You think you don’t have any experience, and you don’t know where to start. Good news, mama, by the end of this video, you’re going to be clear on exactly what you need to do to get started.

And the even better news is that you actually do have the experience you need, and I can prove it. And make sure you stick around until the end of this video because I have a free resource for you that is going to make it super simple for you to start your freelancing business right away.

Hey there, I’m Lauren Golden here with a new episode of Free Mama TV, showing moms like you how to start and run a successful freelancing business from home. Subscribe to my channel, and hit the bell to be notified when I post a new episode of Free Mama TV, right here, each and every Tuesday.

Let’s start out by getting into the right head space here, mama. You’ve just heard about this whole virtual assistant world, and you feel like you’re behind. Everyone else knows so much more than you do.

Guess what? All of those people were once where you are right now. No one is actually born knowing what a virtual assistant is. Everyone starts out with no experience. Your first day on the job, did you know how to everything? How ’bout the first time you became a mom? Did you have a clue? I sure as heck didn’t.

Seriously, right now drop me a comment and tell me what happened the very first time you tried to do a diaper change, cook a turkey, drive a car, or do anything you’d never done before. All right, now that we’ve established that you can do hard things and live to tell the tale, it’s time to work on acceptance.

You have to accept that, lean in close, make sure your kids aren’t listening, you don’t know everything. You’re going to have to learn a few new things. But that’s totally okay, because as we’ve just established, you’ve been learning how to do new things for your entire life.

The trick is not to focus on what you don’t know, or to compare yourself to people who are ahead of you. Instead, start with the fact that you’re currently using a device that is connected to the the internet, watching a video.

You found your way here, that counts. You’re a mom, and you’d better believe that you have calendar management experience. How else would your kids get to the scouts, sports, school, and saxophone lessons on time everyday? Who keeps track of all the kid’s birthdays, their yearly well-child checkups? And online research, mama, please.

You know the moment your subscribe and save price drops on Amazon, which grocery store has avocados on special, and when to book your family’s vacation to avoid long lines, and lock in great prices.

You can do this. You have way more experience than you’re giving yourself credit for. So now that you know I won’t let you use the, I don’t have any experience, as an excuse, maybe you’re wondering just how to get started.

Here’s my question for you. How did you become a mom? How did your kid become a toddler, or a kindergartner? How do we really become anything in life? You just have to do it. You have to declare to literally say out loud, I am a virtual assistant.

Go ahead, say it with me. I am a virtual assistant. Awesome, now you have to get used to saying that in front of other people, which might feel really scary and intimidating, but it doesn’t have to be.

In fact, I’d love for you to commit to telling one person today that you are a virtual assistant. It could be anyone, the woman sharing space in the waiting room at the pediatrician’s office, your mom, best friend, husband, sister, just pick one person and tell them, I am a virtual assistant.

That’s step one, right there. Next, you need to figure out what you’ll do as a VA. And don’t worry, at the end of this video I’ll tell you how you can get your hands on my monster list of 70 skills clients need your help with.

Everything from managing e-mail, and booking appointments to uploading images to a website, and tracking sales in spreadsheets. There are so many things business owners will pay you to do. And a lot of these tasks aren’t difficult at all, they just take time, which is the one resource that business owners value above all others.

When you step in and take over those tasks, you’re giving people their time back, and they will gladly pay you for it. So step two is for you to pick what you’ll do for your clients. And then, step three is to take advantage of the many, many resources that are available to help you meet and connect with clients and other VAs.

For example, have I mentioned that I host a Facebook group with over 25,000 talented women? Inside the group you’ll find loads of free trainings, plus you’ll be able to connect with the people you need in your network.

You’ll meet with other VAs who are just a little further down the path than you are, which makes them the perfect people to model yourself on. You’ll almost meet plenty of potential clients, and learn where else you can go, and what else you can do to get yourself in front of even more people who are ready and willing to hire you as a freelance virtual assistant.

Finally, if you’re looking for a shortcut to get your skills up to speed, consider investing in yourself. You can find online courses that teach specific skills, like funnel-building, or writing e-mails.

Plus, all-in-one courses that help you start a virtual assistant business from scratch. I’ve put a few handy links below this video. So, that’s your to-do list, mama. You wanna be a virtual assistant and you don’t think you have experience? Here’s what to do.

Number one, declare that you’re a VA, and start telling people that’s what you do. Number two, pick a focus, and grab my 70 skills checklist to help you out. The link is just below this video, and it’s totally free.

