Want to start as a freelance virtual assistant?

Exclusive tips to ensure you succeed as a new Freelance Virtual Assistant

In your quest to make money online, you may consider becoming a Freelance Virtual Assistant, but what could you be asked to do?

Tasks and Skill Set

Your allotted tasks could be many and varied unless you possess a particular skill set. If this is the case, then you need to seek out employment that will use those skills. These will enable you to cater to clients who need tasks performed that they just cannot perform themselves or don't have time to complete them.

Or perhaps your particular skill set involves a high level of understanding of a program such as Excel. Although your client may have the program on their own computer, they may not have the knowledge required to use the higher functions of the App, nor have the time to educate themselves. It’s much easier to just hire a VA to perform the task, and that’s where you come in.

Confidentiality is a Must

Confidentiality is a must. Often the work you are given will involve being given access to privileged knowledge that your client wants to remain secret (confidential). You need to keep their trust by treating the information as highly confidential. Don’t be tempted into the world of “insider trading”. Clients talk amongst themselves, and any transgressions will soon be relayed to other clients, ruining your chances of gaining further employment as a virtual assistant.

Honesty, an Obvious Basic Requirement

Honesty should not need to be mentioned here as it is an obvious basic requirement of the position of any VA. However, bear in mind the point made earlier. Clients often have a wide network of contacts, which can work both ways. Any hint of dishonesty could lead to the end of your career as a virtual assistant. Alternatively, if you perform well word of that could get spread around as well, leading to further jobs being offered to you by other clients, giving you higher earnings and long-term work opportunities.

Another aspect of the value of honesty involves the work that you take on. Clients normally have two requirements that they will ask of you. They will need a certain task performed within a definite timeframe (deadline). You should only accept any task if you know that you are not only capable of performing it but also within the given timeframe. A lot could depend on that task being completed on time.

Working From Home or Anywhere

Although you are working online from home (or anywhere else), perhaps to escape the 9 to 5 routine, you still need to treat any tasks you are given in the same way as you would if you were still at work in the office. Your only priority should be the task you have been given. Only when it is completed and delivered can you relax and perform personal tasks.

Should anything happen mid-task that will stop you from completing the task in time, you need to notify your client immediately, giving them as much time as possible to get the task completed elsewhere.

Conclusion

These are the very basics of the job of a virtual assistant. If you can satisfy these and possess a high level of common sense, you should go far as a VA.

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