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How to start your own Virtual Assistant business!
- Keneisha Salmon-Graham
- Jul 6, 2020
- 5 min read
Overview
1. Find the best of services that you can provide
2. Create your virtual assistant business name
3. Know your target audience/clients
4. Legalize your business
5. Purchase the right and needful tools
6. Reach out to network
7. Keep your clients
8. Seek Reviews
Thinking of starting your own virtual assistant business is one of the best things to do if you want to succeed in the online world. Being a virtual assistant and offering good service to people is profitable and something you would enjoy or take pleasure in all through your life.
As far as you have the heart and are ready to render your skill to get paid, your business would grow. Below, we would take a look at a few steps on how to start a profitable virtual assistant business.
1. Find/Choose the best of services that you can provide
Before you can start a virtual assistant business, you’ve got to choose the kind and best of services to offer. And, that depends on your skill which you’ve harnessed and ready to show to the world.
There are a lot of services to offer, that includes; graphic design, social media management, email marketing, content writing, web design, project management, and a whole lot of other freelancing jobs. If you’re good at most of them, then you chose the most profitable to get started.
2. Create your virtual assistant business name
Of course, the name does attract clients that want to visit your page or niche to see what you offer. But, when choosing your name, it should be simple, unique, and tells of the service you offer.
Although you have the chance to change it later on, it is important you give it a good name and lay off your trademark in the online business world.
3. Know your target audience/Clients
This is another good means/procedure if you want to start up your virtual assistant business. With your niche and kind of services you offer, you would know your target audience and clients, which then gives you the chance to;
a. Set your rates: With your unique skill, the kind of services you offer, you would need to set your rate with them. There are some services like social media marketing and project management that take a lot of time and effort, in which clients are willing to pay a good sum if they see a reliable virtual assistant.
In this way, you would be able to set good rates, like $40-$60 per hour, knowing fully well that clients value these services. The same applies to simple services, logically set the rate to see clients flow into your page.
b. Create a marketing strategy: When you know your target audience or clients, it would then be easy for you to develop a marketing strategy to boost your business. There are a lot of profitable ways to create a marketing strategy depending on which you feel is easy for you or you can as well use all. They include; social media, email, and blog. When you know your target clients, it would be easy to create the best marketing strategy.
4. Legalize your business
This is another important aspect of starting your virtual assistant business. You certainly need to make it legal if you want to last long in it. You must register your business name and all needed requirements that includes taxes.
In most cases like mine where I used my name, you would need to register it under the right company and make it fully certified. That is one of the best ways to succeed as a virtual assistant. With it, you would have little or no issue in the nearest future and certainly have full trust from your clients.
5. Purchase the right and needful tools
This is a very important factor that you must be taken seriously if you want to be a successful virtual assistant. Having the right tools at your disposal even before a job comes is necessary so you won’t have to feel pressure later on.
There are tools and software that is needed for the service you offer, so you can deliver excellent and quality service to your clients. It is necessary to invest in tools to become a successful virtual assistant.
6. Reach out to network
One major thing you must know, whether it be a virtual assistant business or not is that, you must not take anything for granted and strive to network with persons. These persons could be close friends or partners at work as they would help you to search for clients that would welcome your services.
7. Keep your clients
Keeping your clients is by far a habit that should be cultivated by you as a virtual assistant. This part involves a lot of things as it is one of the most challenging parts of being a virtual assistant.
Most times, the services you offer can make a client visit you again or it could be the opposite if you deliver an awful service. Apart from delivering good services, your communication skills, and speed at which you deliver your jobs will certainly make them want to work with you again.
It’s one of my top-secret in succeeding as a virtual assistant and what every virtual assistant like you need. A consistent client means you would have more jobs at your schedule, which also means more money to your bank account.
8. Seek Reviews
A positive review is another thing that you need in starting and lasting as a successful virtual assistant.
When you ask for reviews from your clients and you’re given good and quality ones, it would boost your niche as new clients all over the world will feel ok to visit your page and give you a Job.
A positive review is a motivation to you as a virtual assistant and something that would take you to the top of your game.
9. Free Virtual Assistant Training
One very good site I have known for a while and have become a member of is TheVirtualSavvy.com. The site provides a lot of resources on how to become a virtual assistant working as a freelancer or starting your own business. This website offers free resources on how to start your own virtual assistant business such as it's well researched and put together FREE CHECKLIST AND STARTER KIT.
Conclusion
With the above steps in starting as a virtual assistant, it would take you to the next level and keep you on the right track to success.
For some of you out there, you might think that is stressful or it takes a lot of time and energy to start your virtual assistant business. However, it doesn't have to be a very challenging task, you’ve just got to follow a few procedures.
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