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VIRTUAL ASSISTANT LEAGUE OF EXPERTS Newsletter #3.1 by Jomar Hilario valeagueofexperts.com Page 1

VIRTUAL ASSISTANT

LEAGUE OF EXPERTS

Newsletter #3-1

By Jomar Hilario and His Team

How To Get Your Dream Online Job Even From Someone NOT HIRING

You want to be hired by someone not hiring yet... here’s two words for you: BE PRO-ACTIVE

Nope, not that one! Dictionary.com defines Proactive as

Creating or controlling a situation by causing something to happen rather than responding to it after.

Lemme find a better word...


LIGAW As in marunong ka bang manligaw? Paano ka ba manligaw? Whaaaaat? We are going to discuss sa VLE paano manligaw? Yes, yup, oo! Because essentially, you are marketing yourself to just not any online employer but you are marketing yourself to high paying employers and you need to use new approaches that will set you apart from the rest of the 90% of the applicants! Balik sa panliligaw... Paano nga ba, Jomar? When you like someone, what’s the first thing that you do?


Give flowers? Nope, di mo pa alam her favorite color eh!


Surprise her with a gift? Lalong hindi, baka kasi she hates surprises, out ka na agad sa listahan nya!


Serenade her? Kamote! Di mo pa nga alam ang type nya na kanta eh. Sirit na Jomar! Usually when you like a person, you try to learn as much information about him or her. You ask around, you ask her friends, what are her interests, her likes and dislikes, you observe her initially.


You gather as much information as you can.

Yes, nowadays it’s so easy. You simply google the person, see what’s on the person’s facebook page, Linkedin account and Twitter account. You browse through her or his blog. In short, you prepare!


Isn’t prepare another word for...

You do the same for your prospective client.

This is the first stage of the courtship system.

WARNING! When reaching out to your prospective client you should never, ever, ever, say, mention, tell, utter, whisper, even think of this major turn-off....


Stand out from the others by saying and thinking this...

According to Ramit Sethi, “the real magic is in doing your homework... 80% of the work happens before you ever sit down for a meeting (for an interview).”


TO DO:

Look through the books that you read

Go through your inbox

and come up with a list of authors, speakers, online marketers that you admire and follow.

Yung buhay lang ha!

Now, do the Jomar Hilario Stage One Courtship for the first 3 in your list. Your mindset should be: How Can I Help His Business? Define the target or ideal customers of your prospective client. Google his ideal customers and what they like about your prospective client

This is personal relationship stuff, don't be stuffy just be friendly. Get to know them as if your kids are about to marry soon. Yes, I'm not kidding. Ask them directly, where can I find people LIKE YOU? Do they make more of you? (or ask it creatively in your mind lang)


What to Google? What to look for in FB, Twitter or LinkedIn Accounts?

What do you look for about your prospective client and his customers?

People who are members of his group/club/association

People in parallel industries

People from his School (c'mon you know what a school is right?)

People who are in his supply chain (suppliers, partners )

People in his village

People who are his competitors

What are they selling today?

You now have a more concrete idea on the background and interests of your prospective client and his customers, think how you can improve your prospective client’s marketing and his business.


Start marketing his business. You can do posters, videos, articles connecting with his clients and promoting his business.

Take screenshots of what you did for the day and email these to him daily.

Do this for 3 weeks.

Once you have shown proof or evidences of what you can do for your prospective client, offer to become a...

What????? Jomar, are you telling me to work for FREE???? Di ba sabi mo I should never give away my articles or write ups for free???


Yes! That’s what I said during the VA Seminar. Now, what I said is to VOLUNTEER. Think Like An Entrepreneur - Work For Free Entrepreneurs look for mentors whom they can work for free and learn the skills. You are a VA and you have to think like an entrepreneur. You are volunteering your services to mentors.


Ramit Sethi, an online marketer, who teaches people how to land their dream jobs has this to say about volunteer or free work:

“I’m a big fan of free work. It’s helped me get jobs and

opportunities I ordinarily never would have gotten.

The two keys are: First, working for a person or

organization that will open doors for you. This might

mean they provide a testimonial, or refer you to others,

or even hire you.

Second, you have to be clear that you don’t usually

work for free.

Here’s the phrase to use: “Well, my normal rate is

$20/hour, but I’m very interested in your project. Why

don’t we do this? I’ll waive my normal fee for 2 weeks,

and if I do an extraordinary job, we can talk about

going to my normal rate.”


