Hiring a Virtual Assistant
Hiring a Virtual Assistant? What questions should you ask? How much should you pay? What checks should I make? And much more.
Virtual Assistant Insurance
Data Protection and the Virtual Assistant
Data Protection is one of those areas where if you ask 10 different people “Do I need to be registered?” you’ll get 10 different answers. So we wanted to clear this one up: As a UK VA, you DO need to be registered. Already registered? Click here to find yourself on the list and to […]
Best Practice – What must be in place.
One of the aims of the Society of Virtual Assistants is to get as many VAs as possible in the UK working towards industry best practice.
Article Submission guidelines
The Society of Virtual Assistants is happy to feature guest articles about subjects relevant to our target market of UK virtual assistants. However, we do have a few rules surrounding what we’ll feature, so the quality of the site remains high. Our Article Submission guidelines are as follows: Article Submission guidelines Suggested articles:
Virtual Assistant Directory Advertising – is it worth it?
We’ve had a few virtual assistant directory sites pop up offering advertising recently. I typed out a long response on whether I thought it was was using these on one of the Facebook groups and thought it was worth posting here too: Why not use a Virtual Assistant Directory? Over the years we’ve had VA […]
Working as an offshore VA
For years, UK VAs have ranted about offshore VA prices – how can they afford to do it that cheaply? Will they nick all our clients? Well, with the £’s exchange rate plummeting in the wake of Brexit, a Pandemic and a recession looming, suddenly our prices are becoming increasingly attractive to US-based clients… We […]
Virtual assistant training scams
From the 2019 Virtual Assistant Conference – Caroline’s session “Skill or Scam” showing how virtual assistant training scams are on the rise and how you can help stop them. I’m very aware “virtual assistant training scams” isn’t the most positive title! However the objective is to point out how important collaboration is to the UK […]
VACT takes back over the running of the UK VA Awards, UK VA Conference and BeMyVA
“It has been a pleasure to work with John Palmer over the years, and I’m thrilled VACT is taking back over the running of the conference and hope to continue to be involved in the future.” Caroline Wylie VACT Ltd purchases UK VA Awards, UK VA Conference and BeMyVA > Read More Here
Namechange for HMRC MLR
HMRC’s Anti Money Laundering Supervision (AMLS) team has changed its name to Economic Crime Supervision (ECS). As part of continuing changes to the service, the anti money laundering supervision team (MLR) will now be knows as the Economic Crime Supervision team. You will begin to see this new name on correspondence from April 2021. This change does not affect its responsibilities under […]