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thank you hello hello hello [Music] all right let me see if you all can write in the chat hold on all right let me know what city and state you live in hey everyone your video is not on your camera's not on so don't worry about that hello hello hello waiting for some more people to slowly join us we'll get started in about five minutes or so how's everyone doing today how is everyone doing if you've never been a part of my virtual assistant webinar before I'm super excited to have you so you can get your questions answered waiting for some others to join us foreign busy week um but I'm excited to teach you all today about starting your virtual assistant business super excited about teaching you all how to start a successful virtual assistant business so a couple people are having trouble getting logged on so I'm trying to help them with that all right let me work on getting my presentation pulled up foreign let us know what city and state you live in let us know what city and state you live in we're about to get started so I can share with you all how I started my virtual assistant business the most I've made with my virtual assistant agency has been twenty thousand dollars in one month so shout out to that I know emails are still being sent all right let me and just so you all know we're doing a q a towards the end of the presentation no need to put your questions in the queue put your questions in the chat because I will probably miss it but definitely wait to the end so we can go ahead and get your questions answered I try to answer pretty much every single question okay um all right so all right so let me see how y'all let me see how y'all feeling let me know in the chat if you're ready to learn how to make money as a virtual assistant let me get some yeses and some dollar signs yeses and dollar signs if you're ready to learn how to make money as a virtual assistant let me see who's engaging with me love it love it love it also how did you all hear about this about this webinar was it Instagram was it did you hear about it on tick tock so Instagram Tick Tock Instagram Tick Tock Instagram [Music] okay Instagram and Tick Tock I love it I love it I love it let me go ahead and pull up my presentation here foreign can you all see my screen all right we aren't I'll share with you all towards the end how you can get a copy of this presentation it is being recorded all right let me make sure nobody else is having trouble getting logged on and we're gonna get into it we're good we're good we're good um all right let me turn my video on so y'all know that I'm a real person I'm gonna move my video over here so I can see everyone so y'all might see my dog Demarcus he's right here on the floor yeah I can't see him y'all y'all might see my dog throughout the presentation walking doing all that stuff so I I'm gonna keep it brief I don't want to be on the webinar too long because I know you all have questions towards the end so I want to put I want to spend a lot of time on the Q a towards the end of the presentation again don't drop any of your questions in the chat post all of your questions towards the end of the presentation um and the goal for this I want you all to go away with this the the things you need to get started within the virtual assistant space and how to be able to make money from anywhere so let first let me tell you a little bit about myself I want to check my email one more time to make sure people aren't having trouble getting logged on okay we're good so how to make money as a virtual assistant first things first is uh my name is Annalisa I'm the owner of elevated assist elevated assist is a virtual assistant and social media management agency I created it I founded it I started my virtual assistant business with just me by myself with a lack of Direction but I made thousand dollars in one month and I was able to create a six-figure virtual assistant business in less than a year okay so if you're interested in an additional stream of income outside your nine to five I'm glad you're here in addition to that I had I invest in real estate um I was a landlord before I moved to Dallas from Ohio and I have a podcast called revenue and relationships where I sit down with other entrepreneurs and we talk about business we talk about relationships with one of my former clients I do all of this and I still have my nine to five okay I still have my nine to five as a healthcare administrator so before I move on why do y'all think I do all these things I'm a virtual assistant I have my agency I have a coaching program I have a podcast I still have my nine to five let me know in the chat why you all think I do all these things someone said multiple streams of income what else we got multiple streams of income to get the word out it's necessary for like you want past income generational wealth so let me just say to help others let me just say yes I do want to be able to help as many people as possible if y'all take anything from this webinar I want you all to know that you need more than one stream of income the way that the society is set up right now I would hate for you to be in the position situation where you're nine to five let you go and you didn't have any additional income coming in so you all don't have to write it in the chat because we friends now because you're on a webinar but I want you all I want you all to just think like if you're a nine to five like you go right now would you be okay for the next six months and you don't necessarily have to answer it in the chat if you don't want to but just think about that and if your answer is no that is definitely why I want you to be able to create options for yourself so you have the opportunity to have additional streams of income coming in when one income maybe may drop off okay so that's your first lesson you need multiple streams of income the reason I push being a virtual assistant because I don't got to leave my house to make money as a virtual assistant all I need is access to Wi-Fi to get paid from my clients so let me know if you're ready to learn how to make money as a virtual assistant in the chat let me know dollar signs and yeses okay awesome awesome awesome okay first things first y'all probably like girl what is a virtual assistant so I don't some of y'all follow me on Tick Tock and Instagram and I'm able to make money from anywhere as a virtual assistant no matter what island city or state I'm living in I can still make make money that way by working on things for my clients so a virtual assistant similar to a personal assistant but it's remote work specifically secretarial tasks technical support or administrative work so how do you get paid as a virtual assistant is you have clients being a starter you have you start a virtual assistant business that doesn't mean you have to have employees under you it could just be you getting clients for your virtual assistant business and that's how I was able to create a six-figure virtual assistant business in less than a year I put myself out there not even knowing how many entrepreneurs actually needed virtual assistants so your clients are small business owners generally small business owners that's what you're going to be working with the type of things you'll be doing for those clients may vary but it's probably stuff you're already doing for your nine to five so think about the work you're already doing for you're not a five and how you can translate that into your virtual assistant business get paid more than you're making in your nine to five because generally small business owners are looking for