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Why Heidi Mcloskey of Textile Exchange says her H.Y.V.A.™ Virtual Assistants are Incredibly Resourceful with her Research Projects!

Owen McGab Enaohwo — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:03:32 +0000

Heidi Mcloskey of Textile Exchange says that the range of the research projects she assigns to H.Y.V.A.™ are pretty broad, yet every time her Virtual Assistants are able to unearth useful data that she hadn’t found before! (<<<— Check out the video below to find out why).

Do you want to learn more about Textile Exchange and what they do?

Textile Exchange (formerly known as Organic Exchange) is a non-profit organization incorporated in 2003. They operate internationally and are committed to the responsible expansion of textile sustainability across the global textile value chain, with a special focus on organic cotton. They are headquartered in the USA with staff and contractors located in nine countries.

Vision:

They envision a global textile industry that protects and restores the environment and enhances lives.

Mission:

Textile Exchange inspires and equips people to accelerate sustainable practices in the textile value chain. They focus on minimizing the harmful impacts of the global textile industry and maximizing its positive effects.

What they do:

Convene, inform and build capacity in our membership base and across the industry
Advocate product and industry integrity
Help bring positive innovations to scale
Improve organic farmers’ visibility, access to stable markets, and better develop business capabilities through education
Create partnerships that accelerate sustainable practices across the global textile industry

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Why Andrew Saffer of Aish HaTorah says working with H.Y.V.A.™ has been the best experience he has ever had with a Virtual Assistant company!

Owen McGab Enaohwo — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:47:30 +0000

During my interview with Andrew Saffer of Aish HaTorah he said working with H.Y.V.A.™ has been the best experience he has ever had with a Virtual Assistant company! (<<<— Check out the video below to find out why).

Do you know a Jewish person looking to discover their heritage? Please refer them to Aish HaTorah!

Aish HaTorah is a Jewish outreach organization started in Jerusalem by Rabbi Noah Weinberg in 1974. Aish HaTorah’s goal is to revitalize the Jewish people by providing opportunities for Jews of all backgrounds to discover their heritage in an atmosphere of open inquiry and mutual respect. Aish HaTorah is regarded as a world leader in creative Jewish educational programs and leadership training. Check out Aish HaTorah and discover your Jewish heritage!

How the Founder of The Premier Tutors now gets more time to sleep at night because of his H.Y.V.A.™ Virtual Assistant!

Owen McGab Enaohwo — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:38:36 +0000

Talha Bhatty; the founder of The Premier Tutors gave us an awesome testimonial about his experience working with his H.Y.V.A.™ Virtual Assistant. (<<<—What he said made my day and left me smiling). Check out the video below!

Do you know someone who wants private tutoring services? Please refer them to The Premier Tutors!

The Premier Tutors are a group of professional tutors and teachers who have been providing exceptional private tutoring services to students of all ages (including adults), education is their passion ! Check out The Premier Tutors and get your learning on!

How H.Y.V.A.™ helped the founder of Football-Defence Report get over his fear of working with Virtual Assistants

Owen McGab Enaohwo — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 03:58:55 +0000

Joe Daniel; the founder of Football-Defence Report was so kind to give us a testimonial about his experience working with our Virtual Assistants. Check out the video below!

Do you love Football or are you a Football Coach? Then check out The Football-Defense Report!

Football-Defense report is a site that shares up to date information about defensive football for die-hard football fans and coaches! Check out Football-Defense report and get your defensive game on!

MouseFlow hires a Virtual Assistant from H.Y.V.A.™ to help with Customer Support tickets and loves the experience!

Owen McGab Enaohwo — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 05:52:36 +0000

Lasse Schou is the founder of Mouseflow and he was so kind to give us a testimonial about his experience working with our Virtual Assistants. Below are his answers to my questions. Check them out!

What your business is all about?

My business offers a SaaS-based analytics service that can record and playback visits on any website. It basically lets website owners look over the shoulder of their users, and makes it possible to make usability improvements based on real user experience.

Why did you feel the need to hire a Virtual Assistant?

