welcome to the day one of the virtual assistant program today we'll be looking at introduction to Virtual assistance exploring the roles skills and the opportunities in the virtual assistant profession okay we're going to be looking at these um following objectives so we be looking at understanding the role of a virtual assistant explore exential skills and tools for Success discover any potentials and career opportunities learn how to set up an efficient home workpace okay so now I think uh we should be able to explain this point okay now for these very objectives we are looking at
understanding the role of a virtual assistant now you working as a virtual assistant you should be able to understand what is the rule what is your role as a virtual assistant by understanding understand in the definition of who is a virtual assistant or what is virtual assistant okay so now we'll be looking at your roles and your and the key tax you may be looking at or we looking at when you are working as a virtual assistant what are the things that you expected to be doing if you are to be working as a virtual
assistant okay so after that we'll be looking at what are also the skills and tools that you need to work with for you to be successful as a virtual assistant okay because for every profession for every it um um career there is particular skills or tools that are required from you you must be an expertise in this Fields you must know how to use some of these tools for you to be successful for you to strive as a as as a virtual assistant or as a professional in that particular test career okay we're also going
to be looking at these skills that we looking at for for us to perform better as a virtual assistant okay now you're also going to be looking at what is our potential earnings and our various career opportunities okay there are many career opportunities and since there are many career opportunities am I going to earn well if I am working as a virtual assistant in fact what is my um estimated earning as a virtual assistant is it wor it working for people as a virtual assistant is it going to pay me this what we going to
be looking at also and then we also going to look at how can I be able to set up an efficient home work space remember you are working from home so how can I be able to set up an efficient um homeor space if I'm to be working as a virtual assistant because if your employer wants to employ you he's also looking at what are the things you have at home that can be able to to to carry you along as a virtual assistant because you're going to be giving tax and those tax are meant
to be delivered on a specific date based on specific time so how can you be able to set up an efficient home um workspace that can be able to make you perform better as a virtual assistant okay let's look at now what is a virtual assistant okay a virtual assistant is a remote professional who provides various services such as administrative Technical and creative tax for businesses or entrepreneurs key TXS include managing emails scheduling writing reports scheduling writing report bookkeeping social media management and customer support these are the key tasks of a virtual assistant and from
this you can be able to see I am an email manager as a virtual assistant I am a personal assistant to the manager scheduling appointment if you're also working as a virtual assistant I can also write reports I can also um work as a social media manager I can also work as a professional C customer support manager okay these are the various taxs they're giving you or these are the STS we are looking at for this particular training for you working as a virtual assistant now when you are handling this tax what are the skills
required from you what are the the tools also required from you okay now these are taxs you have been given to but then know that there are various and lots of opportunities as a virtual assistant okay okay there are lots of opportunities waiting for you out there but in all these opportunities these are the tax of what you are expected to do as a virtual assistant I don't know if you get it that way okay now let's go why virtual assistant is a growing career number one is increase demand for remote work across Industries yes
number two is business Outsource um tax to focus on growth I'll explain this one after the other okay flexibility to work from anywhere at any time also looking at opportunity to work with clients across the world okay let's explain this like I said this is the last um Point here okay there are are many numerous reasons but just let us pick this for because of time okay now is there an increase in demand for people to work remotely across the globe across the industry and across the world yes there is now why because companies and
um individuals have have have they have looked at this and they've been able to compare people working physically and people working remotely and also the tasks they are to be doing and then they they come to realization that someone working remotely can also perform effectively You know despite the fact that he's not physically with the company or the client he or she is working for if someone in Nigeria is working um remotely and can be able to deliver more than someone who is physically in us then why am I employing someone in us then location
is not a barrier here okay so there is increase in demand for remote work across Industries okay now businesses Outsource tax to focus on growth now someone who is employing you is looking at the tax he or she is giving you for his or business Dro now KN that it's about value it's about Services which you offer remotely okay now businesses they're not just after the physical um present in terms of working for them they are after what is the output going to look like what is the art going to look like which is the
growth to every business to every company to any individual so they looking at productivity that is why they say since you can be productive working from anywhere we can give you opportunity but then we give you opportunity we give you a tax I also give you a a deadline for you to give us report for each STX that is why um most of the times you are being paid per hour okay we explain that within the course of this training okay now the third Point here is flexibility to work from anywhere anytime okay now you
can work 24 hours it depends on you and your strength and your capability okay as an individual you can walk in the midnight you can walk during the day you can walk anytime you want from anywhere in as much as you have the resources and the tools skills what it takes to do to work okay and to deliver okay it is a boundless opportunity now opportunity to work with clients across the world yes you are working with clients numerous clients okay remember we said that the purpose of this training you working as a virtual assistant