people that can do the job and do the job quickly so they don't have to do it okay so some of the most common virtual assistant tasks that you may come across let's start with Dad entry typing things into an Excel spreadsheet spreadsheet most of us on the chat we already type with our current job we already know how to type and I'm not saying you need to type 100 words a minute I'm I'm seeing that a client may give you information to organize and put into a spreadsheet that's the gist of what you'll be doing as a virtual assistant next basic bookkeeping if you're if anybody on here good with numbers are you familiar with QuickBooks I do have a background in accounting let me tell you right now some of these entrepreneurs and business owners that you'll be working with they let me just say they do well from they do well from a financial standpoint but their finances are not always organized I'm gonna be honest with you their finances are not always organized okay so from a virtual assistant standpoint you can come in and make sure their numbers are organized making sure their invoices are being paid invoices are being sent out on a regular basis okay next Data Mining and research data mining and research so as a virtual assistant you may just be doing research for clients for someone on my team I like to Google I like to make sure I'm credible I like to make sure I'm reading books and being able to reference information that I'm presenting like this present information to you all but I don't got time to be on Google all day because I'm so busy with the many businesses that I mentioned to you all earlier and also I still have my nine to five okay so I have someone on my team she does research for me every week and I pay her every week for that imagine getting paid every week to be able to do things you can do from your phone okay next email management email management so most of the most common thing you'll do once you start working with clients for your virtual assistant business and making money with your virtual assistant business is managing people's emails some entrepreneurs get a lot of emails every single day so it's your goal to respond to those emails in a timely manner in addition to that calendar management they may need you to put things on a calendar most of y'all already know how to put things on a calendar because you do it at your current job or you send emails at your current job I hope you all understand what I'm sharing with you is like you can start your virtual assistant business based on skills that you already have okay next graphic design are you good with canvas so I'm going to put that into the chat canva or adobe any type of graphic design tool you can package your virtual assistant services or your Graphic Design Services in a way that you can provide a number of graphics for the business owner for that business owner and create a package for that so you can say 10 you can say 10 Graphics a month for I don't know 75 you have to figure out what your pricing is depending on how how intricate intricate some of these Graphics are right so that's the service that you can offer next Real Estate assistance if you all left this webinar right now you'll probably learn that the real estate space uses virtual assistants very frequently whether it's to follow up on leads make calls keep themselves organized or organize information or post on their social media accounts so they can brand themselves as a real estate influencer okay next answering calls I'm Gonna Keep a 1000 with you I really have to answer calls within my virtual assistant business but there are some people there are some people who come on come and work with a business owner and they want to answer calls for them okay so let me just say if some of the class some some people I've helped get them I've basically found an entrepreneur that needed virtual assistant that didn't align with my agency and I helped them get a virtual assistant job two people one was in a paternity testing business she has to answer calls the other one was in a cleaning business she has to answer calls but very easy work to be able to make some extra four to five figures a month on the side within your virtual assistant business okay next provide customer service our customer support so when you think of working with business owners you're providing customer support to them so you have the CEO you have the virtual assistant for clients and customers to get to the CEO they generally have to go through the virtual assistant you're providing customer support okay so let me know in the chat if you feel like we can do at least one of these things one of the things I mentioned let me know if you feel like you can do at least one of the things I've mentioned for your virtual assistant business if you can do at least one of these things you can get started within the virtual assistant space okay you can get started within the virtual assistant space love it love it love it love it okay so and guys let me just be honest with you so let me quickly talk about me um as a virtual assistant because y'all probably wonder how did you get started within the virtual assistant space and some people have been following me on Instagram for a long time like y'all was following me when I had uh 1200 followers and now I have almost a hundred thousand followers and I'm grateful to have this platform to be able to share with people and I want y'all to look at me in my face you can make money as a virtual assistant you if I can do it you can do it it's all about branding yourself correctly so you can make that extra money on the side even if you have a nine to five like me okay so I got my first client so I got my first client um so I started my virtual assistant business maybe two years ago right I got my first client without even knowing what a virtual assistant was so during this time I probably had 2 000 followers on Instagram I was doing regular lives called Financial Flex on Instagram and it was with different entrepreneurs and I was able to kind of slowly grow my following and other entrepreneurs used to follow me to tune into my Instagram live so one particular entrepreneur reach out to me and say hey do you do any admin work from that it popped up in my head that business opportunity for me to make some extra money so before I even started to be his his virtual assistant I he had already paid me that's your first key before you start working with these clients make sure you get your money up front make sure you get your money up front make sure you get your money up front before you start working with these clients okay so he paid me and I started to doing work for him some of the work I did for him was sending emails and then posting not even creating content content just posting content on his social media platform okay so I made a thousand dollars my first month and I wasn't even working 10 hours a week so again a light bulb went off of my head I said so I literally thought to myself what if I get more clients what if I get more business owners that need virtual assistants so if y'all follow me follow me on Instagram I have an Instagram reel that shares that I went for one thousand dollars to five thousand dollars a month in a span of 60 days because I branded myself as a VA and started to reach out to other business owners that's my story it sounds super super simple but like I just put myself out there and now I got this in I'm gonna call this Empire today because elevated assist my virtual assistant business is going to unimaginable and amazing places okay so let's talk about the perfect virtual assistant the first things first I'ma