1. Understand your motivations. First, you should understand why you want to open a remote work agency. Do you want the income? Are you passionate about helping people find work or have clients find talent? My motivation is that I love writing and I love technology. The idea of having my own business where I can do what I enjoy and share it with others is motivating me in the correct direction. So, think about your motivation for opening an agency!
2. Understand what it takes to run an agency (or company). A business owner needs to know how their business works on the inside out if they are going to teach others how their business works as well as promoting their product or service on a larger scale that they could ever accomplish themselves. So, come up with a plan of what it would take for your remote work agency to be successful, then lay out step by step exactly how that would function best in order for something like this to happen smoothly (and successfully). This will help the following steps be able to be carried out more easily because they will already have been planned before hand! (see How To Start A Successful Business)
3. Create a website/brand name/logo/social media accounts etc. I have a job that not everyone can work remotely. So, if I have a remote work agency, it’s going to be pretty hard to find people who are looking for work in a remote capacity. If you are selling your service and/or product you need to make sure that people can find it. Make sure that your website is professional, the logo is eye catching and appealing, and social media accounts are active!
4. Create a big list of companies that hire remotely or that could hire remotely now or in the future. This will help prove how useful your service will be as well as show potential clients how much “work” there is available for them! This also helps you figure out if there’s enough demand for what you’re trying to sell before investing too much time into building up an agency when no one really wants their services all of the time or at all!
5. Build up your team with virtual assistants (if needed)! Now, this may seem like an odd step because some businesses don’t need virtual assistants; they do everything on their own! But remember, having employees was optional too…until it started getting difficult with more than 1 employee then 2 employees and so on. Eventually, you’ll reach a point where you just don’t have enough hours in the day to do everything on your own. So, if that is a possibility for you, then I recommend having at least 1 virtual assistant on deck!
6. Talk to some remote work agencies/companies and see what they do and how they operate. Study their business model and try to figure out what makes them successful! The more information you have before starting your remote work agency the better off you will be when it comes time to actually being one! For me personally, this is going to be my first real business (I’ve had one or two in college but nothing great) so I want to know what all goes into running an agency like this before I actually open up shop.
7. Figure out if there really is a need for your service/product/business idea before spending too much money on marketing or advertising it as such. Just because you think something will be useful to someone doesn’t mean they will actually want it! So, if you have an idea and are wondering if your idea is a good one, start researching and talking to people who may actually use it.
8. Learn how to promote your business/product/service effectively so that you can get the most out of whatever investment that you decide to make into your business. This is important because there are no two ways about it – advertising costs money and most businesses do not make enough money on their first day of being open or even in the first month or two! You need to learn how marketing works and what’s effective so that you can get the most bang for your buck! (see How To Start A Successful Business)
9. Learn which tasks would be best done remotely so that when a potential client calls for a job listing (or has one posted somewhere) they have some specific tasks listed on their job posting rather than just “write my blog post”. Not only does this help with finding qualified candidates but it also helps with making sure that everything gets done in the correct manner while saving time as well as money! Make sure everything is documented before hiring anyone remotely so there’s no confusion about what needs done, when, how long it should take etc etc.
The reason why I decided to do this is because it’s so hard to find good remote work and hiring people who are willing to do it. There are plenty of crappy jobs (like most of the ones on Craigslist) but there aren’t many great ones with companies that have a good track record for doing what they say they’re going to do and keeping their commitments. So, if you are someone who has experience working remotely or wants more experience working remotely then this is a great opportunity for you!
Thanks for reading! Hope you found my post useful!
