The VA Roadm@p
This guide walks you through step-by-step how to become a world class online service provider with Michelle Dale. CEO of VMF Ltd. Should you need any assistance, or you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
The VA Roadmap- Introduction
- 1st Stop :: The VA Business
- 2nd Stop :: The VA Passport
- 3rd Stop :: The VA Shoestring
- 4th Stop :: The VA Apprentice
- 5th Stop :: The VA Rockstar
- Final Destination
- Ask A Question
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The VA Roadmap
- The Complete Guide To Setting Up And Running A Successful Online Services Business
How To Use This Guide.
This guide is designed to give you a complete solution for becoming a highly successful online service provider. Whether you're a freelancer or virtual assistant looking to improve your solo-practise, or someone looking to take their business to the next level, as a consultant, online business manager or multi-VA team leader. There are 1 or more stops in this guide applicable to you.
The best part is that everything is designed around the concept of becoming a digital nomad, meaning this is a totally flexible, mobile, 100% paperless option, designed to give you the freedom to take your business anywhere you like!
Getting Started.
First I suggest watching the video version above, then check out the links to the right in the navigation menu to get the full text guide for The Virtually Anywhere Roadm@p.
About The Creator.
My name is Michelle Dale, I am the virtual assistant behind the multi six figure online business consultancy and virtual assistant company VMF Ltd. I built the entire business as a travelling digital nomad, meaning it was created entirely online, with a computer, an internet connection and a lot of determination. To learn more about me please visit MichelleDale.me.
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Introduction
- Matter-Of-Fact Advice And Resources For Travellers In The Online World.
Just by visiting my blog www.VirtualAssistant-Live.com you would have already begun an exciting journey as a traveller in the online world… You may by now have also downloaded my free video, audio and eBook which shows “37 reasons why” choosing to become a virtual assistant changed my life completely. If you haven’t got a copy, grab one now >>
The articles on the blog contain a wealth of free information that will help you on your journey to becoming a first-class, successful virtual business owner, specifically in the online services industry. But if you want to take things a few steps further and learn from ‘start to finish,’ how you set up a successful, profitable and entirely paperless, mobile company, which focuses on providing consulting, project management or virtual assistant services, from anywhere in the world, then keep reading!
There are 2 ways to go about this, and the choice you make could determine the success or failure of your business. There is the half-hearted, cutting a few corners sort of way, piecing information together from a variety of sources, which often leads to going round in circles never connecting all the dots you need to complete the entire picture, or there’s the ‘proper’ way, choosing a quality direction, which offers a complete solution. This guide walks you through the latter.
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1st Stop :: The VA Business
- What Every Business Owner Should Know About Doing Business From Virtually Anywhere.
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For a basic understanding of operating a virtually anywhere business. The first step I recommend you take is to download my free eBook – “The Virtually Anywhere Business.” This will help introduce you to the virtual world, and the possibilities available to you in the virtual assistant industry. There are many roles that are open to you depending upon your experience; they range from virtual assistance to online consulting and business management. Once you read it, you’ll know if this path to joining the VA industry sounds like the one for you.
At this stage you might also want to take a little field trip to visit my own Online Business Consultancy and Virtual Assistant Services Website, “Virtual Miss Friday.” For me, this is where it all began in 2005 as a start-up freelancer, at the end of 2007 I opened a solo virtual assistant practise with just myself, within 4 months I was hiring a team, within 2 years the company was making 6 figures and within 4 years, multi 6 figures. But regardless of the financial success of the company, the most important factor to keep in mind is that I have never compromised on quality and service. The company is operated using my unique business model, professionally and to an impeccable standard.
By visiting my website you can see The Company That Generates A Multi-6 Figure Income All While I’m Travelling In The ‘Real World’.
http://www.TheVABusiness.com
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2nd Stop :: The VA Passport
- Supporting Online Service Providers Who Want To Go Places In e-Business.
This is the Ultimate Entrepreneur’s Passport directly into the virtual world, this is a continuously growing host of professional resources for your online business. The adventurous entrepreneurial members of “TVAP” are a vibrant group of a variety of online service providers in different sectors of the VA Industry.
The site is aimed to expand your knowledge of online business, provide ideas and inspiration for potential services you can offer clients, and how to go about it. We provide information and resources for the most in-demand services and skills in the industry that will help you assist and support fellow online entrepreneurs and clients. It’s also packed with educational content, opportunities for self-development, allowing you to grow and expand your business, with ongoing support, not just in terms of advice, but through actively promoting your business through our network, “The VA Syndicate” – this site is designed to actually WORK for you, which means that you can confidently provide services online to your clients, with the added bonus of a support network of professionals in the same field.
The forums are active, the terminals are updated each week. Every month there is a new ‘live’ U-stream video broadcast which members are invited to participate in, for the latest TVAP news and a “Questions and Answers” session. Also each month we create a new PLR article pack for you to use in your business and a new VISA (Virtual Internet Skills Assistance) tutorial, showing you a virtual process, skill or system. Not to mention the host of mini-learning courses we call “TREKS” and the growing database of downloads, video’s, audio’s and other content which is there for you to peruse at your leisure, and dip into when you need it. The members area is evolving and improving all the time.
This just touches on the resources available, please visit http://www.TheVAPassport.com for a bigger picture.
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3rd Stop :: The VA Shoestring
- Build Your Online Service Business On An Insanely Tight Shoestring Budget.
COMING IN 2012! Join our mailing list to be notified of our launch offer!
“The VA Shoestring” guides you through a DIY process of setting up a basic services company – this is really for you if you’re sitting on the fence, or you have decided that you’re not quite ready to make an investment into a scalable business – you can try this on for size, on an insanely tight, shoestring budget.