say that you probably want to be someone who wants to make an extra stream of income in the beginning because most people start their virtual assistant business while they still have their nine to five I'm not the business coach that's going to tell you to quit your nine to five so you can go fully fully into your virtual assistant business or any business I want you to be strategic can you replace your nine to five with your virtual assistant income absolutely but in the beginning you need to be able to complete tasks for your virtual assistant business and you're not a five okay so the way that you're able to do both the way I can I can do both is I encourage clients to give me deadlines when does the work need to be completed when does the work need to be completed okay so if they give you an assignment ask them when does this need to be done does it need to be done in the next eight hours or in the next eight days and that will allow you to be able to manage your time in between your nine to fives and most business owners understand that virtual assistants probably still have either other clients or a nine to five okay so next someone who wants to work from home where's all my people that love to work from home me me me me me me me I love working from home let me know in the chat if you love working from home if you apparently work from home if you don't work from home yet I want this opportunity for you to be able to make money from home because generally I have my big monitor here I have my laptop over here I might be watching Hulu got my snacks got my dog over here and I'm able to complete work from home while doing other things right I can I can make sure my laundry is getting done I can make sure my work is getting done and eating snacks you can't do that in the office I really want everyone to have the capacity to be able to work from home that is what I want for them so as a virtual assistant you don't have an office to go to you usually don't have like a cubicle or anything so you'll want to work from home okay you want to be able to work from home you need to be able you need to be okay with that okay next I think being a virtual assistant is especially perfect for two kinds of people stay-at-home parents and students so stay with me really quick even if you're not a stay-at-home parent or a student stay at home parents you have the opportunity to maintain your household and make money without having to leave your house as a virtual assistant so even if you just want one client you might just want an extra thousand dollars a month or two clients an extra two thousand dollars a month or more you can still do that as a virtual assistant as a student and I'm resonating with this with a student because if I want to start my virtual assistant business while I was in college I would be a multi-millionaire not just because the money because generally you'll be making more money and working less than a lot of entry-level jobs but you're able to learn from other entrepreneurs so imagine imagine being able to imagine being able to learn information in the classroom and work closely with business owners and be able to apply that knowledge and you'll just be completely ahead of the curve so I the only thing I regret is not starting my virtual assistant business when I was like 19 years old because your girl would have been completely paid all around okay but it's perfect for students looking for an additional stream of income because you don't have to leave campus and you can get experience from other entrepreneurs next you need to be okay with working independently I don't know about y'all because I want to be realistic with you I'm not real I don't really care for group projects you may never meet your clients in person and you might be the only person on their team so maybe the business owner and you luckily the business owner is going to share with you all how they want work to be completed so the perfect virtual assistant is okay working by by themselves I don't need a boss hovering over my shoulder asking me what to do I don't I don't want that I don't need that I don't want anyone hovering over my shoulder asking me have you did this have you completed this job and things like that so I'm okay working independently and next you need to be able to take instruction I don't have students on this webinar I know I have virtual assistants I know I have receptionists on this webinar you need to be able to take instructions from your clients right they're going to share with you all how they want work to be completed and you need to be able to deliver on how they tell you how to do things so don't feel overwhelmed like you won't know how to be a virtual assistant generally they'll let you know how they want things to be completed okay let me know in the chat let me get some dollar signs and some yeses before I move to the next slide if you feel like you can be the perfect virtual assistant foreign as a virtual assistant I need y'all to write in the chat I already have experience as a virtual assistant let me know in the chat why can't I find what I'm looking for okay because first things first all right I need y'all to claim it write it down claim it and believe it if you just join us on this webinar make sure you let us know what city and state you live you live in we're offering friends and family learning how to make money as a virtual assistant first things first people please hear me you do not need a college degree I've I've never had a client ask me about a college degree or a resume you they may ask I'm not saying they won't ask you but I'm saying for me particularly for me okay welcome for the people in Florida on here thank you for tapping in with us but you don't need a college degree I do have a bachelor's degree in a master's degree it does not affect my virtual assistant work if you don't need a college degree you need to show the client that you can do the work as a virtual assistant and what I mean by that so if me as a business owner if I was hiring my name is Annalisa I'm saying I need you all to PO I need you to post my content on my YouTube channel I need you to write a monthly newsletter right if I need you to do these things you need to show me that you can do these things and be able to speak to it and say hey I'm familiar with YouTubes and I can quickly get those videos uploaded or I have experience typing newsletters I could create a monthly newsletter for you they just want to make sure people can do the work so once you start talking with entrepreneurs about a virtual assistant they're already overwhelmed they're already looking for someone to come on and take some take the load off their plate Black Friday is coming up a lot of entrepreneurs are going to be so busy in November and December prime time to help a lot of entrepreneurs out in this space next be willing to learn more about their business so for example I got a client within the notary space that was one of my first clients and I know nothing about the notary business but he taught me how he want things to be conducted in his business and a little bit more information about becoming a notary so you all need to be open with learning more about people's businesses when you're working with them and next offering free service so it I better not see our virtual assistant pages and y'all offering free service for testimonies I need you all to write in the chat no free service in 2021. I see somebody got their notary license get your money get your money no free service in 2022 I need everybody to write in the chat no free service in 2022 you already have the experience you need why are you