Time to ditch those boring stock photos!
Using photography to promote your virtual assistant business? You can’t have failed to notice the rise in visual content marketing across all social media platforms, from photos and infographics to video. The value that visual marketing can bring is vast and by not using visual content you could be giving your competitors the advantage. Still not convinced? […]
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 […]
The history of the Virtual Assistant…
virtual assistant history Just occasionally I have a very wicked sense of humour… It was tickled this week researching for an article on virtual assistant history – there seems to be some dispute about who invented the phrase and when that was. Author of the 2-Second Commute Chris Durst is credited with having founded the […]
New Virtual Assistant Standards
Back in 2006 we established the UK’s first professional standards for virtual assistants… They were reasonably simple, but surprisingly a lot of VAs simply hadn’t ever considered the security of freebie email addresses or even what they would do in case of flooding or a burglary… The SVA Approved list was born! 10 years on, […]
Virtual Assistant Terms & Conditions
How to create profitable ethical business relationships using clear terms of trade WEBINAR: Weds 30 Nov @ 8pm Register now It is easy to think of terms of trade as a ‘compliance’ issue. Something you spent as little time on as you can (and as little money) and then get on with your work. Do […]
1 Billion Digital Nomads by 2035
I thought this video was rather interesting… all about the growth of digital nomads/freelance admin worldwide related back to population statistics. Food for thought!
What Brexit means to Virtual Assistants
Brexit for VAs – what’s the overall effect? I’m not a political beast – but I panicked on 24th June as the European referendum results were announced… And my inbox did not ping. And it stretched into the next day, with just a couple of small bits of work coming in and some ongoing projects […]
Vote for which questions you’d like in the UK VA summary…
Back late last year, we asked you to take part in our massive UK VA survey – the results are in and the numbers have been crunched! It’s all ready to go. But to say thank you we’re giving a freebie summary to everyone who took part – and every year we ask what 5 […]
Want featured?
If you’d like to see your name on our blog, drop us a line! Articles need to be aimed at UK VAs, 350-500 words long, and original… Other than that, get creative! You might have a rant about people devaluing what we do, or you might have a really good way of dealing with client […]
Virtual assistant insurance claims: what can go wrong?
Jack of all trades, master of some? Anyone running their own business will agree it’s not a typical 9 to 5 job by any stretch. It takes a lot of elbow grease and the work can be long, arduous and time-consuming. Resources are sometimes scarce, and finding an extra pair of hands isn’t always easy. […]