is to earn at least $18 per hour now how can you to do that okay now you see that you have a very massive opportunity for you to work with many clients as possible I'm doing that already I work with many clients I don't work for anybody I work for myself I grow my business business I grow myself my my company and I see myself because you know we get to that how you can be able to transform from an individual to an agency or to more of a company giv more of um you not
serve as a Consulting FM okay now you are you you you can judge me that you earn more than what even the mind can imagine okay so you have opportunity to work with clients across the world and you are not limited to one two three count as many as possible okay okay now let's look at essential skills for a virtual assistant for a successful virtual assistant okay communication skills email and chat professionalism okay um we looking at time management meeting deadlines efficiently we also looking at organization skills managing tasks schedules and documents uh we are
looking at technical skills tools like Google workspace Microsoft Office and Traer now let me explain this one after the other guys now communication skills email and chat professionalism okay now bear with me that if you have time management skills meaning that you are able to meet all the deadlines for each tax you been given as a virtual assistant and you have organized your tax schedu them and ready to deliver them with the use of these um technical tools like gole space Microsoft Office trailer we also have slack we're going to explain all these and how
they are being used okay now and you don't have a proper communication skills how to write professional emails and how to um chat professionally okay oh my God you see that your clients may not be able to understand you and communication is the key skills that why we put it here at number one okay bring here as number one so we're going to also be looking at how can we be able to communicate professionally by writing professional emails and how to follow up chat professionally not chatting um as see we are replying to our friends
okay that has being or our related ones that being um informal way for communication okay we are not going to look into the informal way of communic unication we're looking at how can you able to communicate professionally okay with the use of email and um other professional means of communications okay now number two is time management time management note that for every tax you are giv you are you you are given also a deadline that is why you are being paid per hour so if you are giving a tax that should last for not more
than two hours you are expected to deliver for that particular tax within that two hours if not most employers of Labor of those working remotely will not pay you completely they will not pay you completely because they expect you to deliver within the deadline okay that's why over there in US UK Germany and most of these Advanced um countries they work per hour these guys they walk around the clock okay because you understand what it means to meet deadline and get paid okay whatever you're going to be doing you are trying to make up with
a deadline okay Al going to be looking at organization skills manage task schedules and documents okay this one is self explanat I want to go down to technical skills because of time okay now tools like Google workspace Microsoft Office and trailer okay we also have slack okay now um Google workspace is there for you to be able to you know manage documents and also submit documents okay um you have we have a Microsoft Word we have Microsoft Excel there there are a lot of tools there that Google has provided for you to be able to
communicate and work remotely okay we are going to also be we are going to be explaining that we're going to be dropping videos of how you can be able to use Google work space to work as a virtual assistant okay now we also going to be looking at Microsoft Office and uh we'll be dropping a comprehensive tutorial of how to use Microsoft Office including um Microsoft Word Microsoft Excel Microsoft um assx and Microsoft PowerPoint okay so that you can able to do what communicate effectively and deliver according to what you are asked to do now
slack and tro are communication tools for you working as a virtual assistant a remote worker and between a remote worker and he's our manager or employer okay now um it is a professional dashboard that helps you to organize a tax and communicate effectively with your boss okay we will go into that how to use trao and how to use tax in um what as you um for you working as a vir assistant okay now we looking at problem solving handling unexpected um situations scly you should have these skills also now let's look at potential earnings
as a virtual assistant what are my potential earnings what what what is my earning going to look like now we said if you're working hourly um you should earn between $10 to $50 per hour now if you in here for this training and you learn anything less than $10 pleas you're not qualified for this training because this training you expected to earn from $18 per hour and both and here we can see that we can earn from $10 to $50 so per hour so if you're working full-time as a VA your salary should be from
$500 to $3,000 per month depending on skills and experience okay and depends on Niche and experti example social media Vaas can charge more okay um that's just it okay now let's look at career opportunities for VA for virtual assistance now we have freelancing platforms like upwork f um people per hour credit list and many of them okay these are platforms where you can start earing immediately you see opportunities there and you start earning we're also going to be dropping professional and complete Storia of how you can be able to explore these um explore these platforms
to start inning immediately okay job platforms like indeed LinkedIn ATC okay they also help you to end you kind of see different career opportunities for you to work as a visual assistant okay okay we have direct clients small business and enterpreneurs we going to help you on how you can to get um direct clients you get direct clients they can be for um they can be from this um um freelancing platforms or job platforms or outside them where else can you able to get this um direct clients okay specialized nature social media management bookkeeping email
