What's the best first hire for a small business?
If every question, follow-up and decision still lands on your desk, more hands won't fix it. The hire that does is someone who builds the system, so the work stops coming back to you.
Big companies call this person a forward deployed engineer, or FDE. An FDE learns how the work actually gets done, sets up AI and automations to do it, then stays to keep it running and find the next thing to automate.
Big companies pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for an FDE. We place a virtual assistant in the Philippines who's a software engineer to be yours.
If Everything Still Lands on Your Desk, Make This Hire
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If everything in your business still circles back to you then watch this. If you've hired help, and every question, every follow up, and every decision still lands on your desk, more hands, more hires are not going to fix that. You need someone who builds the system so the work stops coming back to you. I think that's the number one hire that a small business should make. Big companies are already making this hire and it's called a forward deployed engineer or FDE. An FDE does three things. First, they learn how the work actually gets done. They set up AI and automations to do it. And then they stay to keep it running and to keep the upgrades going and keep the maintenance going and also look for other things in your company that they can continue to help you automate and process out. Then once everything is systematized and running super smoothly and efficiently in your company, then you can handle more customers. And then that's the next thing that we automate and build AI solutions for is how do we get you more customers? Because now you have all of these amazing systems in your business to handle more customers. And this is the exciting part. What if instead of paying multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars for an FDE? What if you had a virtual assistant in the Philippines Who is a software engineer who is your FDE? I'm Julie Rhino and that's what we do. I own Rhino Squad Virtual Assistants and we hire in the Philippines in Latin America. We hire high performing A players who help get your time back and then keep you and your team in your zones of genius. They work with our internal AI consultants and FDE's who help you build AI automations and solutions that make you more money and save you money at the same time. Here's how it works. First of all, we hire you a super high level expert virtual assistant. And we help you hand them the right work to start that really starts to free up time for you and your team. Then your high level virtual assistant works with our AI consultants and FDE's automate their tasks, set up systems and quality checks. Build the AI agents that really do the work. Virtual Assistant keeps it all running with our AI consultants and FDE's in the background behind them whenever they get stuck. And the most important thing is that you're not managing them. You get to work directly with your virtual assistant however you want. And they're going to send you their checklist every single morning and their end of day report every single night with what they got done and what they're working on next in your business. Let's get on a call And let's talk about all of the things that you can hand off and then all of the things that you can automate and systematize.