One of the questions I get asked a lot about becoming a VA, is it like being in an MLM. 

The short answer? No. 

The long answer? Well let’s dive deeper by understanding what an MLM is. 

MLM stands for multilevel marketing. The business model for an MLM is that individuals will have products that they will sell. They also have a monetary incentive if they recruit other people into the business. The more people you recruit, the more residual income you will earn. This incentivizes people to recruit as many people as they possibly can. This is also one of the biggest drawbacks of an MLM. Many people feel that the sales representatives are too pushy about their products, and are promoting products they may not necessarily even believe in because they need to make that commission. Additionally, it also benefits people at the top more than the people that are working in sales. Some of the most popular MLM brands are Avon, Monat, Herbalife, and Amway. 

So is being...

If you want to become a successful virtual assistant, you are going to have some mindset challenges. You are going to have to unlearn a lot of what you already know. You are going to have to challenge yourself in different ways, and you are going to have to keep leveling up.

The best way to think about this new journey ahead of you, is what kind of mindset do you have? Do you have a scarcity mindset, or an abundance mindset?

Scarcity mindset is thinking that the world of business does not have enough to provide for everyone. Many people operate under this mindset because of how our economy is set up. We are constantly being told that there aren’t enough jobs for everyone, that there isn’t enough money, there isn’t enough opportunity. When we embody this belief, we make choices out of fear. That fear based choice makes decisions like settling for a job that doesn’t really make you happy, or believing that your income is tied to the amount of hours that you put...

I often get asked the question, “how much money can you make as a virtual assistant”. The answer, as much as you want. The beauty about the virtual assistant business is that your value isn’t tied to the amount of time that you put in. Your value is determined, by you guessed it, the actual value that YOU bring to your clients. As your skills improve, so does your income. 

When I first started out my business, I was charging my clients $30/ hour. As I learned more about this business, what my clients need, and better ways to optimize my client’s businesses, I raised my prices to over $50/hour. 

Being a virtual assistant means I run my own company. That means I set my own prices, decide the value of the work that I do, and how much of that work I want to take on. I know many people who want to simply supplement their income, so they work part time every month to make that additional income. I know other people who wanted to turn this into their full...