30 Days or Less to VA Success Review

This is my full and personal review on “30 Days or Less to Virtual Assistant Success.” A course I personally bought on my journey to virtual assisting. 

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Becoming A Virtual Assistant

When I first started toying with the idea of work from home jobs, one that kept singing out to me was the idea of becoming a virtual assistant.

It just sounded right up my alley.

• Making your own hour
• Working while wearing flannel pants
• But the biggest draw: Making money doing something I actually enjoy doing!

The only part I had trouble with was figuring out how to get started!

After all, how do you become a virtual assistant?

So I decided I wanted to cut to the chase and not spend months learning how to begin, so I purchased 30 Days or Less to Virtual Assistant Success and dug in.

30 Days or Less to Virtual Assistant Success

Let me go over a few of the basics first. The course 30 Days or Less to Virtual Assistant Success is one of the most recognized online courses to help virtual assistants get their business up and running successfully.

It was created by Gina Horkey, from Horkey Handbook, who became a self-made virtual assistant and started charging $100+ an hour for her services.

Of course, not every VA makes this much. In fact, a lot of virtual assistants greatly undercharge for their work, simply because they do not know how to position themselves as an expert.

So just what does the course teach?

How to Set Up Your Business

Most importantly, the course goes over how to set up your business step by step.

The course helps you figure out:

• WHO do you want to work with
• WHAT services you should provide
• HOW to get yourself and your business out there and seen
• HOW to find your first client
• HOW to figure out what to charge and how to get paid
• WHAT your business should have from the business aspect and protecting yourself (and your money!)
• HOW to get stuff done faster as a VA (So you can get paid more!)

It pretty much covers everything you need to know about setting up a professional business for yourself and contains TONS of resources to make things super easy.

Like setting up your EIN, what to do with your bank account, how should you list your business (LLC? Sole proprietor?) what to do if you make a mistake, what tools should you use.

The list goes on.

What I Like about 30 Days or Less to VA success

Here are the things that I really liked about the course. In my opinion, the course is worth every penny. Here are my favorite things about Horkey Handbooks virtual assistant course.

It Teaches You How To Build Your VA Business

What I really liked most about the course is its layout. I know that sounds funny. But I needed to start making money as fast as possible when I quit my job.

I simply couldn’t afford wasting time trying to figure out what to do next. Cut and dry, I needed money right way.

The way the course is set up, I was able to work through the steps fairly quickly, do the exercises and get my business up and running.

It literally walks you through what you should do next and you pretty much just go through the course and start checking things off.

I loved The Facebook Group

And, while I’m not in their facebook group anymore (I’ve since stopped offering VA services and focus fully on my blog now) I also like that they have a “leads” facebook group.

It’s a small monthly fee, but totally worth getting as it’s designed to help you find clients quickly and have lots of great conversations with other virtual assistants who have all taken the course.

It Teaches You How To Make What You’re Worth

The biggest reason to take this course, it teaches you how to find clients that will pay you what you’re worth!

Let’s face it, there are still quite a few people out there who still think that virtual assistants are supposed to be low paid. (Seriously, in some areas they think $5 an hour is reasonable!!)

You know, the ones posting VA jobs in those very popular job boards. This is NOT how you want to find clients. They won’t value you and truly think that VAs are a dime a dozen.

Its Constantly Updated

Every year or so the course gets a lot more added to it. This usually means the price goes up too as more value is added.

The cool thing is that every time they update it, you get all the updates for free! The course has had a couple of updates since I’ve purchased it, and it just keeps getting more info added.

This is a big deal in online course culture. I have purchased quite a few courses that were never updated and became obsolete. I was happy to see that Gina loves her course so much that she keeps up with it regularly.

The Good:

The course is solid and packed full of actionable content. Following the plan you should be up and running in 30 days.

What I Didn’t Like About the Course

I don’t like to nitpick, but I do feel it’s important to disclose the good and the bad to you guys.

While the course is jam-packed with knowledge on setting up and building your VA business, there aren’t any modules that teach you how to be an expert in any single niche.

There is a module dedicated to “exploring the niches” and goes over the top 10 in demand niches in an overview type fashion.

But I feel that this module is designed to mostly help you figure out 2 things.

• If this is a service you should offer
• And how to get started learning more

So, while she does give lots of resources on how to learn more about these specific niches, it’s not in the course itself.

For example, let’s say you decide you want to manage social media. You won’t learn how to be a social media manager. You’d have to learn that somewhere else.

The Bad:

The course is NOT cheap and there are no refunds. While it gives you all of the foundations of building a VA business, it won’t teach you specific services. You’ll have to learn those separately.

Who Should Take this Course

Those who should take 30 or less to VA success are those interested in becoming a virtual assistant.

If you know you want to work from home and want to get started quick and in a hurry, this course is for you. You’ll get your business set up, organized and professional quickly.

Of course, it takes work! The course will only help you if you actually go through the steps.

Who Shouldn’t Take this Course

If you are still sitting on the fence and not sure you want to be a VA, this course probably isn’t for you. Unless you just like taking these kinds of courses for fun. (Lord knows I’ve taken lots of those, but I’m a course junkie!)

Also, the price can be substantial for those who aren’t making a side income yet. If you have to choose between eating this month or the course. You shouldn’t take this course.

It Gave me Confidence

You may be thinking “I don’t need a course that teaches me to be confident.”

Well good, because it doesn’t teach you to be confident. Instead, it gives you the tools you need to build your business from the ground up, step by step.

And this does something to people psychologically.

I mean, do you know what the #1 thing that stops people from being successful in their business is?

It’s fear and insecurity. 

Think about it.

Not knowing…

• What to do next
• Where to look for awesome clients
• How to set yourself up professionally
• How to protect your assets (aka…money.)
• How to take payments and charge for monthly, recurring services.
• What tools to use

That’s when the overwhelm starts creeping in.

And the insecurity.

After all, thinking about all the things we don’t know how to do but need to do…. is stressful!

Taking a course that helps guide you through each aspect is basically pressing the easy button.

Because the bottom line is you will either have to pay money to learn to do these things. Or pay in time. And if it takes you 100+ hours to do everything, what does that cost you?

If This Course Helped You Make Money Why Aren’t You Still a VA?

So above I mentioned I’ve stopped doing VA work.

When I was doing VA work, I was making up to $200 a day, with maybe 4-5 hours of work.

This was good money, but I am a blogger at heart. I prefer writing about my experiences on my own platform now and choose to spend my time doing this as my full-time career.

I really enjoyed the work I did as a VA, but it was mostly content creation for other bloggers.

Now I create content for myself full time instead. It fits better with my long term goals.

But, if I ever do need the extra money, I know I could easily slide back into VA work if I needed to.

What to Do Next?

If you think this course may be for you, go to 30 Days or Less to Virtual Assistant Success and read more about it.

You can also read some awesome success stories other students have had here. I LOVE reading other people’s stories on how they made it!

Finally, you can pick up a really great freebie from the course over here: 150+ Services a VA can offer.