Hi! It’s Monday again! And as you know, it’s our learning day! 🙂
In tonight’s webinar, our mentor, Jomar Hilario, redefine the meaning of Virtual Assistants…
In 2010, Virtual Assistants is someone who does calendar settings, manages the email of the client, professional administrative assistants… essentially a VA is an assistant… and it is also known as freelancer.
Sir Jomar changed the definition of Virtual Assistants in 2012, he introduces the term Virtual Career and Virtual Professional… Virtual Professional encompasses all the jobs done in a virtual careers industry…
We also have 2 guests that will show their workstations, Ms. Ann Kristine Peñaredondo and Rowell Austria.
Here’s my takeaway from our guests:
Ann Peñaredondo
- In March 10 2016, Ann shared how to prepare your house, bedroom and family for your virtual career, wherein Ann has a standing desk then… Now Ann will be touring us to her new home office! Yehey!
- Ann is one of the VPs who spoke in the 2017 Wealth Summit, happened 3weeks ago
- Features:
- Posters and Postcards
- Books including 26 Titans Principles by Robin Sharma
- Post-Its for new ideas
- Indoor Plant
- Webinar Notes and VA Handouts since 2012
- Poster Quotes made as 1st OMC Assignment
- Oprah Winfrey: You become what you believe. You are where you are today in your life based on everything you have believed.
- Steve Jobs: Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose YOU ARE ALREADY NAKED there is no reason not to follow your heart.”
- Standing Desk
- Floor mat
- Whiteboard for events, deadlines, data (mailing lists, etc), magnets from traveling friends, 2017 Goals in Stars post-its
- Dreamboard in her bedroom – 7 Dreamboards
- Mantra: Don’t wait for perfect moment to do a thing
- Headset – Plantronics Audio 326, also used on podcasts with Joy
- Speaker – Logitech, gift from Jomar
- Internet Speed – 50mbps
- Have 7 Clients – 2 Singapore, 4 Australia, 1 Filipino
- Tips
- Be responsible on your working time
- Have a separate rooms for working and rest
- Have a separate set of pajamas for working and resting as well
- As much as possible don’t take a full-time client — it’s the same as working in a corporate world
- How to get work? Upwork, clients and friends’ recommendations, in FB Groups segue your blog posts, Craigslist
- Suggested Rates – It depends on the job (Ex: FB Ad campaign could take you 4-6hrs, hourly rate is not advisable)
- You have to be paid based on the value that you provide
- Favorite Quote: “Dreams and ideas are worthless without execution that is absolutely relentless” – Robin Sharma
Rowell Austria
- Former DJ from Abu Dhabi, with 2 clients
- Sept2016 – project based and regular clients
- Read Virtual Careers book thrice, and his go-to reference book
- Skills: Positive mIndset and marketing skills
- Features:
- Glass Wall – tasks, bills to pay, books to read (clients ask what books you read and who you follow), reminders, calendar, daily tasks
- Corkboard – Reminders (Focus on one thing, have a sense of urgency)
- Post-it Reminders
- DJ Things
- Books
- Success Planner From Bo Sanchez
- Ergonomic keyboard with backlight
- Laptop – Acer 2013 model but planning to buy a MacBook Pro
- Headset – Plantronics, nice noise-cancellation better for meetings with clients
- Tips
- Reflect on your finish tasks
- Let go of minor things so you can focus on more important things
- Have your To Do List
- Don’t be too focused on building your empire on online jobs, still family is more important
- Have a work-life balance
- Sticky Notes is important
- Health benefits on having a workstation – more productive
- Fool yourself if you must, do not always look on your workstation, so you won’t be working all the time 🙂
- Be minimalist
- Always update your website – clients are asking for contents
- For Beginners, take Date with Freedom
- Learn the Basics
- Be specific with what you want and pray for it — good opportunities, right opportunities, right clients, no exact/standard time to work
- No exact/standard time? Don’t take calls, only admin tasks
- If you are getting clients, make sure to directly ask your clients’ goals, in that way you can really give the results that they want. Also ask for their timeline.
- Where to get clients? Be more engaging on comments in FB Groups, Upwork, onlinejobs.ph, linkedin (especially those with Bachelor’s Degree)
- Suggested Social Platforms: Facebook and Linked-In
- Suggested Rates – Hourly and Fixed Rate, have both, depends on the task
- Favorite Quote: If you want something you never had, you’ve got to do something you’ve never done. Break the pattern.
Sir Jomar: One of the benefits working at home? Your kids can do non-verbal messages for you! Just like what Rowell’s daughter has done, she climbed on the bed as if saying “Daddy, matulog ka na…”
Alright! I guess you’ll be arranging to have your own home office…
Have a glimpse of my current workstation, I’m still not satisfied because I want to have a better working table where I could freely move! 🙂
By the way, here’s my internet speed, hope I could have better Upload Speed:
Alright friends, that’s all for now! Till our next webinar take-aways…
Keep on learning! God bless! 🙂
P.S. You can also watch the replay of webinars .
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