uh offering free service I don't care if you don't have any testimonials because some of y'all needs chat on this chat was probably thinking I'm gonna offer free service in the beginning no foreign service in 20 20 no free service in 2022. you already already know how to do the work okay let me put it into perspective for you so if you've ever been a customer service rep if you were ever worked in the call center customer service representative or customer service and Retail you can be a virtual assistant you're offering customer support same idea if you're a student you know how to meet deadlines and complete tasks similar idea in being a virtual assistant if your teacher stay-at-home parent you know how to multitask maintain multiple things whether it's children or people you can be a virtual assistant I've said this on many podcasts before even working in the fast food space I think a lot of people that transition from fast food to other spots they have a bit of imposter syndrome fast food industry builds character you have to multitask work in different positions you have to complete things in a timely manner you have to con uh you have to have the amazing customer service even when customers are rude I want to see more people within the fast food space be able to transition into other jobs that are aren't aren't so hard on their body most of you are already have the skill set you need take a look at your resume take a look at your resume look at those transferable skills and being able to Market yourself as a virtual assistant I don't want you all to lead with I'm this is my new virtual assistant business I want you to lead with I have this many years in customer service so even so for example if you worked at Taco Bell I worked at Taco Bell in high school and I always tell people like that was an easy job I got hours in retail I didn't get hours so it was an easiest job and it builds character but say say you worked at Taco Bell for five years I want you to say I have over five years of customer service experience when you're when you're presenting your virtual assistant business I have over five years of customer service experience I've experienced in fast-paced environments I have experience um with technical support and using different things those are transferable skills you can use in another industry even your virtual assistant business okay don't let anyone downplay you don't let anyone downplay you me you already have the experience you need so a lot of you are coming on this webinar to learn how can I be a virtual assistant generally you have experience you need I'm going to teach you what you need to look like to be able to attract clients to make four to five figures a month as a virtual assistant like I've been able to do okay so let me get some yeses and some dollar signs in the chat if you realize you already have the experience you need to start your virtual assistant business yes it's in dollar signs pretty please love it love it love it love it okay all right we ready for the next slide all right so when you start working within your virtual assistant business marketing is going to be a piece of it Mark you can't look over marketing you want to make more money and increase your marketing and what you do within your marketing okay but it's important for you all to understand from a marketing perspective why would people want to hire a virtual assistant so don't look at my don't look at my screen I want to know from you all why you all think people hire virtual assistants let me know in the chat and then also some of you are writing to the host and the panelists right to the I want you all to write to everyone write to everyone okay not as the host and the panelists same time they are expanding more free time increase efficiency it's free up to time need help okay okay yes you all have great ideas perfect so first things first remote work is becoming more common across multiple Industries people realize you can still get work done from the comfort of your own home you can still get work done from the comfort of your own home in a lot of small business owners they don't have an office space for you so they're okay with you working remotely next virtual assistants allow the business to become more productive if you as the virtual assistant are allowing the business to become more productive what does that mean for the business if the business is more productive what does that mean for the business let me know in the chat it's going to grow more growth expansion more money larger profit more income if you as a virtual assistant are allowing them to become more productive help them make more money don't you think they're going to want to keep you around if they're making generally the clients you'll be working for in the clients you want to work for they're making over 20 000 a month they're making over twenty thousand dollars a month okay so as a virtual assistant they're going to be looking to have a virtual assistant do more work so as their business it becomes more successful generally you should be able to make more money asking Adele get more tasks to you okay next a virtual assistant absolutely the goal become an asset as a virtual assistant you should be a solution to them they are paying you for convenience for example ladies if I'm walking in heels I'ma pay ballet to park my car because I don't want to walk I don't want to pay for convenience if analysts don't got time to go to the grocery store I go get food I'm going to order my groceries to come to my door that's paying for convenience so generally these business owners are paying for convenience okay so more businesses will need a VA to allow them to become more productive but also have more free time there are business owners out there that are completely successful their business grew tremendously but they need free time they want to spend more time with their family they want to go on vacation so for example I had a particular client he wanted to go to Jamaica and he was worried about you know customers and clients reaching out to them via email I was able to hold it down while he was on the plane he's making money in Jamaica I'm holding things down for him that is what a lot of business owners want they just want free time I know many of you mentioned that in the in the chat so that is what is needed for a lot of business owners and when you're talking to these business owners let them know it's time for you to have a vacation let me let me take over you let me help you with your business right let me assist you let me not own your business but let me assist your business to be able to help you okay next more businesses will need a VA to help manage their online presence okay so let's rewind back to pre-pandemic pre-pandemic a lot of successful entrepreneurs were doing extremely well pandemic hit we shut down we literally shut down a lot of brick and mortar businesses shut down physical location shut down know but their online presence was not established it was weak meaning no social media representation their website was so hard to navigate it was not recently updated so it's important for you all to understand where we are going from a technology standpoint most businesses should have an online presence if they don't they're missing your Revenue if they don't have an online presence they're missing in Revenue so I want this is how I want you to pitch to businesses that you find that need to update their social media or need to update their website and generally these businesses have probably been in business for a while they're just not willing to learn it or they don't know how to