Email support is a task that is growing along with the number of subscribers and it was clear for a long time that I needed to outsource this task.

What fears and reservations did you have about working with a Virtual Assistant?

Most of the email support tickets were of a rather technical nature so my fear was that it wasn’t a job for any VA. Most businesses offering email support only had VA’s who could answer questions based on an FAQ, not handling advanced technical issues.

What exactly H.Y.V.A.™ does for you and how we are meeting your needs?

It turned out that H.Y.V.A.™ has Virtual Assistants with both technical skills and good customer skills. The Virtual Assistants are fast learners, and I’m already saving time after just a few weeks of operation. Thanks H.Y.V.A.™!

Try out Mouseflow for FREE!

Mouseflow is a tool that allows you to record the actions of your website visitors and watch the videos, see heatmaps of clicks and scroll behavior, analyze and optimize your landing pages based on the data being tracked. Check out Mouseflow and get the skiny on how people use your website!

Work With Owen McGab Enaohwo

Owen McGab Enaohwo — Wed, 12 May 2010 22:52:00 +0000

Every entrepreneur experiences a few setbacks, it just part of the risk involved with owning a business and sometime it takes a little personal help to really get off the ground. Since you’ve landed on this page, I know that you’re currently at that stage in your business where you just can’t seem to figure out what to do. Or it may also be that you have a basic idea on what to do, but you don’t know how to do it, implement it or make it work.

You might have watched my videos interviews with other successful entrepreneurs here on my blog and might also have tried implementing their ideas in your business, but you did not get the results that you were expecting to get.

Now let me tell you this…

Sometimes what works for others may not work for us.

Sometimes strategies that work well with others need to be adjusted so that it would fit our needs.

Sometimes the solution that worked back then may not work as well today.

This is the main reason why I would like to offer my consulting services so that we can work out a solution to your problem.

What do you get by consulting Owen McGab Enaohwo?

Outsourcing and and Virtual Assistant Consulting
Systemization and Automation Consulting

I will answer all the questions you have regarding any one the above topics mentioned, and once you click the buy now button below; I’ll be looking forward to brainstorming with you and helping you properly outline the steps that you need to take in order to achieve your desired results.

By signing up for a consultation with me you’ll get the Skype Video recording of our session, worksheets, and the outline of the ideas that we covered during the consultation.

By clicking the Buy Now button, we can start figuring out a solution to your problem together. The session can be on any one of the points mentioned above; you will get to pick my brain and together we will find a solution.

Cheers to you and your business!

Sincerely Yours,

Owen McGab Enaohwo

Community Engagement Officer (CEO)

Great News! Here is a new Video Testimonial from Mark Shandrow on Hiring Virtual Assistants from us

Owen McGab Enaohwo — Sun, 02 May 2010 23:56:12 +0000

Our client Mark Shandrow; a very successful Entrepreneur and Real Estate Agent in California (www.MarkShandrow.com) was so kind to give us a video testimonial on hiring virtual assistants from us.

In this video he explains how he runs his REO business and how he makes use of virtual assistants to get stuff done.

Thanks Mark for recommending our services!

Check out the video below.

Great News! A brand new Testimonial from one of our Note Buyer Clients

Owen McGab Enaohwo — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:41:17 +0000

His words exactly

…”We wanted to thank you for your efforts on our behalf. We’ve been extremely pleased with Courtney, Martha and HYVA…“

He likes our services so much that he willingly gave us a testimonial in his company letterhead. Please check it out the complete testimonial by clicking the link below!

Actual Written Testimonial

for other testimonials from our clients please go to

www.HireYourVirtualAssistant.com/clients/clients-testimonial/

Contribute To This Blog

Owen McGab Enaohwo — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 22:54:21 +0000

Thank you for taking the initiative to contribute to this blog. Since you are reading this page, it tells me that you are willing to share your experiences and expertise as a seasoned Entrepreneur with fellow HYVAnees™. This will help everyone, including myself in our individual journeys to attain passive income and in designing the ideal lifestyles we all want.