Number three, get the support you need and build your network by joining my Facebook group. It’s free, and filled with mamas who are on the same journey to freedom and success, and we’d love to see you there.

That link is in the comments below. And lastly, number four, when you’re ready, invest in yourself with a course, training, or coach who can help you speed up the process, and get results faster. And yep, you’ll find those links below, too.

As always, if you liked this video, please let me know by liking it below. Subscribe, and share it with your fellow mamas, and comment below with #iamafreemama if you’re ready to step up and declare yourself a virtual assistant.

Hi, okay. Okay. Okay. Every time I say okay, I know you’re gonna hold it against me. Whatever, okay. Anyway, okay. That is just not my best word. One moment, please. For you, that, jeez, why can I not say that? Got a free resource for you, that.

That is. You have to accept that. Lean in close, and make sure you’re kids aren’t listening. Oh. You’ve . And their yearly well-check. And when the book.

Dang it, this is like, hard for me to say. You start a virtual business. Nope. Finally. Jeez. Finally, if you’re looking for a shortcut. Oh my. If you liked this video, please let me know by, oh, got it, okay.

Is, those are not words.

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Most often with data entry projects, you’re, going to be going into a system that already exists. One of my very first jobs as a virtual assistant was literally just taking the information from a big stack of sheets and manually entering it into a spreadsheet, and so the system was already there.

I literally just needed to fulfill it. Uh use my typing skills to do that: data entry project. Job number two is email management guys. This one is huge. Email management is actually one of the first things that many clients will hand off in their business.

So if you again are good at typing and you know how to write just a good email, this is an invaluable skill. Now you may be going into their personal inbox, organizing it maybe into gmail outlook, something like that uh, you may be using a more advanced system.

We use help scout at the virtual savvy and it’s. A way to answer our customer service emails, and so we can create templates and uh different ways to respond. We can even put labels on our different emails, so we can uh look in the future and kind of see the history of our customers that email and so there’s, a lot of different ways that you can do email management.

But if this is something that you think you can do, go ahead, add it to your list of services, another job that you may be getting as a virtual assistant from one of your first clients would be calendar management.

Now we love using tools like calendly or acuity here at the virtual sappy. This is a way that somebody can. You know book an appointment with you without having to do that, email back and forth, but sometimes that’s necessary too.

Sometimes somebody will have to come and say: hey can, can the client meet at two o’clock? Can you say no, but they can meet at 2 30., and so you would actually be putting that information uh. You know back and forth and then putting it into their calendar, whatever kind of calendar they use to manage their day.

One thing that you can do as a virtual assistant is also just managing their personal calendar, sending them hey every single morning. Here’s, what you here’s! What’s on deck here’s? What you’ve got going on today.

Calendar management may also include coming up with a content calendar. We love team up team up. Is a group calendar where multiple people can view the same calendar, but it’s, really really good to plan out things like blog posts and events that maybe uh your client is going to be attending conferences and really to do a high level view Of the content that’s going to be produced in the business, so we love using team up to plan out our content and then using something like google calendar to do the day-to-day appointments and meetings.

Another easy job that you can do as a virtual assistant is facebook, page management, most businesses have a facebook page and they need somebody to post content to that page to respond to messages that they get on that page to respond to comments, and this is something That many virtual assistants start out as one of their first services because likely you already know how to use facebook, so you may be coming up with a content plan.

How many times a week. Are you going to post on their page? You know what’s, the copy? What’s? The images that you’re, going to be using, you may just be coming up with prompts for them to post to their own page.

It may be that you go in and they already have posts or there’s, posts that you’ve created, and you use facebook’s native scheduling tool and you can schedule the post to go out for the entire Month so there’s, a lot of different things that you can do under that umbrella of facebook, page management, but it’s.

Definitely one of the jobs that we recommend for beginners. Another way that you can use your facebook skills that you likely already have is by offering facebook group management. Now you are probably in some facebook groups, but a lot of facebook groups have admins and as an admin for your client, you can do a lot of things to take some work off of their plate.

You can respond to comments. You can be posting inside of the group. You can be creating events for them. You can be uh. You know asking engagement questions. You can be accepting members into the group there’s now a feature where you can ask group members questions before they come into the group, so you can manually review and make sure is this person going to be a really good fit for the Group, that’s, something that’s pretty time intensive right.

