Marketing Friday: More marketing tips and tricks for Virtual Assistants
Here are five ideas which you can work on today, Marketing Friday, to get more business next week. Network on online forums in your chosen target market – remember that website link on your signature again! When you’re networking make a point of gathering as many business cards as you can – people are […]
Marketing Friday: More marketing tips and tricks for Virtual Assistants
Here are five simple ideas which you can work on today, Marketing Friday! Print business cards with an explanation of what you do – lots of people aren’t entirely sure what a Virtual Assistant is! Print loads of business cards – you can never have too many of these, but you may want to do a […]
Marketing Friday: More marketing tips and tricks for Virtual Assistants
Here are five ideas which you can work on today, Marketing Friday, to get more business next week. Set up an email newsletter sign up box on your website. Send out a monthly newsletter with special info on your services, events which might interest your target market, a “how to” section or other useful info. […]
Berni’s Alternatives to Meetings for Virtual Assistants
Berni Jones runs First4Admin and has written the No Nonsense Women’s Guide To Business. As VAs we often get asked to go to meetings when in reality the alternatives are often more effective and save your clients lots of money… Berni has done a cracking round up of the alternatives here:
Best Services for Virtual Communication
Remember when people used to communicate through faxes and snail mail? I barely can either. The face of communication has changed rapidly with the mainstream arrival of new gadgets and services that have revolutionized the way people interact with one another. The choices are endless; from video-capable phones to online chat rooms, there’s no denying […]
Why Every Work At Home Mum Needs To Delegate, And The Main Reason Most Don’t
Most mums, especially work at home mums, spend much of their lives trying to “fit it all in”. Our To-Do list is endless and there always seems to be a long list of tasks to complete, which incredibly, never seems to get any smaller. It can be hard knowing which tasks to tackle first. And […]
How To: Find Leads
Leads are integral to your business. As one very eloquent person put it to me recently: If you want to earn minimum wage, based on a 40 hour week. That’s £5.80 x 40 x 52 = £12064 per year. Let’s say your hourly rate is £20/hour and the average billing per client is £300 and […]
Sending Big Files
If you regularly work with clients, you’ll occasionally get files which even your professional email can’t cope with. I’m particularly thinking of the client who sent 300MB in 15 mins and blocked our email server for the best part of an afternoon – that was fun! For many email providers, large files will simply get […]
Virtual assistant training with Caroline – Unique one-off opportunity!
UPDATE 14/11/11 Still 7 places left! I have always been very proud of the fact that my income comes from the virtual assistant business but due to impending motherhood I have at least 3 months maternity leave where I cannot earn any money from the business. So I’m offering a very unique opportunity to just […]
Recommended Reading: Banana Skin Words by Suzan St Maur
Guest reviewer: Catherine Poole Virtual Assistant – www.catherinepoole.co.uk, Twitter – @cathpooleva I was very pleased to be sent this e-book to review, as I am a self-confessed pedant when it comes to punctuation, grammar and spelling, so its subject matter is one I am particularly interested in. However, I also realise that it’s an area […]