- angeline siacor
- Oct 8, 2020
- 5 min read
Updated: Oct 11, 2020
Do you want to be a virtual assistant (VA) but, you have no experience? No problem! The truth is, you don’t need to be a well - experienced VA to start working as a virtual assistant. Many people start from scratch and build their careers.
What Is A Virtual Assistant?
As a virtual assistant, you provide online support to a company, site, or person by working remotely. Figure this, a company has a task at hand but does not have money to hire a full-time employee. Most companies will often outsource the task to virtual assistants, who work remotely and do not even go to their client’s offices. How convenient to us to work from home?
This gives you an opportunity to make money in the comfort of your home. You can also become a virtual assistant part-time for a company as you work full-time for a different company. There is no limit to what you can do because there is a large variety of work available. Many people look at VAs as little more than executive assistants. But it’s more complicated. It’s true that in some circumstances we might be performing some of the traditional tasks associated with administrative work.
What Type of Services Can Virtual Assistants Do?
At first, you need to find what are your niches that can be offered to your Clients. As many Niches as you can to help you grow your target market as a Virtual Assistant. Focus on the niches that your very familiar too and concentrate on it. And later on, you can add up your skills to think you have a larger market to serve with. And since, you have no experience you can identify yourself first as a General Virtual Assistant.
What is General Virtual Assistant?
General VAs may work with lots of different types of clients; they don’t necessarily limit themselves to any one specific niche.
Your daily to-do list covered a lot of work to do . And if you’re thinking of becoming a general virtual assistant, the services you offer might include:
Administrative Assistant
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Data -Entry
Calendar Management
Internet Research
Social Media Management
Social Media Marketing
SEO Services
What are Freelance Websites?
You can find clients on different online job platforms.
Freelance websites, where both people looking for work and employers post their offers.
Being a freelancer is an excellent way to turn your talent or hobby into money. You have the freedom to apply for only the projects that you like or you’re good at.
Using these websites will help you set a solid start for your freelance career.
1. Fiverr
2. Upwork
3. Toptal
4. Simply Hired
6. Aquent
7. Crowded
9. 99Designs
10. Nexxt
11. Writer Access
12. TaskRabbit
13. Skyword
14. Designhill
15. Freelancer
16. Guru
17. Hireable
18. FlexJobs
What Qualities Do You Need to Be a Successful VA?
1. Honesty
Your client relies on you to deliver the work assigned and any failure to deliver on time must be accompanied by a genuine explanation. It is advisable to practice due diligence and always keep deadlines, but in case this does not happen, always tell the truth as to why it did not happen.
2. Good Communication Skills
If you are not good at communicating, you will not make a connection with your client. Remember, you are working virtually so the connection is key. It is important to give clients a daily and/or weekly progress report of what you accomplished and how your work benefits them. It doesn’t need to be long, but you need to show that you are worth the money.
3. Passion
Your passion for the job will keep you in tune with your working hours and will keep you motivated. Also, be passionate about delivering the tasks on time. Sometimes you will work on fun projects, but many times you can be working on monotonous tasks.
4. Don’t Be Afraid to Say No
Communicate with your client clearly about your working hours so that they can know your schedule. This will prevent them from overburdening you with extra work outside your working hours.
5. Be Flexible
In most cases, your clients will be from a different time zone, dialect, or culture, so it is important to be flexible to their needs. Most clients will respect your schedule, but they must also feel comfortable to depend on you for help in rare, emergency situations.
Online Training
You need a lot of effort to become a virtual assistant with no experience. You need to be spent setting up your services, finding clients, and market yourself before you ever get paid.
But, there’s a way to boost your business and to become more successful by signing up to Filipino Virtual Assistance. It will help more to gain more skills as more as you want.
My Experience as Virtual Assistant
Freelance is just one of my dream since 2018. I saw a lot of advertisements for freelancing/ Virtual Assistants, Digital Marketers. How it works, how to start with your freelancing career and a step-by-step process to get the first client. At the moment, out of curiosity hit me up, I searched about "Freelancing" things and followed some of the freelancers. I'm very motivated to start earning at home without any hustle and just working in the comfort of your own home with your kids. Working and taking good care of your children at the same time. I was inspired by their success stories that lead me to start right away the sad thing I don't have stable internet and money to enroll myself in a freelancing course.
March 2020, when we decided to have a stable internet for good. And I was like, OMG! this is it! I can start as a freelancer now. But then the pandemic crisis happened. All the establishments are closing a lot of employers losses their jobs. One of the employers is my husband. He loses his job due to this COVID pandemic. That gives me a lot of reasons to work from home as wife and mom to my two daughters to support our financial needs.
But being a freelancer a mom is not easy tasks. We need to have full courage and time management for our daily living to do things according to our plan. And doing your portfolio has a lot of challenges and temper as well, especially if you are not familiar with the software or tools that you're going to use. It will be more challenging and interest if you have accomplished it in the right way. On the other hand, it's all worth it because you learned othered skills that can be your niche in the future as a Freelancer.
To become the best freelancer version of you, you need to be more equipped and familiar with the software you didn't know and master it with all your heart and desire and stay focus on your chosen niche. Now, I'm still learning the things that I needed to learn as a freelancer to provide the best results to my future clients. To more competitive and relevant in the freelance field. Free Click Virtual Assistance is on track to serve thousands of clients. As a virtual assistant, our goal is to help other people grow their businesses. It can be a rewarding process to help others to grow their business. And you always want to provide as much value as possible.