Marianne Costello: honest, enthusiastic, direct and fun loving. She is the founder of VA Collaborative and is ideal for companies that are starting out and have no idea how to do social media, computers, etc…
It´s not what you know that gets it, it´s what you know that gets you.
You can only get so far if you don´t take risks.
You have to plan for the ups and downs.
Nobody is an expert at everything. That is the number one mistake that people make. They try to be an expert at everything and there is a flaw in that logic process.
An entrepreneur says, “I have a talent, I have a gift, I have a great idea, this is something that solves a problem for people or transforms their lives in some way and people will pay for this.” “How do I make this a business and price it correctly so I can sell enough and pay for the help that I need.” People who follow that model gets much further than people who try to do everything themselves. The next problem that comes in is where to find all the people to do these things for me. Hire a VA.
“It´s the collaboration of experts together; People who like doing what they´re doing, what you don´t like doing.” She built Virtual Collaborative around those principles. She follows all the principles of online marketing; she does the foundation laying, social media and asks for referrals.
Virtual assistants can do all the administrative stuff that brings all the people to you and brings more people to you; the selling part should be done by you. The trick is to get people coming to you that are pre-qualified; they need what you are offering them.
People pay for solutions every day of the week, so if it is something that is presented to them in the right way, presented to the right audience and you follow the principles of influence and marketing, people will pay you to help them get over that rough patch in their lives.
Strategy on defining how is really your client, where are they, how do we reach them, what kind of things do they say, what do they worry about, what are they willing to pay for and if you position it correctly, you will get matches. When you deliver it, they will spread the word.
VA can make business owners quite wealthy.
People that have been working in corporate America have the talent, you have just been doing it for somebody else’s profit, but you have the talent. Take that gift and parlay it into some other gift. Find people that want to get it from you and not a big business company.
With a gift or genie zone and zero technical ability, you can have a business and get it off the ground.
Do not discount what you learnt.
Climate is changing; people are paying other people who have the gift.
It is more advantageous to hire people that give you a personal feel to it.
Focus on value.
Hire different types of people to match with your different type of clients.
VA Collaborative offers:
Virtual assistant referrals, she brokers out talent to people
She has clients that needs virtual assistant
Program that says if you have a gift, it´s a short $2,000 a way, $19.97 and then you can sell one program and get the money back for the program, how to get an online business going.
If you are retired, have a gift, have an idea, need some help email Marianne Costello
Marianne Costello Contact Information
Website: www.thevacollaborative.com
Email: info@thevacollaborative.com
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