as well!
Answered!
This looks like the perfect position for someone starting to live the dream going around the world as you do and in need of a mobile job; best of luck finding the right person!
Thanks, JB!
Well, I see a few points that don’t quit match.
1. 20 hours per week, but don’t apply if you are not a hard worker. Hmm. 20 hours per week is easy work to me.
2. 10% of your income +250=1000. This mean that you make about $7500/month, but from what I read you’ve never made over $4000 or so.
However, what kind of work are you requiring? Thanks
Hey Bella,
1. More about quality than quantity. The wrong person could stretch out what needs doing to 40 hours a week. The right person will get it done well in 20.
2. Yeah, last month I made close to $4000 from this income stream. Some friends are in this line of work as well though and their income increased significantly when they took on personal assistants and scaled up. That’s what I’m hoping to do.
As for the kind of work, see my answers to previous commenters above.
Think everyone has asked the right questions. My main one is negotiate with whom…. potential clients Im guessing.
Or are we supposed to come up with the answers ourselves to show who smart we are
Cheers
Hey Jackie. You’d be negotiating with blog advertisers.
This position has nothing to do with web design really.
This is a great idea Niall. I’m surprised more location independent bloggers making +$3000 a month aren’t doing this more often.
Haha, I’d agree with you, but I feel like I should have done this myself a long time ago! I’m late to the party here
damn. Wouldn’t mind trying this, but a few things in the lists are not possible =(
I submitted an application thinking it would be design-y. But I still think my skills apply and now after reading your replies I’m intrigued about the blog advertising and what to learn more! Seems like I’m super late to the party but wouldn’t be against this revenue stream myself!!
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Hey Neil. As requested, here my questions.
1 – About 20 hours per week.
Scheduled? Every day? Can be done when it fits the Legendary One?
2 – You ask for 20 hours or you ask for a specific number of tasks that need to be done which require approximately 20 hours?
3 – The salary is paid tax free, right? (PayPal sounds like it)
That’s it for now
Hey Hector,
I’m no longer accepting applications since I’ve received 35+ already, plenty of great people for me to choose from
But I’ll answer your questions anyway:
1. Flexible, though I’d expect my assistant to check and respond to email every 12 hours or so. No worries about taking extended time offline though as long as I know in advance.
2. Approximately 20 hours. I doubt it would take up any more time than that. Between 15-20 is probably a good estimate.
3. Yeah, taxes are up to you.