Loading ...What is up with self-appointed "industry leaders" teaching your marketplace to think you should charge less if you are a "new" Virtual Assistant?
For the most part, the folks who enter this industry (and what the rest of the industry expects) are highly skilled, vastly experienced and led accomplished professional lives in the workforce (our survey indicates an average of 15-20 years in upper-level administrative positions) before opening their businesses.
That qualification doesn’t disappear just because you open a business. In fact, it’s generally the reason you felt qualified to open your business in the first place. Just because you are new to the industry does not diminish the skill, talent and expertise you offer one bit. The value of the support you provide to clients and what it helps them accomplish in their businesses has nothing to do with the age of your business.
It’s a crock and you should be outraged by any "leader" who is telling the marketplace that "newbie" Virtual Assistants should charge less. Those people aren’t looking out for your interests or the profession’s.
And by the way, "newbie" is such a disrespectful term. If you’re a Virtual Assistant, you might be a new business owner, but you ain’t new to the work. At the Virtual Assistance Chamber of Commerce, if we have to make distinctions at all for the sake of a conversation, we prefer "freshman."