operate or update a website or update or operate um social media so let me write I need you all to write ready in the chat when you have an ink pen in a notebook I want you all to write ready in the chat when you have an ink pin in a notebook because I'm going to pick out this this is how I want you to pitch to those clients this is how I want you to pitch foreign [Music] all right all right all right all right all right so so okay yes this is how we gonna pitch y'all ready yeah look ready okay so this is how I want you to pitch so the business owners you can say this via DM via email in person on a call all three you're going to start the message with hello my name is also in insert your brand or your business name so elevated assist or whatever you're calling your business say hey my name is such and such I'm the owner of insert your business and I noticed identify three opportunities three opportunities say what you notice either on the website or the social media channels it could be I notice you haven't updated your Instagram in over a year I noticed you haven't been using Instagram reels or video content on your social media platforms I notice you don't have a tick tock tick tock is one of the fastest fastest growing um fastest growing social media platforms right now I know that your website the contact information wasn't updated your hours weren't updated and then also the products the products that I'm used to seeing in your store has not been updated on the website so something along those lines that you notice on their website an opportunity for improve movement right don't call it an issue don't call it a problem but just an opportunity for improvement and then follow up with a solution you are the solution mention hey I do these and list out what you can do or how you can improve and help their business but mention something about helping them make more money save money or save time business owners want to make money save money or save time make money save money or save time it should be some type of benefit for people working with you it should be some sort of even exchange of a benefit and also follow with a way that they can contact you so they can follow up on that email if they don't respond the first time follow up either the week after or give them a call everyone doesn't always answer their emails regularly that's why they need a virtual assistant everyone doesn't answer their DMS regularly that's why they need a virtual assistant sometimes you have to call right sometimes they don't respond on the time that you want them to because they truly need a virtual assistant to be able to delegate some of those tasks too okay and they can be a part of your pitch next virtual assistants are usually a cheaper option compared to full-time employment so even though you have your nine to five as a virtual assistant you're a 1099 contract employee so 1099 contracts so you have the opportunity to price yourself ingly and figure out how many hours you truly want to work as a contractor so it's generally cheaper than full-time employment because you're not offered benefits right so even if you're making four to five figures a month that is nothing pulled out that's all money paid to you from your clients and your business owners so before I move to the next five I want you to understand why people are willing to hire you as a virtual assistant let me get some yeses and some dollar signs if you all understand why people want to hire you as a virtual assistant okay you're tracking with me you're tracking with me perfect all right so many of you I'll mentioned you follow me on Instagram and Tick Tock I talk about my own experience as being a virtual assistant I don't talk about other people's experience being a virtual assistant I'm a dog mom but I'm not a wife currently I'm not a mom currently so I want you all to be able to hear from someone else I want you to hear from someone else who started being a virtual assistant with her nine to five as a wife and a mom I have an update about this particular individual I'm going to take my camera off this my video off the screen so you can focus on this video I have an update after the video so listen very closely she talks kind of softly so listen very closely in this video and I'll give you an update on Antoinette who started her virtual assistant business while working her nine to five hi everybody my name is Antoinette and I've been working with elevated assist as a virtual assistant going on six months now I can honestly say that deciding to venture out on my own um and find the side hustle and having that side hustle be virtual assistant has been one of the greatest decisions that I've made for my career so I'm mom a wife and I do work a regular nine to five job and if we're just talking nine to five and career-wise working with elevated assist has been great because I've been able to build my resume while I'm still working my nine to five which is awesome if we're talking from like a personal standpoint virtual assistant is great for people who have busy schedules but specifically moms and people who have families if you are someone who is very family oriented or you have kids and you have to give time to them and it could be spontaneous time they never know what you have to do virtual assisting is great I can work from my phone at the same time as I'm cooking dinner I can work from my phone the same time that I'm maybe at the grocery store you know it really does fit in with my everyday life to where I don't feel stressed I don't have to leave my family but I can still make money while I'm with my family which is great if you're someone who is looking to expand your skills if you're someone who is looking to spend more time with your family if you're someone who's looking to generate extra income because I haven't even got to the income portion of it virtual assistant is for you um as far as income and how much money I've been able to generate from being a virtual assistant I'm not gonna lie I was shocked I was very shocked that I was able to make close to the amount of money that I made it's my nine to five and I have five years of experience in the marketing field I was able to get as close to that as I could from Simply doing work on my phone like it blew my mind and it changed my perspective on my time what I'm worth and my value as an employee so if you are someone who is looking to make extra income if you are someone who wants to spend more time with your family while you're making extra income someone who wants a flexible schedule I highly suggest becoming a virtual assistant and working with elevated assists I recommend sharpening up your skills if you are a copywriter if you make graphics you know working on really perfecting that so that you can be the best virtual assistant possible working with Annalisa and becoming a virtual assistant has been great and I definitely recommend it to anyone who is looking to make some extra money okay so what did you all think what did you all think about that video before I give you all the update okay so let me tell y'all let me go back y'all know y'all we friends I just want y'all know we friends I hope we following each other on Instagram so we are definitely friends but I just want to give y'all update I just heard some annoying news so I got an attitude now but anyways let me give you an update on this video with Antoinette because I'm super super super proud of her um super super super proud of her because she started her virtual assistant so okay back up let me tell y'all this when you start your virtual assistant business when you get to about even five six seven