Erin Booth.

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Erin Booth is a virtual assistant who coaches others, sells courses, and runs a YouTube channel. She got started after transitioning out of the film industry and now earns six figures a year. Her advice for getting started as a virtual assistant is to reach out to past colleagues for work.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Erin Booth, a virtual-assistant coach based in New Orleans, Louisiana, about getting started as a virtual assistant....

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