146. Virtual Assistant: Choosing One, Becoming One, and Tips for Organizing Your Business

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Chynna Benton is a virtual assistant (VA) educator who helps newbie VAs start their businesses and book clients confidently. Several years back, her husbands’ layoff was a catalyst for her to find and create something that would generate extra income. Long story short, six months afterward, she grew a 7k+ per month VA business and ended up quitting her 9-5 job.

Chynna provides a full range of VA tips to include: how to decide what tasks to outsource, choosing a VA, test project ideas, how to prepare your business for a VA, and determining the number of hours you need from a VA. We also chatted about why she decided to pivot from being a VA to teaching people how to become virtual assistants. We end the episodes talking about how you can best organize your business based on what she’s observed as a VA.

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Timestamps

11:55 Tasks to assign to a virtual assistant
17.24 How finding and choosing a virtual assistant
20:38 Test projects for a virtual assistant
22:03 How to prepare your business for a virtual assistant
25:30 Average hourly wage for VAs, why you need a contract, how to determine the number of hours needed
30:20 Why Chynna started teaching the Virtual Assistant Blueprint
34:35 Virtual assistant qualifications
37:05 Lessons from a VA: How can we be more organized in our business

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• What a Virtual Assistant is and What They Do by Byte Bodega
• Dubsado (Customer Relationship Management (CRM)) Facebook Group
• Honeybook (CRM) Facebook Group
• 17 Hats (CRM) Facebook Group
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• ConvertKit (newsletter)
• Notion (Project Management (PM) platform)
• ClickUp (PM platform)
• Asana (PM platform)
• Toggle (time tracker)
• Free Workshop: 3 Steps to Becoming a Virtual Assistant and Landing Clients
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• Carley Schweet

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