So you have finally decided that you would like to dive into the Virtual Assistance world and get yourself your fist few clients. How do you do it? Where do you start?

Here, I will give you a few pointers as to how I began my VA journey and how I found the first few clients that started my career as a Virtual assistant.

I have found that this can be one of the most challenging thing to do for most starting Virtual Assistants so I will do my best to keep it light and easy for you.

How to find clients for Starting Virtual Assistants:

• Find clients by getting the word out​ to your inner circle

           Talk to your current network about your new venture as a virtual assistant and also explain your services to them and tell them to share it to anyone whom they know that might need it. Believe it or not, it helps that you talk passionately about what you do to the people who are close to you. I have done this several time with my friends and they would always end up referring my services to someone they know. If there is anyone who would be very happy for you if you found new clients for something that you are passionate about, those are the people you love. So start with them. 

• Find clients by creating a short but comprehensive pitch for your business and approach local businesses within your area

           Visit local offices that are within your niche and offer your Virtual Assistance services to them. Leave your pitch and your contacts and then call them to follow up. Tip: Try doing these for companies that are hiring. Another way of doing this that really worked for me in the past as well is finding job listings and sending them a proposal as opposed to a job application. In my email, I always point out the advantages of hiring a VA versus someone that comes into their office.

• Find clients by joining groups and forums that revolves around your niche

          I did a lot of work for Chiropractors in the past so in order for me to find more clients that I could serve through the services that I offer, I joined groups for Chiropractors in different cities. When you join these groups though, you don't just join and start talking about your services. You must provide them value. Engage them by posting things that you did or do that could benefit them without selling them into your service. For example, if you do a lot of social media management, post things that they should do to boost their online presence without selling yourself. After that, engage and get yourself into meaningful conversations with your target market. When they start asking you questions and after you have built trust, you can then mention that it is something that you can do for them if they don't have the time for it. Remember to first create value so that you could establish yourself as someone who knows what you're doing. After that, it would be easier to tell them that you also professionally do what you talk about.​

So those are a couple of ways to do it, I will post a few more again another time. I hope you got something out of these first two. 

If you have any questions, suggestions or if you have tried doing these, please let me know in the comments section below so that we could collaborate and so that I can also respond to you and assist you in your journey to becoming a fully booked Virtual Assistant.

To your success!

Believe it or not, it's not the person who's doing the same stuff as you. It's not the website that you have just checked ten times today. It is not the author of the book that you wish you wrote yourself. It's YOU.

Yes, you heard right. You are your biggest competition. When you come to the realization that you should focus on yourself more than anybody else, that's the only time your rise to start accomplishing what you are supposed to. You then start reaching targets, reaching goals and even dreams.

What happens when you decide that you should be better than your best performance every single time? Without even realizing it, you'll significantly improve. You will start delivering above and beyond your client's needs and before you know it, you'll be that person everybody wants to compete with. You will turn into the goal.

Do not be afraid to expand your boundaries or heighten your ceiling. Always test your limits. Push until you could move no more and move on to the next one. Your own doubts, that's your restraint. That is your only limit. When you say you can't, that's true and when you say you can, that is also true. 

Impossibility is always a matter of perspective. If you told someone 50 years ago that people would communicate using a gadget that could fit in one hand while seeing each other, you will be told that that's impossible and that you're crazy. So if there is something that you visualize today that others deem as crazy or impossible, then you are pretty much on the right track. When you are aiming for something big, it shouldn't matter what other think or say about your goal. What truly matters is how you pull every obstruction to the side and get on with the fight.

There is no perfect guideline as to how you could be the very best, there will always be someone out there bigger and better than you but what does that matter? They have their own paths to take and you have yours. The next thing here is when you will take the very first step to get there. 

Start getting up 5 minutes earlier than your usual alarm time. Adjust when you're ready. Start submitting projects earlier than the deadline. Start eating healthy. Start working out. Take all of your "can't do's" and turn it into "can do's" one at a time. Break yourself. Compete with yourself. This is a fight that you can win every single time if you put your heart and soul into it.

So, who's your biggest competition? You are! and you are the only one who can defeat you.