So again, this is all these are all things that you can be doing to help your client grow their facebook group and make sure it’s. A good, healthy group, another job that you can do as a virtual assistant, would be utilizing your canva skills.

Have you used canva before we are big big fans of canva? You can go to the virtualsavvy.comcanva actually to uh to access our affiliate link for them. We only endorse people that we really really trust and canva is one of the top free tools that we love inside of the virtual savvy.

What is canva canva is a place where you can create it’s, a design tool for non-designers, and so even if you don’t, have a background in design using the different templates using some creativity using a lot of the trainings.

They have right there inside the platform. You can create so much for your clients. You can design ebooks, you can do social media graphics, you can be doing pinterest pins, you can even do logos and some video features instagram stories branding boards there’s.

So much that you can do inside a canva that you could offer as services for your virtual assistant, clients and the last easy beginner service that you can do as a virtual assistant would be visibility and outreach.

So what is visibility and outreach? Well, your clients want to get their name known. They want more eyes on their business right. An easy way to do. That is to get them on podcasts, so you can reach out to various podcasts, where your client would be a good fit and pitch them right say this is why uh my client would be an amazing fit for your podcast there’s.

Also, something called harrow help a reporter out, and this is an awesome way even for beginners for newbies someone with no pr experience to get your clients on some major media. I’ve, been featured on cbs news before because i simply responded to a hero request.

I ‘ Ll include a link to how to get on harrow with this video. Now i want to hear from you which one of these skills are you most excited about, which one do you want to add to your list of skills as a virtual assistant? Let me know in the comments below now remember one of the best phrases that you can learn as a new virtual assistant is i don’t know how to do that, but i can figure it out.

I’m a fast learner, literally it doesn’t matter. If you are the most skilled individual, what matters most is, are you reliable? Are you the kind of person that has tenacity that can figure out a new skill that is so much more valuable to clients than knowing it all? We’ll, never know at all.

There’s, so many platforms out there there’s, so much that you can do as a virtual assistant. So i suggest start with the skills you already have now. If you want to learn more about how to launch grow scale, a virtual assistant business, i recommend going to my free webinar training, the virtual savvy.

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For example, if you have a daytime job and you want to have freelancing as a side hustle – and you want to earn extra 20,000 pesos per month, but then you’re, just willing to a lot or commit extra 10 hours per week.

To do that, freelancing jobs that would be 40 hours per month, so 20,000 divided by 40 hours, would give us 500 passes per hour. So that already gives you an idea on how much you need to charge per client.

So you can either charge one client $ 10 per hour to achieve that 20,000 pesos or you can have two clients and charge them five dollars an hour each something like that. The good thing about breaking down your goals is it prevents you from being overwhelmed, because when we break it down it’s easier for our mind to wrap around it.

It’s like mmm, putting puzzle pieces together until you’re able to complete the bigger picture, which is your end goal and, to be honest, we all know for a fact that having a goal is the very first step at everything, Because, during the process, you would encounter difficulties, hardship it’s, not gonna be a smooth flowing journey.

It’s good to have something that you can hold on to. You know the reason why you have to undergo through this. You know sacrifices is because you’re, sacrificing for something greater, and that is to achieve your end goal.

The second step is to choose a skill and a market to serve. You can start by assessing what current skills you have your strengths or what you’re, even passionate about when you’re, doing something, and then once you have decided what skill or service you want to offer, then you have to identify Your target market, so as for me, since I have experience in the human resources, industry and online teaching for some years, I figured that I can offer virtual assistants to my clients.

However, if I’m going to cater to a general market, it will be difficult for me to package my service according to the needs of the menu, because, even though all industries require some level of assistance or admin support, each industry require or have Specific needs, for example, real estate companies, require or prefer the ACE who can do cold, calling or appointment settings.

On the other hand, advertising agencies prefer the ACE with with knowledge on SEO, and/or social media management etc, and the list goes also it’s. Crucial to know what market you want to serve so that you can study their needs, their pains, the problems that you can solve for them and use that information to upgrade any skill that can offer a solution or meet a certain demand.

I hope that makes sense. Now that you have a skill to offer in a market to serve what’s next well, the third step is to find a mentor that you can emulate say if you are a bookkeeper, and you want to do that as a freelancing with multiple Clients, then the best way to start is to find someone who is already doing that and learn from that person in one of the books that I’ve read the richest man in Babylon.

