Marykay Mazon

General Virtual TRANSCRIPTION Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=wqPKZn0Y9KE Assistance v.MK Intro (Coach Grace): How to choose your freelancing niche? [music with FVA Business Academy logo] Coach Grace: Hi there! My name is Grace, and I am the co-founder, owner and creator of Filipino Virtual Assistance and allow me to share with you today how you can choose your freelancing niche. A lot of people would come into the freelancing industry not knowing the niche that they can start with, and this is important because this is where you need to be established as a freelancer. This is where you need to brand yourself in order for you to grow your freelancing as a business. So here are some steps on how you can go ahead and decide on a freelancing niche. Number 1, you have to start with the niche or the work that you have prior experience. Probably, you used to go and work in an office setting, so you can be an administrative assistant or an executive assistant or an office assistant. Probably, you work as a real estate agent or broker so you come in into the freelancing world and be a real estate professional or real estate virtual assistant. Probably you’re an accountant or a bookkeeper or an accounting tech, so you can come in in the online freelancing world and be an online bookkeeper or a financial manager or whatever it is that you’d like to highlight, that you know the job, so you just wanna transition from the offline, from the office setting, into the online world. Number 2, you have to start with the skill that you know. So probably, you’re a fresh graduate, you’re a college undergraduate, you’re a mother, a father, that you don’t have any experiences working in an office setting at all. So you don’t have a previous experience that you can bring on the table. So start with the skill that you know, what is it that you know to serve clients, the services that you could provide clients. Probably it is powerpoint presentation. Probably it is online research. Probably it is data entry, probably transcription, so you can go ahead and start from there. Identify the skills that you know and these can be a freelancing niche that you can start with. Number 3, is the skill or the skills that you are going through in your training right now. So probably you are taking Filipino virtual assistance freelancing course and in that course there is lead generation, email marketing, social media, SEO, Facebook Ads, you can choose any of those skills that you feel like you’re more geared or inclined into and choose that skill as your freelancing niche. So the number 1 is the skill that you have prior experience, number 2- the skill that you can render to clients right away because you know how it’s being done and number 3- the skill that you are going through in your training right now that you can go through and learn how to be an expert of it, at the end of the month, it’s something that you can already give to clients. Now these are just the niches that you can start with. You can always rebrand or continue or grow from there. When you’re able to go ahead and be adjusted in the freelancing world, it is the time now that you identify your focused niche. Now for the number 4 niche, you need to go ahead and start with the skill that you can provide with good quality and expertise, so probably as a freelancer, probably as a graphics designer, probably as a video editor, so, this is the niche that you know how to strategize, you know how to go ahead and render with full capacity and you’re going to be an asset to that company, so go and choose that niche, the niche that you’re able to give to clients with your fullest potential, so that’s number four. And then number 5 niche is the niche that you need to go ahead and be established because the number 1, 2 and 3 are niches that you can start with, you know, and those are the very niches probably that you can go ahead and be established; and number four, it’s probably a season where you can go ahead and rebrand and focus on the niche that you can go ahead and master or serve; and probably your very niche in numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 and 5 are the same because in number 5, this is the niche now that I’d like to propose, a skill that you like to really enjoy working. When you wanna grow as a freelancer, you need to be providing services and the niche that you would blossom more, so probably it is social media, SEO, it is a real estate virtual assistance, project management, copywriting, whatever it may be, it should be a niche that at the end of the day you’re satisfied because you don’t only know how to render that service, you know, with the fullest potential and the fullest productivity but you also enjoy while you’re working on it. It’s the niche that would bring out a lot of creativity in you, a lot of satisfaction in you, a lot of fulfillment in you, so you would feel rewarded and fulfilled at the end of the day, so even if it would take years and years and years, even if there are teammates and clients that would be a little challenging to handle with, you are blossoming in that niche because it’s the niche or the skill that you really enjoy working. So again number 1, you can start with the niche that you know how to do from your previous experience. Number 2, you can also start with the niche that you know right now because it’s a skill that you can start with. Number 3, it’s a niche that you’re learning in your online academy, in your lessons, in your courses. Number 4, it’s a niche that you know how to go and render to clients with your full capacity. And number 5, it’s a niche that you enjoy working. Your niche can just grow from 1 to the 5th, it can be all of the same niche. Probably in number 2, that’s the time that you are going to go ahead and identify and it can be grown or it can develop into the 5th type of niche, you know. It’s something that you know what to do and can give to clients and eventually its the 5th type of niche that you really enjoy or probably, you’ve reached number 4 and you would redo everything all over again because you have discovered that its only your sub-services, it’s not your main service okay, because you can provide a lot of services. You can provide SEO, web development, but you have to really focus on the niche that you would feel like you are rewarded and you are growing and you are developing and you’re enjoying at the same time because you can be going into the niches which are very competitive and niches which are very high when it comes to the hourly rate and the project contracts. However, if you don’t feel rewarded working on it, it’s something that you won’t enjoy; and at the end of the day, you would feel like it's toxic, it's stressful and you don’t like working again on the next day. So you can start with a niche that’s very temporary or something that you can start with, but eventually, as a freelancer, choose a niche that you can be established as a freelancer and this niche should be something that you really enjoy working. That would freelancing today! be all for today. I growth. I will see you hope again this has been helpful in your on the next video. God bless you [flying kiss] [music with FVA Business Academy logo] --END-- MAZONMKB