3 Surprising Things You Don’t Need to Start a Business and Get Clients

One of the most attractive things about starting a virtual support business is that unlike almost every other career, job or business – you really don’t need much to get off the ground and sign paying clients quickly. If you want to launch a Virtual Assistant business, the barrier to entry is low to nonexistent. But there are a few things that many people think they need before they can be a legit business owner. Here are three things you might think you need, or may have been told you need, to start your biz…but you actually don’t: 1. A Certification I did not have a certification in Virtual Assisting and didn’t take advanced courses to gain more skills when I started in 2017 and that did not hold me back from success in the slightest. But people think that the traditional path to success is college or certification first, and because of that, the same must be true for entrepreneurship and for the VA industry. Nope. Not even a little bit true. I mean, you can. But it would be an epic waste of time and money because you can literally Google and YouTube any skill you need to
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How to sign your first or next client as a VA or OBM

Aside from how to start an online business, the second most common question I get is, “How the heck do I find paying clients?!” What most people focus on doing to sign clients (that doesn’t work): Creating a logo Launching a website Re-writing their website copy 84285708 times. Why do we do this?! The tasks that REALLY help you sign clients are not the easy or safe ones. They’re the ones that work, yet people still avoid them because they’re new and uncomfortable. Side note: When I started my VA biz in 2017 and replaced my corporate salary in less than two months, I didn’t have a website or logo…just sayin. With that said, here are my 3 steps to ACTUALLY sign paying clients ASAP: Step 1: Market your business with a metric f ton of value that people want to read consistently Value is not “5 reasons you need a virtual assistant” or “2 ways an OBM can help you grow your business.” Value IS an easy IG hack, a Google drive tip, or a strategy lesson – something someone can use to make their business or life better right now (BEFORE hiring you). People are inundated with content
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3 tips to growing your audience as a VA or OBM

  You made the big, bold move and started your online business. Yay, you! Now, you know you have to have some sort of content marketing strategy for posting on social media. So you put something together and start posting to Instagram…and the engagement or results aren’t as quick as you’d like. This makes you second guess and change your strategy every other week and copy what every other Virtual Assistant or Online Business Manager is doing. Or, you stop showing up online consistently because you’re worried you don’t know what you’re doing. Sound familiar? If you’re only hearing crickets when you post, let’s go over my top three tips to help you get the ball rolling with your engagement: 1. Wait AT LEAST 90 days before you change your strategy and expect to see results. It generally takes around 90 days/three months to start seeing your content marketing strategy pay off…IF you are being consistent. That means every time you STOP posting regularly and RESTART again, you’re pushing back your results. No more of that! Let me tell you a story: I started doing 2-minute trainings on my Instagram stories in April of 2019. For the first 3-4 months,
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How to stand out from the competition in your VA, OBM or SMM business

Often, when you apply for a job, respond to a pitch for hire or find yourself tagged in a post looking for recs, you need to quickly and clearly respond and set yourself apart from your competition. Essentially, you gotta make yourself look like the BEST candidate for the job (because we know you are 😉). Well, there are 4 really important things you need to make sure you do as you hit reply and pitch yourself if you want to land the client. 4 ways to stand out from the crowd and make sure YOU get the job 1. Do. Your. Research. When pitching yourself for a job, make sure you clearly understand what the potential client is looking for and make sure you speak to those points whenever you reach out to throw your name in the hiring hat. Whether you’re responding to a FB post, submitting a job application or sending an email… make sure you’ve done your research and know *exactly* what the client wants. Then, communicate why you’re best human for the job. I saw this play out in a BIG way as I was going through applications for the beta round of my program,
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How to Start Your Virtual Assistant Business

Just before my 31st birthday, I took a leap of faith by leaving my safe corporate job and starting my own Virtual Assistant business. With a 16 month old on my hip, I hustled and was quickly making MORE than I was at my corporate job. I believe so strongly in the power of women, and that we can do ANYTHING that we want. For me, that meant raising a business and a baby at the same time.  After transitioning my business to offer Online Business Management and Event Planning services (and growing my income substantially), I started helping other moms start and scale their own Virtual Assisting businesses. So today I’m sharing the first 4 steps in starting YOUR virtual assistant business. Let’s get to it, friend! 1. Decide on your starting hourly rate Hourly rates vary greatly depending on the industry that you’re serving. In the industry that my team and I support (online business owners), Virtual Assistants charge anywhere from $20-$75 per hour depending on their skills. Start at a price point that you feel comfortable charging AND that is enough money that it’s worth your time. Then, up your prices by $5/hour every 1-2 clients. 2.
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