Build a $10K/Month VA Business with ChatGPT — Step-by-Step Guide & Transcript

[00:00] In this video, I'm going to show you how I asked Chad GPT to build me a $10,000 per month business plan and how you can copy it. Three months from now, what would you want your current reality to look like that's different from now?

[00:13] Maybe you'd like to finally quit that job or to be debt free. Maybe you just want to be making money doing something that you actually love doing. The reality is all of these things are possible. You just need the right plan.

[00:27] So here's what I did. I asked ChatDBT to make me $10,000 fast. So, ChatDBT, I want you to make me $10,000 as fast as possible.

[00:40] Here's how I got you. First, we want to pick a service that you can offer that's in high demand and doesn't require a ton of advanced training. For example, offering inbox management, scheduling appointments, or basic social media posting are all things you can learn relatively quickly.

[00:52] Since you're you, we're going to lean on some grassroots marketing. That means reaching out in local or online communities, letting people know you're available to help, and possibly offering a startup package at a competitive rate to get your first couple of clients quickly.

[01:04] Once you land those first few clients, we focus on delivering amazing service so that you can get referrals or testimonies. So in a nutshell, even if you're brand new, we pick a simple in-demand service, market yourself quickly through personal outreach, and then deliver awesome work so you can scale up from there.

[01:18] Let's make that 10K happen. Now, I've helped over 7,000 people replace their full-time income with virtual assistance. So I was really curious if AI could replicate my process. And to be honest, I did not know if my homeboy Chatty G was going to deliver, but boy did he.

[01:37] And this plan is going to work for you even if you have no social media following, no prior experience as a business owner, and no clue on how to get started. Now, I'm going to break down the entire process for you in this video,

[01:49] including the step-by-step instructions on how to get to those 10K months and the exact ChatTPP prompts I used to do this process incredibly quickly. Now, if you're more of a checklist person, I did compile all of the steps detailed in this video in a step-by-step checklist.

[02:05] It's the exact same one that my VAs use to start their own successful at-home businesses. So you can comment checklist below if you want access to that free list. So here's a step-by-step plan that ChatTPP gave me that I'm going to share with you in this video.

[02:20] First, we're going to cover how to choose the perfect profitable service. Then I'm going to share with you how to build your offer and portfolio, even if you've never had a client. I'm going to share with you how to generate real client outreach messages that actually get responses.

[02:34] And then we'll talk about how to scale that service to $10,000 a month. And don't worry, I'm going to give you every prompt I use for free. Most people tend to overthink starting an online business. What is a business really?

[02:46] You're just exchanging goods that somebody wants, something that's in demand for a service that you can provide at a value that's going to cover the expense of that service. We really overcomplicate the process.

[02:58] You just need to sell something that somebody needs. And you need to sell those services to somebody who actually has the money to pay for them. So here's a question I asked at TPT. What are 10 virtual services I can offer to a small business owner even if I don't have any prior experience?

[03:13] now I like this question because it's perfect even if you are a total beginner but maybe you do have some experience go ahead and add that into this prompt you can say I have 10 years of real estate experience or I've been teaching for 15 years or maybe I am a stay-at-home mom and I

[03:30] love to do my own social media and manage my kids calendars whatever that is although does anyone actually like managing their kids calendars when I asked Hatchipiti this question it gave me these nine beginner-friendly services. Number one, email management. Number two, calendar and

[03:47] scheduling support. Number three, social media management. Number four, data entry. Number five, customer service support. Number six, content repurposing. Number seven, basic bookkeeping.

[04:01] Number eight, document creation. And number nine, podcast or video admin tasks. Now these services may interest you, they may not. In addition to going to chat GPT and asking this question, I do

[04:14] have a totally free quiz that you can take that will actually tell you what services you should offer based off of your personality. It's pretty cool. You can go to the virtualsavvy.com slash quiz in order to take that. Now you may be asking, Abby, are people actually hiring for these types

[04:31] of services? And I definitely like to do some data validation when it comes to asking chat GPT for help, especially when it comes to business. So let me show you some research that I did in order to

[04:43] see if this was legit. All right, so there are three main places that I like to look for online job opportunities. Now there are a ton of other ways to get clients, which I can talk about in some of my other videos. But let's just go ahead and validate this idea with a place that people

[04:59] go to look for jobs all the time. And that is LinkedIn. So I'm jumping into LinkedIn, and I'm going to search for virtual assistant and I'm going to hit, actually, I'm going to go, go ahead

[05:13] and do in jobs and let's see what it pulls up for me. Now, the cool thing about LinkedIn is that you can filter by your local area. I can also just remove my local area because these are virtual

[05:27] jobs. So I could just type in United States here and it definitely is going to give me more results. Now I can actually sort this by the date that it was posted, ones that have under 10 applicants,

