How to become a Pinterest virtual assistant, interview #9 – Meet Teagan

If you ever wondered how to become a Pinterest virtual assistant or how to make money using Pinterest, this interview will REALLY help you out.

I come across questions about how to become a Pinterest Virtual Assistant almost every other day and I was happy when I could interview people who have made a full-time income doing this.

So, I am EXCITED to bring this interview where we talk about in and outs of how to become a Pinterest Virtual Assistant.

This is the ninth interview of our series and we welcome Teagan Alex, who will tell you about how to become a Pinterest Virtual Assistant.

If you haven’t read the first three remote job interview, you can check it out

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For those of you who have read the first eight interview of our remote job series, you can skip directly to the interview about how to become a Pinterest virtual assistant.

Today, we have Teagan Alex with us and she will talk about tips and tricks to be a Pinterest virtual assistant.

If you are a new reader, let me tell you something about this series.

A lot of my readers are looking for remote jobs and a few of you may be struggling to grow your online business. I receive emails where a lot of you have asked me questions on how to find remote jobs, start working from home, are work from home jobs scam, what are my options etc

The purpose of this interview post is to tell you how others have successfully created a dream job of their own, earning a full-time living (at least $1k-2k+ a month) and staying at home to work.

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The questions in this interview will help you understand how to become a Pinterest virtual assistant

• What are the different remote jobs
• How to use your existing experience and convert it into a work from home job
• What resources can help you
• What are the challenges that others have faced and how they overcame it
• How much money can you expect to make (and, no whopping 100k claims, I promise)
• Whether or not your inhibitions are true

If you read the entire interview series, I promise you will overcome some of your challenges and motivated into taking action (because real people are going to talk about how they did it and how you can too)

And, what better time in the year, than NOW to start working from home. It is the holiday season and you can take out a few hours each day working on setting the work from home job that you like.

Today, we have Teagan Alex with us and she will talk about how to become a Pinterest virtual assistant. So, let’s start!

#1 Tell me something about yourself and your work

 

Note: If you are new to the word “Virtual Assistant”, I highly recommend you to check out this blog post on How to become a Pinterest Virtual Assistant and earn $100 an hour along with this detailed resource. 

 

#2 How did you become a Pinterest Virtual Assistant?

Note: Start learning the tricks of the trade and know exact how to become a Pinterest virtual assistant by checking out this video that will tell you a lot about being a successful VA

After working with the company for some time I was pulled into the CEO’s office and I was demoted. I was crushed. I thought I was killing my job and making huge gains for the company.

When I asked my CEO why the demotion, she told me that I wasn’t cut out to be a leader. So I gathered my things and went to work on proving her wrong.

I worked 40 hours a week for her and in my off hours, I worked on my own business. After about a month I had a plan in place to get the business up and going.

I started by offering Pinterest Virtual Assistance services to friends and family for free, and from there I took referrals from them and started to grow.

I told myself that when I made as much as I did in my business as I did at my full-time job I would quit. It took 2 weeks. I have been working from home since then!

#3 Did you have any inhibitions about working from home? If yes, how did you overcome it? Did something help (any online resource)?

I was terrified of working at home at first. I was a mom to a 4-month-old at the time, and I didn’t know how I was going to balance work and being a good mother.

I was also worried that I would get to a point where I would go lax on my work and I would just want to nap or do whatever I could instead of focusing on my business.

I wanted to make sure I would follow through. To overcome it, I worked at it. I started with a game plan. At the time my kid took 2 naps a day, and went to bed at 8p.

So I knew I could work during both of his naps, and then again after he went to bed. So I used those nap hours as power hours to get as much done as I could.

If it spilled over, I would bring my computer into the living room and put toys up for him to play with so I could be with him while he played.

As far as being lax and focusing on my business I set a goal for myself to read a new business /self-development book every month.

I also joined a bunch of business groups online and tried to surround myself with as many people that I wanted to aspire to be like. I wanted to have people that I looked up to, that I could push myself to be like.

One of the best things that helped me was the Societe.

#4 How long have you been doing this as your main source of living? When did you start seeing money coming in?

#5 Can you share the approximate (monthly or yearly) income from this online business? How much does a Pinterest VA make?

When I first started I was making about $3k a month, as my business has scaled I have managed to have $9k to $11K months consistently.

If you learn how to become a Pinterest Virtual Assistant, you can scale quickly and earn $3k+ a month easily.

#6What were the top 3 challenges that you faced while getting started?

Fear of failure for sure, Judgement from others that what I was doing was crazy, and where on earth I was going to find clients.

#7 If you could go back in time, what would you change that would help you get where you are (now)  faster?

I would learn my ideal client day one. That way I could have made everything specified for them from the start. I would have also put systems in place from day one, it is easy when business is good to forget that you have to be actively doing things like blogging, freebies, emails and such to continue to get customers.

If you aren’t doing those you can see the dips, and those are hard to deal with.

#8 What does a typical day of your look like? How much time in a day do you spend on this?

I am up by 8:30 with my little. We have breakfast, chat a bit and watch a set of cartoons. I shower and get dressed and ready for the day.

Then I work on getting my toddler ready for the day. We play for a bit and then I feed him lunch. I drop him off at school and I come home.

While he is at school I come home and get straight to work and use those 3 hours as power hours. I eat a snack in there somewhere, maybe.

I pick up my son from school and we come home and have a snack. If I am in the middle of a project (which I usually am), I turn on a movie for him and I work another few hours.

We spend a few hours playing, doing puzzles and hanging out. Then we have dinner, and get ready for bed. Once he is in bed and asleep around 8:30, I get back on and work until about 1am.

So on a good day I spend about 9 hours on my business.

#9 What types of skills and/or tools are needed to run this online business successfully?

Dedication to what you are doing, patience, and focus for sure. As far as tools I would for sure recommend getting a email with your URL, a site, social media and google drive.

I also use Trello or Asana to get myself organized and on track. Putting a system in place that works for you really helps you run your business.

That way you can make sure you accomplish the same tasks every day and then you are ready to tackle the things that come your way or the ones you want to do.

#10. Do you recommend any course, blog etc which can help in this journey?

I highly recommend you to sign up on the waitlist of becoming a Pinterest VA and learn the tricks of the trade from someone who earns $4k+ a month working part-time. 

#11. Last but not least, what should be the learning process (or steps) for someone aspiring to be a Pinterest VA?

Learn your craft as well as you can before you take on clients. Granted you aren’t going to know everything they are going to ask for, and there are going to be things that come up that you have no idea how to tackle until you are in there. But the more prepared you can be before the better.

That way when you sit down to have consultations and talk with people you can answer their questions and they feel confident that you know what they are talking about.

Don’t go for all the shiny tools right off the bat – just get the things that you need to do your job. As you grow and learn then upgrade.

I would also find a ‘mentor’ of sorts that you can go look at and see how they are doing things, so you have somewhat as a road map to kind of look at.

Another go-to resource is The Pinterest VA Shop  – It is a culmination of everything required to tackle Pinterest problems. From pin graphics, checklists and templates, you have everything you need to manage Pinterest for your clients.