Episode 337: 3 Tips for Starting Your Virtual Assistant Business While Still Working Your 9-5
In this episode of the Virtual Assistant Mama podcast, I’m sharing 3 tips to help you start your Virtual Assistant business while still working your 9-5.
In today’s quick tip Thursday episode on the Ditch the Classroom podcast, I’m answering the question “Which Virtual Assistant services are the most profitable to offer?”
There are over 100 Virtual Assistant services, so I’m going to walk you through 5 of the most profitable services you can offer.
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Full Episode Transcription:
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Hey y’all. Welcome back to another episode of Quick Tip Thursday here on the Ditch the Classroom podcast. Today’s question is, which virtual assistant services are the most profitable to offer you guys? There are over 100 different virtual assistant services you can offer, so I’m just gonna walk you through five that I think are the most profitable. Remember, even if you don’t know how to offer one of these services, yet you can always learn a new skill. It does not take that long, and you don’t have to know everything about the skill.
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You just need to know the basics and just learn as you go. One thing I do wanna mention here is that in the Teacher Turned Freelancer Academy, we have an entire unit that is going to teach you about a lot of these profitable virtual assistant skills. So if that’s something that you’re interested in, go check that out at teacherturnedfreelancer.com. You can see, I think it’s unit nine, has all the different service trainings that we have in there, and I’m constantly adding to that. All right, so first, most profitable virtual assistant service you can offer Podcast management. This is a great one. So many businesses are launching podcasts right now and they need somebody to manage it. This is not that hard, you guys. There’s a free program that most people use to record called Audacity. Another one I think is called Garage Band, but they’re really easy to learn and we have a training for this in TTFA.
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Number two is social media management. Especially right now in this world where, you know, we’ve got all the sickness going around and stuff, a lot more businesses are coming online so you don’t have to go in the store and they need someone to manage their social media for them. So this is a great one to do and especially TikTok. TikTok is huge right now, and you know, businesses just don’t have the time to pour into their social media. So if you come in, you just give them the ideas, you take it over for them and you can make bank.
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All right, number three is website design. Like I said, businesses are coming online. They need their websites built. This is an awesome, awesome service to offer. One thing to note here, though, I think every other service I have listed here is like an ongoing recurring service where you would keep your clients month-to-month. But with website design, you’re not really gonna be doing that cause you’re not gonna be building somebody a new website every month. So keep in mind with website design, you do have to try to find new clients each month, but it’s, it’s not too bad.
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Number four is you can become an online business manager. So you can help a business manager, all aspects of like hiring, setting up systems, just all the backend stuff of the business. So if you really love the back-end, like being the behind-the-scenes person and somebody’s business online business manager is a great option for you. All right, and then number five is email marketing. So if you love writing, you love setting up, you know, some of the tech sequences and the background and make sure different people are seeing different emails based on like what they’re interested in. Email marketing is a great, great option for you.
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All right, so let me recap those real quick. Number one was podcast management. Number two was social media management. Number three was website design. Four was an online business manager, also called an OBM. And then number five was email marketing. I want you to remember that you should be picking a service that lights you up. Don’t just pick a service that you already know how to do. You can learn, you can figure things out. And I have here on the podcast a whole entire virtual assistant services series. That’s a mouthful. Episodes 47 through 55, and then episode 71 through 77. I’m teaching you all about the different virtual assistant services you can offer and kind of going more into depth about what those look like. So you can easily find all of those episodes anywhere you listen to podcasts.
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Just search the Ditch the Classroom podcast or you can also go to ditchtheclassroom.com/vault. That’s v-a-u-l-t. And in there I have all of the episodes I’ve ever recorded organized by topic and you can easily go in and search there. So again, the virtual Assistant Services series, those are episodes 47 through 55 and 71 through 77. All right, do you have a question you would love for me to answer here on the show? I invite you to go to our free Facebook community, that’s facebook.com/groups/ditchtheclassroom. Scroll to the quick tip Thursday post, comment with your question there, and I would be more than happy to answer it for you. All right, y’all, I love you so much and we will see you next time.
In this episode of the Virtual Assistant Mama podcast, I’m sharing 3 tips to help you start your Virtual Assistant business while still working your 9-5.
In this episode of the Virtual Assistant Mama podcast, I’m sharing how to balance your business and family life as a Virtual Assistant.
In this episode of the Virtual Assistant Mama podcast, I’m sharing how to make sure your Virtual Assistant business is profitable.