clients you want to bring somebody on to help you with those clients because you don't want to distress you out but you're probably like dang I'm making seven almost I'm making seven to ten thousand dollars a month with all these clients but it's gonna be a lot of work it'll be a lot of work for you so you want to bring someone on that you trust once I got to about five clients maybe six between five and seven clients I brought Antoinette on I brought internet on and I was just like I brought internet on and I was just like um I need your help I need your help with these clients are you interested so she started working as a virtual assistant while being her nine to five she came to me three months after working with me and said hey I want to work for elevated assist full-time what do I got to do to do that how can I how can we make this happen so I asked her how many clients do you need I asked her like how much money do you need to pay your bills so because let's be strategic I don't want her to leave her nine to five and then have to go back I don't want her to leave her nine to five and then have to go back to her nine to five okay um so three months after I was having her after her having that conversation she was able to fire her boss I need you all to write fire your boss in the chat I need you all to write fire your boss in the chat she was able to fire her boss and now she she was able to fire her boss and now she um works for me full time she works for me completely full-time and I'm not the type of entrepreneur our business coach that's going to tell you to quit your quit your nine to five I'm gonna tell you to stop waking up every day going to a job that you don't like why are you waking up every single day taking for granted and working for working for a job that you that you don't like I want you to take your skill sets and figure out how you can maximize your life I really really want y'all to use me as an example y'all got to understand I can put I was able the virtual assistant space transport transfer my life I'm not going to say everyone's going to have the same experience as me but it transformed my life I was able to be featured in Business Insider I had I worked with earn your leisure earlier this year which is a very large and popular platform I've been able to grow my social media account to almost 100 000 followers in such a quick time because I put myself out there because if you all wanted for yourself I really really want you to resonate with my experience the only difference is I'm consistent the only difference is I'm consistent and y'all my God Demarcus Demarcus come I'm sorry my dog was way too quiet I don't know what he's sit down he was way too quiet but I want you all to look at me as an example to figure out like how you can position yourself your life can change in a year your life can change in six months and I don't want to be preaching to y'all but Antoinette was in a position where she now can spend more time with her kid like she don't gotta go into the office I call Antoinette sometimes she's like oh yeah I'm out of town with the client right now I'm like bad she's out of town with the client getting work done and she's able to travel more so figure out what you want your life to look like write that stuff out let's be intentional write all of that out be intentional about what you want your life to look like before I made ten thousand dollars a month I had already written that out months prior I'm an Executor I'm very intentional on everything I want to do you may not want to be a virtual assistant but I need you to do the work to read Because I say this all the time God did not create me to live a basic life so I'm not going to be on social media all day saying I want to live like this person I'm gonna do the work so I can get the things that I want in my life so somebody on here needs to hear that message somebody on here needs to hear the message that it's time to execute because some of y'all are sitting on million dollar ideas that may be worth more than this virtual assistant business but you're afraid to execute I'm afraid everybody my name is I'm afraid of not executing on my ideas like that scares me that keeps me up all night like I would plan stuff out I'ma execute on this and get it done so figure out what you want your life to look like stop going to a job you hate every single day stop doing it for what because you is it your life is in your your life in the book that you want to write for your life it's in your hands so figure out what you want to do so I'm gonna stop preaching to y'all but we I just want y'all to know that we friends now I need y'all to write hey friend in the in the comment section hey friends because I want to help you I want y'all to be successful it have it an extra two thousand dollars a month is life-changing an extra 2 000 a month is life-changing an extra 10 000 hours a month is transformative you in a whole different space you in a whole different space you in a whole different space okay so I want to give you all examples of clients that I work with I want to give you all examples of clients that I work with and foreign first things first Andre Hatchett and by the way these are old Instagram screenshots they have way more followers in this way more follower hey friend hey but um Andre Hatchett owner of the notary business school the notary business school he teaches people how to make 2 to 12K a month as mobile notaries in different states in different cities he was my first client I would post content for him and send emails Blackwell Renaissance and black wealth movement economic empowerment black Excellence Financial tips we posted social media content for them multiple times a day we didn't even create the content usually we would just schedule it out for them okay with these three clients that's five thousand dollars right there because you have different packages and you price yourselves based on the work excuse me based on the work they want you to do based on the work that they want you to do okay so different clients you can work with I work with financial Educators hairdressers last text um pastors life coaches business coaches social media managers lawyers CPAs whatever and influencers so those are some of the clients different businesses and industries I've worked with you can work with people in different Industries okay let's we're about to get to the most important slide and then we're going to get to the Q a but first let's talk about the life of a virtual assistant let me keep you real with y'all I'll be taking my work everywhere with me I'll be taking my laptop everywhere with me because you can almost create your own schedule because you're asking the client to give you a deadline you're asking the client to give you a particular deadline on some of the work that you want to do so if you want out of town say hey I'm going to town this week um let me know everything you need to be completed by Friday but just give them enough notice because clients feel like they can't live without you sometimes they feel like they can't live without you which is annoying but you can make money from anywhere so if I'm getting a pedicure which is it's time for one this weekend I'm gonna have my laptop with me working on things um if I'm getting braids my hair done got my laptop with me working on things um I was in Tulum I was in Tulum Mexico working on things I was into Loom Mexico working on things Okay so I and I took my phone with me I didn't even take my laptop I didn't even take my laptop with me someone said in the chat turn your mic up a little bit uh it's probably your volume