Are you a virtual assistant or a VA
that is living in Australia or maybe America?
Well, in this video, I want to help you
to grow your business so that it doesn't rely on you.
Because so often
VAs thought that they have the freedom
after they quit their job in the corporate world
and went into their own business
and thought that they had the freedom
but they realized that they had another job.
A job where so many clients are coming in,
you can't even handle all the clients
and you even have to push work back
because you're just so busy.
So in this video,
I want to share with you some strategies
on how you could grow your business
so it doesn't require you.
It doesn't rely on you.
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Okay, so you became a VA
thinking that you have all the freedom and flexibility
to do whatever you want.
And to work your own hours.
To only realize that the more clients you got in,
the more busy you get,
and the more you just feel stressed,
because you just can't handle all the work.
So what to do next?
I want to share with you some options
that you could have
in order to actually expand yourself.
Because the problem in thinking
that I can do that. I'll just do it
and keep all the money.
This will only limit you from making more money.
And it's going to cause you to have not enough time
for family for freedom, for free time, I mean.
And so it's really important that you shift that mindset
to "How can I grow with others?
How can I leverage my time?
so that I can get more done.
I can serve more clients.
I could focus on just bringing in clients
because I have the expertise
or the brand or the reputation.
So that clients are coming to me
but I don't have to do all the work."
So let me share with you the first option.
The first and probably the easiest option is to
find other freelancers that you could contract out to.
So you can choose whether
you want it to be like their referral partner.
So let's say you are a social media marketer
and you're a VA.
And you want to take on more clients than you currently have,
l
ike maybe right now you've got about five clients,
and you've got no more time.
Now, when you get the extra client,
it's really about now having someone else
to be able to do it.
And how you can still earn money
is to be able to find someone
that is cheaper than what you're charging out.
So how you do this is by finding other freelancers
like yourself who might be good,
but just don't charge as much as you
so that you can add your own margin on top
so that you can still earn money
while you have someone as a team member.
And the reason why this is the easiest option
is that you're not hiring them as a local staff.
You have extra resources in hand,
but they work under your brand
and they form part of your team
without the actual overheads.
Although the commitment as an employee.
But that means that you can take on more work
because now you've got an outsource partner.
Now another way to expand and grow yourself
is if clients are asking for other services.
So let's say you don't do website development.
It doesn't mean that you shouldn't offer it.
But how you offer it might be
finding another contractor
that you could actually refer work to.
Now, I don't encourage you
to sort of white label and get them working up
through the brand because if you don't really
know much about website and you can't really
execute the work properly or hopefully
as the work properly
then it's best to just pass them on to a partner.
So say, Hey, I know someone perfect for you and he is.
But you set an arrangement with your partner
and say, Hey, I'm going to refer work to you
Do you have a partnership rate
or affiliate program where I can earn money
as I refer work to you?
So that way, you are still able to expand
and earn money without really any risk of having
local employees or someone that's working in your business.
Now, the third option,
which I think you will eventually get to,
is that you really want a team.
Someone that will dedicate to you
and grow with you as you grow.
Because the problem with having j ust partners
is that they're not really in your business with you.
They're just there for when you are passing the work over.
But in order to have a true business,
you really want a team.
And how you can do that is really look into your current
role,
and identify what are the tasks that you're doing,
that you shouldn't really be doing or
can get someone else cheaper to do.
So in my business, I help people hire
virtual assistants from the Philippines
who are, charge about $11 an hour to do,
social media work, graphic design,
they can create email marketing,
they can do so many things that you can do.
Now, it's really about looking into your tasks.
These are the things that I like to do.
I really like writing the content for the client,
because they want an Australian writer
They want, I want to be still the one project managing it.
But I don't want to be the one sending out the brief.
I don't want to be the one, designing the pictures in Canva
or scheduling the post.
And so you identify those tasks out
and hire someone from overseas
to work with you in your team.
So that way you can actually expand
and build up a team, but in a more affordable way.
Now, as a VA, don't limit yourself to just
doing work for clients.
You wanna to think of how can you also provide
extra services that is leveraged
that is easy to repeat again and again.
And one of that idea is delivering a course
or providing a coaching program.
So let's say you're a VA that specializes in social media,
what if you did a program that once you've created
you can always sell again and again
and that program shows business owners
how to actually do their social media.
Now the beauty of it is that
the course is done once
and you can sell it and teach it to
as many people as you like.
And if you were to provide the online coaching,
you can also provide that
on a more mass scale than
a one on one with the client.
And so you've got other means of making an income
rather than just focusing or
relying on just the deliverable of the task for your client.
So I'll just share with you an idea
where you can actually make extra streams of income.
Now talking about extra streams of income.
An idea I have for you is that
if you do decide to teach clients
on how to do their social media marketing,
and but then they need help to execute it,
but you don't have the resource or team to actually
execute to a hundred different clients.
But what you can do is become our affiliate partner.
And every time that they hire a VA from us
to actually execute the strategy,
the things that they've learned from you,
then you make money with us.
So if you're interested in learning about our affiliate
program,
you can find it in the link below in our description.
But overall, what I'm sharing with you here
is really think outside the box.
What can I do that doesn't require me
that I could actually expand other people and leverage
So at the beginning of the video,
I'm showing you some of the easier
and lower risk things to do,
which is outsourcing it to partners
then or hiring other freelancers and contractors.
But the latter part of it,
I'm really making helping you to think bigger,
like how can I actually change my business model
where I'm actually not just delivering a service
but I'm delivering a coaching program.
I'm also then making income
on them hiring their own team
to actually build out the marketing plans for them.
So I hope I've made it clear
or if there's any confusion with my video,
my content, let me know in the comments below.
I'd love to hear from you.
Love to hear your questions.
Love to hear your suggestions for topics
because yeah, this is why I'm here.
I'm here to serve. I'm here to help
you on your own journey to achieving time and financial
freedom.
So thank you so much for watching guys.
I hope you've enjoyed my video.
If you're a VA yourself, I would love to hear from you.
What service do you currently provide?
What challenge do you have ever be on your own
working with clients?
I would love to hear what that challenge is
so that you could help me into developing another video for
you,
helping you in your own journey as well.
So, thank you and don't forget to subscribe
and I'll see you again next week. Bye.