The programme will provide a complete checklist of the basics, where to go to obtain them, how to set them up, and how to integrate them. Video training is provided so you can literally go through following the steps. If you are completely new to working online, for example you have no experience of working on the Internet, or you’re really not sure if this industry is for you, then the shoestring is the perfect opportunity to take those first steps into this amazing online world.
At the same time, if you are only intending to have a small scale VA or consulting company, or you only intend to offer a single or handful of services, then this is also perfect for you, for example, you may specialise in transcription, be a writer, or a social media consultant. Your business may not have the team to be scalable in the same way, so this is a great opportunity for you to have a small scale, “professional” set up, without breaking the bank.
And finally, this programme is for when you’re on the fly! Even if you’re still working a full time job, taking care of a home, or simply too busy – you should still be able to set this up to start working within a month.
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4th Stop :: The VA Apprentice
- Create A 6 Figure VA Industry Business From Virtually Anywhere In The World.
This is the ‘Mothership’… I should also mention if you want to dive right into this, you’ll get The VA Shoestring, and 1 Year Access to The VA Passport FREE when you become an Apprentice.
If you’re really serious now about taking the journey to your own personal success online, then the next step is “The VA Apprentice.” This programme will teach you, step-by-step, how I created my company, how I run my company, and how I developed the company into 6 figures in the first 2 years of business, hired a team, and removed myself from ‘billable time’ into an online business consultant and manager. In addition to the learning modules, I am on hand with a range of coaching options, and my team from Virtual Miss Friday works with you to build your website, and implement various other creative and technical projects essential to the success of your virtual assistant company – no other virtual business programme provides such a comprehensive, in-depth practical hands-on support service, or unique business model to follow. To see the full curriculum, implementation options, available tutorials and range of bonuses which come as part of the programme, please visit http://www.TheVAApprentice.com
You’ll learn a “tried and tested” 6 figure business model from start to finish, taking you through step-by-step all the tools, systems, documentation, templates, marketing, project management and organisational strategies I have used to develop Virtual Miss Friday into a sizeable, healthy consulting and virtual assistant business, which – and this is vitally important – I am able to step away from when I need to, and it still generates income.
Once you have taken the programme, you can apply to be entered into my directory, “The VA Black Book” — because of the nature of the work that the The VA Apprentice members have put in, and the fact it’s not a ‘anyone can join’ directory, this makes The VA Black Book one the most elite virtual assistant directories on the Web. Clients are fully aware that not just anyone is able to apply to enter the directory, and that’s the way I like to keep it. The VA companies in the directory are personally endorsed by me, primarily because I have spent several months during The VA Apprentice programme working with them first-hand, and because they have taken The VA Apprentice programme, they can also receive an accreditation, demonstrating to clients that they have a unique, ‘customer focused’ business model.
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5th Stop :: The VA Rockstar
- Is Your e-Service Business Ready? Digital Mentorship That Creates Rockstars.
COMING IN 2012! Join our mailing list to be notified of our launch offer!
In 2008 I began working with a client who happened to also be an “amazing” business coach and consultant for a variety of major multi-national organisations – his name is Alan Gillies. In 2009, we began working together, but on a different sort of project, on my VA business, and with unimaginable results – at that point I realised that the industry needed this type of mentorship – tough love, cold hard business sense, which is quite simply required to not only achieve business goals, but to exceed all expectations.
I am now collaborating with Alan to recreate the mentorship programme that took my VA company, Virtual Miss Friday, into a multi-6 figure company, which has given me the confidence and ability to keep growing, expanding and evolving – the right way!
The programme will be designed for consultants, online service providers and virtual assistants with an established business, or small to medium clientbase, and in a word, it does what it says in the title – and if you follow it, you’ll have the deck stacked in your favour for becoming a Rockstar in the online business world.
This programme is still in the early phases of development, but it’s a complex series of educational sessions and exercises, which we are turning into an “easy to follow and implement” programme, which is certainly well worth the wait!
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Final Destination
- Successful Business, Freedom Lifestyle.
With a virtual business, there are no limits on what you can do with
your life, whatever destination you choose professionally and
personally, and owning and running a profitable, flexible VA company can
help get you there. It may happen quickly for you, or it may take time,
everyone is different. You need to persevere, to work hard, to be
patient and to never forget why you are doing this and what your end
goal is. Always remember, you only ever get out, what you put in.
In just a few years, and through a variety of challenges that come with travelling while developing a business, and only having the Internet to do it on, I created my ideal VA company all while I was already living my ideal lifestyle as a nomad – I didn’t wait for that part, life is too short and I am one of those people who jumps right in, to everything I set my mind to. I am first-hand proof that an ‘ordinary’ person can take charge of their own destiny, and become whatever they want or need to be. I am also a believer in fate, life presents us with opportunities and it’s up to us whether we take them. Did you land on this page by coincidence, or was it fate?
Now you know what to do, I am here if you need me, at every destination on the map…
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Answered
- Hi Michelle - I've joined the passport but haven't recieved a login. Can't wait to get started, can you send me a login please? Best wishes Donna Bond (Bond Executive Solutions) ps. love what you are doing! You've really inspired me to follow my dreamHey Donna, once you go to pay you get redirected to a place where you create a login for instant access. If you didn't reach that page email info@virtualassistant-live.com and we'll email you a login - thanks so much and welcome :DAsked by Formspring Apr 24, 12
- donde tengo que inscribirme para ser una asistente virtual?Apologies, I would need that question in English please...Asked by Formspring Apr 20, 12