By submitting your content; It does not only help members of our community improve their businesses by learning from what you can share about the different aspects of your journey as an entrepreneur , but also encourages other members to do the same (you might learn a new trick or two from other people).

To ensure that each member benefits from the post or the videos that you have, I have set up a few simple guidelines. Before sending me your submission, kindly make sure that what you’re submitting

Delivers practical and easy to digest information that includes topics about: Outsourcing, Virtual Assistants, Passive Income, Entrepreneurship, Lifestyle Design, Marketing
Is exclusive so that readers can enjoy content that is fresh, new and cannot be found on other websites.
If you want to use links, reusable images, videos or anything related to your post, feel free to do so, for as long as it’s not promotional.
Your post should not violate any copyright laws in terms of text, images or videos.
Your post should include a headline, body and your byline.
Overly promotional content and Affiliate links are strictly discouraged.

Exclusive

Original content is of great value. The posts you submit should be written in a fashion that is different from what you’ve already posted elsewhere. If you happen to have written something here first, then feel free to write on the same topic elsewhere. Although I am hoping that you post it in a different form than what you have posted here.

Subject

The posts that I am looking to receive are the types on where all the readers, including myself, can benefit from. Although this blog is aimed to how business owners can benefit from Outsourcing, hiring Virtual Assistants, Automation, and Marketing, you can also submit posts that contain valuable information that can help people with their respective businesses.

Again, content that are overly promotional or posts that have Affiliate links are not allowed.

Formatting

You can submit in Word or simply plain text. Not using bold font, wrapping subheadings in

tags or in bold, and marking up links using HTML is much appreciated.

Images

You can spice up your posts with images. You can add any image you like for as long as it can re-used in terms of copyright, maximum width of 540 pixels and, of course, it should grab the attention of members of the community.

Length

For as long as your post conveys your message, length doesn’t matter, though I prefer content with 1000 words or more. Quality is the most important thing so just write away and make sure to exhaustively cover all your points.

Videos

Since the popularity of video today cannot be undermined, I am allowing video blog posts for as long as you also provide written summaries that tell people what they are about.

I also will allow you to regular post to my blog and have your own column if you happen to attract a huge following as a result of your guest post. Great content where everyone learns something new is highly appreciated.

Byline

I know that you’ll put in your best in whatever content you’re going to produce for us. For sure, It’ll help everyone in their journey towards becoming better entrepreneurs, create the lifestyle that they want and finally attain passive income that can support their newly found freedom from time and financial difficulty. This is the main reason why I am highlighting you, your blog or website, or any products or services that you offer.

Including your byline is my way of saying thanks for your wonderful guest post. Here are a few things that you need to know in creating your byline:

1. Your byline should be a sentence or two explaining who you are and what you do.

2. I am allowing you to put up to two links in your byline that goes directly to the product or service that you want to promote.

3. I also allow RSS feed.

4. Your byline will appear at the top right section of the sidebar in the “Author Spotlight” section. I will also write a short introduction that will include your main link that will appear at the bottom of your post.

With all said and done, I would like to thank you again for being a part of my community. I am hoping to receive many amazing posts from you! Email me your guest post.

Cheers!

Owen McGab Enaohwo

Community Engagement Officer (CEO)

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Announcing the latest testimonial from one of our Note Buyer clients concerning our Virtual Assistant services

Owen McGab Enaohwo — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:14:49 +0000

I am glad to announce the latest testimonial from one of our Note Buyer clients on how he has been able to use our Virtual Assistant services and get favorable results. He likes our services so much that he willingly gave us a testimonial. Please check it out!

Actual Written Testimonial

Recommended Resources

Owen McGab Enaohwo — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:31:51 +0000

Welcome to the Recommended Resources page of the H.Y.V.A.™ blog where “Entrepreneurship + Outsourcing + Virtual Assistants + Automation = The Ideal Lifestyle You Design & Desire”

I have a firm understanding of how each of the tools and services listed on this page work, as well as the benefits that you’re going to get once you use them. With all honesty, they work for me and my clients; this is why I have decided to become their affiliate and promote them so that members of my community can also take advantage of the benefits that these tools and services have to offer.

