What would be some of the challenges or things to look out for if you're a VA working online yeah so
for struggles, you know at first mostly I have students that really don't have experience in
online jobs and also corporate jobs or admin tasks so I'm telling them
you know it's also like a mindset you know don't think that you cannot do that
being a social media you know if you know how to post in Facebook you have that experience already
hey guys and welcome back to my channel it's Linh Podetti here helping you to achieve time freedom
more time for yourself family business and life now in this video, you're going to hear from Divine
Corcio who used to be a midwife who then turned into a VA and now offering training to VA's and
helping moms out there to start a business from home as a virtual assistant now devine is also
a student and productized kit learning from me how I've grown my business so she too wants to
grow a VA company so if you are interested in that check out the description below but in this
video you're going to learn from her own story on how you can become a va with no experience at all
because Devine started off as a midwife and taught herself to become a VA and now have successfully
integrated into a work from home business now you're going to learn 10 or more tips on how
to succeed as a VA even if you're a beginner hi everybody and welcome back to my channel today
I have a special guest named Corcio and she is the owner of digital consultancy and services
now she's also an amazing student at productized kit which is a coaching program that i run
and I'm really excited to have her here because I usually work with Filipinos that are in the
Philippines and this is a Filipino that is in America and she's turning her freelance job
into now a business and so i really want to pick her brain and learn more about how she's able to
juggle motherhood starting a business from home and even helping people in her country to
have a freedom lifestyle with work from home so welcome hello everyone thank you for inviting me
Linh here in your interview yes so Devine tell me more about your journey like when did you
come on board to work from home you know what was that turning point and how has your journey been
actually 2012 I'm in the Philippines before you know so I am a midwife you know in the Philippines
before so I really don't have experience in office jobs on anything about the computer you know what I'm
using is my hands you know to help mothers and babies, you know so but something happened I met
my husband has an online website so it's a dating site and then he go to the Philippines we get married
there in the Philippines and he petitioned me here in California so 2016 I came here so
when I came here I'm already pregnant so that's why I don't have any chance to work here
from that time of course you know as a filipino we always think about how we can help my family
in the philippines you know so i started to look something how can i earn from home so that's why
i discover ebay so i started to sell online like items that we don't use here you know
like my husband we have like a xbox videos here I sell those things on eBay and then yeah
and i get sales and i become more excited so what i'm doing i go in the like you know uh garage sale
you know in clearance retail stores and buy things and then sell online that's how i started to be in
e-commerce that time but because online selling if you don't have sales you don't have money you
know so that's why i started to check also what other things that i can do online so that's why
I learned what is virtual assistant so I enrolled one of the academies in the Philippines that right
now I'm also a coach now there yeah I learn a lot I learn about social media click funnels website
design so i started like that and i continues you know doing work online at home in the app work on
my job page also and then because they started to know that I'm here in California it becomes
faster to me to get clients so that's why I decided to launch or to have my own business
consultancy also which is the digital consultancy and services and then i outsource people also
from the philippines yeah that's amazing and you also coach vas to learn how to provide services
to clients is that right can you tell me more yeah so actually this is like last 2020 because
of the pandemic so i'm still in online selling and i saw the demand personally in my business
i getting a lot of orders so i started to you know look for bas that can help me to fulfill
all my orders to do customer service so that's why i created a course about ebay drop shipping
virtual assistant also amazon drop shipping online arbitrage and about how to become an e-commerce
wow and so you and you needed more support in your own business that you started training
you created a training to create more people that know what you do and i also heard that now
clients are also coming to you wanting the kind of va that you can offer right
yes yeah because i'm as online seller also so i know the needs of being a seller because i'm
also a virtual assistant before i also offering e-commerce tasks or va services to my clients
so i see the you know the needs and the importance of each site so that's why i decided to create
a course for for them you know for virtual assistant and then yeah because of also my
youtube channel so people now are recognizing me and then they are going to meet asking
for virtual assistants so that's why it's good also because i'm producing a virtual assistant
and the same thing i have clients so it's like i'm putting them together you know i
love that you're always looking for solutions and opportunities to grow yourself but to also help
the marketplace right so if you were to give advice to someone that are thinking about being
a va right i mean va whether they're filipino or they're even australia they're thinking how do i
become a va i guess what are some of the lessons that you you learned that you wish you knew before
yeah for me this is what i'm always telling to my students even you are new you know and you
don't have any experience about e-commerce or anything there's no problem as long as you are
eager to learn you are willing to learn uh you are open-minded and you want to learn things
it's gonna be easy you know because everything you can learn that you know it's not like you
will know that immediately like me you know i'm a midwife and then suddenly i become a online seller
you know a business woman like this so if you are willing you know and this is commerce is one of
the you know booming right now in our situation right now that's why i'm always telling them that
you know adapt to changes and also whatever you know the trending right now being there
in social media in e-commerce and then learn learn something and then try it if you think that you
are not sure with this try it first before to say no and then later on you will tell yourself that
okay i think i can do this and then you can decide now if you want to pursue it or no yeah everyone
starts from the beginning you know sometimes we look at someone that is already established and
seem confident we think oh we can't do that because they already got that but everyone starts
from nothing like i actually didn't know anything about outsourcing or working online as well it was
so brand new to me and then now you know 10 years later of course i know more than others on that
topic but like you said it was all just learning and trying it out and practicing that took you to
where you are right now right yeah it's correct yeah yeah so in terms of your clients as well
what are they looking for from your va yeah love to hear some of the solutions you help
