Working from home part 3, hope you are staying safe and all is working on during this time, if you work for big corporation wit a Disaster Plan and A Business Continuity Plan, you already had a company backpack with a medium to high spec ready to go, you have a home internet ready and hopefully a home office set up, you used to spend the whole day in the office in front of your computer, now you can do the same, but from home. The Excel sheet you spend 8 hours perfecting with data from 4 different data warehouses will be the same no matter where you are in the world.
Working from home from someone that used to be an Uber Driver for the past 5 years, is something new, and this are some tools that can help you, if you are going to become a Virtual Assistant in Fiverr as we mentioned before you will need tools, for sake of simplicity this post will cover all you can do using a Windows or Mac machine (Ubuntu on next post), running the latest updates, and using your preferred Web Browser.
Using your browser you will visit and login on your Fiverr account, and post your Gig for Virtual Assistant, lets say selling your services for 4 hours for $50, for example, any work that you perform that is not in the cloud is something that can be lost with a single virus attack or let say milk spill over a keyboard, it will happen! So the first tool I suggest Google Sheets (free for personal use) inside Google Sheets you can create an Excel like list (you learned the basic of Excel in Youtube or Lynda) and all work you done inside this tool is already saved in the cloud. You new client must likely will send you some documents, product brochures, pictures, etc. You can use Google Drive (free for personal use) to store all this in the cloud. Your organization skills will help you a lot, and the client will be happy with your services, Google Calendar is another excellent free tool that you can use to keep your projects in track, remember all this tools create documents that can be shared, and you still in control.
If tomorrow your computer/laptop bites the dust, all you need is a machine with a connection to the internet and a browser and you are back online in no time, most of this tools have a phone app, that let you access from your phone, the Fiverr app is pretty handy to keep up with clients request. Remember until you have lots of great reviews, and stars in your profile, how fast you can answer a question can make a difference on getting a new client or not. Google Docs perfect for letters and task lists.
What a Virtual Assistance can do, anything, the books “Laptop Millionaire” (M.Anastasi) “4 Hour Work Week” (T. Ferris) and “Click Milionaire” (S.Fox) give you great tips how to be an Virtual Assistance, and yes if you are wealthy enough how to use the VAs to grow your business.
Until next time, be safe wash your hands, stay inside.