The 3 Biggest Mistakes New Virtual Assistants Make - and how to avoid them!

The 3 Biggest Mistakes New Virtual Assistants Make - and how to avoid them! 12 WEEKS TO KICK START YOUR VIRTUAL ASSISTANT BUSINESS: http://courses.vasuccessacademy.com/courses/12-weeks-to-kick-start-your-virtual-assistant-business 00:01 - What is the 3 part video series about 00:28 - Pitfall #1 - not defining a niche 2:54 - Pitfall #2 - jumping the gun 5:35 - PItfall #3 - not documenting systems and processes 7:56 - Learn to start your own profitable virtual assistant business In part I of this video series I’m going to let you in on the 3 biggest pitfalls for new virtual assistants - and how to avoid them! NOT DEFINING YOUR NICHE JUMPING THE GUN NOT DOCUMENTING SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES The first, and maybe the biggest pitfall for new virtual assistants is NOT DEFINING YOUR NICHE. Most new VA’s think that by offering their services to everyone they’ll have a better chance of getting more clients quickly and building their client base, but in fact the absolute opposite is true. By trying to sell your services to everyone, you’ll end up selling to no one! In the 12 Weeks to Kick Start Your Virtual Assistant Business program (http://courses.vasuccessacademy.com/courses/12-weeks-to-kick-start-your-virtual-assistant-business) we delve into Niches, and together we create a clear plan for the best niche for you. I’ll walk you through how to create niche options, how to do the research to ensure that it’s a viable and profitable niche, and how to brand yourself and your business so that you attract clients within that niche. If I had a penny for every new VA that I see who is desperately looking for clients BEFORE they get their foundation built! Let me stress this - IF you start looking for clients before you’re ready to take them on, here’s what will happen: You’ll burn that bridge. Your stress level will go through the roof. You’re excited because you’ve decided you’re going to call yourself a virtual assistant. You jump in and go looking for clients, and maybe you find one who’s willing to hire you. Before you can even start working with them you’ll need a contract, but you don’t HAVE a contract! So you go into the Facebook groups you’re part of and start asking if anyone has a contract template they’ll share with you. This is jumping the gun. One of the keys to scaling your business is systems and processes. So, what do I mean by that? Creating SOP’s, otherwise known as Standard Operating Procedures, for every repetitive task, as you go, means that when your business grows to the point of being able to outsource, you already have the training documents. This makes outsourcing a breeze because all of your systems and processes are already documented. This also makes training your team, when you get there, easy and fast. AND it means that you can look for holes in the systems and may be able to automate some of the processes. We cover all of these pitfalls in depth in the 12 Weeks to Kick Start Your Virtual Assistant Business program. If you want to have your profitable virtual assistant business up and running within the next 3 months, then this program is for you. 12 WEEKS TO KICK START YOUR VIRTUAL ASSISTANT BUSINESS: http://courses.vasuccessacademy.com/courses/12-weeks-to-kick-start-your-virtual-assistant-business VISIT THE VA SUCCESS ACADEMY: http://vasuccessacademy.com/ JOIN OUR #VIRTUALASSISTANT FACEBOOK GROUP: https://www.facebook.com/groups/VASuccessAcademy/ FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/KIM_GARNETT PIN WITH ME ON PINTEREST: https://www.pinterest.com/BrainyGirlKim/

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1. Great video!