I am an INTJ entrepreneur in the United States. My wife is also my business partner. We are constantly investigating new business ideas while running our current businesses, shootinjh.com and nomadrifleman.com and oddlygrateful.com among many others. We are contemplating extending into product invention, manufacturing and distribution in the upcoming years, while also expanding, changing and working in the luxury experience space. We also intend 
to publish a couple of books.
I am seeking an Executive Assistant (EA) that is a detail oriented generalist to work 10+ hours per week at between $1/hr and $3.50/hr USD, starting lower and moving up quickly based on performance. The successful candidate will report to me. When my wife, or other team members based in the US have tasks they need you to do, they will be run through me to you. I start work each day at 6pm Philippines time, and would like us to overlap by a couple hours once each week.
“Getting the Job wastes everyone’s time if the Job relationship isn’t solid and lasting. Excelling in the Job and earning money is what matters!”
Imperative from the start:
- Perfect English skills. Must have a 5-Star Skill rating in writing English C2 preferred!
- WordPress website building and blogging skills.
- Photo and video editing skills.
- Creativity & self-direction.
- I couldn’t care less about college degrees.
- Comfortable with Google mail, docs, Drive etc
Preferred, and OK if you will learn these additional skills
- Knowledge of eBook publishing
- Able to organize, format and edit books
- Knowledgeable in Shopify stores including various apps, order fulfillment, customer service etc
- Comfortable with basic QuickBooks
- Comfortable with Excel
- Knowledge of podcasting, getting listeners, promotion etc
- Knowledge of how to get books and articles uploaded to Amazon and Audible
- Knowledgeable in Amazon Alexa skills, how to submit and optimize audio files
- Other fun learning opportunities!
Must be able and eager to cheerfully seek more instructions from me when I give lousy instructions the first time. If I assign a task and my instructions are not clear and good, I want an assistant that will clarify exactly what I need. Having said this, I want someone that has self confidence and will handle projects without needing too much babysitting and hand-holding.
As we get to know each other better over the years, you will need to ask me for clarification and specific direction much less frequently. I want you to take risks and go beyond the edge and make mistakes! If you are not making mistakes, you are not creative enough to be successful in this position.
Social Media Content Creation
Facebook. Make sure that Daily Posts are made on 3 Facebook business accounts. This will include creative content gathering, editing photos, making memes, writing comments and overall creativity.
Instagram. Make sure that Daily Posts are made on 5 Instagram business accounts. This will include creative content gathering, editing photos, making memes, writing comments and overall creativity.
Twitter. Make weekly posts on 3 accounts.
YouTube. Edit videos & create videos and video concepts.
Video editing. Use stock footage from Pixabay etc and the many hours of video footage I provide to create and edit short videos that follow the vision of our company as per the strategies taught in Storybrand.
Must understand basic audio editing as well.
Must be able to conceptualize needs and then compile and provide me with a list of images and video content that is needed to achieve our goals.
WordPress blogging. You will write draft blog posts in perfect English for me too edit. These will include text and photos that you select. Once I have edited blog posts VA will publish them on WordPress sites.
Digital Marketing Social Media Strategy & Management
You must have a work history of excellent natural organizational skills. This is imperative to manage digital marketing and social media. Very frequently a creative person is wonderful at coming up with an excellent Facebook post or even a campaign of a dozen posts, however does not have the time-management skills and discipline to systematically create an overall plan for all of the different social media platforms and blogging to get across a consistent message.
Once that plan is in place, it must constantly be evaluated and improved upon and followed for years to come. the type of person that enjoys engineering or accounting would be better at the organizational part of this however a person that has more of an artist personality might be better at coming up with the content. Is it possible that a human being exists that would be good at both? 🙂
Marketing & Advertising
Do lead generation. By researching various individuals and companies and being a sleuth and finding contact information, then screening by writing individual emails using perfect English.
Data Entry
We might from time to time give you data entry tasks.
There will be many more tasks of different kinds. This is a small sample.
Dictation. I will send audio MP3 files for you to type into Google docs. I am writing a book, maybe another as well as articles and emails. The successful EAG will not have to ask me if they should correct my dictation & grammar etcetera.
I might ask you to enter paper invoices (that I scan and send to you) into Quickbooks.
I might ask you to research 10 spotting scope manufacturers and find out who in the company is the important person to talk to about teaming with them for me to develop a ranging reticle for their spotting scopes.
I might ask you to research Wyoming state lands rules and processes for renting there a section of land for commercial shooting use. This requires a personality and a disc profile type of person that is able to be flexible and creative and figure out complex things by asking me only 20 questions without having to ask 300 questions.
I might ask you to listen to hundreds of 30-minute podcasts, and to summarize each of them into hundreds of well-written articles that are each 500 to 1500 words long.
I might ask you how to get my recordings onto Amazon Alexa and similar as a daily briefing or as a skill. Your job would not be too search Google for an article telling me how to do this, I do not need you for that. Your job would to be to do research and experiment and actually make it work and then offer to teach me in a simple and efficient way or to Simply do it for me and give me easy and simple directions on how to get audio files to you. I use Audacity audio recording software.
I might ask you to do online research for magazine editors and then personalize an email that I draft to be sent to all of them.
I might ask you to research the Crossville Tennessee county building and planning regulations regarding short-term rentals, are Air B&B type services legal? I might task what areas of Tucson Arizona allow these rentals.
I might ask you to read the book “High Trust Selling” and develop a plan for us to make better connections with our friends.
I will frequently ask you to proofread things I write for content, flow and grammar.
I might ask you to write an article for our blog about the three best restaurants in Jackson Hole Wyoming. You would need to do the research and then write the article in perfect English as well as collecting excellent photographs for that article.
I might give you a link to a folder in a Google Drive and ask you to look at the 5,000 images in it and select the 100 that you think are best for our marketing needs. I might ask you to select and move 4,000 of the photos that you think are not great to a different folder that I can then review and delete.
I might ask you to write an article about the 5 nicest restaurants in Jackson Hole for a different blog, and while you could rewrite part of the above blogpost, it would have to be in different verbiage for search engine reasons.
You must be able to do research and come up with high-level, high quality answers for questions like the following:
- I can’t figure out how to get a read more tag to work in WordPress, I have read all of the articles that I can find and watch the Youtube videos and still I cannot get it to work. Will you please figure it out and then teach me?
- Please look for articles on the best high-end rifle bipods and provide me with the list.
Details and “things”
Most of this job will be “other duties as requested.”
I will pay you for the minimum number of hours per week that we agree upon, so you are promised that income as long as you produce well.
With prior approval, I will sometimes be interested in you working additional hours for special projects if you need the money and I need the work done.
I want an assistant that is a “problem-solver.” For example, if I say that I would like a logo created that “has a tree like the ones in the middle of an African desert” I would NOT want you to ask me what the breed of tree is named. THAT is your job to search for answers. Your goal should be to reduce the work I need to do by doing it for yourself. Another example would be if you ask me what kind of business we do at shootinjh.com. The fact that you would even consider asking this rather than simply researching it yourself means that we would not be a good fit.
If I notice that your work is only “good” and not “excellent” or if I notice that it is taking you too long to complete tasks I will consider if the problem is something that I can help you fix. If I evaluate that you do not have the skills, creativity or work-ethic necessary, I will notify you that I do not need your help any more.
I will sometimes give unexpected bonuses when tasks are done with excellence.
This job is “for as long as I need you.” I anticipate being a productive entrepreneur for many years. As long as we are both happy and both of our needs are met, let’s continue!
