How To Become A Virtual Assistant

At some point during your Virtual Assistant ‘journey’ you’ll inevitably come across clients that want to use your services but are not quite comfortable or ‘au fait’ with the idea of working virtually. So, if they happen to be within commuting distance, should you agree to work in-house or not?
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In recent times, numerous Virtual Assistant companies have been springing up all over the place, promising fast, efficient service for very low rates (think $5 per hour in some cases), with large teams of VAs behind the scenes. Most of these firms are based in countries such as India, the Philippines and China.
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As promised, I have created a resource for those of you who are looking to provide transcription services from home. Transcription is simply listening to a voice recording and typing what is being said into a document. The finished document is formatted, spell checked and returned to the client.
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Have you ever wondered whether you have to offer LOTS of different skills and services when you’re looking to work from home?
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Here’s a way of finding clients that I haven’t really discussed much on this blog so far - applying to job advertisements in your local paper.
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Social media marketing is a very popular way for businesses to market themselves on the internet in 2009. What was once seen as ‘just for teenagers’ has been booming in the past couple of years and is still growing as a viable and powerful medium for companies to increase their reach on the internet.
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A common misconception is that if you want to become a Virtual Assistant you have to know and offer every service under the sun. What if you don’t know how to set up websites? What if you’re not a Powerpoint or Excel guru?
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You want to work from home but are not sure when to ‘pull the trigger’ on getting started. It seems that there’s a never-ending stream of things to organize and do before you’re ‘really ready’.
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Today I’d like to answer the question ‘How did you find your first client?’
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When it comes to marketing yourself and your business, think of it as planting seeds that will one day grow.
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