Work from Home as a Virtual Assistant | Earn $700-$1000 Monthly! - YouTube

Hi guys my name is Mimi and welcome to my home based story

So for today's topic.

I will share with you how to earn $700-$1000 per month

as a virtual assistant

As you all know this is my work

So I will share with you what Virtual assistants do

what skills you need to learn as a VA

or that you should have

How much is the salary range

Just the range guys, ok?

And where you can apply

so make sure you stay tune until the end

because I will share with you

all the right places where you can look

for openings if you want to be a Virtual assistant

working at home.

Let's start.

For those who have no idea yet

what is a virtual assistant ?

Virtual assistant.

coining from the term itself

is "Virtual" meaning

your work will be online

not face to face.

You are an assistant in a terms

that you're going to assist.

You're going to help your client

from other places

with their work.

It's the same as being a Personal Assistant

somewhat like a helper

sometimes an all around helper

The scope of work of a VA is broad.

So I will share with you today

my experiences as a Virtual assistant.

There are a lot of different kinds of a Virtual assistant

Many are real estate virtual assistant

meaning your client is a

real estate agent or a broker

There are some that are

business owners

There really are a lot of different kinds of VA

and the scope is so broad

you really have to be versatile

when it comes

to the job duties and responsibilities

So I will share with you

what are the skills that

are usually required.

So you need to have admin skills.

What are the admin skills

so that would include

Back end jobs like

typing

entering data

which are easy

because we already did this in school, right?

You know how to use Microsoft office

however nowadays

we don't usually use Office

because

Clients prefer to do it online

with google drive

So google drive

is the same with Microsoft office.

Instead of MS Word they have Google Docs

Instead of MS Excel they have Google Sheets

Apart from that you need to have

attention to detail

It's important

because

you're going to be swamped with a lot of data

and you need to enter them correctly

And then as Admin

you should know how to manage social media

which means you should know

the in's and out's of facebook, instagram

how to run ads because

if they want to promote some content

you have to set up a Facebook ad.

Manage FB pages

this would also include a little bit of search engine optimization.

Meaning

you need to know how to put captions

or tags that

is relevant to the content that you're going to post.

It depends on the content what your client requires.

A common skill that is a plus and required is basic photo editing.

Examples are, fixing photo orientation.

If the photo is misaligned, you need to correct it

or if it's dark you will brighten it

just basic skills guys

But of course if you are knowledgeable in Photoshop

Illustrator

then that's definitely a plus.

But if you are just starting out

you only need to have basic skills.

You can use the built in application on your computer

in case of windows 10 you can use

Photos.

Just right click the picture then choose edit

Then all the options are there

You can brighten, crop,

or fix the orientation.

So that's pretty easy for photo editing.

What are the other skills...

You also need to know how to handle phone calls.

But not all VA's job requires you to handle calls.

Like in my case,

I rarely do phone calls

I'm more on marketing side

But you should be able to speak well

or at least you can converse well in English

because as an assistant sometimes

your client will ask you to call someone

like, "hey can you reserve

or can you book us a restaurant for a meeting?"

So whoever you're calling, should be able to understand you.

You need to be familiar in call handling

because sometimes your client will ask

"Hey, I'm busy. Can you take in my calls today?"

So you need to know basic call etiquette.

For me marketing.

I'm creating marketing materials

which includes flyers, postcards

any information that they want to

print and be distributed

to their prospective customers

I'm also in charge of that

You need to know how to create presentation,

for example they are going to present

at a seminar or at a conference.

You are going to create presentation for them

like slides

and then their manage contacts in their database.

Usually clients database are already set before you start.

You are not going to create database from scratch, that's a different story.

what it's like for me is.. the client is going to take a picture of the business card then

he will send it to me via email.

"Can you enter this on our database?"

then it's up to me to

enter their name, their last name, phone number, email.

It will all be categorized in there

so in the future if we are going to contact this person

then the client can easily pull it off of the database.

It's already digitized.

I also compile files in my previous work.

It was sales

I was assisting the operations manager.

Part of it is creating a report.

You are going to set up the sheet or excel then you will enter there all the sales

number of sales, total number of cancellations

You are going to prepare it like and end of day or end of week report

and submit it to your client

So you also need to know how to how to analyze.

You don't need intensive experience or knowledge

like knowing how to Pivot in excel.

But at least you need to know how to analyze and interpret data.

I think those are the basics that you need to know

so just to summarize

Admin work Database management

Social media management Basic photo editing

Presentation skills and Call handling

Very few, right?

Being a virtual assistant covers a lot of skills and different types of work but the

bottom line is that six skills that I shared.

It will all fall in that category.

If you have those skills and it's something that you're very familiar in doing

then go for it

go go go... go

If you're interested in working from home just start right away.

If it doesn't work out you can always try for another one.

Now let's talk about the salary.

So the range of salary for a virtual assistant

this is the competitive rate of salary so

make sure if you have all those skills and more then don't short sell yourself make sure

you negotiate well with your client.

The range would be from $700 - $1000 in a month.

Sounds good, right?

That would be around 35k to 50k pesos

Imagine. That's a big help in the household expenses.

If you guys are looking at that range, I would definitely recommend starting out and trying

applying as a virtual assistant. I highly recommend this.

So this is what I promised earlier.

Where can you apply?

Make sure you take this down

if you're interested in applying as a virtual

assistant you can try applying

first in onlinejobs.ph

they have over 50 thousand openings in that

website alone, just for Filipinos.

Make sure that you check out their website and register there I made a separate video

on how you can create your onlinejobs.ph account and how to get high ID proof make sure you

check it I posted the link up there and it's gonna be also in the description box below.

You also have upwork I also created a video on how to create an account there

and the

third is Facebook groups

There are a lot of groups there.

You can try Virtual assistant network Philippines Homebased call center Philippines

I'm going to show it you on this side because I can't remember it all.

But just check all these groups ok

So in case I forget to mention anything I know this is not very detailed due to confidentiality

purposes I really cannot share with you exactly what I'm doing everyday

however I think I covered all of it.

If you have questions don't hesitate to ask.

If you like this video give it thumbs up, comment your reactions and I will get back

to you right away.

So this is it for now and I will see you again on my next video.

Thanks for watching Bye