Being a volunteer is your way of getting your foot in the door that would have stayed shut if you insisted on doing it the traditional way. How about you, Jomar? Di ba you hire A-Player VAs? Ikaw Jomar, how do you get exceptional virtual assistants to join your team?


I normally do not interview interns nor applicants.

But I may be willing to spend time with someone who will show me things they’ve found in my business that they can improve on and show me exactly how to do it.

As the business owner, you will immediately get my attention.

You’ve suddenly separated yourself from 99% of other applicants.


CASE STUDY: How To Become A Virtual Assistant To Tim Ferriss and Other Best-Selling Authors You know Tim Ferriss, right? Jomar, hindi ba ikaw yun? Ano ba! Ako yung Tim Ferriss of the Philippines pero hindi ako yun!

Sya lang naman yung author ng book na madalas na pinamimigay ko. He used to hire Filipino VAs. Pero hindi iyon ang case study natin. Our subject for this case study is Charlie Hoehn. Who is Charlie Hoehn? Well, ito lang naman ang kanyang credentials: He used to be a Virtual Intern for Seth Godin Editor of blog posts of Tim Ferriss He worked with several best selling authors (write/edit and market their books)


His Story

Charlie Hoehn was the perfect college student. He got good grades, and according to him the kind of student that school counselors tried to mold the other students into. So he thought after college, companies will welcome him with open arms to work for them. For Charlie Hoehn, he got turned down even from the company he interned with for three months. The only two companies that wanted to hire him were mediocre for his tastes. One was asking him to be a chain smoker and the other one turned out to be a pyramid scheme. Charlie was looking for a job in the time of recession. So the competition in job hunting was tough. Those who were experienced were willing to work for salaries almost half of what they usually received. This made the chances of fresh college graduates to get the job very slim. But then eight months after his dampening situation, he was able to work with a Hollywood producer, four New York Times best-selling authors and other entrepreneurs. Billion dollar companies and venture capitalists were now offering him jobs even without him sending out applications. Jomar, what did Charlie do? He implemented Jomar Hilario’s courtship system! Siempre he does not know it as such!


He approached the competition from a different mindset. He emailed the authors and he offered to help. Here is a part of his email to Tim Ferriss

Find his complete email here: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2011/03/10/12-lessons-learned-while-marketing-the-4-hour-body/#more-4904 Did you think Tim Ferriss will bother to answer this email? Remember he receives hundreds of emails per day!


Of course, Tim was intrigued. Tim answered by clarifying some points on his email. He also wanted to know more about the “internship” offer. Ikaw, would you turn down an offer to help in improving your business?

The response sounded very professional and very business-like.


At the very start, Charlie made his terms clear as an intern and the number of hours he was willing to extend. In the last paragraph, Charlie gave Tim a graceful exit just in case he will not get the gig. Tim got him as his intern. End of story? Not yet!!!

Did Charlie do well in his first assignment? Of course, not! You have to read the article to see the major booboos that he committed. Was he kicked out of the internship? No. Because he took responsibility and got everything fixed.


Where’s Charlie now? He is a writer and marketing strategist for best-selling authors and startups. He is also busy working on his own projects. If you want to read more about Charlie’s story, visit: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2011/03/10/12-lessons-learned-while-marketing-the-4-hour-body/#more-4904 So, How Do You Get Your Dream Online Job Even From Someone NOT HIRING? You have to be...


For the premium members:

• Flex those gig-hunting muscles with the 10 Gig Quiz and email us your answer

• Have you listened the interview with our VA Expert: Arvin Peralta? Do watch out for the next premium VA Expert

Topics for VLE Month 4:

• How To Improve Your Life Dramatically Using This TV Replacement Guide (You’ll Say WOW - Grabe!)

• Connect With High-Profile Internet Marketers And Get Them As Your Mentors

Now Live A Marvellous Life, Jomar Hilario


Photo credits: www.mccs-sc.com persuasion-and-influence.blogspot.com www.ehow.com www.qatarliving.com blog.neu.com e-shirokiya.com www.examiner.com goldenkey.edu.vn www.theinnovationdiaries.com www.colourbox.com https://medium.com/advice-to-graduates lifehacker.com sunnylam.ca www.kazrouni.com/ www.jomarhilario.com/ www.fourhourworkweek.com/

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