There are a lot of home-based opportunities that we can do to start earning money from the comfort of our homes; one of which is to become a virtual assistant. According to Wikipedia, a virtual assistant is “generally self-employed and provides professional administrative, technical, or creative (social) assistance to clients remotely from a home office”. Sounds interesting? Ready to know more about how to become a virtual assistant? Let’s start with the first 3 steps you can do now.

IDENTIFY YOUR SKILLS

What are you good at? Start something on your work experience. Or it could be something that you are passionate about. Is it writing? Is it graphics designing?

RESEARCH THE SKILLS

Go to Upwork.com (there is no need to register) and check if there are projects that matched your current skill. Click on Find Jobs and input your skill.

 

CONSOLIDATE & OBSERVE Compile the researched job post through an excel spreadsheet.

 

 

As you go over the list, this should give you an idea of what specific project is waiting for you. In doing so, it will also give you more ideas on what skill you need to pursue that might help you in the online freelancing journey. If you feel that your skill seems not in after looking for around 100 job post, feel free to ask the Courageous Wahm Network Facebook Group Community about it HERE. Done with the three steps? Let’s now set your Virtual Assistant Hourly Rate.