Again, there’s nothing on this page that I haven’t personally used or recommended to my clients.

Also, if you happen to know a tool or service that I don’t have listed and you know would benefit all of us here in the community; kindly let me know so that I can include it.

Self Development

1. Public Speaking & Presentation Workshop – Today’s marketplace is tilting towards multimedia (video and audio) marketing, rather than static sales pages; by attending this workshop you’ll be able to convince people into buying or subscribing to the products or services that you offer.

2. Media Workshop -If you’re seriously thinking of doing interviews with the news media and you need to prepare in advance so that you are awesome on TV or the Radio, then this workshop is for you.

I personally interviewed Mr. TJ Walker, dubbed as the leading expert by Bloomberg TV, “The Daily Show” and Fox News, on how his training can benefit entrepreneurs. Click on this link to watch my Interview With TJ Walker.

Audio Podcasting Tools

1.) Audio Podcasting Equipment – The package includes quality audio hardware. It also includes Camtasia and Sony Sound Forge Audio studio Software for top-class video and audio editing. A must have for your videos, podcasts and audio recordings.

Video Podcasting Tools

1.) Wistia Video Hosting Platform – Offers a small business friendly Video Hosting platform that lets you see how people watch your videos. It goes beyond the view count and shows you analytics that really matters. This is the one I use to host all of my videos here on the H.Y.V.A. blog.

I personally interviewed Chris Savage the CEO of Wistia and he explained the benefits of video marketing and how Entrepreneurs can use videos to promote their businesses. Click on this link to watch my Interview With Chris Savage.

2.) Record Skype Videos with Vodburber – Use Vodburner to record your Skype Videos! It is the tool I use for recording my video interviews with Entrepreneurs. Sign up now to get a Free 14 Day Trial!

Outsourcing and Automation Resources

1.) Outsourcing Course – By enrolling in this online course, Tyrone Shum will teach you the basics of Outsourcing and Automating your current systems to rid you of work that are too time consuming. This way you can focus on the more important aspects of your business. Click on this link for my Interview With Tyrone Shum.

2.) Outsourcing the development of Mobile Apps – This is a step-by-step guide on how to find Mobile App developers, install and test your app, how to submit and get approved by the Apple development team, and how to market your Moble App. Click on this link for my Interview With Quoc Bui; on how he outsourced the development process of his over 25 iPhone Apps.

3.) Virtual Staff Finder’s Chris C. Ducker will coach you on how to find, hire, train and deal with your Virtual Assistants. Chris has trained hundreds of outsourced workers, and now has a team of over 200 employees in the Philippines.

I interviewed Chris Ducker who is responsible for the V.A. search-and-match service on how he became a Virtual CEO. Click on this link to watch my Interview With Chris Ducker.

4.) Contractors / Providers, Virtual Team Marketplace – Build a Team of virtual providers on Odesk to help you with your projects. Choose from thousands of providers who offer various skill sets that meet your exact needs.

Business Essentials Tools for becoming a Virtual CEO

1.) Shoeboxed gets rid of all your paper clutter. They digitize your paper documents so you can organize everything in a secure online account.

2.) Freshbooks Invoicing Tool – Helps you send and manage invoices online. Send invoices sooner to clients using this.

3.) Grasshopper the Virtual Phone System – Offers a virtual phone service which offers toll free numbers, call forwarding, custom main greeting, unlimited extensions, name directories and so much more.

4.) DocuSign, EchoSign, and RightSignature – Offers you the means to send out digital versions of your contracts in order for the recipients to append their signatures and initials digitally. No need to wait on signed Contracts anymore, it all can be done virtually now.

Brainstorming and Planning Tools

1.) MindMeister Mind Mapping Tool – This browser-based software innovates the way you take notes, brainstorm and plan your projects with your team. I personally use this for brainstorming ideas.

Online Payment Tools for Businesses

1.) Paypal for Business – Paypal is by-far the most popular online payment service. Accept online payment easily and quickly; safe and securely with Paypal.

