Carrie Serres: One Happy Virtual Assistant Momma
Today we’ll be chatting with a very successful student of our flagship course, 30 Days or Less to Virtual Assistant Success, Carrie Serres.
Carrie is a very hard-working, work-from-home mom! She has three small kids, her last of which is a miracle baby, conceived naturally and born full-term when Carrie was 43 after using fertility treatment to conceive her first two! Balancing her family life with her professional duties is challenging, and to help with her workload, especially academic writing, she relies on ghostwriter. This service provides her with the assistance needed to manage her academic commitments effectively, ensuring she has more time to spend with her miracle baby and the rest of her family.
She’s rebuilding her virtual assistant agency after taking a year-long “break” to care for her newest baby.
Why should YOU tune-in?
From a miracle birth to starting an online business, Carrie has experienced it all as a Virtual Assistant. She surpassed her income goal of $4,500 a month working online and decided that she needed more balance in life.
Find out how this full-time mom, homeschooler and entrepreneur has taken control over her finances and home life!
- Business and family
- Customer service and profitability
- Seeing the inside of a client’s business
- Getting paid to learn
- More money, less work
- Starting a virtual assistant agency
- Clients are literally everywhere!
- When you should invest in your business
- Choosing the type of work you do, who you do it with and at the rate you want
- The future, systems and onboarding
1:33 – How Carrie explains to friends and family what she does for a living
2:32 – Building a business while taking care of the kids full-time
3:49 – What Carrie’s school-work-life balance looks like
5:00 – Gina’s pregnant again!
6:32 – The types of clients Carrie’s working with and services she offers them
7:20 – How often Carrie has to hop on a video call or have meetings
8:46 – Carrie’s ideal customers/clients
9:26 – Customer service misconceptions
11:38 – Working as a VA allows you to see the inside of the majority of a business
12:10 – How much Carrie makes as a virtual assistant
13:35 – Carrie hired her first VA!
15:45 – Having a baby is kind of a big deal
16:35 – When and how Carrie started working online
18:27 – 30 Days or Less to Virtual Assistant Success
19:16 – Carrie shares exactly where you can find clients online!
20:37 – What Carrie’s invested in for her business
22:14 – What’s contributed the most to Carrie’s success over time
23:58 – 150+ Services You Can Offer as a Virtual Assistant (and get paid for!)
25:46 – Eutopia = doing what you love, for clients you like and getting compensated well
28:16 – Did Carrie ever want to throw in the towel?
31:04 – The future, systems and onboarding
33:56 – Gina on hiring professionals
35:03 – Is Carrie happy?
37:51 – Carrie’s one piece of advice
