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How To Create A Freelance Portfolio As A Virtual Assistant For Beginners With No Experience - YouTube
Channel: Le-an Lai Lacaba
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this one i will focus more on virtual
assistant because i have gotten a lot of
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questions
so far on how can you create a portfolio
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as a virtual assistant hey guys and
welcome back to
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my youtube channel now my goal is at the
end of this video is to show
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you guys how you can create your virtual
assistant portfolio now if this is your
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guest's first time on my channel my name
is Lean Lai Lacaba I am the virtual ate
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I've been working from home since i was
15 years old and now run an outsourcing
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company in the philippines and i post
video every sunday and thursday on how
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to work from home so make sure to hit
the subscribe button right there
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so you don't miss any of my videos so
when it comes to working from home being
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a virtual assistant is usually kind of
the first step for a lot of people
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because when you're a virtual assistant
you get to try out a lot of different
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skills because you're kind of becoming a
jack or jill of all trades now i
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actually did already a whole video
on how to be a virtual assistant you
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guys can check out right here but
basically i want to make this video
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specifically on how you can get started
on
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a portfolio as a virtual assistant now i
already did a huge video on how to
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create your digital portfolio which you
can check out right here
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but for this one i will focus more on
virtual assistant because i have gotten
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a lot of questions
so far on how can you create a portfolio
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as a virtual assistant unlike other job
positions when you're starting out
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being a va is a little bit harder to
really define
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because there's a ton of services that
you can find out about it some of it
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could be bookkeeping you could be doing
graphic work you can be doing some
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writing
you could be managing ads as well so it
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really is just a huge scope
of tasks and one of the first things
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that you need to do
when you're building out that portfolio
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is to define who you
are that means is narrowing down what
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kind of skills or services do you want
to offer as a virtual assistant now i
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already did a video on virtual assistant
services so you guys can check out right
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here
but basically you want to figure out
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like okay do i want to focus more on the
admin tasks do i want to focus on
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whatever my boss is currently focusing
on right now so you have that range of
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to choose from but early on as you're
building out your portfolio
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you want to have that already chosen
unless you want other people to choose
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that
for you now once you have that skill or
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the service that you want to provide
then the next thing is you want to
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figure out like who do you want to talk
to who do you want to serve who is your
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target audience who is your target niche
as a virtual assistant now there's a ton
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of niches out there from real estate to
digital marketing to being an assistant
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to an influencer which again goes into a
lot of a range of services or tasks that
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you're able to do for them
but when you're able to narrow down
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early on who you want to work for it's
going to be easier for you down the line
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to find these jobs once you have that
once you have the services
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and the niche or the people you want to
work for narrow down the next thing you
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want to figure out is what is the brand
that you're trying it to build as a
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virtual assistant now your brand
goes farther than just what you post
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than just setting up your facebook your
linkedin your instagram it's also what
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you
post keep in mind that everything that
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you do to market yourself
you can put part as your portfolio so
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while you're building your brand
while you're choosing what story you're
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going with as you introduce yourself to
further clients
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you want to start capturing all of those
so while you're building a brand
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you're also at the same time creating
the things that are going to go into
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your portfolio basically at this stage
you want to see what it would be like if
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you were just working for
yourself for the influencers that you
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want to follow you know what are the
types of quotes and images that you want
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to create for yourself that you then
want to develop later on
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if you've chosen a skill let's save
choosing video editing then you want to
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try an experiment of like what are the
things that if i was just paying myself
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if i was able to pay for myself what are
things that i would like to create
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because then you're starting to build
the things or the work samples that
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would then go into
your portfolio because then once you
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have the again the services you want to
offer who you want to talk
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to you also have your branding a little
bit started then you can
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go into and then start really creating
your work samples now creating a
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portfolio isn't limited to someone who's
creating a lot of creative content it
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doesn't have to be just content based
if you're someone who's now leaning into
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becoming more of an admin your work
samples are
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you cleaning up a inbox for example or
how you manage calendared invites or
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events you take a screenshot of
how it would look like if you were the
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one sending someone a calendar invite
like the agenda how you make sure that
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they
show up the follow-up so it can be
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simple as that it's taking
screenshots or taking documentation of
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all of the things that you do and how
you do them
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so your client knows what it would be
like to work with you
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your work samples don't have to be
something that you were paid to do it
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could be something that you were doing
free work for different people that's
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one of the fastest ways
that you can build a portfolio is asking
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people for free work like do they need a
logo to be created do they need for
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someone to clean up their calendar or
their inbox
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do they need someone to do a little bit
of bookkeeping for them the point of
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asking for people for free
work is for you to build that skill
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whatever skill or service that you did
choose
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and also to build a little bit of your
credibility because then as your
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portfolio grows and more and more people
know your work
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love your work the higher chances that
