Hey there mama!
I was chatting with a couple of amazing mamas in the Free Mama Facebook Group the other day, and this one question kept showing up, again and again, in slightly different variations each time.
How can I market myself as a Virtual Administrative Consultant if I’ve never done this kind of work before?
How do I tell a prospect I can help her if I don’t have experience?
How do I convince someone to hire me if I have no proof that I can do this job?
Your version of this question might be a little big different from the ones you see here — but you get the idea.
You’re worried about how you’re going to deliver results. You’re worried about what to say and what to do to land clients in the first place — and you’re probably also a bit nervous about actually doing the work once they hire you.
Totally understandable, Mama — and completely curable. On both fronts.
Let’s start by making a list of all the things you’ve ever done in your life for the first time, with no experience. Well, maybe not ALL the things — but let’s take three kind of significant things.
- You walked one day, when you had never walked before. You probably don’t remember this, but you did it, and it was a REALLY BIG DEAL.
- You drove a car for the first time at some point. You got behind the wheel of a 2-ton machine made of steel, and drove.
- You became a mom. For the first time. With no previous experience. Someone entrusted an ENTIRE HUMAN to you.
And if you’ve ever had any kind of job — from babysitting the neighbor’s kids to working retail to flipping burgers to the 9-5 you have now — you had a first day once. You had that time when you showed up and didn’t know what to do. You had to learn stuff. You probably made mistakes.
What happened, Mama? Did the sky come crashing down? Did the stock market crash? Did they fire you on the spot?
Probably not.
You made mistakes, someone pointed them out and showed you how to correct them, and life continued.
Maybe you felt a little foolish for an instant, or maybe you let it roll right off you.
You didn’t immediately give up and walk away.
You didn’t decide to never try anything new again.
Can you imagine what would happen if the first time you fell down you decided to give up walking?
Would you ever tell your kids to give up just because something was a little bit hard?
So why, Mama, WHY do you think that it’s okay to tell YOURSELF to give up?
It’s not okay.
There are people out there right now who need your help. They’re drowning in work they don’t have time to do. They’re desperate for someone to take a bit of the load. And plenty of times, they don’t care whether or not you’ve done that exact task before.
Are you willing to learn? Can you follow directions? Are you confident in your ability to help?
Then say that. Exactly those words: “I’m really confident that I can help you with this.”
You have the entire Internet at your disposal, PLUS all of the tutorials inside The Free Mama Movement, AND an entire community of women who want to help you succeed. You CAN do this, Mama.
The next time someone asks you, “Hey, mama, can you do __________?” and it’s something you’ve never done before, here’s how I want you to answer:
“I’m really confident that I can help you.”
Because there’s a really good chance that’s all your prospect needs to hear. She’ll hire you, you’ll do the job — and you’ll figure it out.
And then the next time someone asks you, you’ll KNOW you can do it — because you’ve done it before.
Everyone starts somewhere. You can start right here, right now.
Are you ready?
P.S. I need a favor, Mama! If you read and enjoyed The Free Mama book, could you pretty please with TWO cherries on top head over to Amazon and leave a review? If we can get 50 reviews on the book, we appease the Amazon gods, and it will be SO MUCH EASIER to help even more mamas find the book. THANK YOU!