Is your feed full of "How to create a seven-figure business with AI" articles? Did you actually try any of these plans? If you did, you'll know it's not that easy. Every business plan faces difficulties that are not obvious until you actually try it. When it gets hard, that's when people get stuck and quit. In our experience, working with thousands of entrepreneurs and founders, every successful business is unique. You can't just copy exactly what someone else did. Success means finding your own way to get traction. It can't be explained step by step in a single article. You just have to keep working until you find a way to succeed. When you do get traction, Magic is here to help you grow and scale.

Hiring the first candidate you find on a job board is like marrying the first person you sit next to on the bus. You'd be crazy to do it, and it almost never works out. It takes months to find the right person.  Or you can just use Magic. We'll do it for you.

Your next lead could come in while you’re asleep, in a meeting, or simply unavailable. The question is what happens next. #sales #leadgeneration #businessgrowth #magic

When you hire the right person, you won't ever want to lose them. When you hire the wrong person, you either know right away (which is great), or you're not quite sure. It's when you're "not quite sure" that it starts to get expensive. The wrong hire costs months of your time and wastes thousands of dollars (maybe even six or seven figures). Here's how, at Magic, we solved this problem when we hire talent for our clients: 1. We put a lot of time and money into the initial screening. Every hire is selected from the top 0.5% of candidates. We do a rigorous multi-step process with multiple 1-on-1 interviews, online assessments, and live training they have to pass. So when you hire an assistant from us, they're already vetted and ready to go. 2. We make it easy to switch if it's not a fit. If the person we match you with isn't a fit for any reason, we swap them with another one for you. You don't have to start from square one. We make it easy and handle everything for you. Don't YOLO hire. Use a service like Magic if you don't have the time to do it yourself. If you are going at it alone, expect to invest a lot of time and money into getting it right. #productivity #businessgrowth #leadership #magic

The goal is a business that can sell without you. #productivity #businessgrowth #leadership #magic

Every new Magic assistant is like this.

10x engineers get all the attention, but you can be a 10x in any profession. Here's how to become a 10x in your field and outcompete everyone else. 1. Delegate more. The more you delegate, the more you get done. Delegate constantly to both to AI agents and to other people. Make it the default way you get things done. 2. Work on multiple things in parallel. You should always have at least 3 ongoing projects you've delegated to other people. 3. Drop the perfectionist attitude for 99% of your tasks, so you can be a perfectionist about only what matters most. Is it the #1 most important thing you should be doing? Then be obsessive and perfectionist. For everything else, delegate it and be ok with a different approach to getting it done. 4. If you can afford it, hire an assistant. It's even more important than hiring a personal trainer, accountant, or lawyer. They'll help you set up everything else in your life. 5. Most people don't delegate enough and take on more ambitious projects due to psychological hangups. Find a way to get over them. 6. Never give up. If you're not seeing results, throw someone else at it. Try again and again until you find a way forward. Leverage is easy to obtain in 2026. Be comfortable wielding it, and people will be amazed at what you're able to accomplish.

What's the best way to actually get things done? Surprisingly, science has an answer to this. It's called Implementation Intentions. A meta-study combining 94 independent tests, across 8,000+ people, found that this single method positively correlated with actually getting the task done. It's simple to do. You can do it yourself or use AI to do it for you. For each goal, specify an "if-then." If X, then Y. Example: - Goal: "I'll exercise more." - Implementation intention: "If it is 7 a.m. on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday, then I will put on my running shoes and walk for 30 minutes." Example: - Goal: "I want more users for my product." - Implementation intention: "If it's 9 a.m., then I will send cold outbound emails to companies in my target industry for 1 hour." The key is to state specifically where, when, and how you'll take action. Then put it on your calendar. You can run Claude or ChatGPT on your entire to-do list and have it build this out for you. Even better, if you have a virtual assistant, you can delegate the final tasks to them, so you don't have to do any of the work at all.

No one is talking about how much better virtual assistants are in 2026 thanks to AI. Virtual assistants 10 years ago: - Did mostly "secretary tasks" like phone calls, emails, and calendar - Didn't do any specialized or complex work - Spent most of their time on admin work - Needed clear instructions to follow Virtual assistants in 2026: - Are now "good enough" at any specialized skill you need (thanks to AI), like marketing, customer support, product management, etc. - Act as a flexible temp or intern who can jump into any part of your business - Automate admin work and manage the automations - Figure out how to do the work on their own, then build it into a repeatable SOP and skill Yes, the old version of the virtual assistant is dead. What a virtual assistant did in 2016 can now be done with an Hermes agent. But the new version of a VA is super powerful. Virtual assistants in 2026 are using AI, just like you are. So when you hire a good one, it's like having a second "you." As one of the leading virtual assistant companies, we've seen this play out at Magic. In 2015 when we launched, our assistants needed to do everything themselves. Now all new assistants get set up with a premium Claude account. They're in Claude Cowork all day. They are building automations. They learn new skills on the fly. It's 10x'ed what they can do for their clients. Instead of killing the virtual assistant, Al just leveled it up. We screen and train every VA for their ability to use AI to proactively get any task done. Also, because of AI, everyone is busier than ever now. Competition has accelerated in every industry. People are swamped with work. That's why hiring a virtual assistant is even more important than it was 10 years ago. If you’re working 60 hours a week, you should have hired a virtual assistant yesterday.

When your personal assistant has their own assistant.

Nothing beats having a personal assistant who's actually a person.

The right tools matter. The right people make them work. Does your business have both?

Every interruption feels small until you add them all together. Here's why protecting your team's focus matters more than you think.

Now is the best time to hire remote workers for your business: • More people than ever want to work from home. Since companies started calling everyone back to the office, the remote talent pool has gotten huge. • You can hire from anywhere in the world, so you pay lower hourly rates than you would at home. Amazing talent is available for well under $15/hr. • AI makes your remote talent 10x better. At Magic, every assistant gets a premium Claude account, so they work with the same AI tools you do. • You get flexibility instead of fixed overhead. A large team of full-time employees adds a big fixed cost to your burn. Contractors let you scale your workforce up or down as needed. • Hiring is also easier than it used to be. You don't need to scour job sites anymore. A platform like Magic does the work for you: we find the right person, handle screening and training, then match them with you.

This is also true for people who hire an executive assistant or virtual assistant. You offload 20-40 hours of work each week, but then it's on to the next project. You end up working just as many hours. No one gets an assistant to stop working.