I want to create a role for someone as my shadow on LI.
Ideal for someone intelligent who lives in the boonies and does not mind a quirky job.
My LI network is now so vast that I sometimes don't notice for months when a contact of mine leaves or joins a firm or bank. There are dozens of opportunities to say "well done", "happy birthday", "good luck", "here is a useful connection for you", "here is an article I wrote" or "I see you are looking for work, reach out if you want an introduction", that I just don't have the time to cover. I doubt that I am able to cover even 10% of them. I simply cover the same 10% that I am dealing with anyway and so notice.
So, I'm looking for a virtual worker who can learn and then fully understand what I do and help me do more of it by acting as my proxy and doing simple nudge tasks, at first, but graduating on to writing (cut and pasting), connection requests proposals etc. Does not matter where you are in the world as long as there is a 2 hour window between your working hours and mine. I tend to work (or by available for work) from 9am London to 11pm London Monday to Friday and then can make 1 hour free on Saturday or Sunday.
We would have a daily, or at least several times weekly, Skype video call and discuss the "brief" for the week. I might be headhunting, looking for clients for my clients, looking for clients for myself and the people who work for me. I wear a lot of hats. The brief would agree what you were going to do that week on my behalf. You'd keep a simple log of the activity, numbers of emails, messages, connection requests sent etc. Not what you did exactly, I don't care but just a log so we know what is working.
When your work (which is impersonating me) gets a positive response then I would take over. Over time you could do more and more to the point where you ever contacted the client and set up a conference call with them via text (they would think it was me doing it). But initially the job is turning over rocks in my LinkedIn profile and communicating micro messages and targeted campaigns.
The whole job can be done from home on a PC with a reliable internet connection. So if you live in the boonies or are disabled it makes no difference. There are certain character features you will need.
- Opportunistic and able to spot patterns. When you have done something before that was successful or a waste of time you need to be able to remember why happened and why so you can refine the work and make yourself more efficient.
Longevity. You won't be net productive to me for 6-12 months. I need someone who sticks the job out otherwise I have to keep training new people which makes the whole exercise far less productive.
Maturity, high IQ (120+) and common sense. You need to impersonate me so you will need to understand what I do and don't do. This won't be instant, but the smarter you are the better.
I am 100% sure this will generate an extra six-figures per year by freeing up my time and getting inbound inquiries (which are far less time consuming), so money is not going to be a problem. If you can do the job I'll be making enough money to pay you well.
You'll be a contractor. Everyone who works for me is. So you will invoice and I'll pay those invoices. You have to sort out medical, taxes, etc.
Longer term if we can get the formula right then we can sell the idea to other busy business owners and offer it as a profitable service. The unknown is whether a human can shadow another human well enough to learn what an opportunity looks like and stimulate a response. I believe it can be done.
