A Virtual Assistant’s Journey to a Thousand Brand

GATHER INFORMATION

Ever wonder what to do at home now that the new normal came to our lives? Have you been out of work and trying to think what to do next? All you do is browse in your cellphone waiting for updates and posts about what your friends are selling online. Now, your attention were caught about a post of Work from Home and you thought, why not? But you asked how? You clicked the link and read “How to become a Freelance Virtual Assistant”. And now you think your journey starts there? Of course not! Curiosity led you to one of your lifeline “call a friend”, asked if she knew anything about work from home aside from selling products online. And yes! She indeed is a Freelance Virtual Assistant making money from the comfort of her home. So you were advised you need to have skills on how the social media is making its way especially in our new normal. But the problem is, you only know one social media site!

BEGIN LEARNING

Now you are thinking if being a Virtual Assistant can help you, your career and your pocket. With the testimonials that you have read and watched online, you are now eager to become one of them. You have decided to look for a website that offers Freelancing Courses and you found a lot of course! Then you chose Filipino Virtual Assistance Academy as it sounds so virtual and you found out that one of your friends is also enrolled in the academy with one of their courses. Then with the power of your convincing mind, you enrolled yourself in the academy and so your journey begins.

FINISH WHAT YOU HAVE STARTED

With little to no idea at all, online lessons and live sessions are your day to day tasks now. You are now part of the online community class. First thing that captured your attention is your coach asking you what your niche is. Say what? And you don’t have any idea at all that the brand that you want to offer is called a niche! How many niches are there for you to choose from? A lot! Every day you struggle but at the same time you were having fun. You don’t even want to leave a lesson once you have started with one. But you need to finish your portfolios so you have to move forward. The journey to become a Virtual Assistant can be difficult but can also be fun and exciting. As the days go by you still think what brand or niche you want to focus on. But hey! Finish your course and you will realize that your chosen niche will be your best version based on your abilities.

SET A GOAL

Every day you learn something new and every day you learn that you have hidden skills on something you never knew you have. Let’s say what is Business Branding, Social Media Management and Marketing, Social Media Optimization, Social Media Planner, Hootsuite Content Plan and so on. You don’t even know these words exist! But you found yourself enjoying every minute of it. And now you thought that you just don’t want to go with the flow of the new normal because your curiosity became your passion and your passion lead you to have a goal. And you can’t wait to achieve that.

A Virtual Assistant’s journey starts from the basic and there are still a lot more. Know that in every opportunities we always start from scratch and you are almost there, so just keep going. There’s always a saying that "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step". My say? "Our life is always a journey so enjoy every minute of it". By the way, with this story I think I’m speaking to myself. Have a Happy Journey!