Today I wanted to share with you an achievement, that I have accomplished in a short period of time. This is growing my email list. Mind you, if you have been following my blog, you will eventually know that I had so many fears but yet I wanted to achieve my goals and let my ideal clients know more about me.

This cannot be done if I don’t start even if it’s baby steps. I will share more on growing my list. I know from awhile when I started my business that other persons were giving away their free guides, cheat sheet, something that grabbed my attention to join their list.

My fear in itself was what would I give away and secondly, will anyone sign up?

As a virtual assistant, I know that I had so much to share but didn’t know what method to use or how to come across sharing what I knew in the short time.

How to start growing your email list as well?

I was in numerous Facebook groups, so I decided to ask questions, each time when I ask questions, I would save these answers in a spreadsheet. From those answers, I was able to decide what I would share.

I went ahead and decided that because when I started out, I didn’t know that there were so many tools and systems that I could use in my business, and so this is where I decided to share these tools that I too discovered.

Knowing how I love Canva, I started to create my guide and sign up with MailChimp to use as my auto-responder to deliver this guide. My first goal was as always to add value to these groups that I was in and to see how these women who were my target would be receptive to my guide.

I shared and gave these women a preview of my guide and when I saw within a day of sharing that these women were interested in my guide, I started to promote on all social media platforms that I was on.

I didn’t limit my free guide to just being in Facebook groups, I invited others to know that I was offering an awesome guide and they too would benefit from their business with having the knowledge of using these tools.

Test your market to see what they want.

Now, you might be saying, what was I scared of all the time? I had two free guides, one where I had a short preview of my main guide that was the extended version to display on my website, because I did not have my website out as yet, my fear was would they gravitate to the extended version of the free guide that I had?

Can I tell you that, in these groups that I am in, on Facebook, these groups allowed me to promote on specific days, so I made it my point of duty to share my guide on these days, also in my marketing posts, I also shared how this guide would help these women in the 24 hours they have.

Now, I am no where, where I want to be in terms of my list, but I have since learnt that using these methods can be done when you want to grow your list organically. You do have the option of doing a paid advertising to target more specifically your target market to grow your list faster.

I will share more about that, when I have tried this option. I more importantly want to share with you that, growing your list organically can be done. Yes, it’s hard work but it can be done. I recommend you join groups or target your ideal clients by doing a market research.

When this is done you are better able to create a guide or tutorial base on these results so that your target market can easily sign up to what you are offering. You can also start small by creating your guide via which auto-responder that you prefer to deliver your free gift to your clients or prospective customers.

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Until then, happy hiring, and best wishes with your business.

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Why your virtual assistant should never provide you with a resume.

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The question that gets asked over and over again…..

So you may ask, what is this question exactly?

Should a virtual assistant provide a Resume?

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Why A Virtual Assistant should not have a Resume in place.

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In my opinion no!

But in most cases when you are ready to hire a virtual assistant this is one of the questions that you might ask first.

Mind you that these persons might not know that they are not suppose to, but it’s really off putting if you know that hiring a Virtual Assistant is an independent contractor and you still continue to ask a virtual assistant to provide a resume.

The other day, I saw a post that made me cringe and I was wondering if I should respond. Mind you I didn’t respond but here is what the post read.

Looking for A virtual assistant!

Must know how to create awesome graphics and have been doing this for awhile,

Must be able to work 2-4 hours at least per day. Please provide your resume.

Now, I did not mention the application details for privacy reasons, but I was shock when I too was seeing other virtual assistants responding to this post and saying they will provide their resume.

It begs to wonder if these virtual assistants know that they are not suppose to be doing this, or because of a lack of education, they continue to do so.

Now I am not making any judgments on these virtual assistants, because everyone needs to do work and how you do your business is solely up to you.

Research before you continue to send the wrong message.

But clearly it sends the wrong message to prospective clients when, one set of virtual assistants are sending over their resume and another set of virtual assistants are not sending over their resume.

This is where I think there will be a breakdown in the industry, if these set of virtual assistants are not made aware enough of what they are suppose to do and not do.

As an independent contractor working for different walks of life, I wonder if these same individuals who send over their resumes has a contract in place?

It’s sad when a client asks for a resume’ because mind you they might not know much about the industry, but it’s really distasteful if you are operating as a virtual assistant and you do not thoroughly know more about what is expected in the industry, before you start operating your services.

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I know that I am not perfect, nor do I claim to know everything, but one thing that I made sure I did, was research what was expected of myself and my business and what I should be doing.

I started my research by joining this FREE forum and networking with other virtual assistants. Its also free for you to join and ask questions as you go along in your virtual assistant business journey.

Now, you might be different and might say that waiting to research and know everything will be time-consuming, in some instances yes, and you can’t know everything in details when you start, but at least knowing the basics of the industry is not nor should it be an excuse to say it’s time consuming.

What you should know before you start.

You must take the initiative to do your due diligence so as not to send the wrong message, especially if you are running a business.

You must take the first step to make sure that you know what is expected in your industry, because there are a lot of free and paid webinars available at your convenience to know how to.

When I started my business, I did not know anything, and I literally started from scratch by learning what I was suppose to do in becoming a virtual assistant.

The same way you started a business and I am sure and hoping you did your research, the same principle must be taken seriously in such an industry.

More importantly I want you to take away if anything from this post, the fact that virtual assistants are independent contractors which means that they do not provide resume’s but testimonials instead.

Another option is you are also welcome to ask for references if you prefer this method from these virtual assistants.

These virtual assistants are responsible for taking care of their health and insurance benefits and because of this they are not an employee of your company or business.

It was nice of you to stop by.

Until then, happy hiring, and best wishes with your business.

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