[05:40] but looking really quickly, here is a full executive assistant role Here a virtual assistant Now this one does say it needs onsite This is actually a company So if I wanted to go that route that looks like that could be an option

[05:56] Here is a $22 to $24 per hour remote virtual assistant. And so definitely looking like I am seeing some legit positions just from a quick scroll here. Now another place I'll go to to

[06:11] look for remote jobs is Upwork. So I do have an Upwork profile. That's something you'll need to create. But when I go to search for jobs, I'm going to put in virtual assistant, hit enter. Now there are a lot of low paying jobs on Upwork. And so, you know, you really have to know how to

[06:28] search for jobs on Upwork because I'm not looking to get paid $10 an hour. Sorry, I'm just not. So one of the things that I will do is I will either choose this expert level or I could choose hourly

[06:41] and do my minimum at let's say $30 or $35 an hour and that is definitely going to filter out some better results. So even going and searching by most recent and I have my $30 an hour minimum

[06:57] here now it's going to show even some of these but these do say that they are willing to go up to $30 So again, if you pitch these in the right way, definitely could be valuable. But I've been just looking at the sheer number of results here.

[07:11] 18 minutes ago, an hour ago, an hour ago, an hour ago, two hours ago. I mean, people are literally just looking for virtual assistants left and right. And so this is definitely looking like it could be a viable option for me.

[07:27] I definitely validated that people are looking for this type of work. There are jobs out there. So how do you actually turn your services into packages that people will purchase? That's what I'm going to share with you next.

[07:40] Before I go to my next track to be T-Prompt, I want to share with you why I believe that starting with services is the best thing for you to do. You see, there are so many different types of businesses. I could start a food truck.

[07:52] I could start an e-commerce store. However, most of these business models, one, take a lot of startup income. You may not have the money to go out and buy all the supplies for a food truck or to set up a fancy blog and have inventory for an e-commerce store, but you do have services that people are willing to pay money for.

[08:11] In addition, one of the best business models is a reoccurring business model. This means that people aren't just paying you one time, they are paying you month after month after month. So if I had an Etsy store and I was selling bows or purses, I would have to sell a purse and then turn around and sell another one and then turn around and sell another one.

[08:31] However, with virtual assistants, if I can get just one individual to sign up for a $500 per month package, that really isn't just $500 a month. If that client stays with me for 12 whole months, we're talking closer to $6,000 with just one person saying yes.

[08:49] This is the compound effect with virtual assistants. In fact, most virtual assistants can sell out their services with just four or five reoccurring clients. That means you don't need thousands of yeses.

[09:01] You don't need thousands of people coming to your food truck or your e-commerce store or your Etsy shop, right? You need four or maybe five yeses to completely replace your income. Now that we've got that covered, how do you actually create these reoccurring packages?

[09:16] Let's go to chat to BT to find out. Can you create three packages for me to sell these admin services? Break them down into hourly packages, please.

[09:36] Now, the reason I suggest starting with hourly is that at the beginning, you don't know how much time these things are going to take you. I would not want you to commit to managing somebody's entire inbox for $100 a month and

[09:50] then realize it's going to take you 10 hours a day. So go ahead, start with hourly in the beginning. Later on, you can move to value-based pricing and packages. But for right now, hourly is the easiest way to go.

[10:02] All right, so let's see what Chatty G came up with. I am really digging these packages. It looks like there are a few to choose from. What do we've got? Three? Perfect. Three packages. What's awesome about three packages, guys, is that sales psychology, most people will gravitate towards your center package to make that the one you really want to sell.

[10:20] So a starter support package is perfect for business owners who need help catching up on admin tasks. It's going to be a 10-hour-per-month package. $40 an hour is $400 per month. Remember, that's monthly reoccurring income.

[10:34] That would include inbox management and email organization, calendar scheduling, simple data entry, white document formatting, task tracking. I love this. It looks like there's a 10-hour, a 20-hour, and a 40-hour per month.

[10:48] And it even does some positioning for you, which is really cool. Now, if it were me, I would probably go ahead and have my minimum package be a 20-hour per month package.

[11:00] So probably a 20, 40, and an 80. If you think about it, 20 hours per month is only five hours per week. So that is still really, really good. And it's really hard to get a lot done for a business owner in just two and a half hours

[11:14] per week. So that's probably the direction I would go if I was creating these three packages. But this is good, Chetty D. All right, so you have decided on your services. You have three packages ready to sell. Now, how do you actually get the word out?

[11:28] Because let's face it, you're here to get paid. Let go ahead and ask ChatDBT what we need to do in order to start buying clients for this new service So I just ask a simple question Give you 10 ways to find virtual assistant clients without ads Because again we not spending money here We making money

[11:49] Okay, this is how you actually get clients. And you guys, CatGPT absolutely blew me away. I have 110 support every single one of these steps.