marketing okay these are also um career opportunities that you can see yourself working as um a virtual assistant okay now if possible you can have the opportunity to scale into an agency or offer Consulting Services as you now branding yourself and um that is fact that is the professional way to work as a vis assistant you branding yourself okay once you brand yourself you have um Limitless offer offers are slapping you from right to left and all of that okay Al help you to set up a professional Pages across these platforms and across the social
media platforms and how can you be able to attract wellp paying clients okay now we looking at setting up your workpace as a virtual assistant the first thing you're looking at is destruction free environment okay number two you set up your comfortable decks and CH set up you're looking at high speed internet and reliable devices PC and laptops okay now um many person are asking can I use uh mobile phones can I use this for you know you need a laptop though you can work with phone but for comfortability okay you need a laptop but
you can also use a mobile phone as a virtual assistant okay now I don't need to talk more on um highspeed internet yeah because I've experienced so much um you know um hitches on what it has to do with internet because without good internet no matter your skills you can't to deliver and right now I think I've sorted out anything about internet by having a a a propile wiy in my workspace okay now uh I'm guaranteed at least um 98% internet um uh uh access in terms of speed okay looking at that now we looking
at use tax management tools like gole workspace slack or TR for organization okay we're also going to be looking at these um tools management tools okay we're going to learn this and how can you to set it up and start working as a virtual assistant okay we're looking at Microsoft suit Ms word Ms Excel MS PowerPoint and Ms databas okay so now keep a notepad for breast storming for jotting down ideas you're going to also be needing um your notepad it can be your manual notebook or you can use your system not part to jot
down notes okay sometimes your uh um colleagues working remotely can have a virtual meeting with with your boss or with your boss and then youire to keep notes or while working there are some reasons why you might keep notes I also do that I keep notes for reminder okay or ideas that can come in while you work okay so you need um notepad for brainstorming and jutting down ideas okay now let's look at tips for spay um productive as a virtual assistant yes number one start each day with a to do list note that you
are going to be um be choked up with a lot of tax more especially when you're working for more clients you have a lot of tax to do and those tax are meant to be paid per hour so you have to start each day with a to-do list to be delivered according to the time and according to the deadline for a particular tax and according to their to their priorities yes you to set up a scale of preference of the tax that expected to do a day okay use time block techniques to manage tax um
efficiently okay each tax tax should be said according to a particular time that is just what he saying okay so that you don't carry over it's very very it's not good to carry over your work as a virtual assistant because part D you are choked up with a lot of tax so why do you carry over please don't carry over any tax now take short breaks and stay refreshed okay no all works no play no eat uh you want to die with work no okay avoid multitasking focus on one task at a time very important
you trying to do this you open this you open t because of your system is as a multitasking operating system doesn't call for you to open up various TX and you're trying to because to avoid mistakes so now stay focused on one tax at a time professionalism deliver one I know that this is um a quality service which are given to your um clients okay or to employer Now set boundaries with clients to manage expectations okay now also we going to be looking at wrap up and key takeaways now because we are done with the
section what are the key takeaways and we looking at a virtual assistant plays a key role in supporting businesses remotely okay you as a virtual assistant you you are playing a very vital key role um in supporting businesses and clients by you working remotely okay developing communication um organization and technical skills is crucial it's a daily something you should look into okay you know work on yourself find out different means to work on yourself okay and all the tools that you required to work with to be fluent with them now we're looking at the career
uh offers flexibility and opportunity for high earning so we have also um learned that with this particular career your opportunity is Limitless is boundless okay you can work with as many clients as possible for you to earn as many dollars as possible okay now other setting up a proper workspace is essential for productivity yes because a workspace is the engine behind your productivity yes your Works Space is the engine behind it if you are skilled and you know how to use all these tools and you don't have a proper work space you may not be
productive at the end of the day so okay the only way to do great work is to love what you do start small stay consistent and success will flow okay okay uh we're looking at um homework and then action items okay research and identify two freelancing um platforms to join okay these um our homework um number two we have make a list of the skills you need to improve as a virtual assistant number three explore VA job descriptions and line to understand requirements so these are the assignments I expect us to submit um after you
must have watched this video under been able to understand the video and then I want us to also submit this assignment this homework um um maybe before the end of the the day before we get into the next training section or unfailingly make sure you submit this video before um the end of the whole trainings this trainings this homework before the end of the whole trainings okay very much important okay question and answer will be expecting your question and answer um either on the YouTube comment section or um in the in the WhatsApp group we're
also going to be having a live section where we have your oneone questions okay we can use um um Google meet for that so that we can able to to accommodate as many as possible persons um per section per time okay but then if you have quick um questions for this particular um session you can just drop that um using um the comment section um below okay don't forget to like and share this video across um different persons okay as we see you the next um the next session stay connected and FL and follow us
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