622: $1k/Month Per Client: The Case For Starting a Niche Virtual Assistant Service

The Side Hustle Show

Nick Loper

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, How To

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

One of the best ways to come up with business ideas is to start by solving your own problems. That's exactly how today's guest started his dispatching business. What started as a way to keep his trucks busy turned into a service business that serves other trucking companies. Roman was able to turn dispatching into a scalable process and now can work from wherever he wants. Find out how Roman created this niche-specific specialized service and scaled it with a team of virtual assistants. Full Show Notes: How to Start a Dispatch Business Listener Bonus: 101 Service Business Ideas New to the Show? Get your personalized money-making playlist here! Sponsors: Shopify — Sign up for a $1 per month trial! Indeed – Start hiring NOW with a $75 sponsored job credit to upgrade your job post!

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0:00.0	$1,000 per month per client.
0:04.0	Why starting a niche virtual assistant service might be the fastest way
0:08.0	to get you to your extra income goals.
0:10.0	What's up, what's up, Nick Loper here?
0:12.0	Welcome to the Side Hustle Show.
0:13.4	We're part of the entrepreneur podcast network and if you are looking for realistic ways
0:17.3	to make extra money, you're in the right place. There's a lot of talk about
0:21.7	a thousand true fans. It's this classic essay by Kevin Kelly that argues
0:26.0	You don't need millions of followers to make your living online. They just need a thousand true fans.
0:30.9	These are the people who support your work year in, year out, but it can take some
0:36.0	time to build up that fan base. So today I want to contrast a thousand true fans with the idea of
0:42.1	ten true clients. This is something I picked up from
0:44.2	the Tropical NBA Podcast years ago. Ten True Clients or maybe even starting with
0:48.7	one true client at a thousand bucks a month. Today's guest did just that, did it in a really unique niche. He had a bit of background in trucking, so he started a virtual dispatch service, serving drivers all around the country from learn dispatch.com.
1:04.4	Roman Schmunjak, welcome to the side hustle show.
1:07.6	Hello Nick, thank you for having me on the podcast.
1:10.6	You have been sticking around in this one.
1:12.4	We're learning how you might come up with your unique service idea, how to connect with potential customers, how to find those first true clients, right?
1:19.1	And how you might be able to scale your operation beyond hours for dollars.
1:24.4	Your free listener only bonus for this week is my big list of a hundred and one service business
1:28.8	ideas that you might be able to apply some of Romans tactics to that's at
1:33.0	side hustle nation.com slash Roman or just follow the show
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