If I was to deny the influence of the internet regarding the rise in popularity of the remote virtual assistant I would be under estimating it power. Without the internet there would be no virtual work such as internet marketing, eCommerce or the online assistant.
However, putting the internet aside, the bigger reason way people want to become a virtual assistant is the flexibility. If you have a classic 9 to 5 job you already know what I am talking about. Nobody enjoys making that trip to work everyday. It doesn't matter if we are commuting by bus, training or car, your daily commute could be as much as 2 hours. These are hours that could be better spent doing things you want to do during your free time.
One group that has benefited the most from this industry is parents with disabled or developmentally challenged children. These children demand a vast among of flexibility from the parents. In many cases the parent wants and needs to be home when they are returning from school.
For me it has always been the lifestyle of living and working where I want. The first time I imagined being a virtual assistant, I quickly realized that it meant the freedom to be anywhere with a internet connection. Which meant for me, the opportunity to live and work in New York, London, Helsinki and Malaga. All places I have loved for years.
The virtual assistant lifestyle made it possible for me to drink coffee in a beach cafe in Spain. Have a beer in a pub on the embankment next to the Thames. Or work from a secluded summer cottage in Finland. It is so cool to be able to live like this, nevertheless, recently the corona-virus stop all this, but it hasn't stopped me working from home.
It has become so popular for many people because they have a real alternative to their regular job. They can finally say that they are not willing to except low wages or bad working conditions. However, having the power and freedom to choose comes at a cost, because unfortunately, nobody is born a remote virtual assistant.
I was always told that knowledge is power, so educating yourself is always a good thing. The great thing about learning to be a virtual assistant is that you are able to earn as much as $75,000 a year.
The learning to be a virtual assistant while working can run in parallel. However, the student needs to have determination to succeed. So, like anything it involves hard work to get established and to find a customer base.
Simply, a virtual assistant is someone that helps and supports businesses with their daily tasks. This can be done from anywhere is the world that has a internet connection. This is much to do with all the technological advancements of the internet. It has made it a lot easier because of the price. It is so affordable to run conference calls, call clients via WhatsApp and share documents without having to employ full time in-house staff.
For the business owner, using a virtual assistant, it is a no brainier. They can take advantage of all the aspects such as more flexibility, fixed costs and business needs. So, for someone that has worked in an office, the tasks of virtual assistant will seem very similar, but on your computer and from your home.
I could make the job sound more glamorous than it is, but its not. You are helping your client with their day to day tasks. This would normally means performing office work, but online. This is normally done under contract or as a freelancer. The tasks could include and not limited to, managing a clients email accounts, creating social media content, simply bookkeeping, online marketing and so on.
This does not mean you need to have all these skills and knowledge to be a virtual assistant. The normal way would be to specialize in a package of tasks that you can do professionally. So, consider what skills you have and offer the client a personalized niche packaged that they will pay for.
A common niche for the virtual assistant is marketing online via social media. The platforms normally asked for are Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Linkedin and Instagram. The main reason why business owners us virtual assistants for this type of work is because it is very time consuming. The client will pay high sums of money to get someone else to do it for them. The work can get boring, but they will only ask for so much to avoid spamming.
This is a great opportunity for those new to blogging and want to become successful fast while earning extra money. There is a learning curve to blogging, but if you are a reasonable writer you will soon get the hang of it and earn good money at the same time.
Again, clients understand the time and effort needed to complete the smallest blog content. This means they are willing to pay for someone else to do it for them. The tasks could include rewrites, improving SEO, repairing broken links and sharing the blog content to social media platforms.
After running my own webshop in the past I truly understand why someone would want to hand this out to a freelancer. The tasks are endless starting from simple site maintenance, to adding new products, marketing the webshop and finally dealing with returns. All these are very time consuming and things that the owner does not want to do.
Generally, some kind of coding skills are needed such as basic html and some CSS knowledge. However, many times I have been offered jobs that simply include cleaning up a wordpress blog which means very little coding skills are needed.
These tasks do not need a high leave of skills or knowledge. However, if you have been working in an office in the past it will make the job a lot easier. In my option, this is the best place to start if you want to find part time virtual assistant jobs. It is not the best paid but you will learn all about the industry and how much you should be getting paid.
The basic tasks of a administration worker are:
Creating content for me is the most interesting aspect of being a remote virtual assistant. The work may include everything you can imagine such as video, images, music, eBooks, podcasts and so on. You may not be expected to develop the ideas behind the content but if your client sends you an eBook script they may want you to make it into an eBook format.
Content service we generally offer to the client are:
Accountancy is highly skill and generally the virtual assistant needs to already have them skills before joining this industry. This doesn't mean you need to be an Accountant, but it does mean that basic book-keeping skills and education is vital. If you are not educated in book-keeping I would suggest you avoid offer this service. The reason I say this is because the service involves other peoples money. This means that the work may include payments and even wages of employee.
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You may already believe that you have what it takes to become a virtual assistant. However, this may not include the skills and knowledge needed to succeed.
The first part of the process is to look at your already existing skill set and then create a niche around those skills. For example, if you have some knowledge of horses, then consider become a virtual assistant for riding stables by maintaining or up grading their webpages and creating regular adverting content for their classes.
This may not bring is a lot of money, because many riding schools are strapped for cash. However, this is a great starting point because many of the stables customer parent may consider using your services.
This is just a silly example, but you know what I mean.
If I was creating this webpage before the corona-virus pandemic maybe I would have said, "not at that point yet". Since then I believe we are already there. Many of us are working from home and working virtually. Many are saying they would find it difficult to return to an office environment and prefer the virtual assistant lifestyle.
At the same time, we are all looking for time freedom. And in my case the ability to work anywhere in the world with a internet connection. The customer base is there with young, small businesses and entrepreneurs looking for affordable and specific services online. They do not want to employ all sorts of people to do these jobs, they just want the job done. Also, the client is many cases has the same mindset and motivation as you do to have more personal freedom.
The most exciting aspect of being a virtual assistant is that it gives us choices and the opportunity to change our job while making more money.
Until we have pushed ourselves to the limit we are not sure what we are capable of doing or being. So, like any life adventure consider the worst-case scenario.
If something goes wrong how bad will it be?
Then consider what the possibilities could be. Will you earn more money? Will you travel more? Will you get a new car? Will you be able to help support your children through college? And so on ....
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