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5 ways to say “No” nicely as a virtual assistant
Learning to say No (nicely) – as a Virtual Assistant. As a Virtual Assistant, our usual status is to say YES to things: Yes, I can book a table; Yes, I can get that report updated; Yes, I will make sure your expenses are in on time But the underlying foundation of those YES answers […]
Virtual Assistant Awards
One of the highlights of my year is judging the outstanding Virtual Assistant Awards. It gives me a chance to see the wide range of highly skilled and professional virtual assistants on show. I also get to meet many of the other people in our industry. Unfortunately, because of the really bad snow […]
Office* Show 2018
So… the snow grounded me and I didn’t make it to Office* Show this year – I’m gutted to be missing out on catching up with everyone, getting all the gossip and connecting with all the VA industry’s latest news at the VA Conference. Michelle Smith and I battled the snow and ungritted roads in […]
Press Release for Virtual Assistants
During SVA’s UK VA Survey v8 you asked us to develop more shared resources that you could use to promote your business… One of the things which Virtual Assistants felt would be useful was a customisable press release that you could tweak with your own details and submit to local news outlets. Local papers may […]
GDPR – crowdsource…
GDPR Compliance: So we are all scrambling around at the moment trying to make sure all our suppliers are compliant in terms of storage and security for GDPR. There will be a million different apps, programmes, suppliers and programmes which VAs store personal information in and which should be assessed for data liabilities…And I’m sure […]
Why working on site is not being a Virtual Assistant
What are the differences between being a VA and temping on site?
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 […]
Money Laundering Regulations – Campaign for Virtual Assistants
So last week we asked you to tell us about your experience of asking HMRC for Anti-Money Laundering Regulations advice as a virtual assistant – we had a great response and Joanne Sparkes of VA Pro Magazine co-ordinated the replies (all 31 of them!) into a letter asking HMRC to clarify their position on what […]
General Data Protection Regulation – What you need to know as a virtual assistant for the new GDPR
New EU regulations come into force 25 May 2018 – General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) You must tell people who is responsible for the data you hold and process – this person must be registered with ICO Data processors now also have direct obligations to process data correctly – as a virtual assistant processing any […]