How Abbey Ashley Went from Virtual Assistant to 7-Figure Entrepreneur

Virtual assistants are in high demand because they provide an important service to busy entrepreneurs. Working as a virtual assistant is also a gateway to your own entrepreneurial journey. It prepares us for launching our own products and building businesses that fulfill us and give us freedom.

Some of the most successful online entrepreneurs started out as virtual assistants and worked their way up to become CEOs in their own right.

Offering our services online allows us to uncover what we’re good at, what we love, and where we can offer the most value. This allows for us to build something that will make an impact. How do we get into the world of virtual assistance? What kind of services can we offer?

In this episode, I’m joined by Abbey Ashley, founder of The Virtual Savvy. She shares how she went from VA to CEO, and how she found success by focusing on one product.

 

The best way for me to make money is to improve on the things I already have, instead of creating new things. -Abbey Ashley

 

3 Things You’ll Learn in This Episode

• There is a huge market for VAs:
  
  As businesses grow, it stops making financial sense for the owner to spend their time on tasks that don’t make more money or move the business forward. More and more entrepreneurs are realizing they need help, and the virtual assistant niche is thriving as a result.
  
  
• How to go from generalist VA to niched down entrepreneur:
  
  Being a VA is an entry point to offering services online. It gives us the launching pad to figure out the problem we can solve, which becomes the service we offer. Starting out as a generalist allows us to attract clients, build our confidence, and then we’ll start seeing what we’re good at. Gradually that will lead to the development of a valuable service.
  
  
• How building upon one product/service gives us time freedom:
  
  It takes longer to get traction on a new product and marketing avenue than it does to pour our time and effort into perfecting a product that already exists. By pouring fuel on a product and service we already have, we can prioritize better, maximize our time freedom, and build something that has long-term value.

 

Guest Bio- 

Abbey Ashley is the Founder of The Virtual Savvy. She helps aspiring virtual assistants launch and grow their own at-home business from scratch. Abbey started her own virtual assistant business as a new mom and was able to double the salary from her full-time corporate job, working only 20 hours a week... in just 30 days! She's since gone on to grow a seven-figure business and retire her husband ALL from her at-home business. It's now her passion to help others start their own VA business so they can taste the freedom and flexibility of entrepreneurship as well. 

To register for Abbey’s free training on Becoming a Booked Out Virtual Assistant visit https://boss-mom.com/abbey/.