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Side Hustle School

#1323 - Q&A: How to get my first customer as a digital personal assistant?

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Entrepreneurship,, Side Hustle, Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Small Business

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Today’s listener wants to become a digital personal assistant to help people with tech support. How should he proceed? 


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0:00.0

Crypto doesn't sleep, so neither do we.

0:04.0

Crack-in client support is available 24-7, 365 days a year by call, chat, or email.

0:11.0

We're here for you whenever you need us.

0:14.0

Give us a shout at crackin.com forward slash support proof, not investment advice.

0:19.0

Crypto trading involves risk of loss.

0:22.0

I'd like to begin today's episode with a shout out to everybody out there who is in search of their first customer.

0:32.0

You're looking for your first customer, first client, first sale.

0:36.0

This is a very important milestone and that's why for all of our case studies, whenever we do those stories,

0:41.0

which I now do twice a week, but for the first three years of the program I did every single day.

0:46.0

One of the questions I always ask is, do you remember your first sale?

0:50.0

I learned to ask that question many years ago when I was first talking to accidental entrepreneurs and other people who started side hustles,

0:58.0

because I noticed that there was a high percentage of people who actually remember that first sale.

1:02.0

Not everyone does, but it's not unusual at all to hear that achieving that milestone feels incredibly satisfying.

1:09.0

And hopefully, of course, it's the first of many.

1:12.0

So anything we can do to get people to their first customer, first sale, is so important.

1:17.0

And today's lister fits this description.

1:19.0

He wants to become a digital personal assistant to help people with tech support.

1:24.0

Now, how should he proceed? Is his offer clear enough? Is there something we should change?

1:28.0

Should he go out and buy Facebook ads? He's wondering all kinds of stuff.

1:31.0

So let's talk about it. How to get my first customer as a digital personal assistant right after this message from our sponsor.

1:39.0

Hi Chris, my name is Nate. First of all, thanks for everything that you're doing to help out the community of side hustlers out there making it happen.

1:51.0

My idea is being a digital personal assistant focused more on like a personal tech support, right?

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