Turning Business Lemons Into Lemonade - Interview with Jessica Silvershein - Journeypreneur Podcast Ep. 152

Victoria: Hey everyone, it’s Sensei Victoria Whitfield here, your journey partner in business, welcoming you back to episode 152 of the Journeypreneur Podcast. This is your source for channeled holistic stress management techniques, guidance, inspiration and motivation to stay on your path to rapid financial ascension and massive impact as a conscious entrepreneur.

So, in this podcast episode, you're in for a special treat, because I have here Jessica Silvershein of YourAssistantIsHere.com, and she is my and many other people's amazing, fabulous virtual executive assistant.

Jessica, you have saved my booty, and I want to thank you for coming on the podcast. Welcome!

Jessica: Thank you. Thank you. So excited to be here.

Victoria: Yeah! And so, I know you're awesome and you know my business on the inside. So, you're very aware of what's going on over here. But here's the thing. This may be the very first time that someone might be hearing about you or seeing you and what you do. And so, if you could, in your own words, tell us what it is you do exactly and especially what are the three things that you're known for?

Jessica: So, I run my own virtual assistant business called Your Assistant Is Here and I work with busy entrepreneurs to help them get their time back so they can focus more on building their business and building their revenues, or simply getting their free time back so they can focus on themselves.

Because as entrepreneurs, we're not only the CEO, CFO, our own accountant, our social media manager, we do everything, and especially right now the working moms who are working and doing virtual education as well for their children. So, I'm here to help them learn how to delegate and really prioritize what is most important to them in their business and what are the things that they can actually delegate so they can get their free time back and focus elsewhere, because nobody wants to be working until 11, 12 o'clock at night. We all have better things to do.

And the three things that I love to work on and that I'm known for are my follow up systems. So, we live in this amazing virtual world now where you can go to multiple networking events in a week and meet hundreds of new people, but you may not have the time to follow up with all of them. So Your Assistant Is Here takes care of that for you.

And what we do is we follow up with everybody that you are meeting at these virtual networking events so you're able to make connections with them. So, it's not only building your business, but it's also building your referral network. You never know where your next client or referral is going to come from. And these virtual networking events are so important to get your name out there, to have a brand presence. And then most of all, see how you can work with other entrepreneurs as well. And we work on a multitude of platforms for that from LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

My personal favorite is LinkedIn. I think there's so many opportunities there for entrepreneurs to connect and engage with one another. And it's such an amazing platform for you to really showcase who you are as a professional and really to brag about all your accomplishments or your client's accomplishments as well. I'm also all about organization and optimization. So, we organize everything for our clients from their inboxes to their Google Drive and really make it something that they're able to use on a day to day basis.

Often, I see clients where their inbox has over a thousand emails, there's no folders, there's no labels. So, we go in and we create an organization system. So, all of their emails from their account in our one place, all their expenses are in one place, and then each client has their own folder as well. That way you're always able to find things and you're not budgeting in your inbox. Where's this email from Sensei Victoria that I can't find? We fix that problem.

We'll also go into clients’ google drive and fix those because often times it's just a jumble of files and again, they can't find anything. So, we really optimized for them. So instead of spending five minutes looking for an Excel spreadsheet, we already know where the Excel spreadsheet is because it's in a folder, have a place, it's all about finding a home for everything.

And then one other thing I love to work on with my clients is getting exposure for their business through organic PR. And I work with a few different media outlets where we're getting our clients featured on web publications like BuzzFeed, and so it just gives a lot of accreditation to these small businesses when they get featured and often times also brings in new clients and referrals for them as well.

Victoria: This is so fabulous, like you are here to save the day, and I love it, I love it, I love it! I love the love hearing all of the fabulous things that you do, because I know that firsthand.

And it's definitely given me so much more a sense of ease, like, being a member of a women's organization, and we're meeting on Zoom all the time. All the time. And to be able to have you have you on my team so I could pass the ball to say, hey, can you follow up with all these lovely people? And I can go off and do the other stuff that, like my energy is spent on not just going out there and sending messages. You're fabulous. Just so wonderful.

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