Because of Do the Boring Work I spend a LOT of time in the "remote work search" space on all social media platforms. I get messages and respond to posts all the time from business owners asking for recommendations of reliable VAs. I have dozens of extremely talented VAs in Do the Boring Work, but I also know of many VAs that are not in my community that have just as much to offer. Before now, I had no easy way to recommend ALL OF YOU at the same time. I didnt want to build a whole new website just for this with forms and pay walls and membership capabilities. Managing Skool communities PLUS my own clients [Yes, I am an active VA] is already a lot. This community changes that. This space will serve as a public VA Directory. The Classrooms will be full of categories and VA profile info. The Community will be full of conversations, tips and advice for VAs. (No spam or self promos). All spaces will be public and searchable benefitting from Skools robust platform SEO along with Googles search and the planned paid ads. Why on Skool? 1. Skool is our ideal pool - its full of business owners who are here to grow. And one of the first conversations had amongst new business owners is to HIRE HELP! 2.SKOOL itself is growing into a community powerhouse. Many Skool hosts gain members from organic Skool traffic. With an outreach engagement plan, and paid ads I think we can be a good resource for VA visibility and business owners who find us. The first step is to fill the directory with 50 VAs ready to work. Next will be paid ads driving traffic from Facebook, LinkedIn, and Reddit etc., once we hit our target number of service providers In the meantime, we will be doing organic outreach for both VAs and business owners looking for help. The sooner we fill, the sooner can run paid ads.. If you want to grow your visibility and help shape what this directory becomes — Join us!

I use Notta AI [that's an affiliate link] to transcribe every call I'm on. My AI bot is always in the room and everyone who hops on a call with me knows it. The reason is simple: the transcript doesn't lie. My notes do. Here's what recording your client calls does for your VA business: ✅ Serve them better - go back and catch every detail so nothing falls through the cracks ✅ Build custom proposals faster - their exact words and pain points are already in the transcript ✅ Spot new service opportunities - clients tell you what they need in conversation all the time without realizing it. The recording catches it so you don't miss it. ✅ Create SOPs without sitting down to write them - the transcript does the heavy lifting ✅ Cover yourself - what was agreed to is in writing. No he said she said. 🚨 Always record with permission. Always. 🚨 The work you're already doing in these client calls is generating assets you're leaving on the table every single time you don't hit record. Start hitting record. 🎙️ What tool do you use? Drop it below. 👇🏽 Attached is a screen shot of the notes captured from my last open work session. It was about starting our email list! 😉

I am so dang excited about this! Do any of you use Claude Design? Or in this way? Threads is my space. But I need to start showing up on Instagram too. And while I love Canva, I am Canva'd out after all the work I do in it daily for clients. I was watching a YouTube video earlier and learned that Claude can create graphics and send them directly to Canva in a format you can actually edit. I spent 2 hours figuring this out. Now it's my new favorite hack and I can finally commit to create quote graphics for my Insta with no excuses. I created 12 simple branded quote graphics for my account. Before you try it, do these two things first. They're EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. 1. Connect Claude to Canva. Go to claude.ai → profile → Settings → Connectors → find Canva → hit Connect. You only do this once. 2.🚨🚨🚨WARNING🚨🚨🚨 Write your prompt in regular Claude chat first. Claude Design uses separate token limits and requires very specific prompting. Before you open Claude Design, ask Claude chat to help you build your prompt. Give it the text for your graphics, your color hex codes, font style, size, how many graphics, and your Instagram handle for the bottom. The more specific your prompt, the fewer back and forth messages you burn through. Then follow these steps: Step 1 — Open Claude Design. Go to claude.ai/design and start a new project. It's completely separate from your regular Claude chat. Step 2 — Paste your prompt and let it build. Claude generates everything on the canvas on the right. Use your arrow keys to flip through and review each page. Step 3 — Request editable files (don't skip this). When you're happy with the designs, type this exactly: "Re-export to Canva as a PPTX with editable text layers." 🚨🚨🚨 If you skip this step your graphics come into Canva as flat images you cannot edit. 🚨🚨🚨 Step 4 — Click the Canva link. Claude gives you a link that says Open in Canva. Click it. Your file opens with all pages ready to edit.

I have learned SO much in creating this. I have SOOOOOOO much to share including the complete breakdown in a PDF for you on HOW i created the directory. It was so much and yet so simple. The landing page may not be perfect still - lots to work through. And the blog will go live this week. But ya'll we have a directory - on its own website - outside of Skool - that can be Googled. www.hire-a-va.net I'm so excited! Video with all the details coming soon!