Sarah Mae Labado

V i r t u a l S e r v i c e s Transcription Prepared by: Sarah Mae Labado Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVvUCRhgQaE Coach Grace: What is a Virtual Assistant? What does a Virtual Assistant do? And what are the sides where virtual assistants can’t find client? (Music) Coach Grace: Hi there, my name is Grace, and I am the co-founder and owner of The Filipino Virtual Assistance. FVA Corporation is the world’s first one stop freelancing marketplace providing freelancing online courses, online services, and freelancing solutions. Today allow me to share with you, What is Virtual Assistant? This is a quick video in order for us to be familiar with what are the tasks that Virtual Assistants do and where can Virtual Assistants find clients. A Virtual Assistant is basically a selfemployed individual providing professional, administrative, technical, or creative assistance from a remote location. Yes, everybody can provide professional, administrative, technical, and creative assistance but when it comes to virtual assistance, it's going to be done virtually. It maybe usually through a home office or anywhere around the world, may it be in an island, in the airport, or in a cafe, as long as there’s access to internet and the computer. Virtual Assistant duties can vary from client to client, whatever the clients need, and can range from bookkeeping to clerical to social media posting. Some might even schedule appointments, arrange travels, store files online, or enter data. Here are some of the tasks that Virtual Assistants do. As a Virtual Assistant, their role is to help businesses function and achieve business goals, and assistance is done from a remote location essentially. It's a service that a lot of business owners value, especially the new ones looking for essential services at practical rates. A more detailed list of Virtual Assistants tasks can be the following. A more detailed list of what Virtual Assistants do are the following, and these are not limited to this task because it can go really wide when it comes to tasks under the categories of administrative, creative, technical, customer service, and many others. V i r t u a l S e r v i c e s Coach Grace: Some examples of the tasks that Virtual Assistants do are organizing and maintaining contact lists, may it be in spreadsheets or other types of CRMs, or even calendars. Others can be doing transcriptions, correspondence, bookkeeping such as helping in the billing and accounting. Sometimes doing accounting tasks on its own. It can also be sending emails or newsletters, responding to clients inquiries, doing graphics design, blog writing, social media and marketing services, like SEO advertising, video editing, website development and the like. The following are the platforms where Virtual Assistants can find work, and it's not limited to freelancing platforms alone. Freelancing platforms can be Upwork, OnlineJobs, Outsourcely, hubstop talent and there are hundreds or thousands more. Virtual Assistants can also find work in Facebook groups, in fact, we have a group on our own, it's called The Filipino Virtual Assistance and there are a lot of hiring opportunities there so go ahead and join. Virtual Assistants can also find work in facebook agencies, in LinkedIn, in Google, in Pinterest, through referrals of other friends and fellow virtual assistants and of course through Surge Digital Agency under the FVA Business Consultancy Corporation. Maybe a lot of people are asking, Is virtual assistance for me? Is it something that I can do? Can I do it on a full time basis or can I do it on a part-time basis? What’s going to be my pay rate? Can I start right now or do I need training? These are the things that we are gonna be answering and talking in the following videos so don’t forget to subscribe and follow us for more tips on your virtual assistance career. But for sure, virtual assistance is for everyone and its a thriving industry that you can really establish a virtual assistance career. If you need training, go ahead and get trained today. Go and check-out fvaconsultancy.com/academy and we are providing at least 30 premium courses and at least 20 mini courses that you can start with in order for you to get started with virtual assitance. So follow for more tips and subscribe in order for you to really get the best of everything here in The Filipino Virtual Assistance. That would be all for this time. You can follow us for more at FVA Consultancy’s different social media platforms. You can also email me at-or visit the website, fvaconsultancy.com. Thank you so much for watching. God bless you today. (Music)