Posts by Caroline
VA Business For Sale
VA Business For Sale Established 2016 providing traditional EA/PA type support including: email/diary management small amount of bookkeeping (No HMRC MLR needed) Simple HR admin support The business has 5…
Read MoreVirtual Assistant Subscription Box
Ever wanted a regular reminder to keep on track with your business? A little inspiration in a box? Well that’s the idea behind SVA’s Virtual Assistant Business Box subscription. The…
Read MoreTypists: Having trouble opening DS2 files in Express Scribe?
I’ve been having some hassle with DS2 files on Express Scribe. Now I am a big fan of Express Scribe’s programme – it opens more file formats than any other…
Read MoreVirtual Assistant Business or VA job?
Many people dream of becoming a virtual assistant, being their own boss, and having the freedom to only take on clients and projects they love. What they don’t realise, though,…
Read MoreHow many billable hours in your Virtual Assistant business?
Billable hours: As a solo virtual assistant, how much of your time is billable? In other words, if you work a 40 hour week, how many hours do you charge…
Read MoreMinimum prices for virtual assistants
Ah, the thorny issue of rates! We get asked all the time about minimum prices for virtual assistants; whether those charging low prices are devaluing the industry; how we can…
Read MoreEssential Virtual Assistant Software
We haven’t compiled a list of essential virtual assistant software for a while – mostly because the same ones pop up frequently: MS Office, Express Scribe, etc. Shockingly, the last…
Read MoreRocketbook Beacons
I have been so excited about these arriving… It has been a long wait – delays in the production process meant the original ship date got put back several months. …
Read MoreWebsite Cookies: Me want cookies!
Website Cookies: So we’ve just about got everyone up to date with ICO’s GDPR guidance… and along comes an update on their cookie guidance. (I’ll admit – I grimaced!). https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/news-and-events/news-and-blogs/2019/07/blog-cookies-what-does-good-look-like/…
Read MoreOffering Call Answering as a VA
Call answering – how do I charge for it? We get asked about answering calls on behalf of clients often enough that we started copying and pasting the answers from…
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