QA 58 – How can I Safely Share my Username and Passwords with Virtual Assistants

In today's Q&A, we are helping Sarah feel comfortable trusting her virtual assistants with usernames and password for different accounts they'll need access to. Do you have a question you want answered on our podcast? We would love to help you! Click here to ask your question! [Tweet "You have to roll the dice a little bit if you are going to make it in online business."] Resources Mentioned in this Episode Tropical Think Tank Event Fiverr Elance Odesk LastPass Let's dive into this week's question! JOCELYN: Hey y'all! You're listening to a Q&A with S&J. Welcome to the Flipped Lifestyle podcast where life always comes before work. We're your hosts, Shane and Jocelyn Sams. Join us each week as we teach you how to flip your lifestyle upside-down by selling stuff online. Are you ready for something different? All right, let's get started. SHANE: What's going on guys, welcome back to today's Q&A with S&J. You probably noticed immediately that the audio was a little funky on this episode of the podcast and that is because we are using the internal microphone on my MacBook Pro. We are on the road, we are in a hotel room right now, we are traveling to the Philippines to see Chris Ducker and go to his Tropical Think Tank event. We did not bring our microphones. We do have digital recorders but we do not have that out right now and we had some extra time so we thought that we would go ahead and record a few Q&As to make sure we could keep rolling out the content while we are on the road. JOCELYN: We're actually in a hotel room and I'm sure our neighbors are not too thrilled about this podcast recording but – SHANE: It's 1:00 AM by the way where we are recording this. JOCELYN: Yeah, we're trying to flip our schedule little bit because we are going to the Philippines and it is a 12-hour time difference from us. So, we are staying up all night, or attempting to and recording some Q&A podcast for you guys. SHANE: I thought we can sleep on the airplane on the way there. So, let's jump into today's question; today's question comes in from Sarah and she writes, "I am an attorney working full-time in my own practice and trying to build up my website where I plan on selling digital products to other attorneys. I utilize sites like Fiverr and Elance.com to outsource certain tasks. But I'm a little leery of hiring someone from one of those sites to help me with my website issues. If I provide a freelancer with my username and passwords, so that they can do whatever they want with them, they will also have access to my financial information that I have stored on those accounts. So long story short, what do you do in situations like this? Do you have any recommendations for outsourcing these kinds of projects involving giving someone else either access to your private or financial information, or your username and passwords on WordPress?" JOCELYN: All right Sarah, this is a good question and one that has concerned me as well. But there are ways to give people your information without giving up all of your password information, or your financial information. The first thing you need to do when you are in online business is definitely separate your business and personal financial accounts. That way, in case something does happen, you don't have to worry about all of your personal money being wiped out. SHANE: And you can do this too by setting up just two separate bank accounts or two separate PayPal accounts. Anything like that but what you do is basically anything that anyone would have access to, don't ever keep a lot of money in that. We have accounts where we immediately have money moved every day whenever there's sales made. That way, if someone were to ever get a hold of that information, there's probably only a couple of thousand bucks or a few hundred dollars in that account anyway and everything else is moved by us to an account where they cannot access it so easily.