There are many ways that you can grow your VA business, from adding additional services to bringing other people on board to work with you.
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You may want to consider some of the following questions when writing your own client consultations.
Contact information
You need to ask for telephone numbers and an email address before your scheduled consultation so that you can contact them if they don’t call.
Business type
What industry do they work in? What products/services do they provide? With what types of clients do they work?
What are their goals/vision?
What are their goals for the next five years? This is a good question as you can tell them how you could help them to achieve their goals.
What are they struggling to complete in their businesses?
Some prospective clients may have an idea of areas in which they need some help. After I have ended the consultation, I ask all prospective clients to keep a list of all the tasks they have insufficient time to complete, or that they do not like doing, over the course of a week. I then schedule a follow-up call for a week later to go through the list to see where I can help them.
Describe a typical day for you
This will reveal some details about their personality and work style, which should tell you whether you want to work with them.
Have you worked with a PA or virtual assistant before?
This is an important question as, if the answer is yes, you can ask supplementary questions to see whether the relationship worked or not.
What information should you reveal about yourself?
What information should your prospective clients be told about you? Do you want to tell them you work full-time, fit your work around children, or work only during term-time? Establish now what information you want to share, so that you do not forget during the call.
When starting your own virtual assistant business, you need to learn a whole new skill set. In addition to all the skills required to complete the client work, you need to learn how to run and market your business.
Most of these new skills are easily learned, but some strike fear into the hearts of the best of us. Public speaking for the first time is usually one of those that makes the blood run cold.
The good news is that once you know the tricks, it’s relatively easy. As with most things, good preparation and practice is the key. The first time you will probably be asked to speak publically is when you attend a networking event. Here you have the opportunity to present your business, what it is you do and for whom. But what should you actually say?
We have put together a podcast to give you a guide as to what to include, what to leave out, and how to get people interested in you and your business.
“Making Perfect Presentations” is now available as a stand-alone podcast, as well as forming part of our “Networking For Virtual Assistants Online Course”.
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Sixty seconds isn’t very long. But at a networking event it’s all the time you have to get your message across about what it is that you do and how you make the life of everyone in the room just that little bit easier.
When you go to a networking event you know you’ll have around a minute or so to speak about your business. If your message is unclear, boring, overly fussy or if you simply fail to make an impression, it’s all over. No pressure then!
Don’t worry, we’ve already thought of that. We’ve put together a podcast to help you craft the perfect presentation for your next networking. From getting clear about what it is that you do, who you do it for and what the benefits are, to cramming it all into one minute and making it interesting.
“Making Perfect Presentations” is now available as a stand-alone podcast, as well as forming part of our “Networking For Virtual Assistants Online Course”.
Download it now at: http://vasuccessgroup.co.uk/virtual-assistant-teleseminars-webinars/
There are many things you should prepare before heading out to a networking event. Do you have enough business cards, have you got a notebook and a pen that works (and a spare!). Have your remembered your diary?
“Making Perfect Presentations” is now available as a stand-alone podcast, as well as forming part of our “Networking For Virtual Assistants Online Course”.
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