Data Protection and the Virtual Assistant

Do it now - motivation for virtual assistants

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 […]

Article Submission guidelines

Article Submission guidelines for SVA Virtual Assistants

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:

To Do Lists – Working Session notes on Procrastination

To Do Lists and Procrastination - Sharon Stephen

We were delighted to have Sharon Stephen, The Personal Development Coach., who specialises in working with women entrepreneurs in the creative industries on Friday to help with our procrastination and list planning session. As I explained, the background to this was a post we shared which had a phenomenal response on our Facebook group, the […]

Happy International VA Day 2020

Happy International VA Day 2020 #IVAD #InternationalVADay To all the VAs across the globe, in these strange times, here’s to the future: To the clients who have realised flexibility gives their business strength To the businesses who now accept virtual working is the future To the newbies, joining our industry in difficult times at the […]

Social Media Ideas for VAs

UK VA Survey - virtual assistant statistics

Stuck for social media ideas? We’ve created a social media cheat sheet for VAs because we know you guys struggle with blank pages! Hundreds of posts you can download and use in your business. Filter them for your biz. Adapt them. Add pictures and videos. Schedule them! What’s on SVA’s social media cheatsheet? So what’s […]

Virtual Assistant Subscription Box

Ever wanted a regular reminder to keep on track with your business?  A little inspiration in a box? Well that’s the idea behind SVA’s Virtual Assistant Business Box subscription.  The idea behind virtual assistant subscription box: I was lamenting recently that I never get anything nice through the post – junk mail, bills, dull, boring, […]

Today’s PA Conference – Caroline confirmed as Speaker

So remember a little while back I had to keep schtum about an exciting new project? This is it! Today’s PA Conference invited me to speak at their conference in London on 16 August. I’ll be presenting as a Speaker and on their Expert Panel alongside luminaries such as: Rob Neil OBE Darren Clark Sara […]

How many secretarial skills do you use in your VA business?

Had an interesting chat recently with Rosemary Parr who runs Scottish PA Network – we were chatting about the different skillsets VAs and PAs have…and that’s why the transition can sometimes be difficult. I thought it might be useful to run a poll: Certainly on the SVA Forum there’s some debate about what is unique […]