it's probably your volume um so I had my phone with me I didn't even take my laptop with me and I was able to complete things for Andre okay as a virtual assistant the more money you make is going to be dependent on how client how many clients you have so if you hear me say I made five figures this month so having a twenty thousand dollar a month that's because I I'm in the double digits when it comes to clients I have multiple clients well over 10 clients at this point that's why I have people under me now working for me on my agency right I can't do it all by myself but you don't need a lot of people working under you you can make really good money with having two clients three clients four clients you want to figure out how much money you want to make okay next learn from other business owners yes making money and working from home is great but being able to learn from high six figure and seven figure earners yeah is unmatched learning from high six figure and seven figure earners is unmatched okay so for example I have a particular client he's a CPA he has a coaching business for his his like Financial coaching business license not lifetime access I think alert year-long access right in the chat how much do you think his coaching program is for people let me know what you think someone said fifteen thousand dollars Alyssa said fifteen thousand okay whoever said fifteen thousand you're correct it is fifteen thousand dollars and he has multiple people in this program multiple people in this program okay guess how much I have to pay to get the information from him guess how much I have to pay to get the information from him zero because I'm his virtual assistant I am his virtual assistant and I can get that information for free so a cheat code is working from someone in an industry that you may want to work in you can work with some type of business owner in an industry that you may be interested in working in okay so you can learn from other business owners and make money and being able to work from home but you also get to see their business growth so I don't know about you all but I like getting recognized for doing good things especially for small entrepreneurs so for example sometimes that you're nine to five you don't get recognized for the good work that you do but within but within the small business space I've had clients give me bonuses 200 extra 200 and I'm like hey what is this for for doing this for me so it's nice I'm not saying you're going to get this from every client but it is a possibility there's someone I helped coach for that virtual assistant business and one of their clients took them to Costa Rica I ain't going to no International vacations but I'm going to share with you all examples of things that have happened not only for me but for other people okay let me know in the chat dollar signs yeses if you want the life of a virtual assistant let me know let me know let me know and we're about to get to the most important slide to give you that step by step of getting started perfect okay I need you all to say ready when you have a notebook in ink pen notebook and anything all right let's get into it let's get into it so first things first guys you need a formal contract for all of your clients I don't want anyone saying oh yeah let's work together but don't sign any contract this is what you need in your contract between you and your client it's just a written agreement guys it doesn't have to be anything overly fancy it needs to be dated you need to include um you need to include all of the the tasks within the contract include all of the tasks that need to be completed or that you'll be doing for that entrepreneur when you will be sending them an invoice and you can get paid when you will be sitting an invoice so that you will be paid that needs to be included on the contract and it needs to be signed and dated by you and the business owner you don't want to you don't want to um well you want to include like if you're posting for the on the social media accounts posting three to five times a week that needs to be in the contract if you're doing a monthly newsletter that's in the contract if you're providing admin and customer support including in the contract okay next don't accept every single job offer do friend don't accept every single job offer and the reason I say that is because y'all don't get on get off this webinar you go share your family and friends I met Annalisa she's my virtual assistant coach and I'm about to start a virtual assistant business your family and friends are going to be like you know I got a business girl I want you to be my virtual assistant but they're going to try to negotiate your rates do not negotiate your prices if they can't pay your price they're going to be a headache they're going to want to pay you less and give you more work cheap clients are not fun I need y'all to write in the chat no discount in 2022 no discount in 2022 I need you all to write it in the chat I need you to write it in the chat I need you to write it in the chat um um okay so because if you're giving them valuable experience then why are you offering a discount if you're giving them valuable experience why are you offering a discount right you already know how to do the work and you do it well and you already haven't there are people out there willing to pay for your service with no discount is all I'm saying I don't do family and friends I love y'all family and friends that's why I'm always referring people to other virtual assistants I don't do family and friends I love y'all I don't care how successful you are it ain't for me right next Outsource your work if you feel overwhelmed so I'm gonna write in the chat Dang if I can find my okay fiber is a good tool and upwork is a good tool to use if upwork is a good tool to use if you're looking for another virtual assistant to help you with some work at a cheaper rate I would not recommend posting yourself on there to get leads as a virtual assistant but that is an option for you so Outsource your work if you feel overwhelmed guys again it's not challenging work to complete but sometimes you all may go from three clients to six clients very very quickly and I don't want you to overwhelm yourself okay next I'm about to list your systems I'm giving you all the gems all everything you need so I'm gonna let's see list um systems that will allow you to automate most of the business systems you can use these are systems either I currently use or are used in the past you do not have to use all of these at once I just want to provide examples for you as you grow and make all this money within your virtual assistant business you want to be able to stay organized so the next 60 seconds nobody nobody write anything in the way in in the chat okay nobody write anything in the chat so first things first canva canva you can create content you can do everything you can but create content a landing page a website but most clients will probably want you to be aware of canva so canva you can design content for your own business as well as other entrepreneurs okay Trello it's a project management tool Asana is a project management tool you can write all your tasks for all your clients and they can put deadlines on there and additional information eighty percent of what I'm going to share with you is free 80 of what I'm going to share with you is free PayPal business to send invoices QuickBooks to send invoices commonly.com is a scheduling tool um honeybook.com is a CRM so honeybook you don't necessarily have to use all of these things guys but honeybook you can send invoices you get you have a calendar that