your clients with yeah actually for my clients because it's very different because e-commerce
we are depends to the products so for example if the product you know it will not sell of course
that will be zeros income so that's why that's what we are you know providing in our company
so we are making sure that we will provide like the products in that real sale the frappet you
know that how can we give you profit monthly with those winning products that we're going to list
in their stores oh that's amazing i love yeah i think check your other videos you've got a lot
of video educational on your your youtube which is really helpful yeah so i guess what would be some
of the benefits for someone not knowing what you know now about working at home as a va yeah what
are the benefits that you get to enjoy so that we can inspire people to take action that's the
good thing in working online so like me i have two toddlers and it's so a lot of work and also
like being a mom you know we have kids now are studying online so that's why you need to be there
especially if they are like tk or kindergarten there are a lot of helps that they need
and also my husband and also me we have our church we have other things you know that we need to do
and me i have my my consultancy business and coaching and also my online business store so
working from home is very good as long as you know how to manage your time so like me i can
tell to my clients and to my students that i will only work from this specific monday
to friday saturday and sunday i will not talk to you or something like that so you can decide
you can decide what time you will work what days you you're going to work and yeah sometimes also
i can choose also who's the client i want to work with yeah yeah exactly i love that flexibility
and freedom that you get and you save so much time so i think with va's as well they probably
also were like how do i even find clients right what would you say to that how to find clients
actually there's a lot of ways now so like in freelancing platform like upwork or online job ph
and also in the facebook groups actually there's a lot of groups that they are just
posting job opportunities there as long as you know how to communicate to them because
of course there's always been the trust of course you know they don't know you and like if they will
go to upwork and online job page they know that they're already established there and you know
those platforms are have systems that they need to verify that you are a good virtual assistant
so it's different when you are going to apply or get clients in directly you know to those
facebook groups yeah yeah that's right and just build your portfolio slowly right if you're
brand new to be as a va you know don't expect to like get the best income like everyone else or
or you know expect to make to come easy but once you start to build your reputation with
clients then i'm sure it starts to get easy and i guess that even at our company we help va's
get jobs so it just saves you a lot of time as well but well i guess what would be some of the
challenges or things to look out for if you're a va working online so for struggles at first you
know like me mostly i have students that really don't have experience in online jobs and also
corporate jobs or admin tasks so i'm telling them it's also like a mindset you know don't think
that you cannot do that in being a social media if you know how to post in facebook
you have that experience already you have that knowledge already you just need to have like
more in-depth knowledge about the social media because we have like strategies you know how to
get traffic to get the attention of the viewers so so those are the things that you know struggles
that they don't have like they don't believe in themselves they know that they can do it
yeah and also the struggles also i met also people from overseas because you know i have
also students from saudi kuwait they want to learn to be a you know virtual assistant because
they don't want to work anymore there you know they want to go to back to the philippines and
focus on freelancing so the struggles there you know is they have work so they don't
have time right now and who do the you know the online job so but i told them you know there are
clients also that they will understand what you you have right now or situation
so there are other job that you can do flexible time or by project like creating uh funnels
you know sometimes it's only like two three days you're done so those are the things that a virtual
assistant experiencing and struggles and yeah so what i take away from you is that anyone can be
a va and start to have a business or working from home you're a nurse and you start it and it really
takes just confidence in your ability knowing that what you've got is enough to get started
and then learning and continue to put in the hard work and just be patient at
developing yourself right yeah and at the end of the day you will get to have a lifestyle where you
can be with your kids you can have a freedom in your your career and yeah i think that's
amazing well how can people connect with you or learn more from you if they wanted to be a va
for example or if they want to hire you to help them find va's that can help with the e-commerce
you can visit my website digital consultancy and services.com so where i have there like a page
about you know virtual assistant and also page four online sellers so and also you can email me
at divinecoreshow gmail.com so yeah you know i'm very happy to help you know online sellers because
i know your struggles because me i experienced that not getting sales or how to handle customer
service how to find winning products so those what we are providing to help online sellers and for
virtual assistants wherever you are we are also happy you know and and excited to be part of your
freelancing career so if you want to learn more about virtual assistant you can message me email
me at divine at filipino virtualassistance.com that is amazing i have a last question for you so
what keeps you so motivated like what is your purpose in life what's your mission in life
actually you know my mission in life is to help people especially my filipino people because
i experience you know how to earn like 5 000 pesos a month and how i help myself to finish my college
by selling actually by selling also but not online to my classmates and my teachers so i know those
hardships in the philippines so that's why my goal is to help filipino people you know or even the
other people that wants to start online selling or to work from home because i've been there before
so i know the struggles and those hardships you know that's why i'm here to help you to guide you
and to see also that you have purpose you you can do better you can do something and also because me
i i really value you know family also so that's why i know that family is more important so
that job that business will be there as long as you know how to handle and manage your time
yeah i love it and i believe in your mission and purpose as well but it's also mine i think
you know we have been fortunate enough to move away from our developing country through a lucky
country so it's like how do we help those that in our shoes before so thank you so much divine for
being here i really appreciate your time thank you now i hope you found some inspiration from divine
story and see that it's really possible if she can do it you can do it too now of course if you'd
like to learn more about how to start a business there's more videos here for you but of course
you're always welcome to check out my productize kit program and i'll hopefully see you in there