Episode 293: Creating Mutual Benefit as a Virtual Assistant with Aiden Fishbein (FS293)

The Fizzle Show

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Freelancing, Marketing, Small Business

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Are you looking to supplement your business’ income? Do you want to find something that is going to benefit you in more ways than just financially? How can you align yourself with the right type of people for these goals?

There are many ways to make your way through the entrepreneurial world and every person out there can find a unique and successful way for themselves. One of the dynamics that we all have to navigate, however, is balancing money, time, and skills acquisition and that is essentially what this episode is all about.

In this our discussion we look at how you can go about creating mutual benefit as a virtual assistant, adding value, learning, earning and networking. We talk about seizing opportunities, where to look for them and pegging all of this on a minimum viable income.

Today on the show we are joined by Aiden Fishbein who runs Vitals Agency and is a long time member of our Fizzle Community. Aiden will be sharing his ideas and experience on the topic of hiring within a community and the benefits of apprenticeship type positions.

We also talk about the classic apprenticeship model, trial runs and the lessons the panel have learned themselves in these realms.

For all this great stuff and more, tune in!

Key Points From This Episode:

• Finding a supplement income to your business through virtual assistance. [0:03:28.4]
• How we have hired in the apprenticeship model at Fizzle. [0:07:39.8]
• Mutually beneficial relationships and how Aiden facilitates these at Vitals Agency . [0:12:12.2]
• Minimum viable income and adjusting your goals. [0:15:43.5]
• Aiden’s own experiences freelancing and assisting. [0:23:12.1]
• Steph’s great experience finding her own virtual assistant. [0:26:07.7]
• The hiring process, how painful it can be and how to circumvent this. [0:31:40.3]
• Approaching ‘peers-plus’ for opportunities and creating mutual benefit. [0:36:28.2]
• Starting the conversation around hiring and staging a trial run. [0:41:37.7]
• Hiring internally from your community versus outside of your world. [0:45:20.5]
• Looking in a community in which you are a member to find someone like-minded. [0:50:01.8]
• The power of apprenticeship and expanding your zone of genius. [0:52:34.3]
• And much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome to the Fizzle Show. I'm happy to be here with you guys today as your
0:16.2	host for the day. I'm Corbett Barr, and Chase is, he told me he's in LA taking some meetings today,
0:23.7	whatever that means. Maybe he's going to be an actor or something. I don't know. We never know
0:27.9	with that guy. But we have Steph Crowder, as usual. Steph, say hi. Hey, everybody. And we have
0:35.0	a very special guest I'm going to introduce in just one second. But before we do that, in case you guys are tuning in for the first time or maybe you've forgotten what this show is all about. This is the Fizzle show where we try to help you guys who are listening, figure out ways to earn a living independently doing something that you care about. And that could mean freelancing.
0:56.8	It could mean running your own business. It could mean a whole lot of things. But the point is that
1:01.7	you're working on something that you care about and that you're earning a living independently.
1:05.6	We've been doing this for a long time. Fizzle has been around for six years now, which I can
1:10.3	hardly believe. And during that
1:11.6	time, we've helped 20-something thousand people through our membership at Fizzle.co
1:17.4	along their journey at some point. And I've been an entrepreneur for maybe 15 years now.
1:24.5	Steph has been working on her own thing, courage and clarity for quite some time, along with,
1:29.2	might I say, some other things.
1:30.7	Steph, we had a conversation last week about how there were a bunch of failures in your past
1:35.2	that you hadn't even shared with me before.
1:37.5	They were pretty interesting.
1:38.5	Yeah, I guess I have some dirty laundry that needs some airing at some point in terms of
1:42.3	my rough path to becoming an entrepreneur
1:44.8	I think we all do and and that would be a fun episode actually like just to dig into people's
1:52.7	deep dirty secrets about businesses they try to start that they've never told anybody about
1:57.6	and like what happened there but we should totally do that's for another time we should so today we have an extra special guest as well uh we're joined by aiden fishbein aden you want to
2:07.6	say hi oh hello it's a pleasure thanks for being here and we brought aden on today because he has
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