It was mentioned there that the fastest way to learn anything is to learn from the person who has already mastered the skill that you already seek. You can join Facebook groups, there are tons of YouTube tutorial videos and you can also, if you have the budget, you can also consider enrolling for an online course provided that you do your own homework.

You know and do some research investigation if they’re, credible, reliable stuff like that before you actually pay for that course, because not only it does give you structure and focus on what skills to learn or master.

But when you enroll in a course, you become part of a community of the same people who have similar interests and people who do exactly what you do. So not only you’re, getting yourself a mentor, but you’re, also gaining a network that you can tap to whenever you have questions whenever you have queries, because you have a cumulative set of experience and different knowledge that you can Share to one another well, in my own opinion, this has got to be the most important stuff for me because if it wasn’t for my mentor, if it wasn’t for the course that I enrolled for I wouldn’t be able to land a client in less than two months at first I was just I’m watching YouTube, tutorials yeah and there are tons of free resources, but well, I was easily overwhelmed because of too much information.

So good thing I was able to find a Filipino mentor and our classes started, I think in August 3rd or 5th, and then I landed my first client September 18, 2018 in less than two months. The course was eight weeks, but on the sixth or probably that was seventh week, I already got a client.

It would probably take me more months for weeks if I didn’t roll in that course. So that, for me, is the step that had the biggest impact in shaping my career as a NASA. The next step, which is step number four, is to start applying, even when you think you’re, not yet ready.

Why that’s, the best way to practice and apply what you have been watching from your YouTube chat, Orioles or the lessons that you have already learned from the course that you’ve enrolled too so don’t! Be scared.

You know I was passing at least five applications per day, so there were a lot of rejections because you just wan na feel gained insight on how the process goes. You want to learn what questions they usually ask: what kind of screening tests or tasks they usually give to their applicants and every failure? Every every application process is a learning opportunity for you to self, evaluate and then improve your next strategy for the next batch of the application to leave.

Every after interview, you’ll gain the momentum and the confidence which will make you a better applicant in your next interviews. Bonus tip is whenever you successfully pass a screening test. What you do is you put that in your resume and portfolio, you put the pass that you did.

Oh, I did project that product research and supplements for this company blah blah blah yeah, because it may not be a big win for you. They may not be, they may not hire you, but you were able to practice that skill.

You were able to pass that skill using YouTube. I mean it built that confidence in you and it also strengthens your portfolio in resume. The last and fifth step is to actually ask the questions instead of them asking you questions during the interview.

Why, when you ask the questions, you assume a level of or a position of authority, and that makes you more credible and knowledgeable about the service that you offer it’s like they’re consulting in my case.

It’s like they’re, consulting me for the visual virtual assistant service that I offer and in doing so, you’re, able to evaluate and understand their pains and their needs and use those information to better showcase.

How your offer can be beneficial to their business and I discovered that this is a beginner friendly technique. Why? Because for the first 10 to 15 interviews, I I was passing this reading, but during the final interview they would always choose someone with experience, because whenever they asked me about my experience working for an Amazon seller, I would tell them none because yeah it was.

They would be my first clients if they hired me so that didn’t work to my advantage and then in the next batch of my applications and interviews. I tried asking the question so in one in one of my interviews.

I asked that client what products he sell on Amazon and he said how to supplements. I told him: oh, that’s good. I graduated with a bachelor’s, degree in nursing. It’s really easy for me to understand the concept, the mechanism of actions of supplements, blah blah blah, and there was also one client.

He said that his I asked him how he sees his company five to ten years from now, and he said he wants to expand and me having a background in HR, told him, oh, that’s great, because I can help you with recruitment.

I know how to create training modules, etc. So I was able to steer the conversation to make myself more valuable as a whole, not just on the Amazon seller virtual assistants, experience which I was lacking back then so by September second week or third week of September.

I had three offers waiting for me. I had to turn down two offers and I just chose one full-time and I think one more thing that asking questions help you is. It gives you an opportunity to know the client deeper to vibe that client, if he or she is someone you wan na work with for a long time.

If you’re gonna, do this freelancing for quite some time, and if your gut tells you that there’s, something off with the person, then you probably should follow your gut, and another bonus tip is always come from a place Of help always come from a place of help.

Don’t be too obsessed in closing the deal because they can. They can tell if you’re, just really there for the job or, if you truly care about their company. If you really want to help them out, I believe you have a higher chance of getting the job if you showed sincere, genuine concern to your client, so there those are the five step that I actually took to become a NASA.

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