Sometimes, the best way to get going in a particular direction is to take Baby Steps. This might seem like a time-consuming endeavor, but giant leaps can cause a person to overlook the important, however minute, details that can make or break any career journey.I have been trying to make giant leaps from the outset of my VA journey. I want to have clients NOW! I know I have the skill and have my fully-functional home-office, but I don’t have the thriving client-base I know will eventually appear. I have the website (which I’m revamping at the moment), business cards, marketing material, etc. What I have found I don’t have is a strong network. This, in my opinion, is a Baby Step.
Finding like-minded individuals who can support my enterprising efforts is not the easiest part of starting my VA business. Because personal relationships with other VA’s and clients are one of the founding blocks to the Virtual Assistant field I have started to truly research and join VA organizations like the VA Revolution and the VANA. Of course, these organizations are not always free to join, but whatever I must spend to build this network will be well worth it in the end.
Another Baby Step I must take is being diligent in posting ideas, questions, concerns and simple thoughts about this industry to the many forums available to me. It is here that I will begin to build my network and secure the strong support that is necessary to growing my VA business.
Once I have made this Baby Step of beginning my network, I can make a giant leap into the world of a client-rich VA business.
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