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Do I Really Need A Target Market as a VA?

When Virtual Assistants come to me and say they are having trouble finding clients, I always ask them who their target market is. Many times the answer is ‘I don’t have one’ or ‘I haven’t narrowed it down yet.’ If you have not chosen a target group to market your services to, you are making things much more difficult for yourself to grow your VA business. Narrowing down to serve a target market is an important part of your business planning. Without knowing who your customers are, it will be naturally harder to find them. Think about the places that you shop or go to. Who are their customers? What are their products and services? Who do they cater to?… Read More »Do I Really Need A Target Market as a VA?

How to Stay Positive and Optimistic When Being a VA is Hard

The power of positive thinking in your Virtual Assistant business is an excellent skill to learn. Do you have trouble staying positive? When we start our VA business, it is easy to be optimistic. But as time goes on, it is very easy to let negativity set in. Sometimes we just have a bad day. Sometimes we get overwhelmed by client work. Sometimes we struggle to find clients. Sometimes we feel like it’s too much, and it’s probably just easier to go back to a J-O-B. There are any number of things that may take over that positive area of your brain and bring you down. Wow, nice optimistic article, eh?! But this is a real issue – especially during… Read More »How to Stay Positive and Optimistic When Being a VA is Hard

5 Tips to Push Through the Fear of Starting Your Virtual Assistant Business

If you are afraid to start your VA business, here’s one thing you need to know: you are not the only one. It’s so common to be afraid to make the leap to launch. It’s scary to put yourself out there when you have never done it before. It’s kind of like a first date, except on our first date we have zero experience so that’s usually the thing that causes us anxiety. With your business, you aren’t a young kid. You are older, you have some work experience (even if it is not as a VA). You are making a plan to operate a business. The anxiety is the same – it’s still the world of the unknown, but… Read More »5 Tips to Push Through the Fear of Starting Your Virtual Assistant Business

Be Interesting, and Interested, When Networking

If I were to ask you what you do, how would you respond? There are lot of different situations you might be asked that in, so to be fair what I mean is if I meet you at a business event (online or in person), how would you respond? Many VAs I know don’t handle this most important question well. Our instinct, or perhaps what we have been taught somewhere along the line, is that we need to respond with a well-rehearsed elevator pitch. I hate elevator pitches. Sorry to be so blunt, but I think they ruin conversation. Real conversation. You start by saying you are a Virtual Assistant (which may even confuse the person you are having the… Read More »Be Interesting, and Interested, When Networking

3 Simple Tips To Value Your Virtual Assistant Clients

Without clients we don’t have a VA business. So we need to be sure we appreciate our clients – even on the difficult days! Your clients are the people who pay you money to do what you love. We appreciate that, of course, because we need them to keep doing that so we can stay in business. But it is important to nurture your client relationships to make our daily work more enjoyable too. Whether your relationship is in the beginning stages, or has existed for a long time, focus on how valuable the client is. When you first start working with someone there is always a learning curve as you get to know each other, and communication is really… Read More »3 Simple Tips To Value Your Virtual Assistant Clients

10 Places to Get Virtual Assistant Clients

Did you get a new Virtual Assistant client this week? If you didn’t say YES, then I’m so glad you are here reading this article. Most VAs would love to answer YES! to that question, but so many can not. To find a new client, you need to do two things: 1) Know where your clients are. 2) Reach out to them. There are plenty of places you can find your next client. The best thing to do is to build a system into your business where you can find new clients easily in a few different places. And then you need to network! Online, offline, start getting out to events and really connecting with people to fill your pipeline.… Read More »10 Places to Get Virtual Assistant Clients

Industries That Use Virtual Assistants (Hint: Find Clients Here)

Whether you are just starting out as a Virtual Assistant, or you have been in business a while, you might be struggling to find great clients. When you are new, it is hard enough to talk to people about your services and your rates. One of the biggest barriers to getting great clients is very simple: talking to the wrong people. We second-guess our value and we often have a hard time articulating our worth to people when they don’t really understand what a VA is. If the people you talk to also have never heard of a VA (or have never worked with one), your conversations with them start at a much more ‘beginning’ point than they might with… Read More »Industries That Use Virtual Assistants (Hint: Find Clients Here)

Managing Your Work Pace to Efficiently Support VA Clients

Are you wasting your client’s money? If you are wasting time while working on their Virtual Assistant tasks, you might be charging them unnecessarily. The pace you work at is a very important part of your VA business. Why? Because our clients pay us for the time we spend on their tasks. Wasting time means wasting your client’s money. In a corporate setting, we don’t really often work against a clock. Yes, we work on deadlines (ours and other people’s) but not to the extent that we need to do so as a VA. When we start our VA business, this can be a difficult transition – all of a sudden we have to be responsible to justify every minute… Read More »Managing Your Work Pace to Efficiently Support VA Clients