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Whoosh! Thanks to all our new followers for following us. Most of the fun happens on Instagram though. Our handle is @iPAnigeria 🤓

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Today’s challenge is to set your expectations for your clients.

What this means is at the start of your work relationship, your client has to be aware of your terms of service (ie the kind of work you can and are willing to do for them, your work hours and availability, etc)

It

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Challenge accepted?

Send me your business profiles when you’re done! 👇🏾👇🏾https://t.co/4dSNCexqFG

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A client is in need of a virtual assistant to handle administration for her personal life and businesses, copy writing, social media management and writing/reviewing legal documents for them.
Day to day, you will be required to

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You’ll going to need to whip out your pen paper and a calculator for today’s challenge.

Over the next few days, you’re going to need to put a price tag on your services but before that, you need to figure out what your

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Today’s challenge is a bit late but really simple!
Secure a trusty computer, smartphone and internet service provider for your VA business.

Those three things will be your office, literally. So you NEED to have them.

Comment “YES” below if you have all three 👇🏾https://www.inst

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[DAY 6 #zerotovachallenge]

Welcome to day 6, people!
Today’s challenge is really simple but also super important.

So far, you’ve identified skills that you have, enjoy doing and can offer as services to your clients.
Ideally you should have a list of 1-5 services. Keep it simp

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Excited for Day 5 of the #zerotovachallenge 💃🏾💃🏾 Today’s challenge is to make a list of ideal services you would like to offer as a virtual assistant.

Day 2-4, we’ve written out skills/services you currently use to make money, skills you have and would like to monetize and thing

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Are there any skills you’ve picked up over the past few years you haven’t quite started making money from yet?

It could be something you learned at school or at your job or online.
Whatever

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Disconnect, rest and recharge. When you're burned out, uninspired and tired you are unable to do good work for your business or any of your clients.
So take a step back this weekend and think about one relaxing, non-work thing you can do.
I'll be taking a late night dip in the

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We're almost half-way through the first month of the year 2019 and it's crazy how quickly the time goes by. If you made a list of goals you wanted to accomplish in January and it feels like you're nowhere near start or co

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Hello everyone!

Long time no see. I’ve been meaning to pop in and post something over the past few days but have had a whirlwind couple of days coming back home from vacation and attending a friend’s wedding. That combined with a few life changes and a bucket load of work have m

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This is our #1 tip from last night's insta-live on starting a VA business while 9-5ing.

You'd be surprised how much free time you actually have before and/or after work everyday to dedicate to your side business.

If you missed it last night, the replay is available for the next

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If you recently started following us and still have no idea what a VA is or what services we offer, you're in luck because we'd never leave you high and dry.
Check out our "What's a VA?" and "Our Services" highlights in our bio to learn more.
And if you have any more questions,

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What a delight it was to see that Independent PA now has 500+ followers!
Thanks for following and engaging with us on this little corner of instagram.
I remember when we are 160 followers, 500 seemed unattainable but here we are.
Fingers crossed this community grows to 1000+ i

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So you've done the hard work of finding the client and you finally have them!
It's tempting to let your hair down, relax a bit and start pursue even more clients. But don't make the mistake of neglecting your existing client's happiness.
The only way to keep your clients is to

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Over the past few months, in conversation with a lot of aspiring VAs, the one recurring question we get is, "How do I decide what service to offer as a VA?" and as much as we'd like to say there's a deep science to making that decision, there really isn't!
Think about things you

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Lately, instead of burrowing into my own mind for DAYS when I'm confused about what decision to make in my business or personal life, I simply call someone I trust and get their advice on the problem.
A lot of times, because I'm so close to the issue, I don't see the full pictur

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Was on a consultation call with a VA a few days ago talking through his business pain points one of which was a client who only paid for his services after she made revenue from her business.
It put him in a precarious position where he had done his job to the best of his abilit

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Attention VAs!
We're working on a few courses and resources for release at the end of this year/early 2019 and would love to know what your biggest struggle is in starting or growing your VA business.
To make this exercise easier, what do you wish you had help figuring out righ

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Please read this aloud if you have to to convince yourself: Monday does not have to be a bad day. Instead of thinking about how much it sucks to have to work, find one thing in your day that brings you some happiness. .
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For me that looks like a freshly made cup of coffee, my fa