you're going to be recommended
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to all of these other friends that they
have relatives other people that they
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know
would benefit from your work and as a
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bonus that's one of the ways they can
also get a kind is by doing free work at
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the start just doing one logo or one
instagram post
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and then if they love your work if it
matches their brand and what they're
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looking for
you can end up being the person that
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they want to work with now once you have
that once you have
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the work samples that you have try to
think back again you know if you had
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previous jobs before what could be work
samples that you can grab from them
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it could be screenshots if you're a
social media manager for them it could
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be screenshots of the post that you
created where they can see the
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engagements of those posts because then
the next step is making sure that
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they're all in one
place it's choosing the platform for
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your portfolio now this will depend on
what skill or service you really narrow
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down on
for example if you really focus more on
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images or videos and putting it all on
google drive or youtube might be a good
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place for you to start to put your
portfolio
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if you're someone who's more creating
graphics on canva
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then you can put all of it inside of
canva because you can actually share
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the link to your canva where potential
employers can now
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see those another way that you can store
your portfolio if you chose to be a
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writer is putting it up on linkedin
on your profile so then your potential
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employers can find those there
if you chose more on the admin route or
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you chose more on
the stuff that you don't create content
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for but you get results done
so for example let's say you chose more
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on like calendar management or inbox
management or bookkeeping
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putting all of those screenshots and
saving them maybe into a
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canva graphic might be the best for you
the purpose of it is
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you want to think what is the best way
that i can show my potential employer
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that this is something that i can
do another fun creative way that you can
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create this portfolio is by creating a
standard operating procedure
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of how you usually do things now this
can be a little bit nerdy
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but what i mean by creating a standard
operating procedure is you're going step
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by step
of how you would tackle a specific task
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so for example
let's say in a previous job or in one of
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the tests that you did
you managed someone's inbox so what was
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your process what were the labels that
you put on each email to make sure that
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it's clean
you know how do you forward or how do
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you answer emails when you receive them
so creating that into an sop would
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really help
again the client visualize what it would
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be like to work with you because they'll
know how you think they'll know your
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processes and they'll know how to train
you so
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showcasing that especially since not a
lot of people do that creating an sop of
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how they do things
will put you more on the top the next
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thing that you want to make sure that
you do when you're creating your
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portfolio is now to study
or to level up your skill educate
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yourself in all of the different ways
that you can upgrade your skill you know
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do it better
research on the tool that you have
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probably chosen to work with so for
example let's say you went with a tool
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called notion on organizing all the
tasks
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what are the different ways or shortcuts
or how else can you do this
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better that's basically the question you
want to ask is how can i do this better
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how can i upgrade how can be
more efficient for the next client that
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i get now once you've started upgrading
your skills you want to make sure that
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your portfolio is
up to date so keep updating your
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portfolio and always keep in mind
that you want to put your best foot
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forward with all of your portfolio now
you can have an archive portfolio where
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you can store
your previous work or the work that is
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not any more relevant to you
but you want to make sure that what is
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in front of the client what they
see is something that helps them move
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forward with you working with you
or if it's just not a match be able to
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reject you in a kind way
because you've shown them that this is
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what i can do if this doesn't match then
that's okay
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we could find other people to work with
now once you have all of that once you
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have your portfolio narrowed down once
you have a platform that you can put
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your portfolio the next thing is just
market yourself that's the last step is
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to make sure that other people will be
able to see
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your work that's why i recommend it if
you're a writer you know put it up on
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linkedin so other people can see your
work
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if you are someone who's a graphic
artist make sure to post those on
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instagram or facebook where people will
actually have
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seen your work you know you're bringing
in the traffic if you're someone who's
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more
a calendar manager or you're someone
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who's more doing the admin work
maybe start posting on facebook of like
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your hacks like what are the different
ways
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that you have been able to help other
people keep track what are the task
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management advice that you give what are
the time management advice that you give
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it's showing your expertise when you're
marketing your own portfolio because as
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you start building the trust and
likability with other people
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the faster it would be for you to get
recommendations or to have other people
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like hey
i saw that you're a virtual assistant i
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actually have this friend who's looking
for one never discount the power of
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being recommended
to other people now if you're someone
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who's interested in leveling up i do
have the work anywhere challenge that's
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now available for anyone
if you want to get started when it comes
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to working from home i have a module
specific on how to create your portfolio
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that has not been mentioned at all in
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can move forward in your virtual
assistant career i hope you guys have an
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awesome day and remember that small
steps matters
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and i'll see you in the next video bye
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