2.) E-Junkie Shopping Cart – This provides shopping cart and buy now buttons that let you sell downloads and tangible goods on your website, ebay, MySpace, Google base, Craiglist and others using all the popular internet payment processing service providers.

Website Tools

1.) Mouseflow’s Realtime Website Analytics & Video Playback – Allows you to record and playback how your visitors used your website. You can also see mouse movements, clicks, scroll events, key strokes and dozens of other features that allow you to know which facets of your websites you need to improve on.

2.) ProvideSupport Live Chat Tool – Is a live chat software which is a cost effective tool that helps your product online. Your website visitors can easily contact your live assistance team via this live chat system.

3.) Unbounce Landing Page Platform – This is a self-serve hosted service that allows you to create, publish & test specific landing pages without contacting IT service providers.

I interviewed the Co-Founder of Unbounce on how to build Landing Pages. Click this link for my Interview With Rick Perreault.

4.) Max Foundry’s Simple & Easy to use Landing Page Plugin for WordPress – If you have a WordPress site and your need a simple and easy to use Landing Page Plugin then Max Foundry is the way to go. I use it and love it!

Marketing and Promotion Tools

1.) How To Make Money with Interviews – This will guide you on how to generate “money making” content and “income producing” interviews for your website.

2.) Mobile Marketing – This teaches you the basics on how to sell your own products via a mobile enable site. It also teaches how to fast-build a mobile buyers list and how to drive targeted traffic to your mobile site at a very low cost.

3.) EZ Texting – This tool is awesome! It provides you with a simple to use online platform to use to send out mass SMS text messages to promote your products and services.

4.) Purlem – This tool enables you to create Personalized URLs that you can use in your Direct Mail Campaigns to increase conversions.

I interviewed the CEO of Purlem on how to Increase the Rate of Conversation of your Direct Mail Campaigns by using PURLs. Click this link for my Interview With Marty Thomas

Affiliate Promotion Tools

1.) Zferral Affiliate Management Tool – This allows you to easily create, tack & manage your custom referral program. Create campaigns, upload banners and marketing materials and send them to your network instantly and then tracked your networks’ progress

Cheers!

Owen McGab Enaohwo

Community Engagement Officer (CEO)

About This Blog

Owen McGab Enaohwo — Mon, 18 May 2009 06:18:19 +0000

Welcome to the H.Y.V.A.™ blog where “Entrepreneurship + Outsourcing + Virtual Assistants + Automation = The Ideal Lifestyle You Design & Desire”

H.Y.V.A™ is an online community for Entrepreneurs seeking information on Entrepreneurship, Outsourcing, Automation and Virtual Assistants. On my blog you’ll find video interviews with successful Entrepreneurs from various niches sharing their challenges as well as their successes so that we can all be inspired by them and learn what works and what doesn’t.

By being a HYVAnee™; a member of my community, you will be able to use the information on this blog and apply it in your business. You also will be able to save time to focus on your Income Producing Activities. By reading my blog and participating as an active member of the community, you will find the means to focus on the core reasons why you love your business. The overall goal of this blog is to help you find the time to spend with your family and live your ideal lifestyle while also being a passionate and successful Entrepreneur!

The Man Behind H.Y.V.A™

My name is Owen McGab Enaohwo; I find that most people have difficulty pronouncing my last name, so here’s how you pronounce it \e-naw-o-wo\. I began my journey as an Entrepreneur when I became a Real Estate Investor and Agent. Now, I am more focused on running an online business, creating passive income and being able to conduct my business virtually, hence taking advantage of technology in order to achieve true freedom and create my ideal lifestyle. Ever since I’ve learned the secrets of outsourcing & automation (with the help of Virtual Assistants), I am now able to do more things and accomplish more in life. I am not exactly where I need to be yet and my goal is to share my evolving journey with you and to seek out successful Entrepreneurs whom we can all learn from so that they come on this blog and share their experiences with us.

