How to Start a Virtual Assistant Business
Interested in becoming a VA? Why wouldn’t you be??
These days, everyone wants to work from home. We all want the flexibility of making our own hours and working at our own pace. Becoming a virtual assistant is a fantastic option to make money from home and be your own boss.
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How I Got Started
Personally, I learned the skills I needed to become a virtual assistant through blogging. You can learn more about the whole story HERE.
Starting a blog as a way to bring in income while on maternity leave was WAY more difficult than I anticipated. There was so much more to it than I initially thought.
But I was pretty determined so I started taking online courses so I could learn how to make my blog more successful.
What I didn’t realize was that learning all these blogging skills would pay off greatly and set me up with the knowledge needed to help others in so many different ways.
The skills I learned
In starting a blog, I had to learn about web hosting, building a website with WordPress, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), email marketing, affiliate marketing, Pinterest marketing, running a Facebook Page, running a Facebook Group, understanding Google Analytics, ensuring my site was legally compliant.
If you’re interested in learning any of the above skills, I’m happy to offer recommendations on courses and resources I used. Don’t hesitate to reach out.
But what about learning to become a VA?
Taking the courses and implementing the things I learned definitely helped set me up with the skills I use in my virtual assistant business today.
But when it came to actually knowing how to start my business, I turned to Abby over at The Virtual Savvy. She has some fantastic courses that walks you through all the steps needed to start and grow your own VA business.
I personally started out with her webinar, “Become a Booked Out Virtual Assistant“.
THIS is the webinar that made it crystal clear to me that I had the skills needed to do what I do now. And I left the webinar knowing exactly what steps I had to take next to get this show on the road.
If you want to check it out too to see if you’re ready, it’s actually 100% FREE to take!
>>Become a Booked Out Virtual Assistant FREE Webinar<<
Getting your first VA clients
My first client was a friend who needed some design work done. She knew I had the skills and she reached out to me. I found other jobs through the blogging community and Facebook groups for both bloggers and virtual assistants.
LinkedIn can be another great resource for finding jobs.
But really, I found creating my website and an Instagram account has proved to be the most profitable source of leads.
The beautiful thing about VA work, is literally anyone running a business is your potential audience. I started an Instagram account that linked to my website ( I would never recommend JUST using Instagram) and started following all kinds of businesses.
People were intrigued, followed back, and now I get requests for work almost daily!
If you have questions about starting your own virtual assistant biz, feel free to use the button below and we can chat about it.