[12:02] Now, it broke down 10 steps for you to follow. And I'm going to go over each one and explain kind of my spin on how I would go about doing this. If I had just 30 or 60 days to replace my income, make $10,000 a month quickly,

[12:19] these are the exact steps I would take. Let's dive into them one by one. The first is to leverage Facebook communities. And guys, this one is spot on. I've already shown you the best group to find paying clients.

[12:33] That's the VA Savvy's group. You can go to the virtualsavvy.com slash community if you want to join it. But 100%, this is one that I fully support. I love how Chad to be team talks about not pitching your services.

[12:45] I 1000% agree with you. When you first join a group, definitely do an intro post. That is like your one opportunity to kind of self-promote. But most groups will kick you out if you self-promote. So if you're joining local business groups or real estate investing groups or author groups,

[13:02] if that's what you want your niche to be, you're not going to go and promote. You're just going to go and be incredibly helpful. Don't hide the fact that you're a virtual assistant. In fact, go ahead and post any wins. I chose my business name. I'm so excited.

[13:14] I chose my services. What do you guys think of my packages? Be involved in the group, but do it in a way that doesn't self-promote. So just being helpful and sharing wins about your business, this is definitely how I'd go about it.

[13:26] Number two is to tap into your personal network. I agree with this wholeheartedly. In fact, I have a template that I tell my students to use on day one. Here's the thing. You probably know one small business owner, right? Like, think about it. Do you know someone who owns a mom and pop shop or who is an online health coach or who is a business consultant or a real estate agent or an insurance agent? Do you know one small business owner? Just one.

[13:53] Okay, just like you know one small business owner, everyone you know probably knows one small business owner. So literally, just by telling your network about this business that you started, you're

[14:05] instantly multiplying your network. So many of my students have gotten their very first client with this method. In fact, I'm just going to do it. I'm going to give you the template for free. This is actually something that we use in my paying course for people who want to sell

[14:17] out their VA services, but I'm just going to give it to you. You can go to the virtualsavvy.com slash template. it's yours for free. I want you to use it though, okay? Actually commit that you are going to send this out to 10 people. If you will do it, if you promise me, then write, I commit in the comments.

[14:34] Number three is to use the power of referrals. Now, once you have a paying client, this is such an amazing strategy. I want you to tell your paying clients after you've been working with

[14:46] them for a month or two, hey, I would love to have more clients just like you. You're my dream client, is there anyone you can think of that you could give me a warm intro to? You can also set up a referral incentive like a $25 or $100 gift if they actually send a client your way and that

[15:04] person signs up for a monthly ongoing package. Number four, pitch strategically. Oh, I love this. You guys, how you are going to break through the competition. So let's be honest, there is

[15:16] competition out there. You're not the only person in this industry. However, you can stand apart in the industry. How does value first work? Let me give you an example with a little story. Once upon a time, I was hiring for a Pinterest manager. So I went online and I said, hey, I'm hiring for a

[15:33] Pinterest manager. Go ahead and shoot me your website or portfolio. Give my email address. You guys, I got hundreds of, I'm telling you hundreds. It was ridiculous how many people actually responded. This is going to be a huge, huge job, I thought. Once I started looking at

[15:49] the emails, I noticed something really peculiar. Guys, most people didn't use my name in the email or they called me Ashley. By the way, my name is Abby Ashley, not Ashley. Now, the pastor at our wedding did say, do you, Robert, take you, Ashley? And I forgave him. Pastor Kim, I forgive you. But

[16:05] if you're trying to pitch me and you are really crafting a personalized pitch, you've got to get their name right. In addition, most people just sent me their portfolio or the website. Now granted, that's what I asked for, but you guys, out of over a hundred pitches, over a hundred, there are only

[16:22] two people who had an attachment with Value First. I was hiring for a business manager and these two people actually just went onto my blog, spent 10 minutes creating a couple of images and said,

[16:36] hey, I just wanted to give this to you for free. I bet you can guess who I hired. It was one of these two individuals. They didn't just tell me that they could do the job. They showed me and they went above and beyond, which made them stand out from the competition.

[16:50] This is value first. Number five is to optimize your social profiles 100%. Now, I do not believe in just posting on social media to get clients when you're first starting out. That's a great strategy for later on

[17:02] when you're wanting to kind of build a warm audience. But in the beginning, you need to be building relationships, okay? So I don't want you to get too caught up on the social media aspect. However, yes, please have a Facebook page.

