Virtual Assistant Industry
New Year – New business planner / diary!
If you are an organised Virtual Assistant, you may already have ordered the bible which keeps you on track… Planner, diary, journal, organiser, filofax – doesn’t matter what you call…
Read MoreVirtual 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…
Read MoreMoney 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…
Read MoreGeneral 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 –…
Read MoreMoney Laundering Regulations
Jo Sparkes of VA Pro Mag has bravely decided to tackle the thorny issue of Money Laundering Regulations (MLR) registration as anecdotally we’ve heard so many different rules regarding whether…
Read MoreCost of a virtual assistant
We have had a few queries on how long things should take recently – I thought it would be interesting to compare how long/how much it would cost to do…
Read MoreIs “virtual assistant” going out of fashion?
The USA tends to be about 5 years ahead of us here in the UK when it comes to the virtual assistant world… (Check out the history of the virtual…
Read MoreSo you want to be a subcontractor virtual assistant?
(Or how much a VA’s virtual assistant gets paid!) “They’re paying HOW MUCH for a virtual assistant subcontractor???” Yes, the outraged exclamations on Facebook Groups for a subcontract virtual assistant…
Read MoreTyping 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,…
Read MoreThe Longest Ever VA Business Set-Up?
The Mourne Mountains In 2005 I found myself living at the foot of the Mourne Mountains in Ireland with my husband and children who were then 4, 12 and 14…
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