How Everything Started

A couple of years ago, I got myself involved in the Non-Performing Notes (NPNs) business. I initially planned on buying the distressed debt instruments (real estate backed mortgages and notes) from banks. After a few months spending my time in getting to know the INs and OUTs of the business, I soon realized that I needed to have a fairly large amount of money to play the game. I was at the verge of quitting. After thinking things over, I simply decided to create relationships with the Asset Managers at the lending institutions, who were responsible for the sale of NPNs, and then brokered the sale of the NPNs to investors who had the capital to buy them. The idea of creating relationships with Asset Managers was good; the pay great! What I didn’t expect was that trying to get a hold off them was too time consuming.

And then an idea came along…

It was an ordinary day, a couple of years ago, when I had a conversation with a fellow Real Estate Investor. My friend shared his troubles with me; the difficulties he faced handling everything in his business and after reading several books which he referred to me, he said he was thinking of hiring a Virtual Assistant. He explained the benefits of having an extra hand and how much time he will have if he hired one. Then it dawned on me…

“What if I hired someone to do the work on my behalf so that I can focus on what’s more important in my business?”

I then scoured the net to find the perfect Virtual Assistant who could assist me in contacting Asset Managers. It was not an easy process. I tried a couple of V.A.s, but that didn’t work for me. Then I realized that it was not the V.A’s fault, it was mine.

Having read the “Four Hour Work Week” by Tim Ferris and the “World is Flat” by Thomas Friedman, I realized that there is indeed a much bigger a bigger picture to see. Remembering Sun Tzu and how he taught the Emperor’s maids how to dance in accord made me realize that I had made a mistake. As I dug in deeper, I stumbled upon “The E-Myth” by Michael Gerber. In his book, he mentioned that the main reason most Entrepreneurs fail is because they have no teachable systems…

Teachable systems on how to delegate the work to someone else so that they can free up their time to do what they are most passionate for… The reason why they started their respective businesses.

This is the main reason why I worked day in and day out to create a system…

An automatic system through which, I could free myself from the tasks that I did not want to but needed to.

The System

At first, I created a system to train Virtual Assistants on how to find asset managers and what to say to them during their conversation on the phone. I fashioned the system to generate leads (Asset Managers) and have them want to contact me. And to my surprise, it worked!

But to my dismay, I found myself wasting precious time talking to Asset Manager who had the NPNs that I was looking to broker to my clients who bought the NPNs, but the issue was that several deals kept failing through the cracks.

Then another idea came…

I soon realized that instead of being the broker who only got paid when a deal closed, why don’t I just have my clients pay to work with my Virtual Assistants. Thus, my Outsourcing and Virtual Assistant service was born.

The first clients who enjoyed my start-up service were NPN buyers. It was an instant success. I got paid by assigning already trained V.A.s to my clients. My clients were also happy because they got a much favorable deal. It was also cost friendly to them since they only pay a fraction of the amount they could’ve paid me for brokering the NPNs.

The Benefits of becoming a member of my Community

After gaining popularity in NPN brokerage, I decided to test out my system in other markets. I then contacted Entrepreneurs in various niches to implement my system to improve their existing/new systems in training and hiring Virtual Assistants.

Today, I am still on a journey. A journey with you. A journey on where we can all share and contribute to a system that works. A system we can all benefit from and save us time to focus on our Income Producing Activities. Everything in my website is dynamic. My system is ever changing and ever improving.

I invite you to become a member of my community; all you have to do is sign up to receive my FREE 5-Day Video Training Course and you will instantly discover How to Avoid the 5 Most Costly Outsourcing Mistakes that Entrepreneurs make and How to make working with Virtual Assistants more Profitable & Fun. Click this link to Join my Community and download the Free videos.

If you feel like you need a little more attention and need me to brainstorm with you on any Outsourcing and/or Virtual Assistant related issue that you are facing in your business, I also give personal consultations wherein we can talk and tackle your issues one-on-one, signup for a consultation session with me by clicking this link.

Cheers!

Owen McGab Enaohwo

Community Engagement Officer (CEO)