WordPress Launches Campaign To Help Promote Positive Mental Health
WordPress has launched a new campaign #PressForward in order to help promote positive mental health within the Word Press Community. Word Press is one of the most popular website and blog management platforms available today. Currently, around 30% of the websites and blogs online use it as their content management system of choice. The service […]
Optimise Your Invoicing With Invoice Cheat Sheets
Late payments are a common problem for many businesses in the UK. This problem causes cash-flow problems for those businesses affected and costs the economy billions of pounds a year. In addition to the financial cost, a lot of time is wasted by businesses chasing unpaid invoices. One of the solutions proposed by Sage in […]
Virtual Assistant Skills – unique to the industry!
Virtual Assistant Skills: “I’ve been a PA for 26 years – I don’t need told how to write a document” – except this aspiring virtual assistant most definitely did need told, because she had just completed our virtual assistant skills spelling test and had spectacularly failed it leaving in misspelt words, inconsistent formatting and hadn’t […]
Typing Gold – or those little things which make a big difference!
Dictation, audio typing, transcription Back in 2004 when I started my virtual assistant business, digital dictation was just starting to take off. We occasionally got the odd cassette tape delivered, but more and more dictation was being emailed. Over the years, our clients have asked us for various tweaks to the system – and for […]
Marketing Benchmarks for virtual assistants
Virtual Assistant Marketing Stats We all know we should track our marketing – but how do we know what’s good and if we’re doing well? I’ll give you an example: I had a really good giggle recently at a social media training event… The “experts” were boasting that one of the blogs they managed “got […]
7 Habits of Highly Effective VAs
Shamefully stolen from Professor Stephen Covey’s book, these are a few habits that I’ve noticed successful VAs have in common – and I don’t think it’s by accident!
Virtual Assistant Franchise – or buying a VA Business
Finding blog content
Virtual Assistant Blogging A recent survey by Hubspot showed that companies who increased blogging from 3-5 posts/month to 6-8 posts/month saw their leads almost double. But how do you create fresh content which is of interest to your target market?
Business Advantages of Bookkeeping for VAs
The role of virtual assistant can be incredibly rewarding- especially if you have a roster of high paying clients. Naturally, virtual assistants are incredibly organised people; however, bookkeeping is an area which is usually forgotten about.
PA Expo
PA Expo – Liverpool Nov 2016 – Lazy Mare’s Guide To Marketing Your VA Business The lazy mare’s guide to marketing PA EXpo Nov 2016 from Caroline Wylie Great to see some of you today at PA Expo in Liverpool, as promised here are the resources for my session which I said I’d pop up […]