[17:14] Go ahead and set up maybe your Instagram. But I wouldn't post more than just once a week because, again, that's not where we're getting clients at this stage of the game. You got to be building relationships Number six would be freelance marketplaces We already covered how to find those jobs that I shared with you the Upwork strategy but you can use that on other freelance platforms as well

[17:35] The key here, guys, is to filter by those high dollar amounts and then to use value first in your pitching. Number seven is local networking. You guys, this one is such an opportunity and so

[17:47] many of us miss it. Yes, there's a lot of competition in the VA world, but there's not as much competition as you think and you'll realize this when you go to your first local networking event. In fact, the other day I sat down with three of our most successful virtual

[18:02] assistants, Cherie, Chelsea, and Candice and asked them what's working right now for you in the BA space. And other than referrals, the thing they told me was live in-person networking. Now at the

[18:14] end of this video, I will share with you exactly how to find local networking events and how to master those events. So wait till the end of the video and I'll share that with you.

[18:26] Number eight is to collaborate with other service providers. And I really, really love this one. Guys, you should be making friends who are other VAs, other service providers. If you want to provide virtual assistant admin services for real estate agents, then find somebody who offers social

[18:41] media for real estate agents and then agree to give referrals back and forth to one another. This is a great way to not only make friends, but to start getting in more leads. Number nine is to post helpful content.

[18:54] And again, I do agree with this, but I would not go overboard. I see too many people making the mistake of just posting on social and just hoping that people are going to magically find them from their socials.

[19:06] And while I do think posting can be a good strategy, it's not the only one. So don't only do this on this list. Please, please, please post once a week. Do helpful content. In fact, I would so much rather you be in a Facebook group and post helpful content to an individual and really help one person at a time than really doing the social media blast that you're just starting out.

[19:27] Because again, helping people one-to-one and building those relationships is how you're going to find clients quicker. You can move on to a social media strategy later. And then lastly is offering a free trial or project.

[19:39] Now, if you've followed me for a while, you may be thinking, Abby, you're actually telling me to work for free because I never, ever say to do this. However, I have come around to the idea a little bit if, if, if, if you do exactly what this post says, which is to make sure that there is a container.

[19:55] This is a one-time inbox cleanup or this is a, you know, one week trial period and that's it. And I would only offer this again to somebody that you know is your ideal client who has the finances to pay you.

[20:09] Because most people who will agree to let you work for free are really not going to be your dream client. So I'd really, really be careful with this one. However, you definitely can get some experience, get some referrals by doing this for a one-time project.

[20:25] I would just make sure it's not something that's going to take you more than a couple hours because we're not here to work for free. All right, which one of these methods do you think is the best? Which one can you commit to? My recommendation is to do all of them.

[20:38] guys, if you're going to do this, if you're going to make $10,000 per month, it's time to stop waffling. It is time to actually get your name out there and start marketing your business.

[20:50] Really committing to the process, really going all in is what this is all about. But guys, you have to actually do the work. You have to send the ask. You have to make the connection. You have to commit to this marketing plan. So we've gotten around the video and the question

[21:03] is, is this really going to make me $10,000 a month? How do I scale this process? So if I sell an 80 hour per month package to a small business owner, that would be working for them about 20

[21:16] hours per week. And my rate averages $40 an hour. That's going to be $3,200. Now this is really awesome with one client. Remember, if you can get that client to sign up for you for an entire year,

[21:29] That is a $38,000 package, which is pretty incredible. But we all only have so many hours in the day, and we're not actually looking to work 80 hours a week instead of 40 hours a week, right?

[21:42] So once you've sold out your services, let's say that you are working 40 hours a week, you've sold two of those 80-hour-per-month packages, those 20-hour-per-week, you're still making $6,400 a month, which is not quite hitting the $10,000 mark, although you did

[21:57] do it with just two clients. So my advice from here is to start subcontracting. The idea is this. Every time that you get a client for $40 an hour, you go ahead and you pay a subcontractor

[22:10] $15 to $20 an hour in order to do the work for you. They do the work. You take a look at it, send it on to your client. You're basically the middleman here making sure that the work gets done well.

[22:22] You're the quality assurance and you maintain the relationship with that small business owner. This is how many of my students have gone on to make six, multiple six, and even seven figures in their businesses by using this agency model.

[22:34] Here's the thing, guys. ChatGPT can write your business plan, but it isn't going to put in the work. AI doesn't necessarily replace hustle, but it does replace excuses. When you combine these AI tools with your own creativity, the knowledge that you bring, and that value-first mentality, you can accomplish anything.

[22:51] Now, if you want access to my step-by-step checklist that covers everything we talked about here, in addition to some of the items we didn't like, choosing a business name, setting up your legalities and contracts, etc., you can go ahead and download that at thevirtualsavvy.com checklist.

[23:06] And I did promise you that I was going to give you my video on how to absolutely thrive at live networking events, so I'll go ahead and do that now. You can hit it right here. And that's it for today's video.

[23:18] I'll see you in the next one.