In this lesson we're going to talk about being a project manager or virtual
assistant now these are two different professions I'm including them together
because there's some overlap and mostly because I want to give you the most
value I can for this course and I really have about 15 different professions I
wanted to include so I'm condensing some two into one video so hope you'll
forgive me for that now you're probably familiar with virtual assistants and the
general discussion around them is often about hiring overseas people a lot of
digital nomads or online entrepreneurs hire an assistant from the Philippines
for a few dollars an hour and have them do sort of busy work now the other side
to this is that there are a lot of entrepreneurs who work online and need
an assistant or a project manager most of the time they more want a project
manager because they don't have that much busy work they're not sending their
wife flowers or making an appointment with the dry cleaners but they really
want to get stuff done and they don't want to send it to the Philippines or to
India they want to deal with someone where they can have a proper
conversation there's no cultural barriers there's not
as many time zone issues and there's more kind of consistency and reliability
you know how good things are in terms of education or cultural training there's
still a difference between working you know as a Canadian if I'm working with a
fellow Canadian or a Brit or an American or working with someone from somewhere
like the Philippines in terms of our ability to communicate really quickly
and fluently so someone who's struggling online was probably going to look to
hire someone for a few dollars an hour but someone who has a good business
online is okay to pay 30 40 dollars an hour for their project manager because
they're valuing their own time maybe at a hundred or two hundred dollars an hour
and they want a really good project manager to take it on so to be a good
project manager you need to be good at organizing things taking charge of
things and having that drive so often as a project manager and entrepreneur might
give you sort of the overview for a project and what needs to get done and
it expect you to then go out and hire the
right people put together the team kind of set up the plan for it all and run
with what was basically a loose vision for that so you need that drive and
ambition and ambition that's what one of the big differences between a virtual
assistant where a virtual assistant you're more just getting things done for
people helping them stay organized maybe doing light accounting invoices setting
up calendars helping with email things like that you you know you don't
necessarily need experience for this but if you do have past business experience
or school experience you know in terms of like a Business Administration degree
or something like that it will obviously be helpful but the biggest thing is
gaining that experience so you might in this case start off as a virtual
assistant where you're doing easy stuff kind of no-brainer work and you get good
at it you be consistent you'd be reliable and proactive this is a big
thing I hear from entrepreneurs is we want someone who's proactive working
with us the reason we want to outsource is to save our own time and kind of
mental space so we can focus on the bigger picture stuff or creative
projects and so the more you can be proactive and sort of say okay here's
the problem why don't I try to solve it myself and as long as I'm not gonna you
know destroy anything there's not a lot of harm that's that's very popular
that's a well desired desire to probably the right word not the right word trait
in hiring a project manager or a virtual assistant so you could start off as a
virtual assistant and then build your way up to more of a project manager role
taking on big things overseeing the whole project and really having the
trust of your employer this profession can be great in terms of transitioning
into your own business down the road and potentially doing so as a partnership
there's a lot of entrepreneurs who are on the opposite end a project manager
there are sort of visionaries they're creative they're very good at coming up
with a concept but they're very poor at executing it and they love to work with
a great project manager who can take a concept help execute it and make it
and rather than getting paid what you could always do is do some projects on
like a profit share and gradually build your own business that way where you're
either as a profit share or an equity share and you partner up with people and
transition into having your own passive income streams and your own business
that way all right so that's it in terms of being a project manager or virtual
assistant hope you've enjoyed it see you in the next lesson