Laura Pennington left her job as a 7th grade teacher to become a freelance writer and virtual assistant. She has advice about getting initial clients, scaling your business, and filling your schedule with nothing but your ideal clients.\n\n1. evaluate your own experiences: you don't need to have been good in the past (office skills, data entry, phone calls)\n2. work samples (logos, write a white paper, write blog posts)\n3. marketing plan (job boards, contracts)\n4. long-term marketing (cold calls, chamber of commerce meetings, trade shows conferences)\nResources\n\n \tYour Way to VA (Website)\n \tSix Figure Writing Secrets (Website)\n \tLaura Pennington's Courses on Teachable (Courses)