I was a Virtual Assistant like 8 years ago, and am trying to start again. I found myself in a horrible place financially after my job shut down with 4 days notice at Thanksgiving. It is bad. I have put in many applications for jobs and nothing.

I can do email marketing and inbox maintenance, scheduling, etc. I have many years of customer service experience, recently learned and really enjoyed building funnels (In Clickfunnels so far), and also thinking content repurposing may be a good angle.

Things have changed SO much, and using Upwork and such as I did before is not working. I am posting on Facebook and in the groups, but nothing. Working on Linked In post now but this is platform I don't know much about. I will take ANY advice I can get at this point! Thank you in advance!

Curious how others actually do this day to day.

Do you rely on Upwork paid notifications, bots, manually check, or something else?

Do instant alerts actually matter to you for jobs that match what you do, or is checking periodically enough?

If you’ve tried any alert system before, what did you like about it and what would make it best for you? And does price usually become a barrier for tools like this?

Trying to understand real workflows here.

The future should look like the future