Marketing Over Holiday Periods

Holidays can be such a topsy-turvy time, what happens with your business and marketing when businesses are winding down for breaks?

Competition: Best Marketing Letters

tea bag for virtual assistants

EmmaB in our office is rather famous for her “Have a cuppa on us” campaign.  She rather brilliantly realised that our clients’ most precious asset is their time and when we were asking them for more info or to fill in a form, it was quite annoying and got forgotten.  So she sent them a […]

Telesales Dos & Don’ts

Newsflash: Following up your marketing letters or postcards with a phone call can double their effectiveness. So you wrote a fantastic and compelling letter, researched your target market to find likely targets, mailed it out – now what?  I always compare not following up to being akin to climbing halfway up Mount Everest and turning […]

Virtual Assistant Bloggers Wanted!

Love being a virtual assistant

We need you! For 2016 Society of Virtual Assistants is looking to recruit 6 bloggers to help us keep the site content fresh and interesting. We’re looking for VAs who can write about their experiences, write reviews or do a series of blog posts.  Each post needs to be: between 400-1,000 words, on a subject […]

The low down on paid directories…

As a new virtual assistant, how do you get your name out there to bring clients to knocking down your door as fast as possible?  Directories may seem like a great way of connecting with clients already looking for your services… But they can be expensive. How do you know which one to advertise in?  […]

Social Media Strategy revisited…

virtual assistants don't use typewriters!

I was looking back through some old posts and stumbled across some instructing VAs how to use Facebook and Twitter… Just for a laugh I thought I’d see if the overall advice had changed in the past few years. This Facebook How To Guide from 5 years ago outlines the change from “Fans” to “Likes”… […]

Virtual assistant video

If you want to explain what a virtual assistant is in a quick video on your website, we’ve done the hard work for you – a very simple, minute long explanation of what a VA is, roughly how much they cost, etc. Please feel free to share, host on your own site, use to show […]