Moms Want To Work From Home….
- Ruby Marie Balbuena
- Jun 24, 2018
- 3 min read
Working Mother's Dream...
A lot of Moms dreamed the idea of working from home but they let their doubts stop them from pursuing this dream. Taking the risk of course is the major decision that entails a lot of research and planning.
Mom’s, before you put off shifting gears, consider these reasons why you should work from home:
Flexible Time While You Enjoy More Time With Family and Friends
Avoid Traffic
Avoid Expenses on Gas
Earn Money While Doing What You Love
Lesser Stress
You Can Wear Anything You Want
What Is A Virtual Assistant Tasks?
Virtual assistants perform a wide variety of tasks in fact, the services that you can offer are endless and all depend on your background training, experience, and skills. One of the easiest ways to work from home is by doing Virtual Assistant Job.
Virtual assistants are skilled, home-based professionals that offer companies, businesses, and entrepreneurs administrative support, bookkeeping, email/calendar management, transcription, graphic design, website design/maintenance, social media support, desktop publishing and much more..
How To Become A Virtual Assistant?
Like any other job you will need to educate yourself on it’s tasks and the most important is your self branding. Attend a specialised Training programs to ensure that you can optimise your skills and strengths on roles that match your profile, By that you can be better prepared in taking-on the role of a Virtual Assistant.
1. Choose a niche.
There are many different services you can offer, but even something more to consider is who would you like to work for? While some VAs are generalists and work on a wide variety of tasks, it's easier and more lucrative to choose a specialty. Figuring out what niche you want to focus on can be a challenge, but if you mind-map your passions, interests, experience, and knowledge you can narrow it down relatively easy.
2. Build a website.
To be competitive as a virtual assistant, you need to have a website. Having an online presence will help you attract more clients, it gives you a place to showcaseyour work, list your services and testimonials, and it makes you look more professional. Don't worry, setting up a website is easy and affordable.
3. Market your VA Brand.There are tons of ways to promote your VA branding; the thing you need to remember is consistency is key. Choose two to three methods that you think you'll enjoy doing and spend time each day working on those methods.
Here are just some of the ways you can market your brand:
Social Media
Blogging
PR opportunities
Public speaking
Guest blogging
Print advertising
Forum participation
Email prospecting
Facebook groups
Now that you've got your website in place and you're actively marketing your brand, it's time to connect with potential clients. Some experts believe you should follow up with five to ten new prospects a day until you have a constant flow of clients in your pipeline.
4. Invest in your VA Branding. As your income builds, you’ll want to reinvest some of it into professional development. Luckily, they are events, conferences, webinars, teleconferences, online courses, books, membership sites, mastermind groups, and coaching sessions – there is something to fit every budget and every niche.
By investing in yourself and your business, you gain the knowledge, information, and skills to make your freelance business a success.
Starting to become VA may seem like a far off distant dream – but if you take the first step, you can make it a reality. Good luck on your journey!
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