can be used you can send contracts you can organize your tasks and organize leads in that platform okay calendly QuickBooks and honeybook well calendly honeybook you're scheduling tools if people want to get on your calendar to talk about your virtual assistant business for about 15 minutes or so okay what else you can use slack for communication you can use okay so I'm using Telegram telegram for communication you don't have to use all of these hold on I don't use all of these at once it just depends on the client um what else was I going to say I use Instagram for marketing for the most part if I can spell Instagram Okay Google in regards to emails and that's for the most part what you can use oh zapier or zapier zapier will allow you to create automations so things can be done quicker within your business by marrying two programs so I hope you all wrote those Downs I took a screenshot and you can write in the chat now if you want but those are things that I've used for my virtual assistant business that have allow me to come or organize and give it off more of a professional appeal when I'm working with different business owners next I need you all to set goals for your virtual assistant business I need you all to set goals for your virtual assistant business okay I need you to set goals so I need you all to write in the chat I desire to make two thousand dollars a month in my virtual assistant business I desire to make four thousand dollars a month in my virtual assistant business I desire to make at least thirty five thousand dollars a month in my virtual assistant business that is my goal to make thirty five thousand dollars a month in my virtual assistant business so I need you all to write in the chat what your goal is Let's Be intentional your tongue is powerful whatever you put out there you attract to happen to your life there's certain things I don't say I don't say I can't do stuff I don't say things are impossible I don't even I rarely say I want because that's already showing it an idea of lack it's powerful people say I desire to make at least 15K I've done it 4K I've done it 5K 15K 2400 I've done it 10K 3K if you have a notebook in ink pen I really really need you to write that out 5K don't worry about anybody else's goals but yourself I need you all to write it out please don't just put the number because I want you all to be intentional with your words and design what the universe can bring to me there is no limit on abundance I need you all to receive it when I started speaking positively over my life things start started to change so things started to manifest right I believe I deserve good things to happen to me I believe I know I was created to live an abundant life it's a reason I'm on this platform sharing with you on my story is the reason you are on this webinar other people did not make it I hope you received that I desire to make 35 000 a month in my VA business that is my goal currently that is what I am currently striving for if y'all if you guys are in my community I'ma let you know when it's gonna happen because I know it's going to happen there is no doubt in my mind all right we have our goals for our business we know we need our contract we have our tools right next marketing with any business is key how how is Annelise supposed to know about your business how are business owners supposed to know about your business if you don't share it with people share it on social media tell people if people ask you what you do say I own a successful virtual assistant business I need you to say I own a successful virtual assistant Business Point Blank period okay next pace yourself and communicate with your client if you're sick if your client's sick if your kid is sick if you can't meet a deadline let the client know over communicate it's a virtual relationship you may never meet your clients so it's very important for you to be able to pace yourself and communicate appropriately next as a successful virtual assistant niching down or niching down may be very beneficial from a marketing perspective elevated assists my personal my personal um agency my personal virtual assistant business I have a niche down my personal virtual assistant business I have not niched down yet okay so I welcome all clients that can pay my rate and our successful entrepreneurs but you may want to be the go-to virtual assistant in the hair in the cosmetology space you maybe want to be the go-to virtual assistant in the real estate space the go to Tech virtual assistant so figure out from a branding standpoint what you want that look to look like for you so based on what I share with you all let me know in the chat if you feel like you are you you can start a successful virtual assistant business let me get some yeses and some dollar signs it's marketing having your contract and branding yourself appropriately to attract those clients let me get some yeses and some dollar signs if you feel like you can start a successful virtual assistant business gee The Stylist need you d The Stylist need you I'm gonna let you know right now they need you expeditiously they not responding to DMS they're not responding to emails and they leaving money on the table okay all right so all right we almost done we almost do the Q a guys I'm Gonna Keep it all the way 1000 with you it's a lot of business coaches out there that are saying you can start a virtual assistant business with zero dollars it's a lot of entrepreneurs out there that are saying you can start a lot of businesses with zero dollars I'm not that entrepreneur you don't need a couple dollars to Brand yourself ingly and to attract the luxury clients that you want the high paying clients that you want you need a logo if you don't know how to call uh create a logo you need to pay for that I spent thirty four dollars on my logo on Fiverr a website you don't have to have a website in the beginning for your virtual assistant business I've been able to get up to like 15 clients I have a website website right now at .elevatedassist.com most of my clients come from either word of mouth or Instagram and how I know that is because I asked them my clients generally don't come from my website so don't feel like you have to spend a lot of money on your website in the beginning and if you don't know how to create a website I don't want you just trying to put pizza together and having a Ricky dinky website I want you to have a quality business so don't feel like you have to have a website in the beginning next scheduling tool schedulingtool honeybook.com I pay nine dollars a month honeybook.com I pay nine dollars a month next um calendly.com I pay 16 a month for that marketing expense however much money you want to put in your marketing I create Instagram reels to to create additional exposure for my virtual assistant business Instagram reels zero dollars if you know how to do Facebook ads go ahead and do Facebook ads if you know how to do Tick Tock ads go ahead and do Tick Tock ads put money into your business or you may already have a network of people you can promote to for free right and then I got a flyer made for fifty dollars so let's so say you put 500 in your virtual assistant business you can make that back with your first client times one or times two no you can make that back with your first client times two depending on your pricing or times three depending on your pricing I want everyone to start at at least a thousand dollars a month with your basic package so we'll talk about pricing in a second okay so low startup costs it has an amazing Roi there's a lot of businesses out there you can start with only a couple of hundred doll